BCV's Annual Shareholders’ Meeting was held today at the Palais de Beaulieu in Lausanne, Switzerland. The meeting was attended by 792 shareholders, representing 80.12% of the Group’s capital. All items on the agenda were adopted. Shareholders approved the 2012 consolidated financial statements, which show a CHF 311m net profit, and ratified the actions of the Board of Directors and the Executive Board for the 2012 financial year. They accepted the Board’s proposal to pay an ordinary dividend of CHF 22 per share and make a special distribution of CHF 10 per share out of paid-in reserves. BCV will thus return a total of CHF 275m to its shareholders.In addition, shareholders renewed the term of office of the Bank's auditor, PricewaterhouseCoopers, for the 2013 financial year.
Lausanne, Switzerland, 25 April 2013
Contacts
Christian Jacot-Descombes, Press Officer
Phone +41 79 816 99 30
E-Mail christian.jacot-descombes@bcv.ch
Gregory Duong, Investor Relations Officer
Phone + 41 21 212 20 71
E-Mail gregory.duong@bcv.ch
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The above text is a translation of the original French document; only the French version is authoritative.