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Via A. Fogazzaro n. 28, Milan, Italy
Registry of Companies of Milan, Italy: No. 10115350158 (Incorporated under the laws of Italy as a joint-stock company) (Stock Code: 1913)
POLL RESULTS OF SHAREHOLDERS' GENERAL MEETING HELD ON MAY 24, 2016, ELECTION OF DIRECTORS AND DISTRIBUTION OF FINAL DIVIDENDPRADA S.p.A. (the "Company") is pleased to announce the poll results in respect of the resolutions proposed at the shareholders' general meeting held on Tuesday, May 24, 2016 (the "AGM"). All resolutions were duly passed.
Each of Mr. Stefano Simontacchi and Mr. Maurizio Cereda was elected as a Non- executive Director of the Company at the AGM.
The final dividend of the Company for the year ended January 31, 2016 will be paid on Monday, June 13, 2016.
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VOTING RESULTS AT THE SHAREHOLDERS' GENERAL MEETING HELD ON MAY 24, 2016
At the AGM of the Company held on Tuesday, May 24, 2016 at 12:00 noon CET time or 6:00 p.m. Hong Kong time at the Company's registered office at Via A. Fogazzaro n. 28, Milan, Italy with the video-conference system located at the registered office of Prada Asia Pacific Limited at 36/F, Gloucester Tower, The Landmark, 11 Pedder Street, Central, Hong Kong, a poll was demanded by the Chairman for voting on each of the proposed resolutions as set out in the notice of the AGM dated April 21, 2016 and supplemental notice of AGM dated May 6, 2016.
The Company is pleased to announce that as the required majority of votes was obtained, each of the following resolutions was duly passed as an ordinary resolution at the AGM and the voting details were as follows:
Ordinary Resolutions
Number of Votes (Approximate percentage to two decimal places)
For
Against
Abstain
1.
To approve the Audited Separate Financial Statements, which show a net income of Euro 248,420,818 and the Audited Consolidated Financial Statements of the Company for the year ended January 31, 2016 together with the Reports of the Board of Directors, the Board of Statutory Auditors and the Independent Auditors.
2,427,147,145
(100.00%)
0
(0.00%)
421
(0.00%)
2.
To approve the distribution of
2,427,147,245
0
321
Euro 281,470,640 to the
(100.00%)
(0.00%)
(0.00%)
shareholders, in the form of a
final dividend of Euro/cents 11
per share to be paid on Monday,
June 13, 2016. The total
amount to be distributed
comprises: (i) Euro 248,420,818
which represent the net income
of the Company, for the year
ended January 31, 2016 and (ii)
Euro 33,049,822 which
represent an utilization of
retained earnings of the
Company.
3.a)
To approve that Mr. Stefano
2,422,431,868
4,715,277
421
Simontacchi be elected as a
(99.81%)
(0.19%)
(0.00%)
Non-Executive Director of the
Company for a term expiring on
the date of the shareholders'
general meeting called to
approve the financial
statements for the year ending
January 31, 2018.
3.b)
To approve that Mr. Maurizio Cereda be elected as a Non- Executive Director of the Company for a term expiring on the date of the shareholders' general meeting called to approve the financial statements for the year ending January 31, 2018.
2,426,174,275
(99.96%)
934,270
(0.04%)
39,021
(0.00%)
4.
To appoint Deloitte & Touche
2,426,572,255
574,890
421
S.p.A. as the auditor ("revisore
(99.98%)
(0.02%)
(0.00%)
legale dei conti") of the
Company for a term of three
financial years (financial year
ending January 31, 2017 to
financial year ending January
31, 2019), ending on the date of
the shareholders' general
meeting called to approve the
financial statements for the last
year of the auditor's
appointment and to approve its
remuneration of Euro 487,000,
for each financial year of its
three-year term, for the provision
to the Company of the audit of
the Separate Financial
Statements and the
Consolidated Financial
Statements, which is included in
the overall annual remuneration
of Euro 1,868,794 for Deloitte &
Touche S.p.A. and its network in
respect of provision of audit
services to the Prada Group as a
whole. The auditor's annual
remuneration shall be subject to
adjustment in accordance with
changes in relevant applicable
laws or in the requirements for
the audit services as well as the
annual adjustment linked to the
changes in CPI - consumer
price index.
Notes:
The total number of shares entitling the holder to attend and vote on all the resolutions at the AGM is 2,558,824,000 shares.
The shareholders and authorised proxies or corporate representatives, holding an aggregate of 2,427,147,566 shares, representing 94.85% of the total shares of the Company were present at the commencement of the AGM.
There were no restrictions on the Company's shareholders to cast votes on any of the resolutions proposed at the AGM.
There was no share of the Company entitling the holder to attend and abstain from voting in favour of the resolutions at the AGM as set out in Rule 13.40 of the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the "Listing Rules").
No shareholder of the Company was required to abstain from voting at the AGM under the Listing Rules.
Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited, the Company's share registrar in Hong Kong, acted as the scrutineer for the vote taking at the AGM.
- ELECTION OF DIRECTORS Mr. Stefano SIMONTACCHI
(5) No parties indicated to the Company to state their intention in the Company's circular containing the notice of the AGM dated April 21, 2016 and supplemental notice of the AGM dated May 6, 2016 to vote against or abstain from voting on any of the resolutions at the AGM.
Mr. Stefano SIMONTACCHI was appointed as a Non-executive Director of the Company by the Board of Directors on April 8, 2016 to fill the casual vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. Donatello GALLI as an Executive Director, and was elected as a Non- executive Director of the Company at the AGM for a term expiring at the same time as the other current Directors (i.e. on the date of the shareholders' general meeting to be called to approve the financial statements of the Company for the year ending January 31, 2018).
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