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Speech Dr. - Ing. N. Reithofer
Chairman of BMW AG.
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Notice of the Annual General Meeting
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Notice of a Separate Meeting of the Preferred Stockholders
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Annual Report 2008
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Financial Statement
Financial Year 2008 of BMW AG (PDF, 703 KB).
List of shareholdings and investments in third party companies
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Information relating to Item 6 of the Agenda of the AGM
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Corporate Events
14th May 2009
       
   
   
       
    Results of the 89th Annual General Meeting of BMW AG.

A total of 458,417,087 shares (76.15%) of the share capital carrying voting rights was represented at the 89th Annual General Meeting of BMW AG held on 14 May 2009 in Munich (total number of shares of common stock: 601,995,196).

The results of the voting on items 2 to 10 of the agenda were as follows:

Agenda item 2: Resolution on the utilisation of the unappropriated surplus.
The proposal of the Board of Management and the Supervisory Board was carried by
- 458,250,344 votes for (99.99%)
- 56,131 votes against
- 19,612 abstentions.

Agenda item 3: Resolution on the approval of the actions of the Board of Management.
The proposal of the Board of Management and the Supervisory Board was carried by
- 457,666,153 votes for (99.90%)
- 472,556 votes against
- 184,134 abstentions.

Agenda item 4: Resolution on the approval of the actions of the Supervisory Board.
The proposal of the Board of Management and the Supervisory Board was carried by
- 277,125,378 votes for (99.83%)
- 465,257 votes against
- 182,407 abstentions*.

*) Shareholders who are members of the Supervisory Board of BMW AG were not entitled to vote on this resolution.

Agenda item 5: Election of the Auditors.
The proposal of the Supervisory Board was carried by
- 455,669,866 votes for (99.43%)
- 2,624,107 votes against
- 28,278 abstentions.

Agenda item 6: Elections to the Supervisory Board.
The proposals of the Supervisory Board were in each case adopted as follows:

Franz M. Haniel:
- 456,982,208 votes for (99.82%)
- 843,687 votes against
- 496,983 abstentions.

Susanne Klatten:
- 456,666,154 votes for (99.75%)
- 1,148,459 votes against
- 499,944 abstentions.

Robert W. Lane:
- 457,421,094 votes for (99.91%)
- 403,574 votes against
- 500,141 abstentions.

Wolfgang Mayrhuber:
- 453,954,878 votes for (99.23%)
- 3,520,999 votes against
- 851,375 abstentions.

Joachim Milberg:
- 394,865,991 votes for (86.28%)
- 62,766,388 votes against
- 687,785 abstentions.

Stefan Quandt:
- 453,381,612 votes for (99.03%)
- 4,425,201 votes against
- 503,024 abstentions.

Jürgen Strube:
- 457,495,420 votes for (99.87%)
- 610,478 votes against
- 199,352 abstentions.

Agenda item 7: Resolution on a new authorisation to acquire and to use the Company's own shares and to exclude the subscription right.
The proposal of the Board of Management and the Supervisory Board was carried by
- 457,411,820 votes for (99.81%)
- 890,345 votes against
- 20,603 abstentions.

Agenda item 8: Resolution on an Amendment to the Articles of Association to bring them in line with a New Act.
The proposal of the Board of Management and the Supervisory Board was carried by
- 458,067,852 votes for (99.99%)
- 22,597 votes against
- 218,098 abstentions.

Agenda item 9: Resolution on Amendments to the Articles of Association concerning the Supervisory Board.
The proposal of the Board of Management and the Supervisory Board was carried by
- 457,149,840 votes for (99.79%)
- 981,376 votes against
- 225,518 abstentions.

Agenda item 10: Resolution on authorised capital (non-voting shares of preferred stock) excluding the shareholders' statutory subscription right and amendment to the Articles of Association.
The proposal of the Board of Management and the Supervisory Board was carried by
- 451,437,458 votes for (98.79%)
- 5,536,846 votes against
- 1,338,742 abstentions.


Results of the Separate Meeting of the holders of preferred stock of BMW AG.

A total of 20,906,213 preferred shares (40.05%) was represented at the Separate Meeting of the holders of preferred stock held on 14 May 2009 in Munich (total number of shares of preferred stock: 52,196,162).

The results of the voting on item 2 of the agenda were as follows:

Agenda item 2: Special resolution of the preferred stockholders on the consent to the resolution of the Annual General Meeting concerning authorised capital (non-voting shares of preferred stock) excluding the shareholders' statutory subscription right and amendment to the Articles of Association.

The proposal of the Board of Management and the Supervisory Board was carried by
- 18,174,084 votes for (98.90%)
- 201,309 votes against
- 12,151 abstentions.


   
       
         
         
Updated May 14, 2009