Nokian Tyres applies for listing of stock options 2004B on the Helsinki Stock Exchange
Mon February 12 09:14 am 2007 in category Stock exchange releases
Nokian Tyres plc Stock Exchange Announcement February 12, 2007 at 9.15 am
NOKIAN TYRES APPLIES FOR LISTING OF STOCK OPTIONS 2004B ON THE HELSINKI STOCK EXCHANGE
The Board of Directors of Nokian Renkaat plc has resolved to apply for listing of the stock options 2004B on the Helsinki Stock Exchange so that the listing will commence on 1 March 2007.
The total number of stock options 2004B is 245,000. Each stock option 2004B entitles its holder to subscribe for ten Nokian Renkaat plc shares. The shares can be subscribed with the stock options 2004B during 1 March 2007—31 March 2009. In the aggregate, the stock options 2004B entitle their holders to subscribe for 2,450,000 shares. The present share subscription price with stock options 2004B is EUR 11.649/share. The dividends payable annually shall be deducted from the share subscription price.
NOKIAN TYRES PLC
Raila Hietala-Hellman
Vice President, Public Information
Further information:
Ms Anne Leskelä, Vice President, Finance and Control, tel. +358 3 340 7481
Internet: This release can be found from Nokian Tyres plc’s home pages www.nokiantyres.com
Distribution:
Helsinki Stock Exchange
Media
ENCL
Terms and Conditions of Stock Options 2004
ENCLOSURE
NOKIAN TYRES PLC 2004 STOCK OPTIONS
In its meeting on 11 February 2004 the Board of Directors of Nokian Tyres plc (Board of Directors) has resolved to propose to the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders to be held on 5 April 2004 that stock options be issued to the personnel of Nokian Tyres plc (Nokian Tyres or the Company) and its subsidiaries (the Nokian Tyres Group) and to a wholly owned subsidiary of Nokian Tyres on the following terms and conditions:
I STOCK OPTION TERMS AND CONDITIONS
1. Number of Stock Options
The total number of stock options issued shall be 735,000, which entitle to subscribe for a total of 735,000 shares in Nokian Tyres.
2. Stock Options
Of the stock options 245,000 shall be marked with the symbol 2004A, 245,000 shall be marked with the symbol 2004B and 245,000 shall be marked with the symbol 2004C. The persons, to whom stock options shall be distributed, shall be notified in writing by Nokian Tyres about the offer of stock options. The stock options shall be distributed to the recipient when he or she has accepted the offer of Nokian Tyres. Stock option certificates shall, upon request, be delivered to the stock option owner at the start of the relevant share subscription period unless the stock options have been transferred to the book-entry securities system.
3. Right to Stock Options
The stock options shall, with deviation from the shareholders’ pre-emptive right to subscription, be granted to the personnel employed by or in the service of the Nokian Tyres Group until further notice and to Direnic Oy (Direnic), a wholly owned subsidiary of Nokian Tyres. It is proposed that the shareholders’ pre-emptive right to subscription be deviated from since the stock options are intended to form part of the Nokian Tyres Group’s incentive and commitment program for the personnel.
4. Distribution of Stock Options
The Board of Directors shall decide on the distribution of stock options. Direnic shall be granted stock options to such extent that the stock options are not distributed to the personnel of the Nokian Tyres Group. The Board of Directors of Nokian Tyres shall later on decide upon the further distribution of the stock options granted to the subsidiary, to the persons employed by or to be recruited by the Nokian Tyres Group.
Upon issue all stock options 2004A, 2004B and 2004C that the Board of Directors shall not distribute to the personnel, shall be granted to Direnic. Direnic may later distribute stock options 2004A, 2004B and 2004C to the persons employed by or to be recruited by the Nokian Tyres Group by the resolution of the Board of Directors of Nokian Tyres.
5. Transfer of Stock Options and Obligation to Offer Stock Options
The stock options are freely transferable, when the relevant share subscription period has begun. The Company shall hold the stock options on behalf of the stock option owner until the beginning of the share subscription period. The stock option owner has the right to acquire the possession of the stock options when the relevant share subscription period begins. Should the stock option owner transfer his/her stock options, such person is obliged to inform the Company about the transfer in writing without delay. The Board of Directors may, as an exception to the above, permit the transfer of stock options also before such date.
