- Jutta Kath and Rudolf Könighofer as new members of the Supervisory Board
- Again increased dividend of 47 cents per share
Jutta Kath, the internationally experienced insurance expert, joins UNIQA Insurance Group AG’s (UNIQA) Supervisory Board as of today. As proposed by the Supervisory Board, Jutta Kath was elected by the Annual General Meeting as UNIQA’s second independent Supervisory Board member. The number of shareholder representatives on UNIQA’s Supervisory Board thus increases from nine to ten. The Managing Director of the Swiss consulting firm Secquaero, which specialises in insurance risks, can look back on many years of international experience in the insurance industry including work at Allianz, Zürich and Winterthur. Kath will be the second Supervisory Board member to be independent of the major shareholders, alongside British capital market expert Kory Sorenson, who joined UNIQA’s Supervisory Board in 2014. Due to the scheduled retirement of Supervisory Board member Peter Gauper, CEO of Raiffeisenlandesbank Kärnten, the CEO of Raiffeisenlandesbank Burgenland, Rudolf Könighofer, will join the Supervisory Board.
Dividend rises again
Based on the best result in the company’s history and EBT of €422.8 million, as proposed by the Supervisory Board and the Management Board, the Annual General Meeting resolved to pay a dividend of 47 cents per share for the 2015 financial year – 11.9 per cent higher than the previous year’s dividend of 42 cents. In total, this corresponds to a distribution of around 43.7 per cent of consolidated net profit.
CEO Andreas Brandstetter’s speech on the occasion of the 17th Annual General Meeting and the voting results can be viewed using the following link:
UNIQA Group Annual General Meeting
UNIQA
The UNIQA Group is one of the leading insurance groups in its core markets of Austria and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). 21,300 employees and exclusive sales partners serve more than 10 million customers in 19 countries. UNIQA is the second-largest insurance group in Austria with a market share of around 22 per cent. UNIQA operates in 15 markets in the CEE growth region: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia and Ukraine. The UNIQA Group also includes insurance companies in Italy, Switzerland and Liechtenstein.