NEW WORLD DEPARTMENT STORE CHINA LIMITED Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited and The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited take no responsibility for the contents of this announcement, 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 announcement.
The board of directors (the 'Directors' or 'Board') of New World Department Store China Limited (the 'Company') is pleased to announce that at the annual general meeting of the Company held on 17 November 2015 (the 'AGM'), all the resolutions (the 'Resolutions') as set out in the notice of the AGM dated 16 October 2015 (the 'AGM Notice') were approved by shareholders of the Company (the 'Shareholders') by way of poll at the AGM. Tricor Investor Services Limited, the branch share registrar and transfer agent of the Company in Hong Kong, was appointed as scrutineer for the poll at the AGM.
As at the date of the AGM, the total number of issued and fully paid up shares of the Company was 1,686,145,000 shares, which was the total number of shares entitling the holders to attend and vote for or against all the Resolutions at the AGM. There were no shares entitling the Shareholders to attend and only to vote against the Resolutions at the AGM and there were no Shareholders who were required under the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited to abstain from voting in respect of any of the Resolutions at the AGM.
The poll results in respect of the Resolutions proposed at the AGM were as follows:
Resolutions | Number of Votes (%) | ||
For | Against | ||
1. | To receive and consider the audited financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2015 together with the Report of the Directors and the Independent Auditor's Report. | 1,306,983,798 (99.99%) | 1,000 (0.01%) |
2. | To declare a final dividend. (A final dividend of HK$0.018 per share to registered Shareholders on 30 November 2015.) | 1,306,980,798 (99.99%) | 4,000 (0.01%) |
3. | (a) To re-elect Mr. Au Tak-cheong as a Director. | 1,302,159,798 (99.63%) | 4,824,000 (0.37%) |
(b) To re-elect Mr. Cheong Ying-chew, Henry as a Director. | 1,247,502,992 (95.45%) | 59,481,806 (4.55%) | |
(c) To re-elect Mr. Chan Yiu-tong, Ivan as a Director. | 1,306,671,163 (99.98%) | 313,635 (0.02%) | |
(d) To authorise the Board to fix the remuneration of Directors. | 1,306,868,111 (99.99%) | 116,687 (0.01%) | |
4. | To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers as Auditor and authorise the Board to fix their remuneration. | 1,306,671,163 (99.98%) | 313,635 (0.02%) |
5. | (1) To approve a general mandate to the Directors to issue shares not exceeding 20% of the total number of shares of the Company in issue. | 1,232,127,913 (94.27%) | 74,856,885 (5.73%) |
(2) To approve a general mandate to the Directors to repurchase shares not exceeding 10% of the total number of shares of the Company in issue. | 1,306,981,398 (99.99%) | 3,400 (0.01%) | |
(3) To extend the general mandate to issue shares granted to the Directors pursuant to resolution no. 5.(1) above. | 1,232,131,913 (94.27%) | 74,852,885 (5.73%) |
Note: The nature of business of the Resolutions referred to in items 1 to 4 and the full text of the Resolutions referred to in items 5.(1) to 5.(3) are set out in the AGM Notice.
As more than 50% of the votes were casted in favour of each of the Resolutions, all the Resolutions proposed at the AGM were duly passed as ordinary resolutions of the Company.
By order of the board of directors of
New World Department Store China Limited Wu Yuk-kwai, CatherineCompany Secretary
Hong Kong, 17 November 2015
As at the date of this announcement, the non-executive Directors are Dr. Cheng Kar-shun, Henry, Mr. Au Tak-cheong and Ms. Ngan Man-ying, Lynda; the executive Directors are Dr. Cheng Chi-kong, Adrian and Mr. Cheung Fai-yet, Philip; and the independent non-executive Directors are Mr. Cheong Ying-chew, Henry, Mr. Chan Yiu-tong, Ivan, Mr. Tong Hang-chan, Peter and Mr. Yu Chun-fai.
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