Posti Group Corporation's Annual General Meeting was held on March 24, 2025, in Helsinki, Finland. The Annual General Meeting adopted the financial statements for 2024 and discharged the Board of Directors, the Supervisory Board and the persons acting as the President and CEO from liability.
Distribution of dividend
In accordance with the proposal of the Board of Directors, an ordinary dividend of EUR 33.0 million for the 2024 financial year. The dividend will be paid in two instalments during 2025.
Composition of the Board of Directors
The Annual General Meeting resolved that the number of members of the Board of Directors shall be nine (9) and elected the following members to continue as members of the Board of Directors: Sanna Suvanto-Harsaae (as Chair), Jukka Leinonen (as Deputy Chair), Raija-Leena Hankonen-Nybom, Frank Marthaler, Minna Pajumaa, Stefan Svensson and Satu Ollikainen as a representative of the personnel. Mervi Airaksinen and Tuomas Mäkipeska were elected as new members of the Board of Directors.
Kari-Pekka Laaksonen, Anni Ronkainen and Hanna Vuorela had announced that they were no longer available for Posti's Board of Directors.
Information on the members of the Board of Directors can be found on the company's website at www.posti.com. The term of office of the elected Board of Directors will expire at the end of the next Annual General Meeting.
Composition of the Supervisory Board
The Annual General Meeting resolved that Mia Laiho (National Coalition Party) as Chair, Paula Werning (Social Democratic Party) as Deputy Chair, Tiina Elo (Green Party), Timo Furuholm (Left Alliance), Tomi Immonen (Finns Party), Aleksi Jäntti (National Coalition Party), Milla Lahdenperä (National Coalition Party), Anders Norrbäck (Swedish People’s Party), Jorma Piisinen (Finns Party), Mika Riipi (Centre Party), Timo Suhonen (Social Democratic Party) and Sari Tanus (Christian Democrats) (until May 31, 2025) will continue as members of the Supervisory Board. Päivi Räsänen (Christian Democrats) was elected as new Supervisory Board member as from June 1, 2025.
Information on the members of the Supervisory Board is available on the company's website at www.posti.com. The term of office of the elected Supervisory Board will expire at the end of the next Annual General Meeting (apart from Sari Tanus).
Remuneration of the Board of Directors and the Supervisory Board
The members of the Board of Directors will be paid a monthly remuneration as follows:
EUR 4,000 / month to the Board Chair
EUR 2,600 per month to the Board Deputy Chair and to the Chair of the Board Committee who is not the Chair or Deputy Chair of the Board
EUR 2,200 per month for the members of the Board of Directors, with the exception of an employee representative, who is not paid a monthly remuneration.
In addition to the monthly fees, meeting fees (also to employee representatives) will be paid for attendance at Board and Committee meetings as follows:
600 euros per meeting attended in person in Finland
EUR 1 200 per meeting attended in person outside the country
600 euros / remote, phone, e-mail, etc. meeting.
The meeting fees of the members of the Supervisory Board are paid as follows: the meeting fee of the Chair is EUR 800 per meeting, the meeting fee of the Deputy Chair is EUR 600 per meeting and the meeting fee of the other members is EUR 500 per meeting.
Election of the statutory auditor and the sustainability auditor and their remuneration
In accordance with the Audit, Risk and Sustainability Committee’s recommendation, the Annual General Meeting elected the auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers Oy (PwC) as the company's statutory auditor and the company’s sustainability audit firm for the term ending at the end of the next Annual General Meeting. The auditor in charge and the sustainability auditor is Samuli Perälä, M.Sc. (Econ.), APA. It was resolved that the remuneration will be paid according to a reasonable invoice approved by the Audit, Risk and Sustainability Committee.