Should a stock option owner cease to be employed by or in the service of the Nokian Tyres Group before 1 March 2008, for any other reason than the death of the employee, or the statutory retirement of the employee in compliance with the employment contract, or the retirement of the employee otherwise determined by the Company, such person shall without delay offer to Nokian Tyres or its order, free of charge, the stock options for which the share subscription period in accordance with Section II.2 had not begun at the last day of such person’s employment or service. The Board of Directors can, however, in the above-mentioned cases, decide that the stock option owner is entitled to keep such stock options or a part of them, which are under offering obligation.
Regardless of whether the stock option owner has offered his/her stock options to Nokian Tyres or not, Nokian Tyres is entitled to inform the stock option owner in writing that the stock option owner has lost his/her stock options on the basis of the above-mentioned reasons. Should the stock options be transferred to the book-entry securities system, Nokian Tyres has the right, whether or not the stock options have been offered to Nokian Tyres, to request and get transferred all the stock options, for which the share subscription period had not begun, from the stock option owner’s book-entry account to the book-entry account appointed by Nokian Tyres without the consent of the stock option owner. In addition, Nokian Tyres is entitled to register transfer restrictions and other restrictions concerning the stock options to the stock option owner’s book-entry account without the consent of the stock option owner.
II SHARE SUBSCRIPTION TERMS AND CONDITIONS
1. Right to Subscribe for New Shares
Each stock option entitles its owner to subscribe for one (1) share in Nokian Tyres. The nominal value of each share is EUR 2.00. As a result of the share subscriptions the share capital of Nokian Tyres may be increased by a maximum of EUR 1,470,000 and the number of shares by a maximum of 735,000 new shares.
Direnic, as a subsidiary of Nokian Tyres, shall not be entitled to subscribe shares in Nokian Tyres on the basis of the stock options.
2. Share Subscription and Payment
The share subscription period shall be:
- for stock option 2004A 1 March 2006–31 March 2008,
- for stock option 2004B 1 March 2007–31 March 2009 and
- for stock option 2004C 1 March 2008–31 March 2010.
The share subscription shall take place at the head office of Nokian Tyres or possibly at another location to be determined later. The subscriber shall transfer the respective stock option certificates with which he/she subscribes shares to Nokian Tyres, or in case the stock options have been transferred to the book-entry securities system, the stock options with which shares have been subscribed shall be deleted from the subscriber’s book-entry account.Payment for shares subscribed shall be effected upon subscription to the bank account appointed by Nokian Tyres. Nokian Tyres shall decide on all measures concerning the share subscription.
3. Share Subscription Price
The share subscription price shall be:
- for stock option 2004A the trade volume weighted average quotation of the Nokian Tyres share on the Helsinki Exchanges between 1 January and 31 March 2004,
- for stock option 2004B the trade volume weighted average quotation of the Nokian Tyres share on the Helsinki Exchanges between 1 January and 31 March 2005, and
- for stock option 2004C the trade volume weighted average quotation of the Nokian Tyres share on the Helsinki Exchanges between 1 January and 31 March 2006.
From the share subscription price of stock options shall, as per the dividend record date, be deducted the amount of the dividend decided after the beginning of the period for determination of the share subscription price but before share subscription. The share subscription price shall nevertheless always amount to at least the nominal value of the share.
4. Registration of Shares
Shares subscribed for and fully paid shall be registered in the book-entry account of the subscriber.
5. Shareholder Rights
Dividend rights of the shares and other shareholder rights shall commence when the increase of the share capital has been entered into the Trade Register.
6. Share Issues, Convertible Bonds and Stock Options before Share Subscription
Should Nokian Tyres, before the share subscription, increase its share capital through an issue of new shares, or issue of new convertible bonds or stock options, a stock option owner shall have the same right as or an equal right to that of a shareholder. Equality is reached in the manner determined by the Board of Directors by adjusting the number of shares available for subscription, the share subscription price or both of these.
Should Nokian Tyres, before the share subscription, increase its share capital by way of a bonus issue, the subscription ratio shall be amended so that the ratio to the share capital of shares to be subscribed by virtue of stock options remains unchanged. If the number of shares that can be subscribed for by virtue of one stock option should be a fraction, the fractional part shall be taken into account by reducing the share subscription price.
7. Rights in Certain Cases
If Nokian Tyres reduces its share capital before the share subscription, the subscription right accorded by the terms and conditions of the stock options shall be adjusted accordingly as specified in the resolution to reduce the share capital.
If Nokian Tyres is placed in liquidation before the share subscription, the stock option owner shall be given an opportunity to exercise his share subscription right before the liquidation begins within a period of time determined by the Board of Directors.
