Remuneration to the members of the board of directors

The Annual General Meeting on 29 April 2025 resolved, in accordance with the nomination committee’s proposal, that the fees to the Board shall be as follows; EUR 75,000 to the chairman of the Board of Directors and EUR 40,000 to each of the other members elected by the Annual General Meeting, with the exception of Gabriel Fitzgerald and Theodor Bonnier who have announced that they refrain from fees, as well as additional EUR 6,000 to the board member residing in Europe but outside the Nordics. For committee-work, the fee to the chairman of the audit committee shall be EUR 13,000 and EUR 7,500 to the other member of the audit committee, EUR 7,500 to each of the chairmen of the People & Sustainability and M&A Committees and EUR 5,000 to the other members of the committees. 

Remuneration to senior executives

The CEO and some other senior executives receive remuneration in the form of base salary, variable remuneration (bonus), pension and other remuneration (health insurance, business representation and travel expenses etc.).

Incentive programmes

At the annual general meeting 2023, 2024 and 2025, respectively, it was resolved to introduce the following long-term incentive programs: (i) a combined warrant and employee stock option program for employees and consultants (“LTI 2023”) and ii) a program in the form of employee stock options for employees ("LTI 2024") and iii) a program consisting of investment shares and performance share units ("LTI 2025").

LTI 2023

The purpose of the LTI 2023 is to enable to provide remuneration tied to Vimian’s long term value creation to current and future key individuals, employees and consultants in Vimian and thus align the participants interests with those of the shareholders. The Company has retained the right to, with certain exceptions, repurchase warrants if the participant’s employment/assignment within the group ceases or if the participant wishes to transfer its warrants prior to 15 June 2026. Subscription for new shares under the LTI 2023 can be made during the period 15 June 2026 to 15 July 2026.

 

LTI 2023 comprises a combination of warrants and employee stock options: 1,080,496 warrants were transferred to 45 participants at a price corresponding to the market value and 13,252 warrants were transferred to 19 participants in order to secure delivery of shares upon exercise of the employee stock options. Each warrant and employee stock option, respectively, entitles to subscription of the same number of new ordinary shares in Vimian. The warrants have been issued free of charge to Vimian Group AB (publ) and the last day for allotment to participants in LTI 2023 is 31 December 2023. The participants are offered to acquire warrants at market price and the Company is not funding such investment. Participants not resident in Sweden has, for every 20 warrants that such employee acquires at market price, been entitled to receive one employee stock option free of charge. The subscription price per ordinary share shall correspond to 120 per cent of the volume-weighted average price for the company’s share during the time period of five trading days immediately prior to the transfer of warrants and the employee stock options, respectively. The exercise price and the number of shares that each warrant and employee stock option, respectively, entitles to subscription for shall be recalculated in the event of a split, consolidation, new share issue etc. in accordance with market practice. The dilution effect due to due to LTI 2023 will amount to approximately 1 per cent of the number of shares and 1 per cent of the number of votes, based on the number of shares in Vimian as of 2 May 2023.

LTI 2024

The purpose of LTI 2024 is to enable to provide remuneration tied to Vimian’s long term value creation to current and future key individuals employed within the Vimian group (hereinafter “employees”), thus aligning the participants interests with those of the shareholders. LTI 2024 will be an important program for Vimian to attract, motivate and retain the best talents, which is important for Vimian to reach long-term value creation for the shareholders. LTI 2024 includes not more than 160 individuals who are employed, or during the subscription period enters into agreement regarding employment, within the Vimian group.

 

LTI 2024 is an employee stock option program whereby employee stock options may be allotted to employees in Vimian free of charge. The employee stock options shall be able to be exercised after approximately three years, after which the holder is entitled to exercise the employee stock options to subscribe for shares during two periods: (i) during a period of 30 days after publication of the company's interim report for the period January – March 2027, and (ii) during a period of 30 days after publication of the company's interim report for the period January – September 2027, respectively.

 

Each employee stock option entitles the employee to acquire one share in Vimian in accordance with the following terms and conditions:

 

  • The employee stock options will be allotted free of charge.
  • Each employee stock option that is transferred entitles the holder to acquire one (1) ordinary share in Vimian provided that the participant, with certain exceptions, is still employed within the group until the employee stock options can be exercised in accordance with its terms, at an exercise price corresponding to 139.4 per cent of the volume-weighted average price for the company’s share during the time period of five trading days immediately prior to the initial allotment of employee stock options to employees.

 

Based on the number of shares in Vimian as of 22 April 2024, LTI 2024 entails a maximum dilution effect of approximately 1.23 per cent (number of shares) and 1.26 per cent (number of votes).

LTI 2025

The purpose of LTI 2025 is to create conditions for attracting, motivating and retaining competent employees within the Vimian group and to strengthen the common interests between the employees’, the shareholders’ and the company’s objectives and to increase the motivation to reach and exceed the company’s financial targets.

 

LTI 2025 includes the CEO, the executive management and other key employees in the Vimian group, in total not more than 80 persons. Participants in LTI 2025 will be required to make a private investment in Vimian by investing in Class E1 2025 shares, Class E2 2025 shares and Class E3 2025 shares in Vimian Group AB (publ) (”Investment Shares”). Subsequently, participants will be given the opportunity to receive ordinary shares, so-called ”Performance Shares”, free of charge based on the fulfilment of established performance-based conditions.

 

Class E1 2025 shares, Class E2 2025 shares and Class E3 2025 shares are intended to be unlisted so-called hurdle shares to be held as investment shares under the company’s long-term incentive program. Hurdle shares are a type of shares that convert to ordinary shares if certain conditions are met. The reclassification of Class E1 2025 shares, Class E2 2025 shares and Class E3 2025 shares is dependent on the share price at a predetermined time, as further defined in the Articles of Association.

 

Participants may receive one Performance Share free of charge per right (”Performance Share Awards”) in accordance with the terms set out below.

 

A performance right may be exercised provided that the participant, with certain exceptions, from the start of LTI 2025 for the respective participant up to and including the date of publication of the company’s interim report for the first quarter 2028 (the ”Vesting Period”) remains in his or her employment within the Vimian group. The final date for allocation of the Performance Share rights under LTI 2025 shall be 31 December 2025. In addition to the requirement for the participant’s continued employment and holding of Investment Shares during the Vesting Period, there are also requirements regarding (i) the Vimian group’s adjusted EBITA for the financial year 2027 and (ii) the Vimian group’s revenue during the financial year 2027. Seventy per cent of the Performance Share Awards granted to a participant will be conditional upon the fulfilment of a performance condition relating to the Vimian group’s adjusted EBITA during the financial year 2027 and thirty per cent of the Performance Share Awards granted to a participant will be conditional upon the fulfilment of a performance condition relating to the Vimian group’s revenue during the financial year 2027. Information on the outcome of the performance conditions will be provided no later than in the remuneration report for the financial year 2027. The Performance Shares will vest after the end of the Vesting Period.

 

Taking into account shares that may be issued under previously implemented incentive programs in the form of warrant and employee stock option programs in Vimian and under LTI 2025, the maximum dilution effect is approximately 3.0 per cent. LTI 2025 is expected to have a marginal impact on Vimian’s key ratios.