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Annual Meeting with high level of visitor interest. The Annual
Meeting held at the International Congress Centrum (ICC) in Berlin
on April 8, 2009 was attended by 7,000 shareholders. We once
again made use of this opportunity to present the Group’s broad
product range and technology expertise to the shareholders.
With 41.6% of the share capital represented at the Annual Meeting,
shareholder representation was close to the level of the prior
year (42.5%). In the voting on the items of the agenda, the share-
holders adopted the recommendations of the management with
large majorities.
Invitations to the Annual Meeting including the agenda and an
explanation of conditions for attendance are generally sent out to
the shareholders one and a half months before the date of the
Annual Meeting. The shareholders are able to exercise their voting
rights in person at the Annual Meeting or through a proxy of their
own choice or through a voting proxy appointed by Daimler who
is bound by their voting instructions. Directly after the Annual
Meeting, we report on shareholder attendance and the results of
voting on the Internet. All documents and information on this
subject are available at www.daimler.com/ir/am.
Comprehensive investor relations activities. In the past year,
the Investor Relations department once again provided timely
information on the development of the Group to institutional
investors, analysts, rating agencies and retail investors. Our
communication activities for institutional investors and analysts
included roadshows in the major financial centers of Europe,
North America, Asia and Australia, as well as large numbers of
one-on-one meetings. We carried out presentations of the Group
in the context of investor conferences, in particular during the
international motor shows in Detroit, Geneva and Frankfurt. We
regularly reported on our quarterly results and on important
changes at the Group via conference calls and Internet broad-
casts. The presentations can be seen on our website at
www.daimler.com/investor.
The main subject areas for capital-market communication included
the current development of the Group and the outlook for full-
year 2009. These investor relations events were supplemented
by presentations and test drives with the new Mercedes-Benz
E-Class.
New look for Internet website. Daimler’s website was fundamen -
tally modernized at the end of 2009 with a new page layout and
additional facilities, making the overall experience even more user-
friendly. In the International ARC Awards honoring the world’s
most outstanding annual reports, our interactive Annual Report
was voted the world’s best online annual report in the Auto-
mobiles & Trucks category for the fourth time in succession.
Another increase in the number of online shareholders. Our
electronic information and communication service was as pop-
ular as ever in 2009. The number of shareholders registered in
Daimler’s e-service had increased to 100,000 by the end of the
year.
Of that total, approximately 85,000 shareholders received their
invitations to the Annual Meeting by e-mail instead of by post in
2009, thus helping to protect the environment and to reduce
costs.
Access to the e-service for shareholders and further information
on it can be found on our website at
https://register.daimler.com.
Aabar Investments PJSC* 9.1%
Kuwait Investment Authority 6.9%
Institutional investors 63.1%
Retail investors 20.9%
* according to notification of March 25, 2009 pursuant to Sections 21 ff
of the German Securities Trading Act (WpHG)
By type of shareholder
Shareholder structure as of December 31, 2009
By region
Shareholder structure as of December 31, 2009
Germany 36.4%
Europe, excluding Germany 30.1%
USA 17.4%
United Arab Emirates 9.1%
Kuwait 6.9%
Rest of the world 0.1%