If Nokian Tyres resolves to merge in another company as Nokian Tyres being acquired or in a company to be formed in a combination merger, or if Nokian Tyres resolves to be divided, the stock option owner shall, before the merger or division, be given the right to subscribe for the shares with his/her stock options within a period of time determined by the Board of Directors. After such date no share subscription right shall exist. In the above situations the stock option owner has no right to require that Nokian Tyres redeems the stock options from him/her for market value.
If Nokian Tyres, after the beginning of the share subscription period, resolves to acquire its own shares by an offer made to all shareholders, the stock option owners shall be made an equivalent offer. In other cases acquisition of Nokian Tyres’s own shares does not require Nokian Tyres to take any action in relation to the stock options.
In case, before the end of the share subscription period, a situation, as referred to in Chapter 14 Section 19 of the Finnish Companies Act, in which a shareholder possesses over 90% of the shares of Nokian Tyres and therefore has the right and obligation to redeem the shares of the remaining shareholders, or a situation, as referred to in Chapter 6 Section 6 of the Finnish Securities Market Act, arise, the stock option owners shall be entitled to use their right of subscription by virtue of the stock options within a period of time determined by the Board of Directors.
If the nominal value of the share is changed while the share capital remains unchanged, the share subscription terms and conditions of the stock options shall be amended so that the total nominal value of the shares available for subscription and the total share subscription price remain the same.
Converting Nokian Tyres from a public company into a private company shall not affect the terms and conditions of the stock options.
III OTHER MATTERS
The laws of Finland shall be applied to these terms and conditions. Disputes arising in relation to the stock options shall be settled by arbitration in accordance with the Arbitration Rules of the Central Chamber of Commerce.
The Board of Directors may decide on the transfer of the stock options to the book-entry securities system at a later date and on the resulting technical amendments to these terms and conditions, including those amendments and specifications to the terms and conditions, which are not considered crucial. Other matters related to the stock options are decided on by the Board of Directors. The stock option documentation is kept available for inspection at the head office of Nokian Tyres.
Nokian Tyres is entitled to withdraw the stock options, which have not been transferred, or with which shares have not been subscribed for, free of charge, if the stock option owner acts against these terms and conditions, or against regulations given by Nokian Tyres on the basis of these terms and conditions, or against applicable law, or against regulations by authorities.
These terms and conditions have been made in Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian and English. In case of any discrepancy between the Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian and English terms and conditions, the Finnish terms and conditions are decisive.
NOKIAN TYRES APPLIES FOR LISTING OF STOCK OPTIONS 2004B ON THE HELSINKI STOCK EXCHANGE
The Board of Directors of Nokian Renkaat plc has resolved to apply for listing of the stock options 2004B on the Helsinki Stock Exchange so that the listing will commence on 1 March 2007.
The total number of stock options 2004B is 245,000. Each stock option 2004B entitles its holder to subscribe for ten Nokian Renkaat plc shares. The shares can be subscribed with the stock options 2004B during 1 March 2007—31 March 2009. In the aggregate, the stock options 2004B entitle their holders to subscribe for 2,450,000 shares. The present share subscription price with stock options 2004B is EUR 11.649/share. The dividends payable annually shall be deducted from the share subscription price.
NOKIAN TYRES PLC
Raila Hietala-Hellman
Vice President, Public Information
Further information:
Ms Anne Leskelä, Vice President, Finance and Control, tel. +358 3 340 7481
Internet: This release can be found from Nokian Tyres plc’s home pages www.nokiantyres.com
Distribution:
Helsinki Stock Exchange
Media
ENCL
Terms and Conditions of Stock Options 2004
ENCLOSURE
NOKIAN TYRES PLC 2004 STOCK OPTIONS
In its meeting on 11 February 2004 the Board of Directors of Nokian Tyres plc (Board of Directors) has resolved to propose to the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders to be held on 5 April 2004 that stock options be issued to the personnel of Nokian Tyres plc (Nokian Tyres or the Company) and its subsidiaries (the Nokian Tyres Group) and to a wholly owned subsidiary of Nokian Tyres on the following terms and conditions:
I STOCK OPTION TERMS AND CONDITIONS
1. Number of Stock Options
The total number of stock options issued shall be 735,000, which entitle to subscribe for a total of 735,000 shares in Nokian Tyres.
