OC Oerlikon Corporation AG: Annual Shareholders’ Meeting 2014 Dienstag, 15. April 2014 - 15:56

Pfäffikon SZ / Lucerne, April 15, 2014 – Oerlikon’s Annual General Meeting today approved a 8 % dividend increase to CHF 0.27 per share for 2013. This is the third dividend payment since 2004 and the third successive dividend in three years. All resolutions were passed by significant majorities.

318 shareholders attended this morning Oerlikon’s Annual Shareholders’ Meeting at the Culture and Convention Center in Lucerne, representing 70.5 % of the share capital. To provide clarity and transparency for its shareholders, Oerlikon implemented the most relevant provisions of the Ordinance Against Excessive Compensation in Public Companies, asking the shareholders for approval of the respective amendments of the Articles of Association. All resolutions were passed by significant majorities.

The meeting re-elected all six Board members for a one-year term. Accordingly Oerlikon’s Board of Directors comprises the following members: Tim Summers, Kurt J. Hausheer, Mikhail Lifshitz, Gerhard Pegam, Carl Stadelhofer and Hans Ziegler.

The shareholders elected Tim Summers as Chairman of the Board and Tim Summers, Carl Stadelhofer and Hans Ziegler as members of the Human Resources Committee. Furthermore they approved all remuneration related matters with a clear majority.

The results of all votes taken at Oerlikon’s Annual Shareholders’ Meeting are attached and available at www.oerlikon.com/ir.

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Oerlikon (SIX: OERL) is a leading high-tech industrial group specializing in machine and plant engineering. The Company is a provider of innovative industrial solutions and cutting-edge technologies for manmade fibers manufacturing, drive systems, vacuum, surface solutions and advanced nanotechnology. A Swiss company with a tradition going back over 100 years, Oerlikon is a global player with around 13 000 employees at over 150 locations in 34 countries and sales of CHF 2.9 billion in 2013. In 2013, the Company invested CHF 122 million in R&D, with over 1 000 specialists working on future products and services. In most areas, the operative businesses rank either first or second in their respective global markets.