EXPLANATORY NOTES TO THE NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Voting on all resolutions at the Annual General Meeting will be by way of a poll rather than a show of hands. This means that votes of both shareholders who have lodged proxies and shareholders who attend the meeting will be taken into account.
We will report final results by furnishing a Report of Foreign Private Issuer on Form 6-K promptly after the Annual General Meeting.
Resolution 1 – Annual Report and Accounts for the Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2025
As a company organized under the laws of the Bailiwick of Jersey, for each fiscal year audited accounts and an independent auditor’s report on the financial statements to shareholders must be laid before an annual general meeting. Those to be laid before the Annual General Meeting are the consolidated accounts and auditor’s report in respect of the fiscal year ended September 30, 2025. The Jersey statutory accounts are substantially similar to the financial statements included in our Annual Report, which was filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on December 18, 2025. In accordance with our obligations under Jersey law, we will provide our shareholders at the Annual General Meeting an opportunity to receive the accounts and auditor’s report. The Annual Report, containing the accounts and the independent auditor’s report of the Company, will be available for inspection prior to and during the Annual General Meeting. The vote on this resolution is an advisory vote only, and therefore, not binding on the Company or the Board. However, the Board will consider the voting results when making decisions regarding the future strategy and operations of the Company.
Resolutions 2, 3 and 4 – Re-Appointment of Class III Directors
Under the Company’s Articles, the Board is divided into three classes of directors, designated as “Class I,” “Class II” and “Class III.”
In accordance with Article 25.3 of the Articles, at the third annual general meeting of the Company, each director in Class III, being Alexandre Arnault, Ruth Kennedy and Oliver Reichert, shall retire from office, but shall be eligible for re-appointment. If re-appointed, they shall be entitled to serve until the date of the Company’s 2029 annual general meeting.
Each re-appointment shall be considered as a separate resolution in accordance with Article 25.4 of the Articles.
Biographical details of the director nominees up for re-appointment at the meeting are set out below.
Class III Director Nominees Whose Terms Expire at the Annual General Meeting
Alexandre Arnault has been a Director since October 2023. Mr. Arnault has been the Deputy CEO of Moët Hennessy, LVMH’s wines and spirits division since February 2025. He is also a member of the board of directors of LVMH and Moncler. He previously served as Executive Vice President of Products and Communications at Tiffany & Co, where he developed and implemented the communications and products strategy, and CEO of RIMOWA, a company he brought into the LVMH group and whose integration he oversaw for four years. Mr. Arnault has also focused on innovation and technology at LVMH and within the family holding company, Agache. He has also been involved in making and monitoring numerous investments in technology companies in the United States and in Europe. Mr. Arnault graduated from Ecole Telecom ParisTech and holds a master’s degree from Ecole Polytechnique. Mr. Arnault previously served on the board of directors of Carrefour. He brings to our board of directors his expertise in fashion, retail, technology and e-commerce.
Ruth Kennedy has been a Director since September 2023. Ms. Kennedy has worked as a consultant in the luxury brand, retail and hospitality consultancy sectors since 2012. Ms. Kennedy currently serves as a Non-Executive Director to Daylesford Organic Limited, Bamford Limited and Value Retail Limited (The Bicester Village Shopping Collection). From 2012, Ms. Kennedy served on the board of directors for Belmond Limited, a luxury hospitality business which was sold to LVMH in 2019, where she was also the Chair of the Nominating & Governance Committee. From 1990 to 2006, Ms. Kennedy served as the Managing Director for David Linley & Co Limited, a furniture and homeware company. Ms. Kennedy’s early career included serving as an investment banker at SG Warburg & Co Limited, an investment banking firm, from 1987 to 1990. From 2021 to 2025, Ms. Kennedy was Chair of the UCL Global Business School for Health Advisory Board, and was awarded Honorary Fellowships at both UCL and the University of Cambridge Judge Business School. In 2009, Ms. Kennedy founded the Louis Dundas Centre for Children’s Palliative Care at Great Ormond Street Hospital and is a Patron of the Elton John AIDS Foundation. Ms. Kennedy received her L.L.B. from University of London (SOAS).
Oliver Reichert was appointed the Chief Executive Officer of the BIRKENSTOCK Group in 2013 and has been a Director since April 2021 (including service as a director of the Company’s immediate parent, BK LC Lux MidCo S.à r.l.). Mr. Reichert is the first top manager from outside of the Birkenstock family to head the long-standing BIRKENSTOCK Group. Mr. Reichert has been with the BIRKENSTOCK Group since 2009 when Christian Birkenstock invited him to lead the transitional process from a loose group of 38 single entities with different shareholder and management structures into the BIRKENSTOCK Group in 2012. Since 2013, he has been leading the company as Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Reichert is the creative mastermind behind our success and growth story, and the driving force behind our transformation and innovation. Mr. Reichert is also the managing director of CB Verwaltungs GmbH, which is the sole general partner and manager of CB Beteiligungs GmbH & Co. KG, the investment office of Christian Birkenstock. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Reichert held various positions at Deutsches Sportfernsehen (currently Sport1), including as a reporter and then as Chief Executive Officer between 2006 and 2009.
Information on our corporate governance and on compensation paid to our directors starts on page 88 of the Annual Report and Accounts. The Board currently consists of seven members. The Board has established an audit committee, which consists of Ruth Kennedy, Nisha Kumar and Anne Pitcher, with Nisha Kumar serving as the chairperson. As a “foreign private issuer,” the Company is entitled to rely on exemptions from certain corporate governance requirements of the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”). Among other things, the Company takes advantage of the exemption from the requirement that the Company have a compensation committee and a corporate governance and nominating committee that is composed entirely of independent directors with a written charter addressing each committee’s purpose and responsibilities.