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RNS Number : 4822K  Beacon Rise Holdings PLC  25 August 2023

THIS DOCUMENT IS IMPORTANT AND REQUIRES YOUR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION. If you are
in any doubt as to the action you should take, you are recommended to seek
your own personal financial advice immediately from your stockbroker,
solicitor, accountant or other independent financial adviser duly authorised
under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 if you are resident in the
United Kingdom or, if not, from another appropriate authorized independent
financial adviser.

If you have sold or otherwise transferred all of your ordinary shares in
Beacon Rise Holdings PLC, please forward this document, together with the
accompanying Form of Proxy, at once to the purchaser or transferee or to the
stockbroker, bank or other agent through whom the sale or transfer was
affected, for delivery to the purchaser or transferee. If you have sold or
otherwise transferred only part of your holding in the shares, you should
retain these documents and consult the stockbroker, bank or other agent
through whom the sale of transfer was effected.

 

BEACON RISE HOLDINGS PLC

(Incorporated and registered in England and Wales with registered no.
13620150)

 

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

This document should be read as a whole. Your attention is drawn to the letter
from the Chairman of the Company which is set out in Part I of this document
and which recommends that you vote in favour of the resolutions to be proposed
at the 2023 Annual General Meeting referred to below.

Notice of the 2023 Annual General Meeting, which will take place at Meeting
Room 2, Paddington Works, 8 Hermitage St, London, W2 1BE on 19 September 2023
at BST 1:30 p.m., is set out in this document.

A Form of Proxy for use at the meeting is enclosed with this document and
should be returned as soon as possible and in any event so as to be received
by the Company no later than BST 1:30 p.m. on 15 September 2023.

 

 

 

Part I

Letter from the Chairman of Beacon Rise Holdings PLC

(Incorporated and registered in England and Wales with registered no.
13620150)

 Directors           Registered Office:

                     Kemp House

                     160 City Road

                     London

                     EC1V 2NX

                     25 August 2023
 Mr. Guo Fansheng
 Mr. Xiabobing Wang
 Ms. Yunxia Wang

 

Dear Shareholder

 

1.   Introduction

I am pleased to inform you that the 2023 Annual General Meeting (the "AGM") of
Beacon Rise Holdings PLC (the "Company") will be held at Meeting Room 2,
Paddington Works, 8 Hermitage St, London, W2 1BE at BST 1:30 p.m. on 19
September 2023.

The formal notice convening the AGM ("AGM Notice") is set out in this
document. Further information on each of the resolutions to be considered at
the AGM ("Resolutions") is set out in section 2 (Resolutions at the Annual
General Meeting) below.

The Company's Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31
March 2023 are available for review or download in the Investors section on
the Company's website at https://www.beaconrise.uk/index.php/investors.

This letter also explains why the Board of the Company recommend that
shareholders of the Company vote in favour of the Resolutions.

 

2.   Resolutions at the Annual General Meeting

Resolution 1: The Directors are required to lay before the AGM the Directors'
Annual Report and Financial Statements of the Company for the year ended 31
March 2023.

Resolutions 2-4: The Company's articles of association require all Directors
to retire at the AGM and, if willing, offer themselves for re-appointment by
the members. Mr. Fansheng Guo intends to retire from the Board at the
conclusion of the AGM. On behalf of the Board, I would like to thank him for
his service to the Company and valuable contributions to the Board's work. Mr.
John Parker offers himself for election to the board as an independent
non-executive director of the Company. Mr. Parker has significant financial
and international capital markets experience, having previously led
institutional equity distribution platforms and/or broker dealers in New York
and London for global investment banks Salomon Brothers and Lehman Brothers in
addition to European banks including Santander, ING and WestLB. He was also a
partner at STJ Advisors, a leading capital markets advisory firm and a senior
consultant at Rivel, the leading investor perception research firm globally.
He started his career in Silicon Valley in outside technology sales. He is
based in London and is a senior capital markets advisor to boards, C-Suite and
investor relations teams, providing experienced insight into valuation
optimisation and best in class governance. He has broad connectivity across
private equity, asset management, alternative investments, venture capital and
the banking industry. He has successfully participated in over 130 IPO and
secondary transactions, helping to raise over $25 billion. Mr. Parker received
a degree in economics from the University of California, Irvine and an MBA
from the Anderson School at UCLA. The Board recommends the election of Mr.
John Parker.

Resolutions 5-6: These Resolutions are proposed to approve the Directors'
Remuneration Report and the Directors' Remuneration Policy, set out on page 12
to 14 of the Annual Report and Financial Statements.

