Annual General Meeting 2025
Welcome to the website of the Annual General Meeting of METRO AG on 19 February 2025. Here you can find information about the virtual Annual General Meeting and the internet-based, electronic InvestorPortal which you can use from 29 January 2025.
The Annual General Meeting of METRO AG will be held on
Wednesday, 19 February 2025, at 10:00 CET,
as a virtual general meeting without physical presence of shareholders or their proxies.
InvestorPortal and Livestream
The entire Annual General Meeting will be broadcasted live (video and audio) for duly registered shareholders and their proxies on METRO AG's internet-based, electronic InvestorPortal. Voting rights can also be exercised via the InvestorPortal. Even in case of an authorisation of third parties, voting rights can only be exercised by way of an electronic postal vote or by issuing powers of attorney and instructions to the proxies nominated by the Company.
The InvestorPortal will be accessible from 29 January 2025.
On the day of the Annual General Meeting the speech of the Chairmen of the Management Board was streamed live on the internet for everybody’s interest, starting at approx. 10:15 CET.
Invitation and Documents
Please note
The legally binding language for the agenda of and the general information on the Annual General Meeting 2025 of METRO AG is German. Accordingly, only the German version constitutes the legally binding document while the English version is a convenience translation only.
Invitation to the Annual General Meeting on 19 February 2025
The agenda includes further information, in particular regarding
- the terms and conditions for participation at the Annual General Meeting and the exercise of voting rights,
- the record date and its relevance pursuant to § 123 (4) sent. 2 German Stock Corporation Act,
- the process of exercising voting rights via electronic postal vote,
- the process of exercising voting rights by a proxy,
- information about rights of shareholders pursuant to §§ 122 (2), 126 (1), 127, 131 (1) German Stock Corporation Act,
- the total number of shares and voting rights at the time of the calling of the Annual General Meeting and
- a reference to the Company's website via which the information pursuant to § 124a German Stock Corporation Act is made available.
Additional note to agenda item 4 (Election of the auditor)
At the Annual General Meeting on 7 February 2024, KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft, Berlin, was elected as the auditor for the annual financial statements, the auditor for the consolidated financial statements and the auditor for the audit review of interim financial reports for the financial year 2023/24. KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft, Berlin, has served as the auditor of METRO AG without interruption since the financial year 2016/17. The auditor responsible for the audit for the financial year 2023/24 is Mr Michael Jessen; he has signed METRO AG's audit opinion for the first time for the financial year 2022/23. Mr Michael Jessen will be the auditor responsible for the audit for the financial year 2024/25 as well.
Annual Report 2023/24 - Consolidated Financial Statements
Approved consolidated financial statements of METRO AG and combined management report for METRO AG and METRO Group for the financial year 2023/24, including inter alia the report of the Supervisory Board.
Annual Financial Statements 2023/24
Adopted annual financial statements of METRO AG for the financial year 2023/24.
Annex to agenda item 6 (Elections to the Supervisory Board)
Information on the resolution proposal of the Supervisory Board for the election to the Supervisory Board:
- Mr Martin Plavec
- Ms Eva-Lotta Sjöstedt
- Mr Marek Spurný
Additional note to agenda item 6 (Elections to the Supervisory Board)
Eva-Lotta Sjöstedt’s membership of the Board of Directors of Tritax EuroBox plc, London, United Kingdom ceased after the adoption of the management’s proposed resolutions on 10 December 2024.
Annex to agenda item 7 (Resolution on the remuneration of the members of the Supervisory Board)
Annex to agenda item 8 (Approval of the remuneration report for the financial year 2023/24)
Articles of Association of METRO AG
Version: Resolution of the Annual General Meeting of 7 February 2024
Information pursuant to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1212 for the notification pursuant to § 125 of the German Stock Corporation Act of METRO AG
Notes and recommendations for connecting via video communication
Notice: All documents published above are non-binding convenience translations. In all cases the German language version shall prevail.
Voting Results
Form for Proxy / Power of attorney to a third party
Confirmation of the exercise of voting rights
After the Annual General Meeting, all shareholders will receive upon request a confirmation of the exercise of voting rights according to § 129 German Stock Corporation Act. The confirmation may be accessed by the entitled persons in the InvestorPortal or be requested via e-mail to
anmeldestelle@computershare.de
Hotline for the Annual General Meeting
If you have any questions, please contact the hotline for the Annual General Meeting of METRO AG as of 6 January 2025 at
Phone: +49(0)211/6886-1720
on workdays from Monday to Thursday between 9:00 and 16:00 CET.
For details on the handling of your personal data and the corresponding rights of shareholders and their proxies, in particular according to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)), please refer to our data protection notice.