Vard : Annual Reports And Related Documents

(Company Registration No.201012504K)

(Incorporated in Singapore with limited liability)

To,

The Shareholders of Vard Holdings Limited

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING / ANNUAL REPORT FOR YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2017

Dear Sirs,

Please find enclosed the Annual Report for the financial year ended 31 December 2017. The Notice of Annual General Meeting dated 14 June 2018, the Proxy Form, the Statistics of Shareholdings dated 7 June 2018 and the Appendix to the Annual Report dated 14 June 2018 are also enclosed.

Kindly note that the Statistics of Shareholdings contained on page 116 in the Annual Report 2017 is replaced by the Statistics of Shareholdings dated 7 June 2018.

By Order of the Board

Elizabeth Krishnan Company Secretary Singapore, 14 June 2018

(Company Registration No.201012504K)

(Incorporated in Singapore with limited liability)

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of Vard Holdings Limited (the "Company") will be held at Shine Auditorium, 100 Beach Road, #03-01, Shaw Tower, Singapore 189702, on Friday, 29 June 2018 at 1:00 p.m. for the following purposes:

AS ORDINARY BUSINESS

1. To receive and adopt the Directors' Statement and the Audited Financial Statements of the Company for the financialyear ended 31 December 2017 together with the Auditors' Report thereon.

(Resolution 1)

• 2. To re-elect the following directors of the Company retiring pursuant to the Constitution of the Company:Mr. Roy Reite (Regulation 94)

  Mr. Keen Whye Lee (Regulation 94)

  (Resolution 2a) (Resolution 2b)

  Mr. Roy Reite will, upon re-election as a Director of the Company, remain as the Chief Executive Officer of the Company and will be considered non-independent.

  Mr. Keen Whye Lee will, upon re-election as a Director of the Company, remain as the Lead Independent Director, the Chairman of the Audit Committee, a member of the Nominating Committee and the Remuneration Committee, and will be considered independent.

• 3. To approve the payment of Directors' fees of S$420,000 for the financial year ending 31 December 2018, to be paidquarterly in arrears. (2017: S$420,000.)

  (Resolution 3)

• 4. To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Auditors of the Company and to authorize the Directors of theCompany to fix their remuneration.

  (Resolution 4)

• 5. To transact any other ordinary business which may properly be transacted at an Annual General Meeting.

AS SPECIAL BUSINESS

6.

Authority to issue shares

To consider and if thought fit, to pass the following resolution as an Ordinary Resolution, with or without any modifications:

That pursuant to Section 161 of the Companies Act, Cap. 50 and Rule 806 of the Listing Manual of the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited, the Directors of the Company be authorized and empowered to:

(a)

• (i) issue shares in the Company ("shares") whether by way of rights, bonus or otherwise; and/or

• (ii) make or grant offers, agreements or options (collectively, "Instruments") that might or would require shares to be issued, including but not limited to the creation and issue of (as well as adjustments to) options, warrants, debentures or other instruments convertible into shares,

at any time and upon such terms and conditions and for such purposes and to such persons as the Directors of the Company may in their absolute discretion deem fit; and

(b) (notwithstanding the authority conferred by this Resolution may have ceased to be in force) issue shares in pursuance of any Instruments made or granted by the Directors of the Company while this Resolution was in force, provided that:

(1) the aggregate number of shares (including shares to be issued in pursuance of the Instruments, made or granted pursuant to this Resolution) and Instruments to be issued pursuant to this Resolution shall not exceed fifty per centum (50%) of the total number of issued shares (excluding treasury shares and subsidiary holdings) in the capital of the Company (as calculated in accordance with sub-paragraph (2) below), of which the aggregate number of shares to be issued other than on a pro rata basis to shareholders of the Company shall not exceed twenty per centum (20%) of the total number of issued shares (excluding treasury shares and subsidiary holdings) in the capital of the Company (as calculated in accordance with sub-paragraph (2) below);

• (2) (subject to such calculation as may be prescribed by the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited) for the purpose of determining the aggregate number of shares that may be issued under sub-paragraph (1) above, the percentage of issued shares (excluding treasury shares and subsidiary holdings) shall be based on the total number of issued shares (excluding treasury shares and subsidiary holdings) in the capital of the Company at the time of the passing of this Resolution, after adjusting for:

  • (a) new shares arising from the conversion or exercise of any convertible securities;

  • (b) new shares arising from exercising share options or vesting of share awards which are outstanding or subsisting at the time of the passing of this Resolution; and

  (c)any subsequent bonus issue, consolidation or subdivision of shares;

• (3) in exercising the authority conferred by this Resolution, the Company shall comply with the provisions of the Listing Manual of the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited for the time being in force (unless such compliance has been waived by the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited) and the Constitution of the Company; and

• (4) unless revoked or varied by the Company in a general meeting, such authority shall continue in force until the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company or the date by which the next Annual General Meeting of the Company is required by law to be held, whichever is earlier.

[See Explanatory Note (i)]

(Resolution 5)

7.

