LUXEMBOURG--(Marketwire
- June 2, 2010) - The annual general meeting of shareholders of Ternium S.A.
(NYSE: TX), which was held today in Luxembourg, approved all resolutions on its
agenda.
Among
other resolutions adopted at the meeting, the shareholders approved the
consolidated financial statements and unconsolidated annual accounts for the
year ended December 31, 2009 and the proposed dividend of US$0.05 per share
(US$0.50 per ADS), or approximately US$100 million. Ternium will pay the
dividend on June 10, 2010, and the corresponding ex-dividend date will be June
3.
The
shareholders meeting also re-elected Ubaldo Aguirre, Roberto Bonatti, Wilson
Nélio Brumer, Carlos Condorelli, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, Adrian Lajous, Bruno
Marchettini, Gianfelice Mario Rocca, Paolo Rocca and Daniel Agustín Novegil, and
elected Ronald Seckelmann as members of the board of directors to serve until
the next annual shareholders meeting which will be convened to decide on the
2010 accounts, and re-appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers as Ternium's independent
auditor for the 2010 fiscal year.
The board
of directors subsequently re-appointed Paolo Rocca as its chairman and Daniel
Novegil as Ternium's chief executive officer, and confirmed Ubaldo Aguirre,
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and Adrián Lajous as members of the board's audit
committee, with Mr. Aguirre to continue chairing that committee. All three
members of the audit committee qualify as independent directors under our
articles of association.
The
extraordinary general meeting of shareholders, also held today, approved the
renewal of the validity of the Company's authorized share capital and the
authorizations to the Company's board of directors with respect to any issuance
of shares within such authorized share capital, in each case, for a further
five-year period and otherwise on their current terms and
conditions.
For a
summary of the resolutions adopted at the meetings, please see the report on
Form 6-K to be submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission,
available through http://www.sec.gov/.
Forward Looking
Statements
Some of
the statements contained in this press release are "forward-looking statements."
Forward-looking statements are based on management's current views and
assumptions and involve known and unknown risks that could cause actual results,
performance or events to differ materially from those expressed or implied by
those statements. These risks include but are not limited to risks arising from
uncertainties as to gross domestic product, related market demand, global
production capacity, tariffs, cyclicality in the industries that purchase steel
products and other factors beyond Ternium's control.
About Ternium
Ternium
is a leading steel company in Latin America, manufacturing and processing a wide
range of flat and long steel products for customers active in the construction,
home appliances, capital goods, container, food, energy and automotive
industries. With its principal operations in Mexico and Argentina, Ternium
serves markets in the Americas through its integrated manufacturing system and
extensive distribution network. The Company has an annual production capacity of
approximately nine million tons of finished steel products. More information
about Ternium is available at www.ternium.com.