CHOW TAI FOOK JEWELLERY GROUP 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.
POLL RESULTS OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD ON 31 JULY 2015
Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group Limited (the "Company") is pleased to announce that at the annual general meeting of the Company (the "AGM") held at 12:00 noon on 31 July 2015, all the proposed resolutions as set out in the circular (the "Circular") incorporating a notice of the AGM dated 12 June 2015 were duly passed by the Shareholders of the Company by way of poll. Unless otherwise defined, terms used herein shall have the same meanings as defined in the Circular.
The poll results in respect of the resolutions proposed at the AGM were as follows:
Ordinary Resolutions | Number of Votes (%) | ||
Ordinary Resolutions | For | Against | |
1 | To receive and approve the audited consolidated financial statements and the report of the Directors and the independent auditor's report for the year ended 31 March 2015. | 9,172,039,834 (100.0000%) | 0 (0.0000%) |
2 | To declare a final dividend for the year ended 31 March 2015. | 9,171,939,734 (99.9999%) | 200 (0.0001%) |
3(a) | To re-elect Mr. Chan Sai-Cheong as executive Director; | 9,112,016,162 (99.3467%) | 59,924,072 (0.6533%) |
3(b) | To re-elect Mr. Cheng Ping-Hei, Hamilton as executive Director; | 9,112,015,962 (99.3467%) | 59,924,272 (0.6533%) |
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Ordinary Resolutions | Number of Votes (%) | ||
Ordinary Resolutions | For | Against | |
3(c) | To re-elect Mr. Cheng Kam-Biu, Wilson as non- executive Director; | 9,111,604,912 (99.3422%) | 60,335,322 (0.6578%) |
3(d) | To re-elect Mr. Cheng Ming-Fun, Paul as independent non-executive Director; | 9,169,910,434 (99.9779%) | 2,029,800 (0.0221%) |
3(e) | To re-elect Dr. Or Ching-Fai, Raymond as independent non-executive Director; | 9,105,126,139 (99.2715%) | 66,814,095 (0.7285%) |
3(f) | To authorise the Board to fix their remuneration. | 9,171,773,036 (99.9999%) | 2,200 (0.0001%) |
4 | To re-appoint Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu as auditor of the Company and to authorise the Board to fix their remuneration. | 9,171,773,786 (99.9982%) | 166,448 (0.0018%) |
5 | To grant the Board a general mandate to issue new Shares not exceeding 20% of the aggregate nominal amount of the issued share capital of the Company at the date of passing this resolution. | 8,986,352,254 (98.3051%) | 154,932,488 (1.6949%) |
6 | To grant the Board a general mandate to repurchase Shares not exceeding 10% of the aggregate nominal amount of the issued share capital of the Company as at the date of passing this resolution. | 9,171,872,986 (99.9999%) | 2,250 (0.0001%) |
7 | Subject to the passing of ordinary resolutions numbered 5 and 6 above, to extend the general mandate granted to the Board to issue additional Shares by the aggregate nominal amount of Shares repurchased by the Company. | 9,027,570,272 (98.7571%) | 113,615,830 (1.2429%) |
As more than 50% of the votes were cast in favour of each of the above resolutions numbered
1 to 7, all these resolutions were duly passed by the Shareholders as ordinary resolutions. Shareholders may refer to the Circular for details of the above resolutions.
As at the date of the AGM:
(1) the total number of issued Shares was 10,000,000,000 Shares, which were the total number of Shares entitling the holders to attend and vote on resolutions at the AGM;
(2) there were no Shares entitling the holders to attend and abstain from voting in favour as
set out in Rule 13.40 of the Listing Rules;
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(3) none of the Shareholders was required under the Listing Rules to abstain from voting; and
(4) there were no parties in the Circular who had stated their intention to vote against the relevant resolutions or to abstain.
Tricor Investor Services Limited, the branch share registrar of the Company in Hong Kong, was appointed as the scrutineer for the vote-taking at the AGM.
By order of the Board
Company secretary
Hong Kong, 31 July 2015
As at the date of this announcement, the executive directors are Dr. Cheng Kar-Shun, Henry, Mr. Wong Siu-Kee, Kent, Dr. Cheng Chi-Kong, Adrian, Mr. Cheng Chi-Heng, Conroy, Mr. Chan Sai- Cheong, Mr. Chan Hiu-Sang, Albert, Mr. Cheng Ping-Hei, Hamilton and Mr. Suen Chi-Keung, Peter; the non-executive directors are Mr. Cheng Kam-Biu, Wilson and Mr. Koo Tong-Fat; and the independent non-executive directors are Mr. Cheng Ming-Fun, Paul, Dr. Fung Kwok-King, Victor, Mr.
Kwong Che-Keung, Gordon, Mr. Lam Kin-Fung, Jeffrey and Dr. Or Ching-Fai, Raymond.
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