The shareholders of Citycon Oyj are invited to an Extraordinary
General Meeting to elect a new Board member to replace Mr Amir
Bernstein, who has resigned from the Board. The meeting will take
place on Tuesday, 1 December 2009 at 3.00 p.m. at Kansallissali,
Aleksanterinkatu 44, Helsinki, Finland.
The Board of Directors' Nomination Committee proposes that Mr Ronen
Ashkenazi (born in 1962) be elected as a new member to the Board for
a term that will continue until the closing of the next Annual
General Meeting. Mr Ashkenazi, M.Sc. (Civil Engineering), is an
Israeli citizen and the CEO and minority shareholder of Gazit Globe
Israel (Development) Ltd. He has 25 years experience in the real
estate industry. Gazit Globe Israel (Development) Ltd. is mainly
focused on shopping centre development and is a subsidiary of
Gazit-Globe Ltd., a property investment company listed on the Tel
Aviv Stock Exchange and the main shareholder of Citycon Oyj.
The notice of the Extraordinary General Meeting in its entirety is
appended to this release and is available on the corporate website
www.citycon.com/egm2009 and will be published in Helsingin Sanomat on
9 November 2009.
Helsinki, 6 November 2009
CITYCON OYJ
Petri Olkinuora
CEO
For further information, please contact:
Petri Olkinuora, CEO
Tel. +358 20 766 4401 or mobile +358 400 333 256
petri.olkinuora@citycon.fi
Distribution:
NASDAQ OMX Helsinki
Major media
www.citycon.com
APPENDIX: NOTICE OF CITYCON OYJ'S EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING
NOTICE OF THE EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING
The shareholders of Citycon Oyj are hereby invited to the
Extraordinary General Meeting to be held on Tuesday, 1 December 2009
at 3.00 p.m. at Kansallissali, Aleksanterinkatu 44, Helsinki,
Finland. The reception of preregistered participants will commence at
2.00 p.m.
A. Matters on the agenda of the general meeting
At the general meeting, the following matters will be considered:
1. Opening of the meeting
2. Election of chairman of the meeting
3. Election of minutes-checker and supervisors of vote-counting
4. Recording the legality and quorum of the meeting
5. Recording the attendance and adopting the list of votes
6. Election of a new Board member
The Board of Directors' Nomination Committee proposes that Mr Ronen
Ashkenazi (born in 1962) be elected as a new member to the Board for
a term that will continue until the closing of the next Annual
General Meeting. Mr Ashkenazi, M.Sc. (Civil Engineering), is an
Israeli citizen and the CEO and minority shareholder of Gazit Globe
Israel (Development) Ltd. He has 25 years experience in the real
estate industry.
The Nomination Committee proposes the election of Mr Ashkenazi since
Mr Amir Bernstein has announced his resignation from the Board. Mr
Gideon Bolotowsky, Mr Raimo Korpinen, Mr Tuomo Lähdesmäki (Deputy
Chairman), Mr Claes Ottosson, Mr Dor J. Segal, Mr Thomas W. Wernink
(Chairman), Mr Per-Håkan Westin and Ms Ariella Zochovitzky will
continue as other members of the Board of Directors.
Mr Ashkenazi has given his consent to the election. The candidate's
personal details are available on the company's website at
www.citycon.com/Board.
7. Closing of the meeting
B. Documents of the general meeting
This notice, which includes the proposal by the Board of Directors'
Nomination Committee in its entirety, is available on the company's
website www.citycon.com/egm2009. Minutes of the general meeting will
be available on the aforementioned website as of 15 December 2009 at
the latest.
C. Instructions for participants in the general meeting
1. The right to participate and preregistration
A shareholder has the right to participate in the general meeting, if
(s)he is registered in the company's register of shareholders,
maintained by Euroclear Finland Ltd, on Thursday, 19 November 2009,
and has given prior notice of his/her attendance in the meeting not
later than Thursday, 26 November 2009 at 4.00 p.m. A shareholder,
whose shares are registered on his/her personal book-entry account in
Finland, is registered in the company's register of shareholders.
A shareholder can give prior notice of his/her attendance in the
meeting by either
- filling in a preregistration form on the company's website
www.citycon.com/preregistration,
- e-mail to legal@citycon.fi,
- telephone +358 20 766 4400,
- fax +358 20 766 4499 or
- mail addressed to Citycon Oyj, EGM, Pohjoisesplanadi 35 AB,
FI-00100 Helsinki, Finland.
Such notice shall be submitted not later than 4.00 p.m. on 26
November 2009.
Pursuant to Chapter 5, Section 25 of the Finnish Limited Liability
Companies Act, a shareholder who is present at the general meeting
has the right to request information with respect to the matters to
be considered at the meeting.
2. Proxy representative and powers of attorney
A shareholder may participate in the extraordinary general meeting
and exercise his/her rights at the meeting by way of proxy
representation. A proxy representative shall produce a dated proxy
document or otherwise in a reliable manner demonstrate his/her right
to represent the shareholder. If the shareholder's shares are
recorded in more than one book-entry securities account, the
shareholder has the right to use a different proxy representative for
the shares in each book-entry securities account. In connection with
the preregistration, the shareholder must in this case also indicate
the shares which each proxy representative represents.
Possible proxy documents shall be submitted not later than 4.00 p.m.
on 26 November 2009.
3. Holders of nominee registered shares
A holder of nominee registered shares, who wants to participate in
the Extraordinary General Meeting, must be recorded for temporary
entry in the company's register of shareholders not later than 10.00
a.m. on 26 November 2009, provided that the shareholder would have
had the right, on the basis of the same shares, to be entered in the
company's register of shareholders on the record date of the meeting,
19 November 2009. A notification regarding temporary entry of a
holder of nominee registered shares in the company's register of
shareholders is also regarded as a prior notice of participation in
the Extraordinary General Meeting.
A holder of nominee registered shares is advised to request necessary
instructions regarding the temporary registration in the register of
shareholders, the issuing of proxy documents and preregistration for
the general meeting from his/her custodian bank. Further information
on these matters can also be found on the company's website
www.citycon.com/egm2009.
4. Further instructions/information
Further information on matters pertaining to general meeting and on
shareholder's rights is available on the company's website
www.citycon.com/gm.
On the date of this notice, 6 November 2009, Citycon Oyj has
221,059,735 shares and 221,059,735 votes.
Helsinki, 6 November 2009
CITYCON OYJ
Board of Directors