• 3. Other disclosures
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF EMMI AG

3. Other disclosures

3.1 Full-time equivalents

In 2017 and in the previous year, Emmi AG employed fewer than 10 employees on average.

3.2 Collateral provided for liabilities of third parties

 

31.12.2017

31.12.2016

Guarantees and joint liability for loans of Group companies

512,144

584,185

Of which used by Group companies

408,856

450,759

Other guarantees for Group companies

344,185

76,350

3.3 Contingent liabilities

Emmi AG is jointly and severally liable for the VAT liabilities of the other Swiss-domiciled Emmi companies and of the Genossenschaft Zentralschweizer Milchproduzenten ZMP and ZMP Invest AG.

3.4 Net release of hidden reserves

In the year under review and in 2016, there were no releases of hidden reserves.

3.5 Participations of members of the Board of Directors, the Council and Group Management

As at 31 December 2017, individual members of the Board of Directors, the Agricultural Council and Group Management (including affiliated persons) held the following number of shares in the company:

 

No. of shares

No. of shares

Board of Directors

31.12.2017

31.12.2016

Konrad Graber, Chairman

950

950

Thomas Oehen, Vice-Chairman

615

610

Christian Arnold, Member

30

30

Stephan Baer, Member

34,500

34,500

Monique Bourquin, Member

Niklaus Meier, Member

200

200

Josef Schmidli, Member

74

74

Franz Steiger, Member

400

400

Diana Strebel, Member

 

 

 

Agricultural Council

 

 

Christophe Eggenschwiler

Pirmin Furrer

Stephan Hagenbuch (since 1.1.2017)

50

n.a.

Peter Hegglin (since 1.7.2017)

n.a.

Kurt Nüesch (until 31.12.2016)

n.a.

Markus Zemp (until 30.6.2017)

n.a.

 

 

 

Group Management

 

 

Urs Riedener, CEO

Marc Heim, Deputy CEO

150

150

Robert Muri, Deputy CEO (until 31.12.2016)

n.a.

100

Robin Barraclough, Member

20

20

Kai Könecke, Member (since 1.4.2017)

n.a.

Matthias Kunz, Member

27

27

Thomas Morf, Member (since 19.6.2017)

n.a.

Jörg Riboni, Member

Natalie Rüedi, Member

The members of the Board of Directors, the Agricultural Council and Group Management own a total of 37,016 shares (previous year 37,061 shares) and thus hold 0.7 % of the voting rights (previous year 0.7 %).

3.6 Significant events after the balance sheet date

From the balance sheet date until the financial statements were approved by the Board of Directors on 2 March 2018, no other major events occured which could have adversely affected the validity of the annual financial statements for 2017 or which would have to be disclosed.