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Cidade de Deus, Osasco, SP, March 10, 2015
To
New York Stock Exchange, Inc.
New York, NY
Dear sirs,
Banco Bradesco S.A. informs its shareholders, clients and the market in general that all matters examined at the Special and Annual Shareholders’ Meetings held cumulatively on this date, at 4 p.m., were approved as follows:
· in the Special Shareholders’ Meeting:
· the Board of Directors’ proposals to:
1. increase the capital stock in R$5,000,000,000.00, increasing it to R$43,100,000,000.00, by means of capitalization of part of the balance of the “Profit Reserves – Statutory Reserve” account, according to the provisions of Article 169 of Law #6,404/76, with 20% bonus stock, allotting to the Company’s shareholders, free of charge, 2 new shares to each 10 shares of the same class that they hold on the record date, to be informed to the Market after the respective process is approved by the Central Bank of Brazil;
2. partially amend the Bylaws, including the amendments to the “caput” of Article 6; to the Sole Paragraph of Article 1; to the “caput” of Article 8 and inclusion of Paragraph Two; to the “caput” of Article 13; to Articles 20 and 21, in this latter by including Paragraphs One and Two.
· in the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting:
1. the management accounts and the financial statements related to the fiscal year ended on December 31, 2014, after they have acknowledged the Management and the Independent Auditors’ Reports, the Fiscal Council’s Opinion and the Summary of the Audit Committees’ Report;
2. the Board of Directors’ proposal to:
a) allocation of net income of the fiscal year ended on December 31, 2014, in the amount of R$15,088,818,165.46, as follows: R$754,440,908.27 to the “Profit Reserves – Legal Reserve” account; R$9,279,797,280.09 to the “Profit Reserves – Statutory Reserve” account; and R$5,054,579,977.10 for the payment of interest on shareholders’ equity and dividends;
b) ratification of the early distribution of interest on shareholders’ equity and dividends mentioned above, already paid, taking into account that a new distribution of interest on shareholders’ equity/dividends related to the year 2014 was not proposed to the Shareholders’ Meeting;
3. the reelection of the current Members of the Board of Directors, Messrs. Lázaro de Mello Brandão, Luiz Carlos Trabuco Cappi, Antônio Bornia, Mário da Silveira Teixeira Júnior, João Aguiar Alvarez, Ms. Denise Aguiar Alvarez, and Messrs. Carlos Alberto Rodrigues Guilherme, Milton Matsumoto and José Alcides Munhoz; and the election of Mr. Aurélio Conrado Boni;
4. the election of the Members of the Fiscal Council, Messrs. João Carlos de Oliveira, Domingos Aparecido Maia, José Maria Soares Nunes, Nelson Lopes de Oliveira and Luiz Carlos de Freitas – Sitting Members; Renaud Roberto Teixeira, Jorge Tadeu Pinto de Figueiredo, Nilson Pinhal, João Batistela Biazon and Oswaldo de Moura Silveira – Deputy Members;
5. the amounts proposed by the Board of Directors for the establishment, in 2015: 1) of the amounts for the Management compensation (fixed compensation and eventual variable compensation), in the annual global amount of up to R$250,000,000.00, and to support the Management’s Pension Plan, in the amount of up to R$250,000,000.00; 2) of the individual monthly compensation, in the amount of R$12,000.00, to the Fiscal Council’s Sitting Members.
Based on the resolution taken in the meeting itself, on this day, the Bank’s Board of Directors, right after the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting in which it was elected, has chosen to hold the position of Chairman Mr. Lázaro de Mello Brandão and, to the position of Vice-Chairman, Mr. Luiz Carlos Trabuco Cappi.
Sincerely,
Banco Bradesco S.A.
Luiz Carlos Angelotti
Managing Officer and
Investor Relations Officer
BANCO BRADESCO S.A. | ||
By: |
/S/ Luiz Carlos Angelotti
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Luiz Carlos Angelotti Executive Managing Officer and Investor Relations Officer |
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