Remote Voting
How to Participate
As of fiscal year 2018, the Company will adopt remote voting, in accordance with the applicable regulations. The provisions on remote voting apply: (a) to Annual Shareholders' Meetings; and (b) to Special Shareholders' Meetings that decide (i) on the election of members of the fiscal council or (ii) of the board of directors, when the election is necessary due to a vacancy in the majority of the positions on the board, due to a vacancy on a board that has been elected by multiple vote or to fill the vacancies dedicated to the separate election referred to in articles 141, paragraph 4, and 239 of the Corporations Law.
The shareholder who chooses to exercise his/her remote voting right may do so up to 7 days before the date of the Shareholders’ Meeting:
a) Directly to the Company, and, for this purpose, forward the following documents at Rua Eng. Paul Werner, 925 Blumenau S/C – Brazil, to the attention of the Investor Relations Board; or
b) For service providers able to provide services for the collection and transmission of instructions for completing the remote voting ballot, namely:
1) The shareholder's custodians, if the shares are deposited in a central depository; or
2) To Itaú Corretora de Valores, as the financial institution contracted by the Company to provide securities bookkeeping services, if the shares are not deposited in a central depository.
The remote voting ballots to be sent to the Company must be accompanied by the following documents:
- Identity document with photo of the shareholder.
- Last articles of incorporation or consolidated articles of incorporation and the corporate documents proving the legal representation of the shareholder; and
- Identity document with photo of the legal representative.
- Last consolidated regulation of the fund duly registered with the competent body;
- Bylaws or articles of incorporation of its administrator or manager, as the case may be, subject to the Fund's voting policy and corporate documents proving the powers of representation; and
- Identity document with photo of the legal representative.
- (i) Physical copy of the form duly completed, initialed and signed; and
- (ii) Proof issued by the bookkeeping institution or, for shareholders participating in the fungible custody of registered shares, the statement containing the respective shareholding, issued by the competent body;
- (iii) Certified copy of the following documents:
a) For individuals:- Identity document with photo of the shareholder.
b) For legal entities:
- Last articles of incorporation or consolidated articles of incorporation and the corporate documents proving the legal representation of the shareholder; and
- Identity document with photo of the legal representative.c) For Investment Funds:
- Last consolidated regulation of the fund duly registered with the competent body;
- Bylaws or articles of incorporation of its administrator or manager, as the case may be, subject to the Fund's voting policy and corporate documents proving the powers of representation; and
- Identity document with photo of the legal representative.
The shareholder may be represented at the shareholders’ meeting by an attorney-in-fact appointed less than one year ago, who is a shareholder, manager of the Company or lawyer; in the publicly-held company, as is the case of the Company, the attorney-in-fact may also be a financial institution, and the investment fund manager is responsible for representing the condominium members. To this end, it must present the power of attorney with recognition of the grantor's signature.
Shareholders' documents issued abroad must have their signatures notarized by a Notary Public, legalized/affixed by a Brazilian Consulate, translated by a sworn translator registered with the Board of Trade and registered with the Registry of Deeds and Documents, under the terms of the legislation in force.
Click here to access the remote ballot. The same is available in the “Investor Services” section of this website.