We hope that our directions enable you to enjoy a comfortable journey to this year's Annual General Meeting at the Grugahalle on Messeplatz 2 (previously Norbertstraße 2), 45131 Essen, Germany.
Organisational pointers
The doors open at 8:00 a.m. (the event officially starts at 10:00 a.m.). We ask of your understanding for the security precautions we have taken in the entrance area.
VRR Tickets
The ticket to the Annual General Meeting gives you a free ride to and from RWE's Annual General Meeting in Essen on any bus, train or tram belonging to the Rhine Ruhr Public Transportation Authority (VRR) throughout the Authority's area of operation.
The rapid transit (U11) stop 'Messe Ost/Gruga' is located opposite the main entrance.
Arriving via the A 52
Coming from Bochum and Düsseldorf, please taxe exit no. 27 (Essen-Haarzopf), resp. no. 28 (Essen-Rüttenscheid). Follow 'Norbertstraße' for about 880m and then turn left into 'Grugaplatz'. After about 30m, you will reach the entrance to the parking space P1 on the right.
Arriving via the B 224
Coming from downtown Essen or the A 40, turn right into 'Norbertstraße' and then after about 110m right again into 'Grugaplatz'. After about 30m, you will reach the entrance to the parking space P1 on the right.
For detailed directions, click the link below:
www.grugahalle.de
The Supervisory Board and the Executive Board of RWE AG will propose a dividend of €1.50 per share for fiscal 2017 to the Annual General Meeting on 26 April 2018.
Based on the 614,745,499 million dividend-bearing RWE shares at present, this results in a dividend payment of some €922 million.
The last Annual General Meeting was held on 27 April 2017. The Annual General Meeting resolved a dividend of €0.13 per dividend-bearing preferred share for fiscal 2016. No dividend was distributed for the common shares.
Shareholders who would like to attend the Annual General Meeting or would like to exercise their voting rights have to register within a specific time at the company. They also have to provide proof of their share ownership and entitlement of participation. Details have been published in the invitation to the Annual General Meeting.
Shareholders who request an admission ticket for the Annual General Meeting from a custodian credit institution on time, as a rule, do not need to do anything else generally. In such cases, registration and proof of share ownership are as a rule handled by the custodian credit institution.
We afford ordinary shareholders the opportunity to be represented by the proxies appointed by the company. Such proxies must be given authorisation and instructions regarding the exercise of voting rights to this end. These proxies are obliged to cast votes in accordance with the instructions they are given.
Authorisations and instructions on how to exercise voting rights may be issued to the proxies appointed by the company before the Annual General Meeting via the internet or using the appropriate forms. Authorisations and instructions may also be given via the internet during the Annual General Meeting, no later than when the votes commence. To the electronic authorisation system
Further details on this procedure are described in the invitation to the Annual General Meeting. Punctual registration of the shareholder and proof of share ownership are also required if the proxies appointed by the company are authorised.
Received admissible motions to supplement the agenda, countermotions and candidate nominations are published on our website along with the Executive Board’s position on them.
Furthermore, requests for supplements to the agenda are announced in the Bundesanzeiger (Federal Gazette), published throughout Europe and communicated to shareholders together with the convocation of the Annual General Meeting in accordance with Section 125, Paragraph 1, Sentence 3 of the German Stock Corporation Act.
As in the year before, we will arrange a live webcast of our Annual General Meeting until the beginning of the debate. The live webcast will start at approximately 10:00 a.m. CEST and can be followed here.
A recording of the speech by the CEO of RWE AG will be available up to twelve months after the AGM.
In addition, our shareholders have access to our electronic authorisation system.
The proxies appointed by the company or a third party can be authorised via the internet to exercise a shareholder’s voting rights at the AGM. This authorisation can also be given via the internet during the Annual General Meeting, as can the instructions for a proxy appointed by the company. Additional information can be found in the invitation to the Annual General Meeting.
The next ordinary Annual General Meeting will be held in Essen, Germany, on 03 May 2018.
All documents are available in PDF format. Please use the Acrobat Reader to open and read the documents.
You can play back the recording of the Annual General Meeting with Real Player or Windows Media Player.
To use the web-based authorisation system, you must make sure your browser supports SSL encryption. If your browser does not support this feature, you can download the latest versions of
Opera
Mozilla/Firefox
Microsoft Internet Explorer.
The authorisation system will be opened in a separate window. If this does not happen, please ensure that your browser’s pop-up blocker is configured to allow this access. For details, please consult your browser’s online help.
We have set up a toll-free hotline and e-mail service through which you can ask questions on the web-based authorisation system:
National Hotline
T0800 1016146 *
* Starting 5 April 2018. Available daily from 08:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
International Hotline
T00800 10161460 *
* Starting 5 April 2018. Available daily from 08:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
+49 201 5179 420 042