Brait SE
(Registered in Malta as a European Company) (Registration No. SE1)
Share code: BAT ISIN: LU0011857645
Bond code: WKN: A1Z6XC ISIN: XS1292954812
LEI: 549300VB8GBX4UO7WG59 ("Brait" or "the Company")
CORRECTION ANNOUNCEMENT: RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Shareholders are referred to the results of the Annual General Meeting ("AGM") announcement released on SENS on 31 July 2019 (the "Initial Announcement"). The Company has today been made aware of inadvertent errors in the process of the Company's transfer secretaries Computershare compiling the voting results based on the voting instructions they received from Strate, the authorised Central Securities Depository ("CSD") for the electronic settlement of all financial instruments in South Africa. In accordance with standard practice, the Company relied on the voting results submitted to it by Computershare at the time of the AGM, which were contained in the Initial Announcement.
In light of the above, details of the revised voting results received by the Company from Computershare for the AGM held on 31 July 2019 are set out below. The revisions do not impact the passing of ordinary resolutions 1 - 3 and 5(a), together with extraordinary resolution 4, which were approved by the requisite majority of votes.
Further, the revised results had no change to the non-passing of extraordinary resolution 5(b) relating to the renewal of the Board's authority to withdraw statutory pre-emption rights, achieving a revised 69.8% vote in favour relative to the required 75%.
The Company confirms the voting statistics based on the revised total number of shares represented and voted at the AGM of 416,161,813 as follows (note 1):
Shares voted for | Shares voted against | ||||
disclosed as a | disclosed as a | ||||
percentage of the | percentage of the | ||||
Votes carried disclosed in relation to | number of shares | number of shares | |||
the total number of shares voted at the | represented and | represented and | |||
meeting | eligible to vote | eligible to vote | |||
Resolutions | (note 2) | (note 2) | |||
For | Against | Abstained | |||
Ordinary resolution | 415,594,948 | 262,590 | 304,275 | 99.9% | 0.1% |
number 1 | |||||
Receipt and approval | |||||
of audited accounts | |||||
for the financial | |||||
year ended 31 March | |||||
2019 and directors | |||||
and auditors reports | |||||
thereon | |||||
Ordinary resolution | ||||||||
number | 2(a) | |||||||
Re-election of | ||||||||
directors | ||||||||
2.1 Mr | PJ Moleketi | 372,790,127 | 43,266,294 | 105,392 | 89.6% | 10.4% | ||
2.2 Mr | JC Botts | 415,145,656 | 910,765 | 105,392 | 99.8% | 0.2% | ||
2.3 Mr | AS Jacobs | 412,283,252 | 3,775,280 | 103,281 | 99.1% | 0.9% | ||
2.4 Dr | LL Porter | 411,654,280 | 4,404,252 | 103,281 | 98.9% | 1.1% | ||
2.5 Mr | CS Seabrooke | 372,190,561 | 43,870,531 | 100,721 | 89.4% | 10.5% | ||
2.6 Mr | HRW Troskie | 376,095,415 | 39,965,677 | 100,721 | 90.4% | 9.6% | ||
2.7 Dr | CH Wiese | 287,916,086 | 128,145,006 | 100,721 | 69.2% | 30.8% | ||
Ordinary resolution | 404,801,120 | 11,257,411 | 103,282 | 97.3% | 2.7% | |||
number | 2(b) | |||||||
Approval of non- | ||||||||
executive director | ||||||||
compensation in | ||||||||
respect of the | ||||||||
financial year | ||||||||
ending | 31 March 2020 | |||||||
Ordinary resolution | ||||||||
415,411,619 | 647,832 | 102,362 | 99.8% | 0.2% | ||||
number | 3 | |||||||
Appointment of | ||||||||
auditors | ||||||||
Extraordinary | 406,395,372 | 9,665,650 | 100,791 | 97.7% | 2.3% | |||
resolution number 4 | ||||||||
Renewal of Company's | ||||||||
authority to | ||||||||
purchase its own | ||||||||
shares | subject to | |||||||
various limitations | ||||||||
Ordinary resolution | ||||||||
338,296,863 | 77,763,548 | 101,402 | 81.3% | 18.7% | ||||
5(a) | ||||||||
Renewal of the | ||||||||
Board's authority to | ||||||||
issue ordinary | ||||||||
shares | ||||||||
Extraordinary | 290,470,271 | 124,924,219 | 767,323 | 69.8% | 30.0% |
resolution 5(b) | |||||
Renewal of the | |||||
Board's authority to | |||||
withdraw statutory | |||||
pre-emption rights | |||||
Ordinary resolution | |||||
6 - Withdrawn | |||||
Approval of the | |||||
Equity Ownership | |||||
Plan |
Note 1:
Brait's total issued share capital is 525,599,215 ordinary shares. The total number of shares legally eligible to vote at the AGM, which excludes the 17,475,070 treasury shares held, is therefore 508,124,145 ordinary shares. This represents the legal base for determining the minimum 51% threshold (259,143,314 ordinary shares) required in order for extraordinary resolutions 4 and 5(b) to be voted on.
Note 2:
Brait Mauritius Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary in the Brait Group, voluntarily elected not to vote the
36,616,189 shares held by it. Therefore, the maximum number of shares that could be represented and eligible to vote at the AGM is 471,507,956.
Malta
14 August 2019
Brait's primary listing is on the Euro MTF market of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and its secondary listing is on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.
Sponsor
RAND MERCHANT BANK (A division of FirstRand Bank Limited)
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