AGM Information • Apr 11, 2023
AGM Information
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Register of Legal Entities (Brussels): 0699.936.657
Annual Ordinary Shareholders' Meeting of Titan Cement International SA (the Company) to be held on Thursday, 11 May 2023 at 10.00 a.m. (CET) at the hotel Hilton Nicosia in Cyprus, 1 Achaion street, Engomi, 2413 Nicosia.
To be valid this remote voting by correspondence form must be received by the Company no later than Friday 5 May 2023. Shareholders are kindly requested to send the signed form to the e-mail address [email protected] by the above-mentioned deadline.
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The undersigned (name and first name / name of the legal entity) (the Shareholder)
Residence address / Registered address
Owner of _____________________ dematerialized / registered (cross out what is not applicable) shares of Titan Cement International SA votes by correspondence as follows for the Annual Ordinary Shareholders' Meeting of the Company that will be held on Thursday, 11 May 2023 at 10.00 a.m. (CET) at the hotel Hilton Nicosia in Cyprus, 1 Achaion street, Engomi, 2413 Nicosia (the Meeting) with all the above-mentioned shares.
The vote of the Shareholder on the proposed resolutions is as follows:
Comment on the agenda item: The Board of Directors requests the Meeting to take note of the Annual Report of the Board of Directors on the annual accounts relating to the financial year closed on 31
December 2022 and the Statutory Auditor's Report on the annual accounts relating to the financial year closed on 31 December 2022. Both reports are available on the Company's website (https://ir.titancement.com/en/shareholder-center/annual-general-meetings).
Comment on the agenda item: The Board of Directors requests the Meeting to take note of the consolidated annual accounts relating to the financial year closed on 31 December 2022 and the Statutory Auditor's Report on the consolidated annual accounts relating to the financial year closed on 31 December 2022. Both documents are available on the Company's website (https://ir.titancement.com/en/shareholder-center/annual-general-meetings).
Proposed resolution: Approval of the Statutory Annual Accounts relating to the financial year ended 31 December 2022 and of the appropriation of results for the financial year setting a gross dividend of EUR 0.60 per share. The dividend will be payable on 5 July 2023.
Proposed resolution: Approval of the Remuneration Report presented by the Board of Directors, as prepared by the Remuneration Committee and included in the Annual Report.
Proposed resolution: Discharge to the following persons for the exercise of their mandate as directors during the financial year ended 31 December 2022:
Efstratios-Georgios Arapoglou, William-John Antholis, Andreas Artemis, Michael Colakides, Haralambos David, Lyn-Mary Grobler, Leonidas Kanellopoulos, Natalia Nikolaidi (as from 12 May 2022), Ioannis Paniaras, Dimitrios Papalexopoulos, Alexandra Papalexopoulou, Kyriakos Riris, Theodora Taoushani (as from 12 May 2022), Stylianos Triantafyllides (until 12 May 2022), Dimitris Tsitsiragos, Vassilios Zarkalis, Mona Zulficar.
Proposed resolution: Discharge to the statutory auditor of the Company, PricewaterhouseCoopers Réviseurs d'Entreprises SRL, with registered office at 1831 Diegem, 5 Culliganlaan, Brussels, represented by Didier Delanoye, for the performance of its mandate during the financial year ended 31 December 2022.
Comment on the agenda item: Upon proposal of the Nomination Committee, the Board of Directors proposes to the Meeting to confirm the mandate of Mr. Marcel-Constantin Cobuz as executive director and to ratify the decision of the Board of Directors dated 9 November 2022 to appoint him as director as of 1 January 2023 to complete the term of the mandate of Mr. Efstratios-Georgios Arapoglou, namely until 2025. The CV of Mr. Marcel-Constantin Cobuz is available on the Company's website (https://www.titancement.com/about-us/corporate-governance/board-of-directors/).
Proposed resolution: Approval of the co-optation of Mr. Marcel-Constantin Cobuz as executive director of the Company as of 1 January 2023 to complete the term of the mandate of Mr. Efstratios-Georgios Arapoglou, namely until 2025.
Comment on the agenda item: Upon proposal of the Remuneration Committee, the Board of Directors proposes to the Meeting to take note of and approve certain revisions to the Remuneration Policy including the grant of share-based remuneration to the Non-Executive Chair of the Board of Directors. A copy of the proposed amended Remuneration Policy is available on the Company's website (https://ir.titancement.com/en/shareholder-center/annual-general-meetings).
