Samsung Electronics Shareholders’ Meeting Online… Over 2 million shareholders, the largest ever
Reporter Bae Dong-jin [email protected]
Input: 2021-02-12 08:34:45Revision: 2021-02-12 08:42:25Published: 2021-02-12 08:42:45
View of Samsung Digital City in Suwon, Gyeonggi-do of Samsung Electronics, provided by Samsung Electronics
Samsung Electronics’ general shareholders’ meeting will be broadcast online for the first time. Samsung Electronics’ minority shareholders exceeded 2 million through the’Donghak Ant Movement’ last year, becoming the largest ever, and there was high interest in the way the shareholders were held.
According to the industry on the 12th, Samsung Electronics decided to hold the 52nd regular shareholders’ meeting of Samsung Electronics held in the middle of next month, and is preparing for live online broadcasting.
Previously, the Samsung Compliance Committee recommended that shareholders be held online in consideration of strengthening shareholder-friendly management and the recent Corona 19 situation, and Samsung Electronics accepted this and decided to introduce it from this year.
Samsung Electronics plans to maintain the electronic voting system introduced at the shareholders’ meeting last year. Accordingly, this year, shareholders of Samsung Electronics can vote on the agenda of the shareholders’ meeting without attending the site and view the progress of the shareholders’ meeting online.
It is reported that the on-site shareholders’ meeting will be held at the Suwon Convention Center as in last year.
Until now, Samsung Electronics has held a shareholders’ meeting at the Seocho office building in Seocho-gu, Seoul, but after the par value split in 2018, the number of minority shareholders surged, and for the first time last year, it held a shareholder meeting at the Suwon Convention Center outside the company building.
The company announced that it will prepare for this year’s shareholders’ meeting while complying with the Corona 19 situation and the social distancing prevention guidelines.
According to the Korea Securities Depository, the number of shareholders at Samsung Electronics was 2.15 million, which is the largest ever.
Among them, individual minority shareholders accounted for 2,145,317 individuals, accounting for 99.59% of the total. The number of shares they own is 38,719,2801, which is 6.48% of the total.
Meanwhile, at the next month’s general shareholders’ meeting of Samsung Electronics, it approves payment of settlement dividends worth KRW 1.3 trillion in accordance with the decision of a special dividend of KRW 1578 per share, and decides on the reappointment and appointment of new internal and external directors who are scheduled to expire. Reporter Dongjin [email protected]