Umicore - All agenda items approved at the shareholders' meetings

On Thursday 29 April 2021, Umicore held its ordinary and special shareholders’ meetings, broadcasted live from its headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. The shareholders approved all agenda items. Details of the resolutions are available on Umicore’s website.

The ordinary shareholders’ meeting approved the appointment of Birgit Behrendt as a new, independent Supervisory Board member for a term of 3 years.

The ordinary shareholders’ meeting also approved the payment of a gross annual dividend of € 0.75 per share. Taking into account the gross interim dividend of € 0.25 per share paid out on 25 August 2020, a gross amount of € 0.50 per share (ISIN BE0974320526) will be paid out on 5 May 2021.

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About Umicore

Umicore is a global materials technology and recycling group. It focuses on application areas where its expertise in materials science, chemistry and metallurgy makes a real difference. Its activities are organised in three business groups: Catalysis, Energy & Surface Technologies and Recycling. Each business group is divided into market-focused business units offering materials and solutions that are at the cutting edge of new technological developments and essential to everyday life. 

Umicore generates the majority of its revenues and dedicates most of its R&D efforts to clean mobility materials and recycling. Umicore’s overriding goal of sustainable value creation is based on an ambition to develop, produce and recycle materials in a way that fulfils its mission: materials for a better life. 

Umicore’s industrial and commercial operations as well as R&D activities are located across the world to best serve its global customer base. The Group generated revenues (excluding metal) of € 3.2 billion (turnover of € 20.7 billion) in 2020 and currently employs 10,800 people.