Shareholder card 2024

In the mid-December 2023, the sharholder cards for the year 2024 will be distributed to all shareholders who have at least 16. shares in Rederiaktiebolaget Eckerö and which are registered in the shareholder’s own name (owner-registered) in the list of shareholders maintained by the Finnish Central Securities Depository (Euroclear Finland).

The shareholder card entitles the holder to free travel for one person with Eckerö Linjens vessel M/S Eckerö and Eckerö Lines vessel M/S Finlandia. The offer only applies when a reservation has been made in advance no later than one hour before departure. The card must be presented at check-in. The shareholder card is valid only for the holder of the card.

A condition for us to send shareholder cards to our shareholders is that the shareholder owns at least 16. shares in Reriaktiebolaget Eckerö and that they are registered in the shareholder’s own name (owner-registered owner) in the shareholder list maintained by the Finnish Central Securities Depository.

The Finnish Central Securities Depository maintains the official register of shareholders for companies affiliated to the book-entry system (Rederiaktiebolaget Eckerö is one such company).

The most common way to register their holdings is to let a bank function as its account-holding institution. The bank then manages, among other things, changes of address and name to the Finnish Central Securities Depository. Only the banks can report changes in our shareholder list to the Central Securities Depository of Finland. If you wish to buy or sell shares, make a name or address change, you must therefore contact your bank. We, Rederiaktiebolaget Eckerö, do not deal with these issues.

Have you not received a shareholder Card?

If you have not received a shareholder card despite holding at least 16. shares in Rederiaktiebolaget Eckerö are probably due to the fact that you either have the wrong address or name in the shareholder list kept by the Finnish Central Securities Depository (Euroclear Finland) or that your bank has nominee-registered your holding in Rederiaktiebolaget Eckerö. Nominee-registered shareholders do not receive a shareholder card.

See below for more information on how to change your address and name and what a nominee-registered holding means to you.

When do new shareholders receive shareholder cards?

At the beginning of each calendar month, we automatically order shareholder cards to the new shareholders who own at least 16. shares in Rederiaktiebolaget Eckerö and whose shares are registered in the shareholder’s own name (owner-registered owner) in the list of shareholders at the Finnish Central Securities Depository (Euroclear Finland).

The shareholder cards are then sent to the new shareholders by mail about 2-3 weeks after the beginning of the calendar month.

Please note that any offers which are intended for the shareholders cannot be used immediately after you have made your payment for the shares in Rederiaktiebolaget Eckerö. In order to take advantage of shareholder offerings, you must wait until your shares have been registered with the Finnish Central Securities Depository and you have received your shareholder card.

The shareholder card is only sent to the shareholders who are registered as owners in their own names and to the addresses registered in the shareholder list at the Finnish Central Securities Depository.

How to change your address and name in the shareholder list?

If you have not received a shareholder card, one of the reasons may be that you have the wrong address in the shareholder list at the Finnish Central Securities Depository (Eurocler Finland).

It is important that your address and name information is correct in the shareholders register at the Finnish Central Securities Depository (Euroclear Finland).

We, Rederiaktiebolaget Eckerö, cannot change information in the shareholder list on behalf of our shareholders.

Please note that you must communicate all changed information regarding your shareholding to your account holding institution (usually a bank) in order to your shareholder card and other information to be sent to you . Your account holding institution will notify your changed information to the Finnish Central Securities Depository. (Note that this does not apply to nominee-registered shareholders, see below!)

Shareholders whose shareholder cards have been lost, stolen or for some other reason have not received their shareholder card

A condition for you to be able to take part in any shareholder offers is that you hold a valid shareholder card.

After you have notified us that for one of the reasons listed above you no longer hold a valid shareholder card, we will order a new shareholder card for you at the beginning of the next calendar month. The shareholder card is then sent by post to you approximately 2-3 weeks after the start of the calendar month.

To be able to take part in any shareholder offers, you must wait until you have received your new shareholder card by post.

The condition for us to be able to send you a new shareholder card is that your shares are registered in your own name (owner-registered) in the shareholder list at the Finnish Central Securities Depository (Euroclear Finland). Nominee-registered shareholders do not receive a shareholder card (see below).

Rederiaktiebolaget Eckerö can charge a fee to send a new shareholder card to the shareholder.

Nominee-registered shareholders do not receive shareholder cards

If you have not received a shareholder card, the reason may be that your account-holding institution (the bank) has chosen to register your shares in Rederiaktiebolaget Eckerö as nominee-registered.

A nominee-registered holding means that we cannot obtain any information about who is a the owner of the nominee-registered shares (shares) and therefore these shareholders do not receive a shareholder card.

A shareholding can either be registered in the owner’s name (owner-registered) or nominee-registered ie. the nominee (the account-holding institution/the bank) is registered in the shareholder’s place in the shareholder list at the Finnish Central Securities Depository (Euroclear Finland).

For owner-registered holdings, your account-holding institution (your bank) registers your shares in your own name with the Finnish Central Securities Depository, while nominee-registered holdings are registered in the name of the nominee (the account-holding institution/bank) in another type of account called nominee-account. The nominee, a bank or other account-holding institution, collects the custodian customers’ holdings in the nominee-account.

If your holding in Rederiaktiebolaget Eckerö is nominee-registered and you in the future wish to obtain a shareholder card, you must ask that your account holding institution (the bank) register your holding in Rederiaktiebolaget Eckerö in your own name (owner-registered) at the Finnish Central Securities Depository.

Please note that nominee-registered shareholders have the right to raise funds, convert or exchange shares and participate in issues of shares since the shareholder card is an offer to the shareholders sent to the shareholders who have at least 16. shares and which are registered in the shareholder’s own name in the shareholders’ register at the Finnish Central Securities Depository.

Please contact your bank if you have questions about how your holding in Rederiaktiebolaget Eckerö is registered.