Annual report 2018/19 and convocation for AGM published today
Lucas Bols N.V. (Lucas Bols) will propose to the 2019 Annual General Meeting (AGM), to be held on 10 July 2019, to appoint René Hooft Graafland to the Supervisory Board.

Mr. Hooft Graafland (1955) is a Dutch national, he worked 34 years in various international management positions at Heineken N.V, the Dutch listed leading international beer company, of which 13 years as Executive Board Member and CFO. Currently, Mr. Hooft Graafland holds supervisory board positions at Ahold Delhaize, FrieslandCampina and Wolters Kluwer. He is also member of the Monitoring Committee Corporate Governance.

Derk Doijer, chairman of the Supervisory Board of Lucas Bols: “We are very pleased to nominate Mr. Hooft Graafland as member of the Supervisory Board of Lucas Bols. He brings extensive international, financial and commercial experience in a sector relevant to Lucas Bols. Moreover, his broad and global experience in executive leadership at Heineken will be of great value in the further international development of Lucas Bols.”

Mr. Hooft Graafland will be nominated for appointment for a period of four years until the Annual General Meeting in 2023. Following appointment by the Annual General Meeting, Lucas Bols’ Supervisory Board will, effective 10 July 2019, consist of the following members: Derk Doijer (chairman), Ralph Wisbrun (vice-chairman), Alex Oldroyd, Marina Wyatt and René Hooft Graafland. It is the intention that Mr. Hooft Graafland will succeed Mr. Doijer as chairman at the AGM in 2020, at which time Mr. Doijer will step down as Supervisory Board member after serving the Board of Lucas Bols since 2006, when the Lucas Bols company returned to Amsterdam.

Annual report and AGM convocation
As of today, the Lucas Bols annual report 2018/19 is available on the website. Furthermore, the convocation for the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, including the agenda and the accompanying explanatory notes, have been published on the website (www.lucasbols.com). The Annual General Meeting of Shareholders will take place on 10 July 2019, 14:00 CET at the Hermitage in Amsterdam.