TMK Holds
Annual General Meeting of Shareholders
TMK
announces that the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders was held in Moscow on
June 26, 2012.
Shareholders approved the annual report and financial statements for
the 2011 financial year, including the Company’s profit and loss statement for
2011. Shareholders also elected the Board of Directors and the Revision
Commission. They also approved related-party transactions. OOO “Ernst &
Young” was appointed as the Company’s auditor.
Shareholders voted to pay annual dividends of RUB 2.70 per one
ordinary share (nominal value of RUB 10 per share). Total dividend payments will
amount to RUB 2,531,482,453.80.
The Annual
General Meeting of Shareholders also approved amendments to the Company’s
Charter. According to them TMK’s Board of Directors was extended from ten to
eleven members. Ruben Aganbegyan, Mikhail Alekseev, Bob Foresman, Andrey
Kaplunov, Igor Khmelevsky, Peter O'Brien, Sergei Papin,
Dmitry Pumpyansky, Oleg Schegolev, Alexander Shiryaev and Alexander
Shokhin were elected to TMK’s Board of Directors. Six out of eleven Directors
are independent.
Alexander Shiryaev, TMK CEO commented on the new Board of Directors:
“Out of the four new independent directors, two (Peter O’Brien and Oleg
Schegolev) are recognized experts in the oil and gas industry, which TMK is a
part of. They will contribute to the Company’s development as a global supplier
of tubular products for this industry. The two others (Ruben Aganbegyan and Bob
Foresman) are prominent members of the investment community whose authority will
add to further improvement of TMK’s corporate culture, which will ultimately
allow the Company to better realize its investment
potential”.
TMK is a leading global manufacturer and supplier of steel pipes for
the oil and gas industry, operating 24 production sites in the United States,
Russia, Romania and Kazakhstan and two R&D centres in Russia and the USA. In
2011, TMK’s pipe shipments totaled 4.23 million tonnes. The largest share of
TMK’s sales belongs to high margin oil country tubular goods (OCTG), shipped to
customers in 85 countries. TMK delivers its products along with an extensive
package of services in heat treating, protective coating, premium connections
threading, warehousing and pipe repairing.
TMK’s ordinary shares are listed on Russia’s major stock exchange –
MICEX-RTS. Its GDRs are traded on the London Stock Exchange, and its ADRs – on
the OTCQX International Premier trading platform in the U.S.
TMK’s production assets structure:
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Russian division:
·
Volzhsky
Pipe Plant;
·
Seversky Tube Works;
·
Taganrog Metallurgical Works;
·
Sinarsky Pipe Plant;
·
TMK-Kaztrubprom.
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American division:
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11
plants of TMK
IPSCO.
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European division:
·
TMK-ARTROM;
·
TMK-RESITA.
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TMK-INOX;
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TMK-Premium Service;
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TMK Oilfield Services.
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