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THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI HOTELS, LIMITED
(Incorporated in Hong Kong with limited liability)
(Stock Code: 00045)
Poll Results of the 2017 Annual General MeetingAt the Annual General Meeting of The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, Limited (the "Company") held on 8 May 2017 (the "AGM"), a poll was demanded by the Chairman for voting on each of the proposed and seconded resolutions as set out in the Notice of AGM dated 31 March 2017.
As at the date of the AGM, a total of 1,566,854,007 shares of the Company were in issue, which was the total number of shares entitling the shareholders to attend and vote for or against all resolutions. There was no restriction on shareholders to cast votes on any of the proposed resolutions at the AGM.
Voting was scrutinised by the Company's share registrar, Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited. All the ordinary resolutions were approved by shareholders and poll results were as follows:
Resolutions | No. of Votes (%)* | |||
For | Against | |||
(1) | To receive the audited Financial Statements and the Reports of the Directors and independent auditor for the year ended 31 December 2016 | 1,266,230,052 (99.9999%) | 2 (0.0001%) | |
(2) | To declare a final dividend | 1,266,372,567 (99.9999%) | 602 (0.0001%) | |
(3) | (a) | To re-elect Mr Andrew Clifford Winawer Brandler as Director | 1,216,212,868 (96.0391%) | 50,159,871 (3.9609%) |
(b) | To re-elect Mr Clement King Man Kwok as Director | 1,266,039,143 (99.9744%) | 323,596 (0.0256%) | |
(c) | To re-elect Mr William Elkin Mocatta as Director | 1,228,745,767 (97.0301%) | 37,609,972 (2.9699%) | |
(d) | To re-elect Mr Pierre Roger Boppe as Director | 1,266,338,089 (99.9973%) | 34,650 (0.0027%) | |
(e) | To re-elect Dr William Kwok Lun Fung as Director | 1,135,785,021 (89.7789%) | 129,306,718 (10.2211%) | |
(4) | To re-appoint KPMG as auditor of the Company and to authorise the Directors to fix their remuneration | 1,265,920,776 (99.9656%) | 435,444 (0.0344%) | |
(5) | To grant a general mandate to issue new shares | 1,114,675,603 (88.0241%) | 151,655,064 (11.9759%) | |
(6) | To grant a general mandate for share buy-back | 1,264,693,201 (99.8683%) | 1,667,543 (0.1317%) | |
(7) | To add shares bought back to the general mandate to issue new shares in Resolution (5) | 1,114,756,576 (88.0305%) | 151,573,559 (11.9695%) | |
* All percentages are rounded to 4 decimal places.
As more than 50% of the votes were cast in favour of each of the resolutions in items (1) to (7), all the resolutions were duly passed as ordinary resolutions.
Hong Kong, 8 May 2017
By order of the Board Christobelle Liao Company Secretary
After the conclusion of the AGM, the Board of Directors of the Company comprises the following Directors:
Non-Executive Chairman The Hon. Sir Michael Kadoorie | |
Non-Executive Deputy Chairman | Non-Executive Directors |
Andrew Clifford Winawer Brandler | William Elkin Mocatta |
John Andrew Harry Leigh | |
Executive Directors Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Clement King Man Kwok Chief Operating Officer Peter Camille Borer | Nicholas Timothy James Colfer |
Independent Non-Executive Directors | |
Dr the Hon. Sir David Kwok Po Li | |
Patrick Blackwell Paul | |
Pierre Roger Boppe | |
Dr William Kwok Lun Fung | |
Chief Financial Officer Matthew James Lawson | Dr Rosanna Yick Ming Wong |
Dr Kim Lesley Winser | |
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