Air China Ld POLL RESULT OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING (0508S)
16 December 2016 - 7:00PM
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Air China Ld
16 December 2016
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AIR CHINA LIMITED
(a joint stock limited company incorporated in the People's
Republic of China with limited liability)
(Stock Code:00753)
POLL RESULT OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING
The board of directors (the "Board") of Air China Limited (the
"Company") is pleased to announce the result of the resolution
passed at the extraordinary general meeting of the Company held on
15 December 2016 (the "EGM").
References are made to: (i) the announcement of the Company
dated 30 August 2016 relating to the continuing connected
transactions (the "Announcement"); (ii) the circular of the Company
dated 14 September 2016 (the "Circular") containing details of the
resolution tabled at the EGM; and (iii) the notice of the EGM dated
28 October 2016. Unless otherwise indicated, capitalised terms used
in this announcement shall have the same meanings as those defined
in the Circular.
The Board is pleased to announce that the proposed resolution
set out in the notice of the EGM was duly passed by the
shareholders of the Company (the "Shareholders") by way of poll at
the EGM held on Thursday, 15 December 2016 at the Conference Room
One, 29/F, Air China Building, 36 Xiaoyun Road, Chaoyang District,
Beijing, the PRC.
RESULT OF THE EGM
As at the date of the EGM, the total number of shares issued by
the Company was 13,084,751,004 shares.
Cathay Pacific, being a substantial shareholder of the Company
and Air China Cargo Co., Ltd., has a material interest in the
proposed resolution, and is required to abstain, and has abstained,
from voting on the resolution at the EGM. As at the date of the
EGM, Cathay Pacific held an aggregate of 2,633,725,455 shares.
Accordingly, the total number of shares entitling the Independent
Shareholders
to attend and vote for or against the proposed resolution was
10,451,025,549 shares. The Shareholders and authorised proxies
holding in aggregate 7,626,715,706 shares, entitling them to vote
for or against the proposed resolution, were present at the
EGM.
Save as disclosed above, there were no other restrictions on any
Shareholders to cast votes on the following resolution proposed at
the EGM.
The poll result in respect of the proposed resolution at the EGM
was as follows:
Votes for Shareholders
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ORDINARY RESOLUTION For Against
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To consider and approve (i) the framework
agreement dated 30 August 2016 entered
into between the Company and Air
China Cargo Co., Ltd. in respect
of the continuing connected transactions
for the three years from 1 January
2017 to 31 December 2019 and (ii)
the proposed annual caps for the
continuing connected transactions
contemplated thereunder, the details
of which are set out in the Circular. 7,626,681,666 34,040
(99.9996%) (0.0004%)
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As more than 50% of the votes were cast in favour
of the above resolution, the resolution was duly passed
as an ordinary resolution.
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KPMG Huazhen LLP was the scrutineer for the vote-taking at the
EGM.
By order of the Board
Air China Limited
Rao Xinyu Tam Shuit Mui
Joint Company Secretaries
Beijing, the PRC, 15 December 2016
As at the date of this announcement, the directors of the
Company are Mr. Cai Jianjiang, Mr. Song Zhiyong, Mr. Cao Jianxiong,
Mr. Feng Gang, Mr. John Robert Slosar, Mr. Ian Sai Cheung Shiu, Mr.
Pan Xiaojiang*, Mr. Simon To Chi Keung*, Mr. Stanley Hui Hon-chung*
and Mr. Li Dajin*.
* Independent non-executive director of the Company
This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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