2. Stock Options
Of the stock options 245,000 shall be marked with the symbol 2004A, 245,000 shall be marked with the symbol 2004B and 245,000 shall be marked with the symbol 2004C. The persons, to whom stock options shall be distributed, shall be notified in writing by Nokian Tyres about the offer of stock options. The stock options shall be distributed to the recipient when he or she has accepted the offer of Nokian Tyres. Stock option certificates shall, upon request, be delivered to the stock option owner at the start of the relevant share subscription period unless the stock options have been transferred to the book-entry securities system.
3. Right to Stock Options
The stock options shall, with deviation from the shareholders’ pre-emptive right to subscription, be granted to the personnel employed by or in the service of the Nokian Tyres Group until further notice and to Direnic Oy (Direnic), a wholly owned subsidiary of Nokian Tyres. It is proposed that the shareholders’ pre-emptive right to subscription be deviated from since the stock options are intended to form part of the Nokian Tyres Group’s incentive and commitment program for the personnel.
4. Distribution of Stock Options
The Board of Directors shall decide on the distribution of stock options. Direnic shall be granted stock options to such extent that the stock options are not distributed to the personnel of the Nokian Tyres Group. The Board of Directors of Nokian Tyres shall later on decide upon the further distribution of the stock options granted to the subsidiary, to the persons employed by or to be recruited by the Nokian Tyres Group.
Upon issue all stock options 2004A, 2004B and 2004C that the Board of Directors shall not distribute to the personnel, shall be granted to Direnic. Direnic may later distribute stock options 2004A, 2004B and 2004C to the persons employed by or to be recruited by the Nokian Tyres Group by the resolution of the Board of Directors of Nokian Tyres.
5. Transfer of Stock Options and Obligation to Offer Stock Options
The stock options are freely transferable, when the relevant share subscription period has begun. The Company shall hold the stock options on behalf of the stock option owner until the beginning of the share subscription period. The stock option owner has the right to acquire the possession of the stock options when the relevant share subscription period begins. Should the stock option owner transfer his/her stock options, such person is obliged to inform the Company about the transfer in writing without delay. The Board of Directors may, as an exception to the above, permit the transfer of stock options also before such date.
Should a stock option owner cease to be employed by or in the service of the Nokian Tyres Group before 1 March 2008, for any other reason than the death of the employee, or the statutory retirement of the employee in compliance with the employment contract, or the retirement of the employee otherwise determined by the Company, such person shall without delay offer to Nokian Tyres or its order, free of charge, the stock options for which the share subscription period in accordance with Section II.2 had not begun at the last day of such person’s employment or service. The Board of Directors can, however, in the above-mentioned cases, decide that the stock option owner is entitled to keep such stock options or a part of them, which are under offering obligation.
Regardless of whether the stock option owner has offered his/her stock options to Nokian Tyres or not, Nokian Tyres is entitled to inform the stock option owner in writing that the stock option owner has lost his/her stock options on the basis of the above-mentioned reasons. Should the stock options be transferred to the book-entry securities system, Nokian Tyres has the right, whether or not the stock options have been offered to Nokian Tyres, to request and get transferred all the stock options, for which the share subscription period had not begun, from the stock option owner’s book-entry account to the book-entry account appointed by Nokian Tyres without the consent of the stock option owner. In addition, Nokian Tyres is entitled to register transfer restrictions and other restrictions concerning the stock options to the stock option owner’s book-entry account without the consent of the stock option owner.
II SHARE SUBSCRIPTION TERMS AND CONDITIONS
1. Right to Subscribe for New Shares
Each stock option entitles its owner to subscribe for one (1) share in Nokian Tyres. The nominal value of each share is EUR 2.00. As a result of the share subscriptions the share capital of Nokian Tyres may be increased by a maximum of EUR 1,470,000 and the number of shares by a maximum of 735,000 new shares.
Direnic, as a subsidiary of Nokian Tyres, shall not be entitled to subscribe shares in Nokian Tyres on the basis of the stock options.
2. Share Subscription and Payment
The share subscription period shall be:
- for stock option 2004A 1 March 2006–31 March 2008,
- for stock option 2004B 1 March 2007–31 March 2009 and
- for stock option 2004C 1 March 2008–31 March 2010.
The share subscription shall take place at the head office of Nokian Tyres or possibly at another location to be determined later. The subscriber shall transfer the respective stock option certificates with which he/she subscribes shares to Nokian Tyres, or in case the stock options have been transferred to the book-entry securities system, the stock options with which shares have been subscribed shall be deleted from the subscriber’s book-entry account.Payment for shares subscribed shall be effected upon subscription to the bank account appointed by Nokian Tyres. Nokian Tyres shall decide on all measures concerning the share subscription.