Renewal of Shareholders' Mandate for Interested Person Transactions

To consider and if thought fit, to pass the following resolution as an Ordinary Resolution, with or without any modifications:

That for the purposes of Chapter 9 of the Listing Manual of the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited:

• (a) approval be and is hereby given for the Company, its subsidiaries and associated companies or any of them to enter into any of the transactions falling within the categories of Mandated Transactions (as defined in the Appendix to the Annual Report dated 14 June 2018 (the "Appendix")) with any of the Mandated Interested Persons (as defined in the Appendix), provided that such transactions are carried out on normal commercial terms and in accordance with the review procedures of the Company for such Mandated Transactions as set out in the Appendix (the "Shareholders' Mandate");

• (b) the Shareholders' Mandate shall, unless revoked or varied by the Company in a general meeting, continue in force until the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company or the date by which the next Annual General Meeting of the Company is required by law to be held, whichever is earlier; and

(c)the Directors of the Company and/or any of them be and are hereby authorized to complete and do all such acts and things (including executing all such documents as may be required) as they and/or he may consider necessary, desirable or expedient, incidental or in the interests of the Company to give effect to the Shareholders' Mandate and/or this Resolution as they may deem fit.

[See Explanatory Note (ii)]

(Resolution 6)

By Order of the Board

Elizabeth Krishnan Company Secretary Singapore, 14 June 2018

Explanatory Notes:

• (i) The Ordinary Resolution 5 in item 6 above, if passed, will empower the Directors of the Company, effective until the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company, or the date by which the next Annual General Meeting of the Company is required by law to be held or such authority is varied or revoked by the Company in a general meeting, whichever is the earlier, to issue shares, make or grant Instruments convertible into shares and to issue shares pursuant to such Instruments, up to a number not exceeding, in total, 50% of the total number of issued shares (excluding treasury shares and subsidiary holdings) in the capital of the Company, of which up to 20% may be issued other than on a pro-rata basis to shareholders.

  For determining the aggregate number of shares that may be issued, the total number of issued shares (excluding treasury shares and subsidiary holdings) will be calculated based on the total number of issued shares (excluding treasury shares and subsidiary holdings) in the capital of the Company at the time this Ordinary Resolution is passed after adjusting for new shares arising from the conversion or exercise of any convertible securities or share options or vesting of share awards which are outstanding or subsisting at the time when this Ordinary Resolution is passed and any subsequent bonus issue, consolidation or subdivision of shares.

• (ii) The Ordinary Resolution 6 proposed in item 7 above, if passed, will renew the mandate authorizing the Company, its subsidiaries and associated companies, or any of them, for the purposes of Chapter 9 of the Listing Manual, to enter into certain interested person transactions as described in the Appendix to the Annual Report and will empower the Directors of the Company to do all acts necessary to give effect to the Shareholders' Mandate. This authority will, unless previously revoked or varied by the Company in a general meeting, expire at the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company or the date by which the next Annual General Meeting of the Company is required by law to be held, whichever is the earlier. Please refer to the Appendix for further details.

Notes:

• 1. A Member of the Company (other than a Relevant Intermediary*) entitled to attend and vote at the Annual General Meeting (the "Meeting") is entitled to appoint not more than two proxies to attend and vote in his/her stead. A proxy need not be a Member of the Company.

• 2. A Relevant Intermediary may appoint more than two proxies, but each proxy must be appointed to exercise the rights attached to a different share or shares held by him (which number and class of shares shall be specified.)

• 3. The instrument appointing a proxy must be deposited at c/o RHT Corporate Advisory Pte. Ltd., 9 Raffles Place #29-01, Republic Plaza Tower 1, Singapore 048619 not less than seventy-two (72) hours before the time appointed for holding the Meeting.

* A Relevant Intermediary is:

• (a) a banking corporation licensed under the Banking Act (Cap. 19) or a wholly-owned subsidiary of such a banking corporation, whose business includes the provision of nominee services and who holds shares in that capacity; or

• (b) a person holding a capital markets services licence to provide custodial services for securities under the Securities and Futures Act (Cap. 289) and who holds shares in that capacity; or

• (c) the Central Provident Fund Board established by the Central Provident Fund Act (Cap. 36), in respect of shares purchased under the subsidiary legislation made under that Act providing for the making of investments from the contributions and interest standing to the credit of members of the Central Provident Fund, if the Board holds those shares in the capacity of an intermediary pursuant to or in accordance with that subsidiary legislation.

Personal data privacy:

By submitting an instrument appointing a proxy(ies) and/or representative(s) to attend, speak and vote at the Meeting and/or any adjournment thereof, a member of the Company (i) consents to the collection, use and disclosure of the member's personal data by the Company (or its agents or service providers) for the purpose of the processing, administration and analysis by the Company (or its agents or service providers) of proxies and representatives appointed for the Meeting (including any adjournment thereof) and the preparation and compilation of the attendance lists, minutes and other documents relating to the Meeting (including any adjournment thereof), and in order for the Company (or its agents or service providers) to comply with any applicable laws, listing rules, regulations and/or guidelines (collectively, the "Purposes"), (ii) warrants that where the member discloses the personal data of the member's proxy(ies) and/or representative(s) to the Company (or its agents or service providers), the member has obtained the prior consent of such proxy(ies) and/or representative(s) for the collection, use and disclosure by the Company (or its agents or service providers) of the personal data of such proxy(ies) and/or representative(s) for the Purposes, and (iii) agrees that the member will indemnify the Company in respect of any penalties, liabilities, claims, demands, losses and damages as a result of the member's breach of warranty.

Special Note on Refreshments:

The Company will be distributing bottled water at the Annual General Meeting. No refreshments will be served.