The deadline for declaring candidature for the Marel hf. Board of Directors passed today, 1 March at 4pm. The 2019 Annual General Meeting will be held at the Company's headquarters at Austurhraun 9, Gardabaer, Iceland, at 4pm on Wednesday 6 March 2019.

The seven candidates for the Board of Directors are the following:

Dr Ólafur Gudmundsson, Princeton, New Jersey, US
Ástvaldur Jóhannsson, Seltjarnarnes, Iceland
Margrét Jónsdóttir, Seltjarnarnes, Iceland
Ton van der Laan, Berlicum, Netherlands
Arnar Thór Másson, London, England
Ásthildur Margrét Otharsdóttir, Reykjavik, Iceland
Ann Elisabeth Savage, Spalding, UK

For further information on each candidate, please find a short bio attached and archived on the AGM 2019 page on the Company´s website: http://www.marel.com/agm.

According to the current Articles of Association of the Company, the Board of Directors shall be comprised of 5 to 7 members. Consequently, the above seven candidates will be elected to the Board without ballot at the AGM.

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