Apr 20, 2012. /Lesprom Network/. Ponsse's Annual General Meeting decided to authorise a dividend per share of Euro 0.35 per share for 2011 (dividends totalling Euro 9,725,485). No dividend will be paid to shares owned by the company itself (212,900 shares). The dividend payment record date is 20 April 2012, and the dividends will be paid on 27 April 2012, as the company said in a press release received by Lesprom Network. The number of Board members was confirmed as 6. Heikki Hortling, Mammu Kaario, Ilkka Kylävainio, Ossi Saksman, Jukka Vidgrén and Juha Vidgrén were re-elected to the Board. The Board's period of office will last until the next AGM. The AGM confirmed the annual remuneration payable to the Chairman of the Board as Euro 43,000, the remuneration payable to the Vice Chairman as Euro 38,000 and the remuneration payable to other members as Euro 32,000. At a Board meeting held after the AGM, Juha Vidgrén was elected Chairman of the Board and Heikki Hortling was elected Vice Chairman. PricewaterhouseCoopers Oy were appointed as the company's auditors, with Sami Posti, Authorised Public Accountant, as the principal auditor. Ponsse Plc is a company specialising in the sales, manufacture, servicing and technology of cut-to-length method forest machines and is driven by genuine interest in its customers and their business.