Eidesvik Offshore ASA

05/04/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 05/04/2021 08:07

Notice of Annual General Meeting and nomination of new Chairman of the Board

The Board of Directors in Eidesvik Offshore ASA (the 'Company') hereby gives notice of the Annual General Meeting in the Company to be held on May 26, 2021, at 11 am, at Vestvikvegen 1, Bømlo, Norway. The notice of the Annual General Meeting is attached and available on Newsweb in pdf format (Norwegian only).

Notice of the General Meeting will also be sent electronically through VPS or by post to the registered address of each shareholder.

There are a total of 62.150.000 outstanding shares in the company. All shares have equal voting rights.

After nearly 27 years of service, the Chairman of the Board, Kolbein Rege, has informed the Board of Directors and the Nomination Committee of the Company that he, due to personal reasons, wishes to resign as Chairman of the Company at the Annual General Meeting on May 26, 2021. Mr. Rege turned 70 years in January this year.

Arne Austreid (65) has been nominated as new Chairman of the Board of Directors in the Company. He has nearly 30 years of experience from the oil service industry. Until he retired in December 2020, Mr. Austreid was the Group CEO in Sparebanken 1 SR-Bank, a position he held for 10 years.

'I am very pleased to be replaced by such a competent person as Arne Austreid', Kolbein Rege said in a statement.

Bømlo, May 4, 2021

Contact:
CEO Jan Fredrik Meling (+47 916 75 119)
CFO Tore Byberg (+47 475 09 012)

This information is subject to the disclosure requirements pursuant to section 5-12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.