THIS CIRCULAR IS IMPORTANT AND REQUIRES YOUR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION
If you are in any doubt as to any aspect of this circular or as to the action to be taken, you should consult your licensed securities dealer, a bank manager, solicitor, professional accountant or other professional adviser.
If you have sold or transferred all your shares in Tenfu (Cayman) Holdings Company Limited, you should at once hand this circular, together with the enclosed form of proxy, to the purchaser or transferee or to the bank, licensed securities dealer or other agent through whom the sale or transfer was effected for transmission to the purchaser or transferee.
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited and The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited take no responsibility for the contents of this circular, make no representation as to its accuracy or completeness and expressly disclaim any liability whatsoever for any loss howsoever arising from or in reliance upon the whole or any part of the contents of this circular.
Tenfu (Cayman) Holdings Company Limited
天 福 ( 開 曼 ) 控 股 有 限 公 司
(Incorporated in the Cayman Islands with limited liability)
(Stock code: 6868)
RENEWAL OF CONTINUING CONNECTED TRANSACTIONS
AND
NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING
Independent Financial Adviser to the Independent Board Committee
and the Independent Shareholders
A letter from the Board is set out on pages 5 to 12 of this circular and a letter from the Independent Board Committee containing its recommendations to the Independent Shareholders is set out on page 13 of this circular. A letter from the Independent Financial Adviser to the Independent Board Committee and the Independent Shareholders, containing its advice to the Independent Board Committee and the Independent Shareholders is set out on pages 14 to 25 of this circular.
A notice convening the EGM to be held at Empire Room I, 1/F, Empire Hotel Hong Kong Wanchai, 33 Hennessy Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong on Tuesday, 14 May 2019 at 10:30 a.m., or if later, immediately after the conclusion of the AGM, is set out on pages 35 to 36 of this circular. A form of proxy for use at the EGM is also enclosed. Such form of proxy is also published on the websites of the Stock Exchange (www.hkexnews.hk) and the Company (www.tenfu.com).
Whether or not you are able to attend the EGM, please complete and sign the enclosed form of proxy in accordance with the instructions printed thereon and return it to the Company's branch share registrar in Hong Kong, Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited at 17M Floor, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen's Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong, as soon as possible but in any event not less than 48 hours before the time appointed for the holding of the EGM or any adjournment thereof. Completion and return of the form of proxy will not preclude you from attending and voting in person at the EGM or any adjournment should you so wish.
18 April 2019
CONTENTS | |||
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Definitions . . . . | . . . . | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 1 |
Letter from the Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 5 | ||
Letter from the Independent Board Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 13 | ||
Letter from Independent Financial Adviser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 14 | ||
Appendix I | - | General Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 26 |
Notice of EGM . | . . . . | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 35 |
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DEFINITIONS
In this circular, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions shall have the following meanings:
"2016 Samoa Master Purchase | the purchase agreement entered into between the |
Agreement" | Company and Samoa Company dated 1 November 2016, |
pursuant to which the Company agreed to purchase or | |
procure members of the Group to purchase tea leaves | |
from Samoa Group for a term of three years commencing | |
on 1 January 2017 to 31 December 2019; | |
"AGM" | the annual general meeting of the Company to be held at |
Empire Room I, 1/F, Empire Hotel Hong Kong Wanchai, | |
33 Hennessy Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong on Tuesday, 14 | |
May 2019 at 10:00 a.m., or any adjournment thereof; | |
"associate" | has the meaning ascribed to it under the Listing Rules; |
"Board" | the board of Directors; |
"Company" | Tenfu (Cayman) Holdings Company Limited (天福(開曼) |
控股有限公司), an exempted company incorporated with | |
limited liability under the laws of the Cayman Islands on | |
22 April 2010; | |
"core connected person" | has the meaning ascribed to it under the Listing Rules; |
"Director(s)" | the director(s) of the Company; |
"EGM" | the extraordinary general meeting of the Company to be |
