MONTRÉAL, June 15,
2023 /CNW/ - BTB Real Estate Investment
Trust (TSX: BTB.UN) ("BTB" or the "REIT") is
pleased to announce that each of the Trustees nominated in the
Management Information Circular dated May
8th, 2023, were elected as Trustees of BTB during
the Annual General Meeting held in Montréal on June 12th, 2023.
The details of the election are as follows:
|
Trustee
nominee
|
Outcome
|
For
|
Withheld
|
|
Number
|
%
|
Number
|
%
|
|
Jocelyn
Proteau
|
Elected
|
6,517,578
|
78.08
|
1,829,929
|
21.92
|
|
Jean-Pierre
Janson
|
Elected
|
6,419,219
|
76.90
|
1,928,288
|
23.10
|
|
Luc Martin
|
Elected
|
6,518,229
|
78.09
|
1,829,278
|
21.91
|
|
Fernand
Perreault
|
Elected
|
6,475,895
|
77.58
|
1,871,612
|
22.42
|
|
Lucie
Ducharme
|
Elected
|
6,543,369
|
78.39
|
1,804,138
|
21.61
|
|
Sylvie
Lachance
|
Elected
|
6,565,606
|
78.65
|
1,781,901
|
20.42
|
|
Christine
Marchildon
|
Elected
|
6,525,552
|
78.17
|
1,821,955
|
21.83
|
|
Armand Des
Rosiers
|
Elected
|
6,468,820
|
77.49
|
1,878,687
|
22.51
|
|
Michel
Léonard
|
Elected
|
6,716,168
|
80.46
|
1,631,339
|
19.54
|
The results of the final votes regarding all
matters subject to a vote during the Annual and Special Meeting of
the Unitholders are available on the SEDAR website
(www.sedar.com).
BTB welcomes New Trustee, Mr. Armand Des Rosiers
Mr. Des Rosiers has over 40 years' experience in
commercial real estate investment, including 32 years with RBC
Capital Markets Real Estate Group. Currently Managing Director at
RBC Capital Markets, he has recently announced he will be leaving
this position on July 31, 2023. In
this capacity, he led a team of investment bankers involved in the
most important institutional real estate investment and financing
transactions in Quebec. Mr. Des
Rosiers has always worked in an environment where ethics, integrity
and governance were paramount. In January
2023, he obtained the ICD.D designation from the Institute
of Corporate Directors. He is a Board member of Scleroderma Quebec
and of the McCord Museum Foundation. Member of the Québec Bar since
1978, he holds a Bachelor of Civil Law from McGill University and an MBA from the Ivey Business
School at Western University.
About BTB
BTB is a real estate investment trust listed on
the Toronto Stock Exchange. BTB REIT invests in industrial,
off-downtown core office and necessity-based retail properties
across Canada for the benefit of
their investors. As of today, BTB owns and manages 75
properties, representing a total leasable area of approximately
6.1 million square feet.
People and their stories are at the heart of
our success.
BTB offers a distribution reinvestment plan to
unitholders whereby the participants may elect to have their
monthly cash distribution reinvested in additional units of BTB at
a price based on the weighted average price for BTB's Units on the
Toronto Stock Exchange for the five trading days immediately
preceding the distribution date, discounted by 3%.
For more detailed information, visit BTB's
website at www.btbreit.com.
SOURCE BTB Real Estate Investment Trust