Cargotec Corporation's Board of Directors elected by the Annual General Meeting has in its organising meeting elected Jaakko Eskola to continue as Chair of the Board. Ilkka Herlin was re-elected as Vice Chair of the Board.
The Board of Directors considers all members to be independent of the company and all except Ilkka Herlin to be independent of major shareholders. In the overall evaluation, the Board considered the over ten year term of Ilkka Herlin but considered him still to be independent of the company.
The Board of Directors elected among its members Raija-Leena Hankonen-Nybom, Tapio Kolunsarka, Johanna Lamminen and Kaisa Olkkonen as members of the Audit and Risk Management Committee. Raija-Leena Hankonen-Nybom was elected as Chair of the committee.
Board members Jaakko Eskola, Ilkka Herlin, Teresa Kemppi-Vasama and Ritva Sotamaa were elected to the Nomination and Compensation Committee. Jaakko Eskola was re-elected as Chair of the committee.
Outi Aaltonen, Senior Vice President, General Counsel, will continue as Secretary to the Board.
Cargotec's transfer of own shares based on incentive programmes
The Board of Directors of Cargotec Corporation has today on 23 March 2023 decided on a directed share issue related to the reward payments for share-based incentive programmes. In the share issue, 224,797 own class B shares held by the company will be transferred on Friday 31 March 2023 without consideration to the key employees participating in the share-based incentive programmes in accordance with the programme-specific terms and conditions.
The share reward payments are related to the performance period 2020-2022 of Cargotec's share-based incentive programme, 2020–2022 restricted shares programme, first instalment of the restricted share programme 2022–2024 and first instalment of the restricted share unit programme 2022–2024. More detailed information about the launch and the terms and conditions of these programmes are available in the stock exchange releases published on 6 February 2020 and 13 May 2022.
After the transfer of shares, Cargotec holds a total of 7,043 own class B shares.
The decision on the directed share issue is based on the authorisation granted to the Board of Directors by the Annual General Meeting on 23 March 2023. According to the authorisation, the Board of Directors can decide on a share issue amounting to a maximum of 952,000 class A shares and 5,448,000 class B shares.