held at Empire Room I, 1/F, Empire Hotel Hong Kong | |
Wanchai, 33 Hennessy Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong on | |
Tuesday, 14 May 2019 at 10:30 a.m., or if later, | |
immediately after the conclusion of the AGM to approve | |
the Renewed Samoa Master Purchase Agreement and the | |
continuing connected transactions contemplated | |
thereunder (including the Renewed Annual Caps); | |
"Group" | the Company and its subsidiaries; |
"HK$" | Hong Kong dollar, the lawful currency of Hong Kong; |
"Hong Kong" | the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the |
PRC; |
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DEFINITIONS
"Independent Board Committee" | an independent committee of the Board, comprising all | |||
the independent non-executive Directors, established to | ||||
advise the Independent Shareholders in relation to the | ||||
Renewed Samoa Master Purchase Agreement and the | ||||
continuing | connected | transactions | contemplated | |
thereunder; | ||||
"Independent Financial Adviser" | Halcyon Capital Limited, a corporation licensed under | |||
the SFO to carry on type 1 (dealing in securities), type 4 | ||||
(advising on securities) and type 6 (advising on corporate | ||||
finance) regulated activities under the SFO, and the | ||||
independent financial adviser appointed to advise the | ||||
Independent Board Committee and the Independent | ||||
Shareholders in respect of the continuing connected | ||||
transactions contemplated under the Renewed Samoa | ||||
Master Purchase Agreement (including the Renewed | ||||
Annual Caps); | ||||
"Independent Shareholders" | Shareholders independent of Mr. Lee Chia Ling and his | |||
associates and not interested in the continuing connected | ||||
transactions contemplated under the Renewed Samoa | ||||
Master Purchase Agreement; | ||||
"Latest Practicable Date" | 16 April 2019, being the latest practicable date prior to | |||
the printing of this circular for the purpose of | ||||
ascertaining certain information for inclusion in this | ||||
circular; | ||||
"Listing Rules" | the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on the | |||
Stock Exchange; | ||||
"Lu Yu" | 陸羽茶藝股份有限公司 (Lu Yu Tea Artcraft Co., Ltd.*), a | |||
company incorporated on 24 August 1980 in Taiwan with |
limited liability, whose principal business is development and sale of tea ware in Taiwan and exclusively to 漳州天 福茶業有限公司 (Zhangzhou Tianfu Tea Industry Co., Ltd.*) in the PRC on a wholesale basis, and is beneficially owned as to 83.75% by Ms. Zhou Nannan, the spouse of Mr. Lee Chia Ling (a substantial shareholder of the Company and a Director), 10% by Mr. Tsai Shan Jen, the cousin of Mr. Lee Chia Ling, and 6.25% by Mr. Lee Rie-Ho (a substantial shareholder of the Company and a Director), respectively;
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DEFINITIONS | |
"PRC" | the People's Republic of China, excluding Taiwan, Hong |
Kong and Macao Special Administrative Region for the | |
purpose of this circular; | |
"Renewed Annual Caps" | the proposed renewed annual caps under the Renewed |
Samoa Master Purchase Agreement of RMB155,000,000, | |
RMB170,000,000 and RMB187,000,000 for the three | |
years ending on 31 December 2022, respectively; | |
"Renewed Samoa Master | the purchase agreement entered into between the |
Purchase Agreement" | Company and the Samoa Company dated 27 March 2019 |
on terms and conditions similar to the 2016 Samoa | |
Master Purchase Agreement, pursuant to which the | |
Company agreed to purchase or procure members of the | |
Group to purchase tea leaves from the Samoa Group for | |
a period of three years commencing on 1 January 2020 to | |
31 December 2022; | |
"Retained Manufacturing | the manufacturing and processing of tea leaves and tea |
Business" | products business conducted in the PRC by the Samoa |
Company and its subsidiaries; | |
"Retained Sales Business" | the distribution and sale of tea ware business conducted |
in Taiwan by Lu Yu and its subsidiaries; | |
"Retained Ten Ren Business" | the research and development, marketing and sale of tea |
leaves, tea snacks and tea ware business conducted in | |
Taiwan under principally the "天仁" brand by Ten Ren | |
and its subsidiaries and the franchising, marketing and | |
sale of tea leaves, tea snacks and tea products business | |
under the "天仁" brand in the United States and Canada | |
by Ten Ren and its subsidiaries; | |
"Retained Uncle Lee Business" | the business of marketing and sale of tea bags under the |
"Uncle Lee's" brand by Uncle Lee's Tea Inc. in North | |
America and Europe; | |
"RMB" | Renminbi, the lawful currency of the PRC; |
"Samoa Company" | Tenfu Group (Samoa) Holdings Company Limited, a |
limited liability company incorporated in Samoa, which | |
is engaged in the manufacturing and processing of tea | |
leaves in the PRC through its PRC subsidiaries and | |
wholly owned by Mr. Lee Chia Ling; |
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