Annual general meeting
The general meeting is the company’s highest decision-making body and is the forum in which shareholders exercise their right to decide on the company’s affairs.
The ordinary general meeting (the annual general meeting) is held once a year in order to carry out tasks such as adopting the group’s annual report and accounts, discharging the members of the board of directors and the CEO from liability and deciding how the profit for the past financial year is to be allocated.
Extraordinary general meetings can be held where there is a particular need to do so.
H&M’s Annual General Meeting 2026
H&M’s annual general meeting 2025 will be held on Tuesday 5 May 2026 at 15:00 CEST in the Erling Persson Hall, Aula Medica, Karolinska Institutet in Solna.
Karolinska Institutet has stated that bags will not be allowed to be taken into the meeting hall, with the exception of small handbags. Please bring ID. Lithium-ion batteries must not be brought into any of Aula Medica’s premises, which includes both loose lithium-ion batteries and objects containing lithium-ion batteries (such as bicycles, electric scooters, hoverboards or similar).
Shareholders have the right to raise matters at the meeting provided that such request is received by the board of directors no later than 17 March 2026.
Shareholders are welcome to ask questions during the annual general meeting as usual. To help us answer these questions at the meeting, please submit them to H&M in advance by email: hm5may@hm.com (please note that this email address cannot be used to register for the meeting).
Shareholders are entitled to certain information at the AGM. The board of directors and the CEO shall, if any shareholder so requests and the board of directors believes that it can be done without material harm to the company, provide information on circumstances that may affect the assessment of an item on the agenda, on circumstances that may affect the assessment of the financial situation of the company or its subsidiaries, and on the company’s relations with another company within the group.
Right to participate and notification of attendance
Participation at the meeting venue
Shareholders who wish to attend the AGM at the meeting venue in person or by proxy must:
both be entered in the company’s register of shareholders kept by Euroclear Sweden AB in their own name, as recorded on Friday, 24 April 2026,
and notify their intention to attend the annual general meeting no later than Tuesday, 28 April 2026, either in writing to the address H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB, c/o Euroclear Sweden AB, Box 191, 101 23 Stockholm (mark the envelope “AGM 2026”) or by telephone to +46 (0)8 402 9048 between 09.00–16.00 CEST Monday to Friday, stating that it concerns notice of attendance at the AGM, by email to GeneralMeetingService@euroclear.com or via this link https://www.euroclear.com/sweden/generalmeetings/.
The attendance of any assistants (maximum two) is to be notified to the same addresses etc. by the same date.
Shareholders must state in the notification their name, personal identity number or corporate identity number and their telephone number (daytime), as well as the number of shares held and number of assistants attending, if any. Confirmation by text message from the sender “H&M” will be sent out starting from 30 April 2026 (this replaces passes for the meeting).
As usual, it will be possible to be represented at the meeting by a proxy. Proxy forms are available here.
Participation via postal voting
Shareholders who wish to participate in the AGM through postal voting must:
both be entered in the company’s register of shareholders kept by Euroclear Sweden AB in their own name, as recorded on Friday, 24 April 2026,
and register their participation no later than Tuesday, 28 April 2026 by submitting a completed and signed postal voting form by post to H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB, c/o Euroclear Sweden AB, Box 191, 101 23 Stockholm (mark the envelope “AGM 2026”) or by email to GeneralMeetingService@euroclear.com, so that the postal vote is received by Euroclear Sweden AB no later than that day. Shareholders may also cast their postal votes electronically, using BankID verification, on Euroclear Sweden AB’s website https://www.euroclear.com/sweden/generalmeetings/. Such electronic votes must be cast no later than 28 April 2026.
A special form is to be used for postal voting. The form can be found here. Shareholders that are participating only through postal voting are not required to register for the meeting separately.
A proxy form must be enclosed with the postal voting form if the shareholder is voting via a proxy. A proxy form will be provided by the company on request and is also available here. If the shareholder is a legal entity, the form must also be accompanied by a registration certificate or other authorisation document indicating the authorised signatory.
Documents for the AGM 2026
- Notice of 2026 annual general meeting
- Proxy form 2026 AGM
- Postal voting form 2026 AGM
- Reasoned statement by the board in accordance with Chapter 18 § 4, 2026 AGM
- Statement by the board of directors in accordance with Chapter 19 § 22 of the Swedish Companies Act, 2026 AGM
- Information on members proposed by H&M’s nomination committee for the board of directors of H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB in 2026
- Account of the work of the H&M group’s nomination committee ahead of the 2026 AGM
- Proposal for 2026 annual general meeting
- Auditor’s statement pursuant to chapter 20 § 14 of the Swedish Companies Act
- Auditor’s report in accordance with Chapter 8, Section 54 of the Swedish Companies Act, regarding compliance with the guidelines for remuneration to senior executives
- Remuneration report 2025