Resolution 7: This Resolution proposes the re-appointment of PKF Littlejohn
LLP as auditors of the Company and to authorise the Directors to determine
their remuneration. The current appointment of PKF Littlejohn LLP as the
Company's auditors will end at the conclusion of the AGM and they have advised
of its willingness to stand for re-appointment.

Resolution 8: This Resolution is proposed to grant to the Directors the
authority to allot, pursuant to section 551 of the Companies Act 2006, shares
and grant rights to subscribe for or to convert any security into shares in
the Company up to a maximum nominal amount of £748,000. The amount represents
approximately two-thirds of the Company's issued share capital on 24 August
2023 (being the latest practicable date prior to the publication of this AGM
Notice).

For information, on 24 August 2023 (being the latest practicable date prior to
the publication of this AGM Notice), the Company held no treasury shares. This
authority conferred pursuant to Resolution 8 replaces any existing authorities
to issue shares in the Company and will expire on the date being 15 months
from the date of the passing of this Resolution or, if earlier, at the
conclusion of next AGM of the Company (unless previously renewed, varied or
revoked by the Company at a general meeting).

Resolution 9: This Resolution is to approve the disapplication of pre-emption
rights. The passing of this Resolution will allow the Directors to allot
shares for cash and/or sell treasury shares without first having to offer such
shares to existing shareholders in proportion to their existing holdings up to
a maximum nominal amount of £224,400.  This amount represents 20 percent of
the Company's issued ordinary share capital on 24 August 2023 (being the
latest practicable date prior to the publication of this AGM Notice).

For information, on 24 August 2023 (being the latest practicable date prior to
the publication of this AGM Notice), the Company held no treasury shares. This
authority conferred pursuant to Resolution 9 replaces any existing authorities
to issue shares in the Company and will expire on the date being 15 months
from the date of the passing of this Resolution or, if earlier, at the
conclusion of next AGM of the Company (unless previously renewed, varied or
revoked by the Company at a general meeting).

 

3.   Voting

Each shareholder registered on the register of members of the Company at BST
1:30 p.m. on 15 September 2023 is entitled to vote on the Resolutions
contained in the AGM Notice. If you would like to vote on the Resolutions but
cannot come to the AGM, please complete a Form of Proxy and return it to the
Company as soon as possible and in any event so as to be received by it by BST
1:30 p.m. on 15 September 2023. Further information in relation to the Form of
Proxy (including how to return a completed proxy instruction) is set out in
the AGM Notice and on the reverse of the Form of Proxy itself.

 

4.   Attendance

I hope that you will come to the AGM, if you can.

The Company is committed to reducing paper and improving efficiency in its
shareholder communications. This year, you will not receive a hard copy Form
of Proxy for the 2023 AGM in the post automatically. You may request a hard
copy Form of Proxy directly from the Company. Details on how to request and
complete a hard copy Form of Proxy are set out in this document.

Whether or not you intend to attend the AGM, I would strongly encourage you,
regardless of the number of shares you own, to vote on the Resolutions in the
manner detailed in the AGM Notice, either electronically or by completing and
returning a hard copy Form of Proxy (available on request from the Company) as
soon as possible and in any event not later than BST 1:30 p.m. on 15 September
2023.

Completion and submission or return of the Form of Proxy does not prevent you
from attending and voting at the AGM in person.

The AGM Notice also includes instructions to enable you to vote electronically
and details of how to register to do so. The Resolutions set out in this AGM
Notice will be voted on by way of a poll. All valid proxy votes (whether
submitted electronically or in hard copy form) will be included in the poll to
be taken at the AGM.

In addition, shareholders are encouraged to submit questions, no later than
seven days prior to the AGM, via email to the Company at info@beaconrise.uk.
To the extent that it is appropriate to do so, the Company will endeavour to
publish these questions and the Company's responses on the Company's website,
www.beaconrise.uk, as soon as practicable after the AGM. To ask a question,
please email info@beaconrise.uk with details of your shareholder number or
other evidence of entitlement to attend the AGM.

 

Yours faithfully

 

Xiaobing Wang

Chairman

 

 

Part II

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

 

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT Beacon Rise Holdings PLC (the Company) will hold
its Annual General Meeting (the "AGM") at Meeting Room 2, Paddington Works, 8
Hermitage St, London, W2 1BE on 19 September 2023 at BST 1:30 p.m. You are
being asked to consider and vote on the resolutions below (the "Resolutions"
and each a "Resolution"). Resolution 9 is proposed as a special resolution and
all other Resolutions are proposed as ordinary resolutions.

