The shareholders of Daimler AG approved all the items on the agenda of the virtual Annual Meeting on July 8, 2020.
Overview of the main results
€ 0.90
Dividend per share*
Previous year: €3.25
€ 1.0 billion
Dividend payout
Previous year: € 3.5 billion
96.60 %
Yes-votes on Ratification of the actions of the Board of Management
88.45 %
Yes-votes on Ratification of the actions of the Supervisory Board
53.28 %
Share capital represented
The dividend was paid on July 13, 2020, the third business day after the corresponding resolution of the Annual Meeting, to all shareholders who held shares in Daimler AG on July 8, 2020.
The Annual Meeting elected Timotheus Höttges, Chairman of the Board of Management of Deutsche Telekom AG, Bonn, as a member of the Supervisory Board representing the shareholders. He succeeds Dr. Paul Achleitner, who had been a member of Daimler’s Supervisory Board since 2010 and whose term of office ended at his own request at the end of the Annual Meeting. Höttges’ term of office has begun with the end of the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting in 2020 and ends with the Annual Meeting in 2025.
The agenda of the virtual Annual Meeting also included anticipatory resolutions and amendments to the Articles of Incorporation. One change, for example, will allow virtual annual shareholders’ meetings and electronic participation in the future.
Up to 12,000 viewers followed the virtual Annual Meeting on the Internet.