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We have a new identity for the Atlas Copco Group

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We have a new identity for the Atlas Copco Group

The Atlas Copco Group logo on a white background

We have a new identity for the Atlas Copco Group

The Atlas Copco Group logo on a white background

We have a new identity for the Atlas Copco Group

The Atlas Copco Group logo on a white background

We have a new identity for the Atlas Copco Group

The Atlas Copco Group logo on a white background

We have a new identity for the Atlas Copco Group

The Atlas Copco Group logo on a white background

We have a new identity for the Atlas Copco Group

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Enabling the transformation to a low-carbon society

Fully committed to being part of the solution for a better tomorrow, we have set science-based targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement.
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Enabling the transformation to a low-carbon society

Fully committed to being part of the solution for a better tomorrow, we have set science-based targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement.
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Enabling the transformation to a low-carbon society

Fully committed to being part of the solution for a better tomorrow, we have set science-based targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement.
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Enabling the transformation to a low-carbon society

Fully committed to being part of the solution for a better tomorrow, we have set science-based targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement.
Thumbnail image for a video introducing our science-based targets

Enabling the transformation to a low-carbon society

Fully committed to being part of the solution for a better tomorrow, we have set science-based targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement.
Thumbnail image for a video introducing our science-based targets

Enabling the transformation to a low-carbon society

Fully committed to being part of the solution for a better tomorrow, we have set science-based targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement.
Thumbnail image for a video introducing our science-based targets

Enabling the transformation to a low-carbon society

Fully committed to being part of the solution for a better tomorrow, we have set science-based targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement.
Thumbnail image for a video introducing our science-based targets

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Are you up for a challenge?

Join us on an interactive journey to learn more about our culture.
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Are you up for a challenge?

Join us on an interactive journey to learn more about our culture.
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Innovation stories

Do you want to learn about our innovations? How operators benefit from our ergonomic equipment or how we secure a minimal impact on the environment?
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features stories about how we innovate for a sustainable future and push technology and society forward together with our customers.
Atlas Copco's Industrial Ideas magazine

Our annual Industrial Ideas magazine

features stories about how we innovate for a sustainable future and push technology and society forward together with our customers.
Atlas Copco's Industrial Ideas magazine

Our annual Industrial Ideas magazine

features stories about how we innovate for a sustainable future and push technology and society forward together with our customers.
Atlas Copco's Industrial Ideas magazine

Our annual Industrial Ideas magazine

features stories about how we innovate for a sustainable future and push technology and society forward together with our customers.
Atlas Copco's Industrial Ideas magazine

Our annual Industrial Ideas magazine

features stories about how we innovate for a sustainable future and push technology and society forward together with our customers.
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Atlas Copco AB (“Atlas Copco”) remuneration report 2021

Introduction

This remuneration report provides an outline of how the guidelines for executive remuneration in Atlas Copco (the “remuneration guidelines”), adopted by the annual general meeting of Atlas Copco 2020, have been implemented in 2021. The report provides details on the remuneration of Atlas Copco’s President and CEO. In addition, the report contains a summary of Atlas Copco’s outstanding share and share-price related incentive programs. The report has been prepared in compliance with Chapter 8, Sections 53 a and 53 b of the Swedish Companies Act (2005:551) and the Swedish Corporate Governance Code and Remuneration Rules issued by the Swedish Corporate Governance Board. Information required by Chapter 5, Sections 40-44 of the Annual Accounts Act (1995:1554) is available in note 5 on p. 83-85 in the Atlas Copco Annual report 2021 (the “annual report 2021”).

Information on the work of the remuneration committee in 2021 is set out in the corporate governance report, which is available on p. 54-63 in the annual report 2021.

Remuneration of the board of directors (the “Board”) is not covered by this report. Such remuneration is resolved annually by the annual general meeting and disclosed in note 5 on p. 83 in the annual report 2021.

No comments in respect of the 2020 remuneration report, which are to be taken into account, have been put forward in connection with the annual general meeting 2021.

 

Key Developments 2021

Overall company performance in 2021

The performance of the Atlas Copco Group in 2021 is presented in the annual report 2021 which can be accessed at www.atlascopcogroup.com.

