Clariant's shareholders approve all agenda items at the Annual General Meeting - Seite 2

Nominated by the Board of Directors, Eveline Saupper (57), a Swiss citizen, Claudia Suessmuth Dyckerhoff (49), a German citizen, and Peter Steiner (56), a German citizen, were elected as board members. Peter R. Isler has reached the statutory maximum age for board members and will therefore resign. All other members of the Board of Directors were reelected for one year by a large majority, as was the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Rudolf Wehrli. PricewaterhouseCoopers Ltd was confirmed as the statutory auditor for 2016.

The proposal for overall compensation of the Board of Directors for the term from the 2016 to the 2017 Annual General Meeting was approved with 98.85 % of the votes, as was the overall compensation of the Executive Committee for financial year 2017, with 90.15 % of the votes.

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The speeches of Rudolf Wehrli, Chairman of the Board of Directors, and CEO Hariolf Kottmann along with pictures and CV's of Eveline Saupper, Claudia Suessmuth Dyckerhoff, and Peter Steiner are available on http://www.clariant.com/en/Investors/Events/Annual-General-Meetings

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