4 March 2025 – The Hague, the Netherlands – The Hague, the Netherlands – The Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of PostNL NV will be held on 15 April 2025. The agenda contains amongst others the appointment of Pim Berendsen as CEO, and Linde Jansen as CFO, of PostNL. Further agenda items include a number of proposed reappointments, discussion of the annual report, approval of the financial statements, and the proposed dividend of € 0.07 for the 2024 financial year.
The agenda proposes to appoint KPMG also to issue the assurance opinion on the sustainability report for the years 2025 and 2026. In addition, the agenda proposes to reappoint Nienke Meijer and Koos Timmermans as members of the Supervisory Board, and to adopt the 2024 dividend proposal.
The agenda and other relevant information can be found on our website.
If the above dividend proposal is adopted, the shares will be traded ex-dividend as of 17 April 2025. The record date will be 22 April 2025. Shareholders will be given the opportunity to make their choice between cash and shares from 23 April 2025 up to and including 7 May 2025, 5:45 PM CET. If no choice is made during this election period, the dividend will be paid in cash. The shares to be issued as stock dividend are paid out of additional paid in capital as part of the distributable reserves, free of withholding tax in the Netherlands. The number of share dividend rights entitled to one new common share will be determined based on the volume-weighted average price (“VWAP”) of all traded PostNL ordinary shares at Euronext Amsterdam on 5, 6 and 7 May 2025. The value of the stock dividend, based on this VWAP, will, subject to rounding, be targeted at but not be lower than the cash dividend. There will be no trading in stock dividend rights. The dividend will be payable as of 9 May 2025.