Philips Lighting Annual General Meeting of Shareholders approves appointment of its CFO Stéphane Rougeot to the Board of Management

Eindhoven, The Netherlands – Philips Lighting (Euronext Amsterdam ticker: LIGHT), a global leader in lighting, today announced that the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (AGM) approved the appointment of its CFO Stéphane Rougeot to the company’s Board of Management.

The appointments of Jill Lee and Gerard van de Aast as members of the Supervisory Board were also approved by the AGM. Additional information on the composition of the Board of Management and the Supervisory Board can be found here.

Philips Lighting’s proposal to pay a cash dividend of EUR 1.10 per share over 2016 was also approved by the AGM. All other proposals made to shareholders at the AGM were also adopted.

Philips Lighting’s 2016 results are included in Philips Lighting’s 2016 Annual Report that was published on February 21, 2017.

For more information about Philips Lighting’s 2017 AGM, please click this link.