The Annual General Meeting of shareholders took place on 31 March 2011 and could be followed via audio webcast. The minutes of the meeting have been adopted and are now available. For any questions, you can contact the company secretary, Jelle Miedema at jelle.miedema@randstadholding.com.

Documents in English and in Dutch:



As per 17 February 2011 - the day of the notice - and 3 March 2011, the registration date for the AGM 2011, the number of outstanding shares with corresponding votes is as follows:

Class of shares                      Number of shares           Number of votes
Ordinary shares                        170,048,755                         170,048,755
Preference B shares                   25,200,000                             3,600,000
Total                                           195,248,755                           73,648,755


Archived documents
Publication dates

Important matters that require the approval of the (Annual) General Meeting of Shareholders are: 

• adoption of the annual accounts
• adoption of profit appropriation
• additions to reserves
• dividends
• remuneration policy
• discharge from liability of the executive board for the management
• discharge from liability of the supervisory board for the supervision of the management
• appointment of the external auditor
• appointment, suspension and dismissal of the members of the executive board and the supervisory board. Their appointment is based on non-binding recommendations from the supervisory board
• remuneration of the supervisory board
• authorization to purchase, issue or sell shares in the Group’s capital
• adoption of amendments to the Articles of Association.

Further details about the proposals which the executive board or the supervisory board can submit to the meeting and the procedure according to which shareholders themselves (if representing at least 1% of the issued capital) can submit matters for consideration by the meeting, are specified in the company’s Articles of Association. If such matter would result in a change of the company’s strategy, the executive board shall be given the opportunity to stipulate a reasonable period (not exceeding 180 days) in which to deliberate, consult and respond.