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THE WHARF (HOLDINGS) LIMITED(Incorporated in Hong Kong with limited liability)
Stock Code: 4
POLL RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD ON 11 MAY 2016At the Annual General Meeting of The Wharf (Holdings) Limited (the "Company") held on 11 May 2016 ("AGM"), a poll was demanded by the Chairman for voting on all the proposed resolutions as set out in the Notice of AGM dated 8 April 2016.
As at the date of the AGM, the total number of issued shares entitling the holders to attend and vote on all the resolutions at the AGM is 3,031,027,327 shares. There was no restriction on any shareholders to cast votes on any of the resolutions at the AGM.
The Company's share registrars, namely, Tricor Tengis Limited, was appointed as the scrutineer at the AGM for the purpose of vote-taking. Set out below are the poll results in respect of the respective resolutions put to the vote at the AGM:
Resolutions | No. of Shares Voted (%) | ||
For | Against | ||
1 | To adopt the Financial Statements and the Reports of the Directors and Auditors for the financial year ended 31 December 2015. | 2,432,232,882 (99.99%) | 15,736 (0.01%) |
2 | (a) to re-elect Mr. Alexander Siu Kee AU, a retiring Director, as a Director. | 2,426,000,757 (99.68%) | 7,852,676 (0.32%) |
(b) to re-elect Mr. Kwok Pong CHAN, a retiring Director, as a Director. | 2,402,331,592 (98.70%) | 31,521,841 (1.30%) | |
(c) to re-elect Professor Edward Kwan Yiu CHEN, a retiring Director, as a Director. | 2,405,306,689 (98.83%) | 28,546,744 (1.17%) | |
(d) to re-elect Mr. Hans Michael JEBSEN, a retiring Director, as a Director. | 1,987,052,901 (81.64%) | 446,800,532 (18.36%) | |
(e) to re-elect Ms. Yen Thean LENG, a retiring Director, as a Director. | 2,410,061,031 (99.02%) | 23,792,402 (0.98%) | |
3 | To re-appoint KPMG as Auditors of the Company and to authorise the Directors to fix their remuneration. | 2,433,034,722 (99.97%) | 844,696 (0.03%) |
4 | To give a general mandate to the Directors for buy-back of shares by the Company.# | 2,433,796,694 (99.99%) | 82,724 (0.01%) |
5 | To give a general mandate to the Directors for issue of shares.# | 1,929,144,718 (79.08%) | 510,401,700 (20.92%) |
6 | To approve the addition of bought back securities to the share issue general mandate stated under Resolution No. 5.# | 1,948,372,749 (79.87%) | 491,182,669 (20.13%) |
# The full text of the Resolutions 4 to 6 are set out in the Notice of AGM.
As more than 50% of the votes were cast in favour of each of the above resolutions, all the above Resolutions were duly passed as Ordinary Resolutions.
Hong Kong, 11 May 2016
For THE WHARF (HOLDINGS) LIMITED
Kevin C. Y. HuiCompany Secretary
As at the date of this announcement, the board of Directors of the Company comprises Mr. Stephen T. H. Ng, Mr. Andrew O.
K. Chow, Ms. Doreen Y. F. Lee, Mr. Paul Y. C. Tsui, Ms. Y. T. Leng and Mr. K. P. Chan, together with six Independent Non- executive Directors, namely, Mr. Alexander S. K. Au, Professor Edward K. Y. Chen, Hon. Vincent K. Fang, Mr. Hans Michael Jebsen, Mr. David Muir Turnbull and Professor E. K. Yeoh.
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