Fresenius Medical Care stays on course for growth – Annual General Meeting approves 22nd straight dividend increase

Fresenius Medical Care, the world’s largest provider of dialysis products and services, is investing in further growth. At the Annual General Meeting in Frankfurt today, CEO Rice Powell explained the company's growth strategy: “We will be investing to the benefit of our patients – in innovation, efficiency and areas of growth. We have already taken important steps in this direction: We want to continuously improve dialysis care in a number of ways. Because we are vertically integrated, we are ideally placed to develop innovations for a range of applications, from diagnosis to treatment.”

A large shareholder majority of 89.78 percent approved the company’s 22nd consecutive dividend increase. The dividend will be raised from €1.06 to €1.17, an increase of 10 percent. 

With large majorities, the Annual General Meeting elected two new members as shareholder representatives to the Supervisory Board: Dr. Dorothea Wenzel, Executive Vice President and Head of the Global Business Unit Surface Solutions at Merck KGaA, and Professor Dr. Gregor Zünd, Chief Executive Officer of the University Hospital of Zurich. The two by-elections were necessitated by the departures of Dr. Gerd Krick and Deborah Doyle McWhinney from the Supervisory Board last year.

Shareholder majorities of 56.81 and 52.32 percent, respectively, approved the actions of the General Partner and the Supervisory Board in 2018.

At the Annual General Meeting, 76.68 percent of the subscribed capital was represented.

The next Annual General Meeting is scheduled for May 19, 2020.