FLSmidth (FLS) AGM 2021 summary
Event summary combining transcript, slides, and related documents.
AGM 2021 summary
26 Oct, 2026Opening remarks and agenda
AGM held electronically on 24 March 2021 at 16:00 CET; agenda covered the 2020 report and accounts, board fees, profit distribution, remuneration, elections, board proposals and shareholder proposals.
The meeting took note of the Board’s report on 2020 activities and approved the 2020 Annual Report.
Board and executive committee updates
Vagn Ove Sørensen, Tom Knutzen, Rob Smith, Anne Louise Eberhard, Gillian Dawn Winckler and Thrasyvoulos Moraitis were re-elected as directors.
Leif Gundtoft, Claus Østergaard and Carsten Hansen were elected employee representatives; Bodil Recke, Jens Peter Koch and Søren Quistgaard were elected alternates.
At the subsequent Board meeting, Vagn Ove Sørensen was elected Chairman and Tom Knutzen Vice Chairman.
Shareholder proposals
AkademikerPension and LD Fonde’s proposal for corporate country-by-country tax reporting under GRI 207: Tax 2019, starting in FY2021, was approved.
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