Praktiker Bau- und Heimwerkmärkte Holding AG, Kirkel

Dividend
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The management and supervisory boards of Praktiker Holding AG propose paying a dividend of
€ 0.45 per share (previous year: € 0.45 per share) of the balance sheet profit after appropriation to or
transfer from reserves of € 30.995 m to the company’s shareholders and to carry forward the remaining
amount of € 4.895 m to new account. The sum totals of both the dividend and the amount carried
forward as profit are each based on the company’s share capital, currently amounting to € 58,000,000
and divided into 58,000,000 individual bearer-denominated shares, that has vote and dividend entitlements
on the date that the annual general shareholders’ meeting for 2008 is convened. To the extent
that the number of shares with dividend entitlements changes during the period up until the date of the
annual general shareholders’ meeting, the proposed resolution concerning the appropriation of the
balance sheet profit is to be modified such that the dividend amount per share remains unchanged
while the amount carried forward as profit is to be adjusted accordingly.
Personnel
With effect of October 1, 2007, Praktiker Bau- und Heimwerkermärkte Holding AG took over Praktiker
Bau- und Heimwerkermärkte AG’s legal, investor relations and finance departments as well as the
staff employed there. With effect of January 1, 2008, Praktiker Bau- und Heimwerkermärkte Holding
AG also took over Praktiker Bau- und Heimwerkermärkte AG’s internal audit department and the staff
employed there. As of December 31, 2007, Praktiker Bau- und Heimwerkermärkte AG employed a
total of 28 staff.
With effect of March 21, 2008, Karl-Heinz Stroh took over the duties of the board member with responsibility
for personnel and labor director, Michael Arnold, who in future will be devoting his exclusive
attention to heading up the group’s fast-growing foreign business and international expansion divisions.
Up until now, he had been in charge of both areas.
Value-orientation via EVA
Praktiker Group focuses on the goals of value-oriented corporate management based on economic
value added (EVA). EVA is an internationally proven control and management system to value and
align all strategic, operating and investment activities and decisions within the group in accordance
with their contribution to enterprise value enhancement.
Key to the evaluation of entrepreneurial success is the Delta-EVA, i.e. the difference between the current
EVA and that of the previous year, irrespective of whether the EVA level is positive or negative.
The development of the Delta-EVA is the key element in the variable management remuneration system
practised by Praktiker. From the management board of Praktiker Holding AG through to store
managers, in excess of 450 senior staff are measured against delta EVA. The incentive system is thus