Result of AGM

Asian Citrus Holdings

28/12/2016 11:03

RNS Number : 8641S

Asian Citrus Holdings Ltd

28 December 2016

For immediate release
28 December 2016

Asian Citrus Holdings Limited

("Asian Citrus" or the "Company")

Poll Results Of Annual General Meeting

Held On 28 December 2016

The board of directors (the "Board") of the Company announces that at the annual general meeting of the Company, held at United Conference Centre, Level 10, United Centre, 95 Queensway, Admiralty, Hong Kong on 28 December 2016 at 9:00 a.m. (the "AGM"), all votes on the proposed resolutions (the "Proposed Resolutions") as set out in the AGM Notice dated 24 November 2016 were taken by poll.

Unless otherwise defined, capitalized terms used in this announcement shall have the same meanings as those defined in the circular of the Company dated 24 November 2016 (the "Circular").

As at the date of the AGM, there were 1,249,637,884 issued Shares entitling the holders to attend and vote on all the Proposed Resolutions at the AGM. There were no Shares entitling the holders to attend and abstain from voting in favour of the Proposed Resolutions at the AGM as set out in Rule 13.40 of the Hong Kong Listing Rules and there were no Shares requiring the holder to abstain from voting on the Proposed Resolutions at the AGM under the Hong Kong Listing Rules. No Shareholders had stated in the Circular their intention to vote against or to abstain from voting on any of the Proposed Resolutions at the AGM.

Computershare Hong Kong 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.

The poll results in respect of all the Proposed Resolutions at the AGM are set out as follows:

ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS
Number of Votes
(Approximate %)
For
Against
1.
To re-elect Mr. Ng Hoi Yue as an executive director of the Company.
399,250,356
(98.12%)
7,637,808
(1.88%)
2.
To re-elect Dr. Lui Ming Wah, SBS JP as an independent non-executive director of the Company.
399,250,356
(98.12%)
7,637,808
(1.88%)
3.
To re-appoint HLB Hodgson Impey Cheng Limited as the Independent Auditor of the Company to hold office from the conclusion of the AGM to the next annual general meeting, and to authorise the Board to fix its remuneration.
406,782,164
(99.97%)
106,000
(0.03%)
As more than 50% of the votes were cast in favour of the each of the Proposed Resolutions, all of these Proposed Resolutions set out above were duly passed as ordinary resolutions of the Company.

Note: The number of votes and approximate percentage of voting Shares are based on the total number of the issued Shares held by the Shareholders who voted at the AGM in person or by proxy.

This announcement contains inside information for the purpose of Article 7 of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014.

For further enquiries please contact:

Asian Citrus
+852 3951 0000
Emma Ng (Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary)
Cantor Fitzgerald Europe (NOMAD and Broker)
+44 (0) 20 7894 7000
Rick Thompson/David Foreman/Michael Reynolds (Corporate Finance)
Weber Shandwick Financial
+44 (0) 20 7067 0700
Nick Oborne, Stephanie Badjonat, Tom Jenkins

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