PROPOSED APPROPRIATION OF AVAILABLE EARNINGS

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The Board of Directors proposes to the Annual General Meeting a distribution of CHF 2.50 per registered share amounting to CHF 32,000,000, consisting of an ordinary dividend of CHF 2.50 per registered share for the year 2023.

PROPOSED APPROPRIATION OF AVAILABLE EARNINGS

CHF 1,000

2023

Profit carried forward from prior year

37,611

Profit for the year

53,993

Available earnings for Annual General Meeting

91,604

 

 

Proposed dividend payment

–32,000

 

 

Balance to be carried forward

59,604

PROPOSED PAYOUT

CHF 1,000

2023

Proposed dividend payment

 

Gross dividend per registered share: CHF 2.50 (2022: CHF 2.05)

 

on 12,747,717 shares entitled to distribution at 31 December 2023

31,869

on 52,283 treasury shares set aside for the employee share plan at 31 December 2023 1)

131

Less withholding tax

–11,200

 

 

Total payout

20,800

1) The Company will waive its entitlement to dividend for the treasury shares held on the distribution date that are reserved for use in its employee share plan. The amount due on these shares will be taken to the profit carried forward.