 

Ordinary Resolutions

1.   To receive the Directors' Annual Report and Financial Statements of the
Company for the year ended 31 March 2023.

2.   To re-elect Xiaobing Wang as a Director of the Company.

3.   To re-elect Yunxia Wang as a Director of the Company.

4.   To elect John Parker as a Director of the Company.

5.   To receive and approve the Directors' Remuneration Report set out on
pages 12 to 14 for the year ended 31 March 2023 of the 2023 Annual Report.

6.   To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy set out on pages 12 to 14
of the 2023 Annual Report, to take effect from the end of this AGM.

7.   To re-appoint PKF Littlejohn LLP as auditors of the Company to hold
office until the conclusion of the next general meeting at which accounts are
laid before the Company and authorise the Directors to determine the
remuneration of the Company's auditors.

8.   That the Directors be generally and unconditionally authorised to and
in accordance with section 551 of the Companies Act 2006 (the Act) to exercise
all powers of the Company to allot shares or grant rights to subscribe for or
to convert any security into shares up to a nominal amount of £748,000, such
authority to expire at the end of the next annual general meeting of the
Company or 15 months after the passing of this Resolution, whichever is the
earlier (unless previously renewed, varied or revoked by the Company at a
general meeting), but, in each case, so that the Company may make offers and
enter into agreements during the relevant period which would, or might,
require shares to be allotted or rights to subscribe for or to convert any
security into shares to be granted after the authority ends.

Special Resolution

9.   That, subject to the passing of Resolution 8, the Directors be
generally empowered to allot equity securities wholly for cash pursuant to the
authority given by Resolution 8, or where the allotment constitutes an
allotment of equity securities by virtue of section 560(3) of the Act, in each
case as if section 561(1) and sub-sections (1) through (6) of section 562 of
the Act did not apply to any such allotment, provided that such power be
limited to:

a)    in connection with any offer of, or invitation to apply for, equity
securities to:

i.      ordinary shareholders in proportion (as nearly as may be
practicable) to their existing holdings; and

ii.     holders of other equity securities as required by the rights of
those securities or, subject to such rights as the Directors otherwise
consider necessary,

and so that the Directors may impose any limits or restrictions and make any
arrangements which they consider necessary or appropriate to deal with
treasury shares, fractional entitlements, record dates, legal, regulatory or
practicable problems in, or under the laws of, any territory or any other
matter; and

b)    otherwise than in connection with paragraph a), up to an aggregate
nominal amount of £224,400,

 

such power to expire at the end of the next annual general meeting of the
Company or 15 months after the passing of this Resolution, whichever is the
earlier (unless previously renewed, varied or revoked by the Company at a
general meeting), but so that the Company may make offers and enter into
agreements during this period which would, or might, require equity securities
to be allotted after the power ends.

 

By order of the Board

 

Xiaobing Wang

Chairman

Beacon Rise Holdings PLC

25 August 2023

 

 

 

 

Notes to the Notice of Annual General Meeting

 

Entitlement to attend and vote

1.   Voting at the Annual General Meeting will be carried out on a poll.

2.   Only those shareholders entered on the register of members at the BST
1:30 p.m. on 15 September 2023 (or, in the event of any adjournment, on the 48
hours (excluding any part of the day that is not a working day) prior to the
adjourned meeting) shall be entitled to vote at the AGM. Changes to the
register of members after the relevant deadline shall be disregarded in
determining the rights of any person to attend or vote at the meeting.

 

Website giving information regarding the AGM

3.   Information regarding the AGM, including the notice of the AGM and
Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2023, is
available in the Beacon Rise Financial Statements section on the Company's
website at https://www.beaconrise.uk/index.php/investors
(https://www.beaconrise.uk/index.php/investors) .

 

Appointment of proxy

4.   If you are a shareholder who is entitled to attend and vote at the
meeting, you are entitled to appoint one or more proxies to exercise all or
any of your rights to attend, speak and vote at the meeting and you should
have received a proxy form with this notice of meeting. A proxy does not need
to be a shareholder of the Company but must attend the meeting to represent
you. You can only appoint a proxy using the procedures set out in these notes
and the notes to the proxy form.

5.   You may appoint more than one proxy provided each proxy is appointed to
exercise the rights attached to a different share or shares held by that
shareholder. To appoint more than one proxy, please contact the Company by
email at info@beaconrise.uk. You will need to state clearly on each proxy form
the number of shares in relation to which the proxy is appointed. If you wish
your proxy to speak on your behalf at the meeting you will need to appoint
your own choice of proxy (not the chairman) and give your instructions
directly to them.

