(Finance) – The Board of Directors of Atlantia, appointed by the Shareholders’ Meeting held today. The capital represented at the Shareholders’ Meeting was 77.11% of the share capital. The Board appointed Carlo Bertazzo as Chief Executive Officer and General Manager of the company, confirming the powers already attributed in relation to the previous mandate, as well as conferring some executive powers to the Chairman of the Board of Directors in matters of communication, institutional relations and corporate security.
Giampiero Massolo was appointed today, April 29, 2022, President of Atlantia and is President of the Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI) since January 2017.
Carlo Bertazzo, confirmed today at the helm of Atlantiain June 2021 presented to the market the guidelines of Atlantia’s new strategy, aimed at transforming the company into an integrated and sustainable mobility operator, aiming at growth in the core sectors (motorways, airports and mobility services) and in adjacent areas (Intelligent Transport System, rail and electrification), as well as the improvement of the travel experience and the technological modernization of the infrastructures in the portfolio.
In this direction, he promoted the “Say On Climate”Of Atlantia, the first to be presented at the shareholders’ meeting in the history of Italian listed companies. You have personally followed the complex story of ASPI supporting, even as a member of the board, the path of managerial discontinuity and industrial transformation. Finally, he managed all the negotiation phases with the institutions, up to the disposal of the concessionaire’s shareholding. Under his leadership, last January Atlantia acquired the global operator Yunex Traffic, a leader in Intelligent Transport System (ITS) technologies, from Siemens.
During today’s meeting, the shareholders with the favorable vote of 99.75% of the share capital represented, have approved the financial statements of Atlantia as at 31 December 2021 closed with a profit of Euro 1,169,471,170.
The Shareholders’ Meeting, with the favorable vote of 98.78% of the share capital represented, has resolved to allocate the profit for the year equal to Euro 1,169,471,170 as follows: to the distribution of a dividendequal to € 0.74 per share, for a total estimated total of € 605,929,980 and to reserve available “Retained earnings” for the residual portion of the profit for the year, estimated at Euro 563,541,190 The dividend of Euro 0.74 for each share will be paid, gross of any withholding taxes, starting from 25 May 2022, with “detachment date” of coupon no. 34 coinciding with May 23, 2022 and “record date” on May 24, 2022.
Following a consultation with shareholders never previously carried out on the Italian market, the Shareholders’ Meeting expressed a favorable opinion, with 98.22% of the share capital represented, on the Climate Action Plan (“CAP”) of Atlantia. The Climate Action Plan defines the Company’s long-term strategy in relation to the energy transition of transport and the mobility eco-system, indicating the short, medium and long-term direct emission reduction targets which envisage -50% direct emissions net by 2030 (vs 2019) and their total zeroing by 2040, 10 years earlier than the Paris Agreement. These targets have been defined in line with the main scientific evidence to limit the rise in the earth’s temperature to within 1.5 degrees and have been subjected to the validation process by the Science Based Target Initiative.