The General Shareholders' Meeting of Lenzing AG approved a dividend of EUR 14.00 per share for business year 2007 (2006: EUR 10.00). Dividend value date was set for 20 June 2008 and ex-dividend day for 16 June 2008.
Winfried Braumann, the designated managing director of B & C Holding GmbH, Vienna, is a new member elected to the supervisory board for the maximum term of five years according to the articles of association.
Andreas Schmidradner, investment manager at B & C Holding GmbH, Vienna, is the other new member elected to the supervisory board.
He replaces Karl Schmutzer, who had returned his mandate on 1 February 2008, until the expiry of that mandate at the end of the general shareholders' meeting in 2012.
The expired supervisory board mandate of Hermann Bell was extended for two more years. The constituent meeting of the supervisory board that followed the general shareholders' meeting elected Hermann Bell as chairman and Walter Lederer as his deputy.