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Securities and Exchange Commission
Office of International Corporate Finance
Division of Corporate Finance
Washington, DC
Dear shareholders,
Banco Bradesco S.A. informs its shareholders, clients and the market in general that all the matters examined at the Special and Annual Shareholders’ Meeting held cumulatively on this date, at 10 a.m., were approved as follows:
At the Special Shareholders’ Meeting:
At the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting:
1. the Financial Statements related to the fiscal year ended on December 31, 2011, after they have acknowledged the Management and Independent Auditors’ Reports, the Fiscal Council’s Opinion, and the Summary of the Audit Committee’s Report;
2. the Board of Directors’ proposal to:
b) allocate the net income of the fiscal year ended on December 31, 2011, in the amount of R$11,028,265,346.53, as follows: R$551,413,267.32 to the “Profit Reserves – Legal Reserve”; R$6,736,517,276.32 to the “Profit Reserves – Statutory Reserve”; and R$3,740,334,802.89 for the payment of interest on shareholders’ equity and dividends, already paid;
c) ratification of the mentioned amount of interest on shareholders’ equity and dividends paid in advance, taking into account that a payment of interest on shareholders’ equity /dividends related to the year 2011 was not proposed to the Shareholders’ Meeting;
3. the Parent Companies’ proposal to:
a) the reelection of the Board of Directors’ Members, Messrs. Lázaro de Mello Brandão, Antônio Bornia, Mário da Silveira Teixeira Júnior, João Aguiar Alvarez, Ms. Denise Aguiar Alvarez, and Messrs. Luiz Carlos Trabuco Cappi, Carlos Alberto Rodrigues Guilherme, Milton Matsumoto and Ricardo Espírito Santo Silva Salgado;
b) the reelection of the Fiscal Council’s members, Messrs. Nelson Lopes de Oliveira, Ricardo Abecassis Espírito Santo Silva and Domingos Aparecido Maia – Sitting Members; Jorge Tadeu Pinto de Figueiredo, Renaud Roberto Teixeira and João Batistela Biazon - Deputy Members;
4. the Board of Directors’ proposals for the Management’s fixed compensation for the year 2012, at the amount of up to R$250,000,000.00, the amount of up to R$250,000,000.00 to support the Management’s Open Complementary Pension Plans; and the individual monthly compensation at the amount of R$12,000.00 to the Fiscal Council’s Sitting Members.
According to the resolution taken at its own meeting, held on this date, the Board of Directors of the Bank, right after the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting that elected it, has chosen as Chairman Mr. Lázaro de Mello Brandão and as Vice Chairman Mr. Antônio Bornia.
Cordially,
Executive 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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