We have provided directions to help you arrive comfortably at this year’s Annual General Meeting and Preferred Shareholders Meeting at the Grugahalle, Messeplatz 2 (formerly Norbertstraße 2), 45131 Essen, Germany.
Organisational remarks
The doors to the Annual General Meeting open at 8.00 a.m. (official start of the event: 10.00 a.m.). We kindly ask of your understanding for the safety precautions we will be taking in the entrance area.
The Preferred Shareholders Meeting taking place this year will begin after Annual General Meeting, but not before 05.00 p.m.
VRR tickets
The ticket to the Annual General Meeting entitles you to free transportation to and from RWE's Annual General Meeting in Essen on any bus, train or tram line operated by Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (VRR, local transport association) throughout the association’s operating area.
The U-Bahn (tram) stop “Messe Ost/Gruga” (tram line U11) is located directly opposite the main entrance.
Via the A 52 motorway
Coming from Bochum or Düsseldorf, please take exit No. 27 (Essen-Haarzopf), or No. 28 (Essen-Rüttenscheid). Follow Norbertstraße for about 880 metres, then turn left onto Messeplatz. After about 30 metres, the entrance to parking lot P1 is to your right.
Via the B 224 rural route
Coming from downtown Essen or the A 40, turn right into Norbertstraße, and right again after about 110 metres onto Messeplatz. After about 30 metres, the entrance to parking lot P1 is to your right.
For detailed directions, click on the link below:
www.grugahalle.de
The Supervisory Board and the Executive Board of RWE Aktiengesellschaft will propose to the Annual General Meeting on 3 May 2019 to pay a dividend of EUR 0.70 per share for fiscal 2018.
Based on the current 614,745,499 million dividend-bearing RWE shares, this results in a dividend payout of roughly EUR 430 million.
The last Annual General Meeting was held on 26 April 2018. The Annual General Meeting resolved to pay a dividend of €1.50 per share for fiscal 2017.
Shareholders who wish to attend the Annual General Meeting or would like to exercise their voting rights need to register with the company before a given deadline and furnish proof of their share ownership through their custodian bank or financial services institution. Details are provided in the invitation to the Annual General Meeting.
Shareholders who have requested an admission ticket to the Annual General Meeting from their custodian institution in due time normally need to take no further action. Registration and proof of share ownership are taken care of by the custodian institution.
The proof of authorisation to participate in the Annual General Meeting doubles as proof of authorisation to participate in the Preferred Shareholders Meeting. Consequently, holders of preferred shares who have furnished proof of their authorisation to take part in the Annual General Meeting need not hand in any additional proof of their authorisation to take part in the Preferred Shareholders Meeting.
As in previous years, we provide shareholders with the option to be represented by a proxy appointed by the company. These proxies must be given authorisation and instructions regarding the exercise of your voting rights. They are under obligation to vote as instructed.
Authorisations and instructions on the exercise of voting rights may be issued to the proxies appointed by the company via the internet or by using the forms provided. Authorisations and instructions via the internet can be issued during the Annual General Meeting until the voting procedure commences. To the electronic authorisation system
Further details on this procedure are described in the Invitation to the Annual General Meeting. Timely registration of the shareholder and proof of share ownership are also required if a proxy appointed by the company is authorised.
We will offer the same proxy service to holders of preferred shares for the Preferred Shareholders Meeting this year.
Admissible requests to supplement the Agenda, countermotions and candidate nominations received by the company are published on our website along with the Executive Board’s position on them, if applicable.
Furthermore, requests for supplements to the Agenda are announced in the Bundesanzeiger (Federal Gazette), and published throughout Europe immediately upon receipt and communicated to shareholders together with the convocation in accordance with Section 125, Paragraph 1, Sentence 3 of the German Stock Corporation Act.
As last year, we will provide a live webcast of our Annual General Meeting on 3 May 2019, up to the beginning of the general debate. The live webcast will start at 10.00 a.m. CEST and can be viewed here.
A recording of the speech by the CEO of RWE Aktiengesellschaft will be available for at least twelve months after the Annual General Meeting.
In addition, our shareholders have access to our electronic authorisation and instruction system.
You can authorise a company-appointed proxy or a third party via the internet who will then exercise your voting rights at the Annual General Meeting. You may authorise a proxy or give the required instructions to the proxies appointed by the company online even during the Annual General Meeting. The Invitation to the Annual General Meeting contains further details on this.
The same applies accordingly for the Preferred Shareholders Meeting taking place this year.
The next Annual General Meeting will be held at the Grugahalle in Essen, Germany, on 28 April 2020.
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 12 April 2019. Available daily from 08:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
International Hotline
T00800 10161460 *
* Starting 12 April 2019. Available daily from 08:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
+49 201 5179 420 042