Questions & Answers regarding
the Annual Meeting
the Annual Meeting
Participation in the Annual Meeting
The e-service (formerly known as "Personal Internet Service") of Daimler enables the registered shareholders to issue proxy and voting instructions to the proxy personnel of the company or alternatively to order admission tickets via our website.
If you are a beneficial owner - which means that your shares are held through a broker or custodian and are registered in the Company's share register in the name of a securities depository - the voting instruction form you receive will indicate whether Internet voting is available through your broker or custodian.
Shareholders who have issued proxy received by us until April 04, 2008 midnight CET, can cast or change their votes on the items of the agenda on the day of the meeting until shortly before the voting at the meeting begins, by using the Internet Voting Service or the e-service for shareholders.
The proxy personnel will vote on behalf of and in accordance with the instruction of the shareholder. The failure to check a "yes" or "no" box for an agenda item will be registered as "abstention" for this agenda item.
In the past the event lasted approx. 10 -12 hours.
Admission at 08.00 a.m., the meeting will start at 10.00 a.m., both CET.
We expect a large number of participants. Daimler recommends that you arrive early, also to have the benefit of and to support a quick admission process.
Formal welcome and introductory and explanatory remarks concerning affairs of the Board of Management and the Supervisory Board as well as the meeting by the Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Dr. Manfred Bischoff.
Then the Chairman of the Board of Management Dieter Zetsche will present his report on the 2007 financial year and the development of the company.
After this presentation the discussion of the agenda items with the stockholders will begin. This discussion will take the form of so-called discussion rounds during which approx. 8-10 speakers will take the floor consecutively, after which the questions arising will be answered either by the Chairman of the Board of Management and Head of Mercedes-Benz Cars, Dieter Zetsche or by Bodo Uebber, board member, Finance & Controlling/ Financial Services.
Following the discussion (usually late in the evening) votes will be taken on the agenda items. The voting procedure will be explained by the Chairman of the meeting, Dr. Manfred Bischoff beforehand. When the votes have been counted the results will be announced and the meeting will come to an end.
The opening address by the Chairman of the Meeting and the speech of the Chairman of the Board of Management at the beginning of the meeting will be video webcast live on the Internet and may be accessed as video on demand afterwards.
A complete web cast is not envisaged. This serves the personal interests of speakers at the Annual Meeting.
The meeting will be conducted in the German language.
English-speaking stockholders are kindly requested to make themselves known to the personnel at the admission desk in the entrance area. They will then be asked to proceed to a special entrance to hall 1. In marked area in hall 1, radio headphones will be available which enable the shareholders to receive a simultaneous/consecutive translation of the proceedings from German into English.
Discussions in English will be translated from English into German and be transmitted via the local loudspeakers.
A certificate, that the shareholders has attended the meeting (e.g. for tax purposes) can be issued at the stand for Stock Corporation Information in the entrance area upon request.
Stockholders may temporarily leave the meeting via the exit desk. A re-entry is possible upon presentation of the pad of voting cards.
No, the German Stock Corporation Act requires a physical presence or representation in order to exercise his rights.
There are no numbered seat tickets. Reservations are also not available.
The Board of Management and the Supervisory Board will be seated in Hall 1, where the discussion with the shareholders will take place. Hall 1 has approx. 4,300 seats and we expect it to be fully occupied around 09:00 a.m. CET. Our shareholder service personnel will have to direct incoming shareholders to the next halls with vacant seats, thus step by step filling several halls. All halls are equipped with audio and video transmission of the speeches and dialogues from Hall 1.
In the entrance area admission tickets for every hall will be given out on the day of the event to ensure that the number of persons in the halls is restricted to that prescribed by the safety regulations.
Start of the event: 10 a.m. CET
Admission 08 a.m. CET
Admission 08 a.m. CET
Several warm and cold snacks, a vegetarian dish, fresh fruit as well as warm and cold beverages are available.
This is not known before the meeting, as those wishing to speak will not present their voting card booklet and register their intention until the day of the meeting.
Neither will speakers be called in any particular order, and speakers will not be able to specify when they wish to take the floor for discussion purposes.
The stockholder has two possibilities:
1. He can authorize another person present to vote on his behalf. For this, the stockholder gives his proxy the voting card booklet and instructions on how to vote, having previously removed the completed blue proxy card from the booklet which he hands in at the proxy desk when leaving the meeting.
2. He can leave the completed orange-coloured Proxy/Instruction Card at the proxy desk in the entrance/exit foyer. Daimler personnel will then vote in accordance with his voting instructions. The stockholder leaves his voting card booklet with the official at the proxy counter when leaving the meeting.
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