 

Appointment of proxy by post

6.   The notes to the proxy form explain how to direct your proxy how to
vote on each Resolution.

7.   To appoint a proxy using the proxy form, the form must be:

a)   completed and signed;

b)   sent or delivered to the Company at its registered office Kemp House,
160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX; and

c)   received by the Company no later than BST 1:30 p.m. on 15 September
2023.

8.   Any power of attorney or any other authority under which the proxy form
is signed (or a duly certified copy of such power or authority) must be
included with the proxy form.

 

Appointment of proxies electronically

9.   As an alternative to completing the hard-copy proxy form, you can
appoint a proxy electronically by emailing a copy of the proxy form to
info@beaconrise.uk. For an electronic proxy appointment to be valid, your
appointment must be received by the Company no later than BST 1:30 p.m. on 15
September 2023.

10. This email address should not be used for any other purposes unless
expressly stated.

 

Proxy voting

11. In the case of a shareholder which is a corporation, the proxy form must
be executed in any of the following ways: (i) under its common seal; (ii) not
under its common seal but otherwise in accordance with the articles or
constitution; or (iii) signed on its behalf by a duly authorised officer of
the company or its authorised attorney.

12. Any power of attorney or any other authority under which a proxy form is
signed (or a duly certified copy of such power or authority) must be included
with the proxy form.

13. In the case of joint holders, where more than one of the joint holders
purports to appoint a proxy, only the appointment submitted by the most senior
holder will be accepted. Seniority is determined by the order in which the
names of the joint holders appear in the register in respect of the joint
holding (the first-named being the most senior).

 

Changing proxy instructions

14. Shareholders may change proxy instructions by submitting a new proxy
appointment using the methods set out above. Note that the cut-off time for
receipt of proxy appointments also applies in relation to amended
instructions; any amended proxy appointment received after the relevant
cut-off time will be disregarded.

15. Where you have appointed a proxy using the hard-copy proxy form and would
like to change the instructions using another hard-copy proxy form, please
contact info@beaconrise.uk.

16. If you submit more than one valid proxy appointment, the appointment
received last before the latest time for the receipt of proxies will take
precedence.

 

Termination of proxy appointment

17. A shareholder may change a proxy instruction but to do so you will need to
inform the Company in writing by either:

a)   sending a signed hard-copy notice clearly stating your intention to
revoke your proxy appointment to the Company. In the case of a shareholder
which is a company, the revocation notice must be executed under its common
seal or signed on its behalf by an officer of the company or an attorney for
the company. Any power of attorney or any other authority under which the
revocation notice is signed (or a duly certified copy of such power or
authority) must be included with the revocation notice; or

b)   sending an email to info@beaconrise.uk.

18. In either case, the revocation notice must be received by the Company no
later than BST 1:30 p.m. on 15 September 2023.

19. If you attempt to revoke your proxy appointment but the revocation is
received after the time specified, your original proxy appointment will remain
valid unless you attend the AGM and vote in person.

20. Appointment of a proxy does not preclude you from attending the meeting
and voting in person. If you have appointed a proxy and attend the AGM in
person, your proxy appointment will automatically be terminated.

 

Corporate representatives

21. Any corporation which is a shareholder can appoint one or more corporate
representatives who may exercise on its behalf all of its powers as a
shareholder provided that they do not do so in relation to the same shares.

 

Issued shares and total voting rights

22. As at the opening of business on 24 August 2023 (being the last
practicable date prior to publication of this document), the Company's issued
share capital comprised 1,122,000 shares of £1 each. Each share carries the
right to one vote at a general meeting of the Company and therefore the total
number of voting rights in the Company as at the opening of business on 25
August 2023 is 1,122,000. As at the date of this document, the Company does
not hold any shares in treasury.

 

Voting

23. Shareholders are requested to vote in advance of the AGM either
electronically or by completing and returning the enclosed proxy form not
later than BST 1:30 p.m. on 15 September 2023. The results will be published
on our website www.beaconrise.uk and will be released to the London Stock
Exchange.

24. At the AGM itself, the votes on each Resolution at the meeting will be
taken by poll rather than a show of hands. The results will be published on
our website www.beaconrise.uk and will be released to the London Stock
Exchange.

 

Communication

25. Except as provided above, shareholders who have general queries about the
meeting should contact info@beaconrise.uk (no other methods of communication
will be accepted).

26. You may not use any electronic address provided either:

a)   in this notice of general meeting; or

b)   any related documents (including the proxy form),

to communicate with the Company for any purposes other than those expressly
stated.

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