1. | Approval of the company financial statements and consolidated financial statements for 2016/17 and acknowledgement of the auditors' reports |
2. | Resolution on the appropriation of retained earnings, allocation from share premium (reserves for additional paid-in capital) to free reserves for additional paid-in capital and distribution (exempted from Swiss anticipatory tax) from free reserves for additional paid-in capital: | |
a. | Carrying forward retained earnings of CHF 23,041 thousand |
b. | Allocation from share premium (reserves for additional paid-in capital) to free reserves for additional paid-in capital of CHF 4,127 thousand and distribution (exempted from Swiss anticipatory tax) from free reserves of CHF 6.50 net per share entitled to dividends |
3. | Granting of discharge to the responsible persons for fiscal year 2016/17 |
4. | Elections |
4.1. | Re-elections of members and the Chairman of the Board of Directors |
a. | Re-election of Urs Kaufmann as a member of the Board of Directors and as the Chairman of the Board of Directors for a term ending at the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting |
b. | Re-election of Philipp Buhofer as a member of the Board of Directors for a term ending at the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting |
c. | Re-election of Gerhard Pegam as a member of the Board of Directors for a term ending at the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting |
d. | Re-election of Suzanne Thoma as a member of the Board of Directors for a term ending at the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting |
e. | Re-election of Georg Wechsler as a member of the Board of Directors for a term ending at the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting |
4.2. | Elections of members of the Compensation Committee |
a. | Re-election of Urs Kaufmann as a member of the Compensation Committee for a term ending at the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting If Urs Kaufmann is elected as a member of the Compensation Committee, the Board of Directors intends to appoint him as the chairman of the Compensation Committee. |
b. | Re-election of Suzanne Thoma as a member of the Compensation Committee for a term ending at the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting |
c. | Election of Philipp Buhofer as a new member of the Compensation Committee for a term ending at the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting |
4.3. | Re-election of Dr. iur. Wolfgang Salzmann, attorney-at-law and notary public, Solothurn, as Independent Proxy for a term ending at the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting |
4.4. | Re-election of BDO AG, Solothurn, as Independent Auditors of the Company for fiscal year 2017/18 |
5. | Compensation |
a. | Acceptance of the compensation report for fiscal year 2016/17 on the basis of a non-binding, consultative vote |
b. | Approval of the maximum aggregate amount of CHF 600,000 of compensation for the members of the Board of Directors for the period to the next Annual General Meeting (based on the assumption that the Board of Directors will consist of five members) |
c. | Approval of the maximum aggregate amount of CHF 3,2000,000 of compensation for the members of the Executive Committee for fiscal year 2018/19 (based on the assumption that the Executive Committee will consist of a CEO and three other members) |