Value creation for shareholders
Trelleborg’s business generates value that is widely distributed between various stakeholders, such as suppliers of goods and services, employees, shareholders, banks and other providers of credit, and society in the form of taxes.
In 2007, a total of SEK 29,400 M was distributed across the different groups of stakeholders.
Next to suppliers of materials and services, the bulk of this value benefits employees in the form of salaries and other remuneration.
The Group’s dividend policy to shareholders is that, over the long term, the dividend should amount to between 30 and 50 percent of net profit for the year. The proposed dividend is SEK 6.50 per share (6.00) for the 2007 financial year, corresponding to about SEK 587 M.
A portion of this added value has been used for investments to enhance the environment and work environment. In 2007, these investments amounted to SEK 96 M (77). See also
here.