Proposed resolution: Approval of the amendment to the Remuneration Policy of the Company.
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Proposed resolution: Approval of the amendment of the annual fees of the Non-Executive Chair of the Board of Directors from EUR 235,000 gross per annum to EUR 850,000 gross per annum (partly awarded through share-based remuneration per the amended Remuneration Policy).
Proposed resolution: Approval, in accordance with Article 7:151 of the Belgian Code of Companies and Associations, of the provisions granting rights to third parties, which could affect the Company's assets or could impose an obligation on the Company where the exercise of those rights is dependent on a public take-over bid or change of control in the Company,
i. raises or guarantees in favour of subsidiary or affiliated companies, any financing (by way of bilateral, club-deal or syndicated financing transactions, the issue of bonds, notes, debentures, loan stock or similar instrument (including by way of private placement), any leasing transactions or factoring arrangements and more generally any other transaction that has the commercial effect of a borrowing), which are used for general corporate purposes (including, but not limited to, financing working capital, capital expenditure, acquisitions, investments, refinancing transactions and equity related distributions) of the Company and/or its subsidiaries, subject to the aggregate total principal amount committed under all financing transactions that include such provisions not exceeding EUR 500,000,000 (five hundred million Euros, or its equivalent in other currencies calculated at the time of entering into the relevant financing transaction);
ii. enters into or guarantees any derivative transaction entered into in the ordinary course of business of the Company and/or any of its subsidiaries (other than for speculative purposes) in order to provide protection against fluctuations in any rate or price or to take advantage thereof.
Proposed resolution: Powers of attorney to be granted to Messrs. Michael Colakides, Grigorios Dikaios, Nikolaos Andreadis, Nikolaos Birakis, Spyridon Hadjinicolaou, Mrs. Sophie Rutten (Allen & Overy Belgium LLP) and Mrs. Susana Gonzales (Allen & Overy Belgium LLP), each acting independently, in order to draft, execute and sign all documents, instruments, acts and formalities and to give all necessary or useful instructions to implement the aforementioned resolutions, including, but not limited to, the filing of the annual accounts and the consolidated annual accounts closed on 31 December 2022, and the annual report and the statutory auditor's report relating thereto, with the National Bank of Belgium, the publication of the appointments and extracts of the resolutions and the completion of the necessary publication formalities, with the right to delegate.
This form will be considered null and void in its entirety if the Shareholder has not indicated above his choice concerning one or more items on the agenda of the Meeting.
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If during the Meeting a draft resolution is amended, on which the Shareholder has already voted by validly returning the present form to the Company, such remote voting shall be deemed null and void.
The Shareholder who has cast his vote by validly returning this form to the Company may not vote in person, by proxy or remotely during the Meeting for the number of votes already cast.
If the Company publishes, at the latest on Wednesday 26 April 2023, a revised agenda for the Meeting to include new items or proposed resolutions at the request of one or more shareholders pursuant to Article 7:130 of the Belgian Companies and Associations Code, this form shall remain valid for the items on the agenda it covers, provided it has been validly received by the Company prior to the publication of such revised agenda. Notwithstanding the above, the vote cast through this form on an item on the agenda shall be null and void if the agenda has been amended concerning this item to include a new proposed resolution pursuant to Article 7:130 of the Belgian Companies and Associations Code.
The Company takes privacy and security of the personal data that it receives from shareholders in the context of the Meetings very seriously. Shareholders may consult the Privacy Notice for Shareholders for information about the processing of their personal data and the rights to which they are entitled under the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) ("GDPR"). This Privacy Notice is available on the Company's website (link: https://ir.titan-cement.com/Uploads/Privacy\_Notice\_for\_shareholders\_EN.pdf).
Place: ______________________
Date: __________________ 2023
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Signature(s):
Legal entities must specify the name(s), first name(s) and capacity of the physical person(s) who sign(s) on their behalf. If the Shareholder is not a physical person who executes this form for remote voting by correspondence himself/herself, the signatory(-ies) hereby declare(s) and warrant(s) to the Company to have full authority to execute this form for remote voting by correspondence on behalf of the Shareholder.
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