Frequently Asked Questions

When and where will the Annual General Meeting 2011 take place?

The Annual General Meeting took place on February 17, 2011, at 10.00 a.m., CET, at the ICM (Internationales Congress Center München), Am Messesee 6, Messegelände, 81829 Munich, Germany.

All shareholders who are entered in the Company’s stock register and have notified their attendance at the Annual General Meeting by no later than the end of February 10, 2011 are entitled to participate in the Annual General Meeting. For organizational reasons, no transfer entries can be made in the Company’s stock register between February 11, 2011 and the day of the Annual General Meeting (both days inclusive).

Your notice of attendance must be received no later than February 10, 2011. We cannot consider notices of attendance received after that date.

Notices of attendance may be submitted in text form

  • to the following address
    Infineon Hauptversammlung 2011
    81056 München
    Germany,
  • or to fax number
    +49 (0)89 234 955 0153

or

In order to use our Internet site at www.infineon.com/agm, you will need a personal access code. Your personal access code will be sent to you with the Annual General Meeting documents. If you have already registered for electronic delivery of the General Meeting documents in the past, please use the personal access code you have chosen.

Yes, you can obtain up to two admission tickets.

You may use our Internet site to notify attendance, cast your votes by mail ballot or appoint a proxy and issue voting instructions. Please use your shareholder number and personal access code to access our Internet site. Your personal access code will be sent to you with the Annual General Meeting documents. If you have already registered for electronic delivery of the General Meeting documents in the past, please use the personal access code you have chosen.

Invitations are distributed starting January 19, 2011. If you are an ADR holder you will receive your information package from Deutsche Bank.

All persons who are entered in the Company’s stock register are entitled to participate in the Annual General Meeting. If the shares are sold, the seller will presumably be deleted from the stock register by the day of the Annual General Meeting and will therefore no longer be authorized to participate. If an admission ticket has already been issued, it will become invalid.

Please fill in the "change of address" coupon on the back of the letter accompanying the Notice of Annual General Meeting or submit changes via our Internet site. To use our Internet site, please use your shareholder number and personal access code. Your personal access code will be sent to you with the Annual General Meeting documents. If you have already registered for electronic delivery of the General Meeting documents in the past, please use the personal access code you have chosen. In any case, you should also contact your depositary bank.

No. Your entitlement is independant of your participation or voting in the AGM. Please note, however, that a dividend can only be paid if a majority of shareholders participating in the AGM supports the boards’ proposals.

The total amount distributable as dividend is EUR 108,674,208.50.

This depends on the share price. Relative to an assumed share price of EUR 7.00 the dividend yield is 1.43%.

Due to Infineon’s previous tax balance sheet losses, a dividend payment will be drawn from the contributions account for tax purposes. Hence. Infineon is not required to deduct and remit investment income tax or a solidarity surcharge on dividend payments from the contributions account for tax purposes. A dividend can thus in principle be paid to German shareholders gross with no tax deduction irrespective of whether the shareholder is a natural person or an institutional investor. 

For a German investor, the dividend represents a return on capital that is tax-free in principle and merely reduces the original cost of the shares.

The dividend is also in principle paid gross with no tax deduction to shareholders outside Germany. However, it is not possible to make any generally applicable statement on taxation in specific countries of residence.

Our shareholders are too many and too variable in their circumstances for us to be able to provide any reliable general information on taxation and you are therefore requested to contact your tax advisor for specific details.

Infineon shares that are in your securities account on the day of the Shareholders´ Meeting that decides upon the proposed dividend, qualify for a dividend.

The decisive accounts are those of Infineon Technologies AG, which have been prepared in accordance with the German Commercial Code (HGB). The balance sheet profit (Bilanzgewinn) shown there defines the maximum distributable dividend amount.

Provided that the Shareholders´ Meeting on February 17, 2011, decides a dividend, the payment will be effected on February 18, 2011 (ex dividend date).

The dividend will be credited to your bank account on the payment date. You have to care about nothing.

Please contact your personal/custodian bank.

Please contact your personal/custodian bank.

Normally the shareholder’s bank draws up a statement of the dividend paid and informs its customer accordingly. Infineon does not notify the shareholders.