RTL : AGM Statement / Publication of RTL Group Annual Report 2016

Luxembourg, 19 April 2017 - The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of RTL Group, on 19 April 2017, approved the statutory and consolidated accounts as at 31 December 2016 and all proposed resolutions.

At the AGM, RTL Group published its Annual Report 2016. The PDF document is now available on the company's website at RTLGroup.com/annual-reports. The Annual Report 2016 and its supplement, The Power of Total Video, offer an entertaining view on drama production, sports and online video, as well as insights into the Group's strategy, business model and ad-tech business. In addition, the Co-CEOs look back at a record year in the traditional Co-CEO interview and the financial reporting is now more comprehensive than ever. Furthermore the enhanced Corporate Responsibility Report provides a profound insight of RTL Group's CR initiatives in the main areas of press freedom, society and employees.

As with the previous year, RTL Group also offers a fully interactive report, featuring a number of informative and entertaining videos, now available at
annual-report2016.rtlgroup.com.

In addition, the AGM resolved to pay a final ordinary dividend of €3.00 per share - on top of the interim dividend of €1.00 per share already paid in September 2016. The final dividend for the full year ended 31 December 2016 will be payable from 27 April 2017 on presentation of coupon N° 27 at the following banks:

• In the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg: ING Luxembourg S.A.
• In Belgium: ING S.A.
• In Germany: Deutsche Bank AG

The AGM acknowledged the resignation of Anke Schäferkordt as Executive Director and of Jacques Santer as Non-Executive Director with effect from the meeting date.
To succeed Anke Schäferkordt, the AGM appointed Bert Habets as Executive Director. Bert Habets will serve as Co-CEO of RTL Group and joins the Executive Committee alongside Guillaume de Posch, Co-CEO of RTL Group, and Elmar Heggen, CFO of
RTL Group. As already announced in March, Anke Schäferkordt will continue to be the CEO of Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland and serve on Bertelsmann's Executive Board. Jean-Louis Schiltz was appointed Non-Executive Director to succeed Jacques Santer. Both were appointed for a term of office of one year, to expire at the end of the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders ruling on the 2017 accounts.

Thomas Rabe, CEO of Bertelsmann and Chairman of the RTL Group Board of Directors, says: 'On behalf of the whole Board, I would like to thank Anke Schäferkordt for her outstanding leadership of RTL Group and I am delighted that we will continue to benefit from her skills and expertise. I would also like to thank Jacques Santer for his long and important contribution to the success of RTL Group and CLT-UFA. With Bert Habets alongside Guillaume de Posch, RTL Group has two strong leaders who embody RTL Group's total video strategy. Jean-Louis Schiltz will represent the independent shareholders of RTL Group and bring stimulating, new perspectives to the Board. I look forward to working with them both.'

Following the Annual General Meeting of the Shareholders, RTL Group held an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Shareholders (EGM). The EGM resolved to update RTL Group's Articles of Association following the Luxembourgish law of 10 August 2016 on the modernisation of the 'Law on Commercial Companies' of 10 August 1915
as duly amended.

The minutes of the AGM and the EGM will be available shortly on the company's website at the links RTLGroup.com/agm and RTLGroup.com/egm