Overview of the application of the remuneration guidelines in 2021

The remuneration guidelines have been applied without deviation.

Under the remuneration guidelines, remuneration of executive management shall be market competitive and may consist of the following components: base salary, variable compensation, pension benefits and other benefits. The remuneration guidelines, adopted by the annual general meeting 2020, can be accessed at www.atlascopcogroup.com where also the auditor’s yearly reports regarding the company’s compliance with the remuneration guidelines are available.

In addition to remuneration covered by the remuneration guidelines, the annual general meetings of Atlas Copco have for a number of years resolved to implement share and share price related programs i.e. long-term incentive programs.

 

Total remuneration of the President and CEO

Table 1 below sets out Atlas Copco’s President and CEO’s total remuneration for 2021 (KSEK). 

President and CEO Fixed remuneration    Variable remuneration Extraordinary items Pension fees Total remuneration Proportion of fixed and variable remuneration
Mats Rahmström

Base salary

 

16 500

Other benefits

 

445

13 200 - 5 795  35 940 63/37 

Performance of the President and CEO on variable compensation 

The performance criteria for the President and CEO’s variable compensation have been selected to contribute to the company’s long term and sustainable development. Set out in Table 2 below are the performance criteria decided by the Board in January 2021 and a description of how the criteria for payment of variable compensation have been applied during the financial year.

President and CEO Description of the performance criteria Relative weighting of the performance criteria1

a) Measured performance

b) Actual outcome (KSEK)

Mats Rahmström Group Economic Value Added (EVA)2 80% a) 12 090 MSEK
b) 10 560
Group average Net Working Capital as percentage of sales 10% a) 20,2%
b) 1 320
Reduce the CO2 emissions in the Group 10% a) 3.3 tonnes/MSEK of Cost of Sales
b) 1 320 

Comparative information on the change of remuneration and company performance 

Year 2020 was the first reported financial year and the year over year development, over five years, will be reported and added annually as it becomes available. Table 3 below sets out actual outcome.

  2020 2021

Total remuneration

Mats Rahmström, President and CEO 27 396 KSEK  35 940 KSEK

Company’s performance

EVA 9 420 MSEK  12 090 MSEK
Profit for the period 14 783 MSEK 18 134 MSEK

Average remuneration on a full-time equivalent basis of employees

Employees of Atlas Copco AB3  1 083 KSEK 1 118 KSEK

Outstanding share and share-price related incentive programs 

At the Atlas Copco annual general meeting 2016–2021 respectively, it was decided to implement performance-based personnel stock option programs. The decision to grant options was made in April each year and the options were issued in March the following year (issue date). The number of options issued for each program year depended on the value creation in the Atlas Copco Group, measured as EVA, for the respective program year. For the 2021 option program, the number of options varies on a linear basis within a preset EVA interval. The size of each plan and the limits of the interval have been proposed by the Board and approved by each annual general meeting and are compatible with the long-term business plan of the Atlas Copco Group.

In connection to the issue, the exercise price was calculated as 110% of the average trading price for series A shares during a ten-day period following the date of the publishing of the fourth quarter report. The options were issued without compensation paid by the employee and the options remain the property of the employee only to the extent that they are exercisable at the time employment is terminated. The 2016–2021 programs have a term of seven years. The options in the 2016–2021 programs are not transferable and become exercisable at 100% three years after grant.

The 2016–2021 programs include a requirement for group management and division presidents to purchase and keep Atlas Copco A shares for 10% of their gross base salary in order to be granted options. A lower amount of investment will reduce the number of options proportionately. Further, group management and division presidents who have invested in Atlas Copco A shares will have the option to purchase one matching share per each share purchased at a price equal to 75% of the average trading price for series A shares during a ten-day period following the date of the publishing of the fourth quarter report. This right applies from three years after grant until the expiration of the stock option program.

The Board had the right to decide to implement an alternative incentive solution (SARs) for key persons in such countries where the grant of personnel options was not feasible.

More information about share and share price related long-term incentive programs, outstanding and completed in 2021, can be found in the annual report 2021 note 5 on p. 84-85 and note 23 on p. 101- 103.