29.07.2016
Bastei Lübbe AG DE000A1X3YY0
DGAP-News: New elections for Supervisory Board of Bastei Lübbe AG at 2016 Annual General Meeting
DGAP-News: Bastei Lübbe AG / Key word(s): Change of Personnel
New elections for Supervisory Board of Bastei Lübbe AG at 2016 Annual
General Meeting
29.07.2016 / 16:34
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New elections for Supervisory Board of Bastei Lübbe AG at 2016 Annual
General Meeting
Cologne, 29 July 2016. Bastei Lübbe AG, which is listed in the Prime
Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (ISIN DE000A1X3YY0), today
received written declarations from the Chairman of its Supervisory Board,
Dr Friedrich Wehrle, and the member of its Supervisory Board, Prof Michael
Nelles, that they will be resigning from their offices from the end of the
Annual General Meeting on 15 September 2016. The member of the Supervisory
Board Prof Gordian Hasselblatt had already declared on Tuesday, 26 July
2016 that he will also be resigning from office from the end of the Annual
General Meeting on 15 September 2016.
"In recent weeks, the Supervisory Board has received the impression that
the prerequisites necessary for the proper performance of this mandate are
no longer in place," said Chairman of the Supervisory Board Dr Friedrich
Wehrle. "In the spirit of good corporate governance we therefore see it as
our duty to resign our mandate in a regulated process, and to give the
shareholders the opportunity to elect a new Supervisory Board at the
forthcoming Annual General Meeting."
Dr Friedrich Wehrle continued: "Bastei Lübbe is and will remain one of
Germany's most successful publishing companies. The company's business
development is still fully in line with planning. The Management Board is
systematically implementing the successful development of the company from
being a traditional publishing company to being an international media
company, and this strategy has the broad support of the shareholders."
At the proposal of the Supervisory Board, the seats on the Supervisory
Board of Bastei Lübbe AG being vacated will be assumed by Mr Robert Stein
(Senior Investment Advisor at Rianta Capital Zurich AG and Managing
Director of CAPNET), the lawyer Prof Friedrich L. Ekey (Professor of
Business Law at Rheinische Fachhochschule Cologne) and Dr Mirko Alexander
Caspar (Managing Director of Mister Spex). The Supervisory Board will
publish its corresponding nominations in the announcement of the agenda of
the Annual General Meeting. The new shareholder representatives are to be
voted in until the end of the Annual General Meeting that adopts the
resolution on the official approval of the Supervisory Board for the
financial year ending on 31 March 2018. It is intended that Mr Stein will
become the new Chairman of the Supervisory Board.
About Bastei Lübbe AG:
Bastei Lübbe AG is an international media group based in Cologne. Its
business operations focus on developing and licensing content distributed
worldwide physically and digitally. The company's core business includes
the traditional publishing business and the periodical puzzle magazines and
novel booklets in the "Book" segment. With its twelve publishers and
imprints, the group of companies currently offers approximately 3,600
titles in fiction, non-fiction and books for children and young adults. In
the growing segment of hardcover fiction, the company has been the market
leader in Germany for many years. At the same time, Bastei Lübbe is driving
innovation in the field of digital media. As well as the production of
thousands of audio and e-books, the "Digital" segment also includes
holdings in the self-publishing platform "BookRix" and the renowned games
publisher "Daedalic Entertainment". Bastei Lübbe AG's value chain is
completed by the investment in the online shop "beam-ebooks.de" and the new
and internationally unique streaming platform "oolipo".
With currently 334 employees and an annual turnover of roughly EUR 102.5
million (financial year 2015/2016), Bastei Lübbe AG is the largest medium-
sized family company in the German publishing industry. Since 2013, the
company's shares have been listed in the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt
Stock Exchange (WKN A1X3YY, ISIN DE000A1X3YY0). Further information is
available at www.luebbe.de.
Contact Bastei Lübbe AG:
Barbara Fischer
Director / Vice President
Public Relations
Tel.: +49 (0) 221 / 82 00 28 50
E-mail: [email protected]
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Language: English
Company: Bastei Lübbe AG
Schanzenstraße 6 - 20
51063 Köln
Germany
Phone: 02 21 / 82 00 - 0
Fax: 02 21 / 82 00 - 1900
E-mail: [email protected]
Internet: www.luebbe.de
ISIN: DE000A1X3YY0, DE000A1K0169
WKN: A1X3YY, A1K016
Listed: Regulated Market in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Regulated
Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Hanover,
Stuttgart, Tradegate Exchange
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