26 May 2011 15:23

Acron boosts 2010 div 60% to 40 rubles

MOSCOW. May 26 (Interfax) - The shareholders in fertilizer-maker OJSC Acron voted at their annual meeting May 26 to pay dividends for last year of 40 rubles per ordinary share, as recommended by the board of directors, the company said.

Acron paid dividends of 25 rubles per share for 2009, meaning those for last year are up 60%.

Acron has 47,687,6000 issued ordinary shares, par value 5 rubles each, and could therefore pay its shareholders a total of 1.9 billion rubles.

The AGM elected the following board of directors: Igor Belikov, Independent Director; Vladimir Gavrikov, Executive Director; Alexander Dynkin, CEO Adviser; Viktor Kochubey, Senior Deputy Executive Director, Chief Technology Officer; Alexander Popov, Senior Vice President; Dmitry Khabrat, Deputy Head of Foreign Trade Division; Valery Shvalyuk, Head of the Finance and Economics Department.

It approved Baker Tilly Russaudit as the RAS auditor and PriceWaterhouseCoopers as IAS auditor.

The shareholder meeting was followed by the first Board of Directors meeting. Alexander Popov was elected to chair the Board of Directors. Ivan Antonov was re-appointed as general director.

The management board was re-elected.