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Hong Kong Finance Group Limited香港信貸集團有限公司
(Incorporated in the Cayman Islands with limited liability)
(Stock Code: 1273) POLL RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD ON 5 SEPTEMBER 2017The board of directors (the "Board") of Hong Kong Finance Group Limited (the "Company") is pleased to announce that at the annual general meeting of the Company held on Tuesday, 5 September 2017 (the "AGM"), all the following ordinary resolutions proposed at the AGM were duly passed by the shareholders of the Company (the "Shareholders") and the poll results were as follows:
ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS | NUMBER OF VOTES (approximate % of the total shares voted) | |||
ORDINARY BUSINESS | FOR | AGAINST | ||
1. | To receive and approve the audited consolidated financial statements together with the directors' report and the independent auditor's report of the Company for the year ended 31 March 2017. | 304,900,000 (99.9967%) | 10,000 (0.0033%) | |
2. | To declare a final dividend of HK1.1 cents per share for the year ended 31 March 2017. | 304,900,000 (99.9967%) | 10,000 (0.0033%) | |
3. | (a) | To re-elect Mr. Chu Yat Pang Terry as an independent non-executive director of the Company. | 304,900,000 (99.9967%) | 10,000 (0.0033%) |
(b) | To re-elect Mr. Cheung Kok Cheong as an independent non-executive director of the Company. | 304,900,000 (99.9967%) | 10,000 (0.0033%) | |
4. | To authorise the board of directors of the Company to fix the directors' remuneration. | 304,900,000 (99.9967%) | 10,000 (0.0033%) | |
5. | To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers as auditors of the Company and to authorise the board of directors of the Company to fix their remuneration. | 304,900,000 (99.9967%) | 10,000 (0.0033%) | |
ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS | NUMBER OF VOTES (approximate % of the total shares voted) | ||
SPECIAL BUSINESS | FOR | AGAINST | |
6. | To grant a general and unconditional mandate to the directors of the Company to allot, issue and deal with the additional ordinary shares of the Company with an aggregate nominal amount of not exceeding 20% of the aggregate nominal amount of the issued shares of the Company.* | 304,896,000 (99.9954%) | 14,000 (0.0046%) |
7. | To grant a general and unconditional mandate to the directors of the Company to repurchase shares of the Company with an aggregate nominal amount of not exceeding 10% of the aggregate nominal amount of the issued shares of the Company.* | 304,900,000 (99.9967%) | 10,000 (0.0033%) |
8. | To extend the general and unconditional mandate granted to the directors of the Company to issue, allot and deal with additional shares of the Company under resolution numbered 6 to include the number of shares of the Company repurchased pursuant to the general and unconditional mandate to repurchase shares under resolution numbered 7.* | 304,900,000 (99.9967%) | 10,000 (0.0033%) |
As more than 50% of the votes were cast in favour of each of the above resolutions, all the resolutions were duly passed as ordinary resolutions of the Company. | |||
* The full text of the resolution is set out in the notice of AGM dated 21 July 2017.
All the above resolutions were taken by poll.
Tricor Investor Services Limited, the Hong Kong branch share registrar of the Company, was appointed as the scrutineer for the vote-taking at the AGM.
The total number of shares entitling the Shareholders to attend and vote for or against each and every resolution at the AGM was 415,000,000 shares, representing the entire issued shares of the Company as at the date of the AGM.
There were no shares of the Company entitling the Shareholders 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 was required to abstain from voting at the AGM under the Listing Rules. There was no restriction on any Shareholder to cast votes on any of the resolutions at the AGM.
No Shareholder(s) had stated his/her/its/their intention in the circular of the Company dated 21 July 2017 to vote against any resolution or to abstain from voting on any resolution at the AGM.
On behalf of the Board |
Hong Kong Finance Group Limited |
Chan Kwong Yin William |
Chairman |
Hong Kong, 5 September 2017
As at the date of this announcement, the Board comprises the following members:
Executive Directors: | Independent Non-executive Directors: |
Mr. Chan Kwong Yin William (Chairman) | Mr. Chan Siu Wing Raymond |
Mr. Chan Koung Nam | Mr. Chu Yat Pang Terry |
Mr. Tse Pui To (Chief Executive Officer) | Mr. Cheung Kok Cheong |
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