3. Share Subscription Price
The share subscription price shall be:
- for stock option 2004A the trade volume weighted average quotation of the Nokian Tyres share on the Helsinki Exchanges between 1 January and 31 March 2004,
- for stock option 2004B the trade volume weighted average quotation of the Nokian Tyres share on the Helsinki Exchanges between 1 January and 31 March 2005, and
- for stock option 2004C the trade volume weighted average quotation of the Nokian Tyres share on the Helsinki Exchanges between 1 January and 31 March 2006.
From the share subscription price of stock options shall, as per the dividend record date, be deducted the amount of the dividend decided after the beginning of the period for determination of the share subscription price but before share subscription. The share subscription price shall nevertheless always amount to at least the nominal value of the share.
4. Registration of Shares
Shares subscribed for and fully paid shall be registered in the book-entry account of the subscriber.
5. Shareholder Rights
Dividend rights of the shares and other shareholder rights shall commence when the increase of the share capital has been entered into the Trade Register.
6. Share Issues, Convertible Bonds and Stock Options before Share Subscription
Should Nokian Tyres, before the share subscription, increase its share capital through an issue of new shares, or issue of new convertible bonds or stock options, a stock option owner shall have the same right as or an equal right to that of a shareholder. Equality is reached in the manner determined by the Board of Directors by adjusting the number of shares available for subscription, the share subscription price or both of these.
Should Nokian Tyres, before the share subscription, increase its share capital by way of a bonus issue, the subscription ratio shall be amended so that the ratio to the share capital of shares to be subscribed by virtue of stock options remains unchanged. If the number of shares that can be subscribed for by virtue of one stock option should be a fraction, the fractional part shall be taken into account by reducing the share subscription price.
7. Rights in Certain Cases
If Nokian Tyres reduces its share capital before the share subscription, the subscription right accorded by the terms and conditions of the stock options shall be adjusted accordingly as specified in the resolution to reduce the share capital.
If Nokian Tyres is placed in liquidation before the share subscription, the stock option owner shall be given an opportunity to exercise his share subscription right before the liquidation begins within a period of time determined by the Board of Directors.
If Nokian Tyres resolves to merge in another company as Nokian Tyres being acquired or in a company to be formed in a combination merger, or if Nokian Tyres resolves to be divided, the stock option owner shall, before the merger or division, be given the right to subscribe for the shares with his/her stock options within a period of time determined by the Board of Directors. After such date no share subscription right shall exist. In the above situations the stock option owner has no right to require that Nokian Tyres redeems the stock options from him/her for market value.
If Nokian Tyres, after the beginning of the share subscription period, resolves to acquire its own shares by an offer made to all shareholders, the stock option owners shall be made an equivalent offer. In other cases acquisition of Nokian Tyres’s own shares does not require Nokian Tyres to take any action in relation to the stock options.
In case, before the end of the share subscription period, a situation, as referred to in Chapter 14 Section 19 of the Finnish Companies Act, in which a shareholder possesses over 90% of the shares of Nokian Tyres and therefore has the right and obligation to redeem the shares of the remaining shareholders, or a situation, as referred to in Chapter 6 Section 6 of the Finnish Securities Market Act, arise, the stock option owners shall be entitled to use their right of subscription by virtue of the stock options within a period of time determined by the Board of Directors.
If the nominal value of the share is changed while the share capital remains unchanged, the share subscription terms and conditions of the stock options shall be amended so that the total nominal value of the shares available for subscription and the total share subscription price remain the same.
Converting Nokian Tyres from a public company into a private company shall not affect the terms and conditions of the stock options.
III OTHER MATTERS
The laws of Finland shall be applied to these terms and conditions. Disputes arising in relation to the stock options shall be settled by arbitration in accordance with the Arbitration Rules of the Central Chamber of Commerce.
The Board of Directors may decide on the transfer of the stock options to the book-entry securities system at a later date and on the resulting technical amendments to these terms and conditions, including those amendments and specifications to the terms and conditions, which are not considered crucial. Other matters related to the stock options are decided on by the Board of Directors. The stock option documentation is kept available for inspection at the head office of Nokian Tyres.
Nokian Tyres is entitled to withdraw the stock options, which have not been transferred, or with which shares have not been subscribed for, free of charge, if the stock option owner acts against these terms and conditions, or against regulations given by Nokian Tyres on the basis of these terms and conditions, or against applicable law, or against regulations by authorities.
These terms and conditions have been made in Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian and English. In case of any discrepancy between the Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian and English terms and conditions, the Finnish terms and conditions are decisive.