You are in our Global Site Contact menu Contact us Home Investors Corporate Governance Annual General Meeting Annual General Meeting Previous Button 2021 2020 2019 2018 Next Button 2021 Date: April 15, 2021 % represented capital: 58.2% % represented shares entitled to vote: 79.9% Notes The annual review and the accounts were approved, as were the proposed dividend of CHF 2.75 per share and the planned capital reduction. Nestlé S.A. shareholders approved all of the Board of Directors' proposals. Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, a Professor and the Director and Chairwoman of the African Research Universities Alliance Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Food Systems at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, was elected to Nestlé’s Board of Directors. Ursula Burns, a Nestlé Board member since 2017, did not stand for re-election. On behalf of the Board, the Chairman wholeheartedly thanked Ursula Burns for her expert advice, valuable perspectives and significant contributions. The Chairman and all other members of the Board of Directors were elected individually for a term of office until the end of the next Annual General Meeting. Shareholders also elected the members of the Compensation Committee for a one-year term. Shareholders also approved the total compensation budgets for Nestlé's Board of Directors and Executive Board. Fifteen percent of the Executive Board members' short-term bonus will be linked to the achievement of Environment Social Governance-related objectives. Following the publication of Nestlé’s detailed, time-bound roadmap to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, Nestlé sought the support of its shareholders for its plan. The advisory vote was put on this year’s agenda ahead of upcoming changes to Swiss legislation that will stipulate the requirements for non-financial reporting. Shareholders voted in favor of the roadmap Ernst & Young Ltd was re-elected as statutory auditors for the financial year 2021. Nestlé Chairman Paul Bulcke said, "Due to the pandemic we held our Annual General Meeting today without shareholders. I am proud of how Nestlé has proven to be reliable in these challenging times and thank our shareholders for their continued engagement and support. We look forward to seeing them again next year." Press release Nestlé releases the results from its Annual General Meeting English (pdf, 150Kb) Français (pdf, 150Kb) Deutsch (pdf, 150Kb) Voting results Résultats des votations de l'Assemblée Générale 2021 (pdf, 100Kb) Summary minutes of the Annual General Meeting Annual General Meeting 2021 summary minutes (pdf, 300 Kb) Procès-verbal résumé de l'Assemblée Générale 2021 (pdf, 300 Kb) Kurzprotokoll der Generalversammlung 2021 (pdf, 300 Kb) Speeches Speeches by Chairman Paul Bulcke and CEO Mark Schneider. Watch the speeches in English | Français | Deutsch Transcript in English (pdf, 350Kb) | Français (pdf, 350Kb) | Deutsch (pdf, 350Kb) Election of new member to the Board Video presentation of Prof. Lindiwe Majele Sibanda in English | Français | Deutsch CV of Lindiwe Majele Sibanda (pdf, 150Kb) Invitation Invitation to the Annual General Meeting (pdf, 5Mb) Invitation à l'Assemblée générale ordinaire (pdf, 5Mb) Einladung zur ordentlichen Generalversammlung (pdf, 5Mb) Report of the Board of Directors Report of the Board of Directors on the proposals for the compensation of the Board of Directors and of the Executive Board (pdf, 2Mb) Rapport du Conseil d’administration concernant les propositions de rémunération du Conseil d’administration et de la Direction du Groupe (pdf, 2Mb) Bericht des Verwaltungsrats zu den Anträgen betreffend die Vergütung des Verwaltungsrats und der Konzernleitung (pdf, 2Mb) Board of Directors All biographies can be viewed in the Board of Directors section of the website (English). Voting instructions Voting instructions to the independent representative (pdf, 200Kb) Instructions de vote au représentant indépendant (pdf, 200Kb) Stimminstruktionen an den unabhängigen Stimmrechtsvertreter (pdf, 200Kb) Documents Annual Review 2020 (pdf, 15Mb) Rapport annuel 2020 (pdf, 15Mb) Lagebericht 2020 (pdf, 15Mb) Corporate Governance Report 2020 (pdf, 2Mb) Rapport sur le Gouvernement d'entreprise 2020 (pdf, 2Mb) Bericht zur Corporate Governance 2020 (pdf, 2Mb) Financial Statements 2020 (pdf, 2Mb) Rapports financiers 2020 (pdf, 2Mb) Finanzielle Berichterstattung 2020 (pdf, 2Mb) Nestlé's Climate Roadmap (pdf, 10Mb) Feuille de route climatique de Nestlé (pdf, 10Mb) Nestlé Klima Aktionsplan (pdf, 10Mb) Related information Press release providing updates on Annual General Meeting 2021 Nestlé nominates Lindiwe Majele Sibanda to join its Board of Directors, provides update on Annual General Meeting (pdf, 150Kb) Nestlé propose la candidature de Lindiwe Majele Sibanda au Conseil d’administration et donne des précisions sur son Assemblée générale 2021 (pdf, 150Kb) Nestlé schlägt Lindiwe Majele Sibanda als Mitglied des Verwaltungsrats vor und informiert über die bevorstehende ordentliche Generalversammlung (pdf, 150Kb) Contact Share Transfer Office of Nestlé S.A. 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