Pre-Annual General Meeting Information • Apr 23, 2015
Pre-Annual General Meeting Information
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THIS DOCUMENT IS IMPORTANT AND REQUIRES YOUR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION. If you are in doubt as to what action you should take, you are recommended to seek your own financial advice immediately from your stockbroker, bank manager, solicitor, accountant or other professional adviser authorised under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.
If you have sold or transferred all of your registered holdings of ordinary shares in the Company please forward this document, together with the accompanying form of proxy, as soon as possible to the purchaser or transferee or to the stockbroker, bank manager, or other agent through whom the sale or transfer was effected for delivery to the purchaser or transferee.
(Registered in England and Wales with no. 29559)
Notice of the annual general meeting of the Company (the "Meeting") to be held at The Goring Hotel, Beeston Place, Grosvenor Gardens, London SW1W 0JW on 4 June 2015 at 11.30 a.m. is set out at the end of this document and the recommendation of the Directors is set out on page 3.
A form of proxy for use at the Meeting is enclosed. However, a proxy may also be appointed for CREST members, by using the CREST electronic proxy appointment service. To be valid, any instrument appointing a proxy must be received by the Company's Registrars, Capita Asset Services, PXS1, The Registry, 34 Beckenham Road, Beckenham, Kent BR3 4ZF as soon as possible but in any event so as to arrive no later than 11.30 a.m. on 2 June 2015.
(Registered in England and Wales with no. 29559)
Mr M C Perkins Linton Park Mr C J Ames Kent ME17 4AB Mr P J Field Mr G H Mclean Mr A K Mathur Mrs S A Walker Mr C J Relleen* Mr W K Gibson* Mr F Vuilleumier* 23 April 2015
Directors Registered Office
Mr T K Franks Linton, Near Maidstone
To holders of ordinary shares of 10 pence each in the Company
Dear Shareholder
This letter accompanies the 2014 Annual Report and Accounts and gives details of the business to be transacted at the Meeting.
* non-executive Directors
Notice of the Meeting is given on page 4.
Resolutions 1 to 15 (inclusive) set out in the Notice deal with the business to be transacted at the Meeting. Further explanation in relation to resolution 2, resolutions 4 to 12 and resolution 15, is set out below.
Resolution 2 is to approve the Directors' remuneration report, other than the part containing the Directors' remuneration policy which was approved at the last AGM.
The Articles of Association of the Company (the "Articles") require each of the Directors to retire by rotation at each annual general meeting. At the Meeting, each of Mr M C Perkins, Mr C J Ames, Mr P J Field, Mr C J Relleen and Mr F Vuilleumier will retire. Each of the Directors is offering himself for re-election and resolutions 4 to 8 propose the re-election of such Directors.
Mr T K Franks, Mr G H Mclean, Mrs S A Walker and Mr W K Gibson, having been appointed to the board since the last annual general meeting, will seek election to the board. Resolutions 9 to 12 propose the election of such Directors.
Mr A K Mathur will not be seeking re-election at the Meeting and will retire from the board at the conclusion of the Meeting.
Brief biographies of the Directors are set out on pages 12 to 13 of the 2014 Annual Report and Accounts. Following the evaluation of the performance of the board, I confirm that it is in the best interests of the Company for each Director to be elected or re-elected, as applicable.
Resolution 15 to be proposed at the Meeting seeks authority from holders of ordinary shares of 10 pence each in the capital of the Company ("ordinary shares") for the Company to make market purchases of its own ordinary shares, such authority being limited to the purchase of a maximum number of 276,200 ordinary shares, representing 10% of the voting rights in the Company as at 22 April 2015. The maximum price payable for the purchase by the Company of its own ordinary shares will be limited to the higher of 5% above the average of the middle market quotations of the Company's ordinary shares, as derived from the AIM Appendix to the Daily Official List of the London Stock Exchange, for the five business days prior to the purchase and the higher of the price of the last independent trade of an ordinary share and the highest current independent bid for an ordinary share as derived from the London Stock Exchange Trading System SETS. The minimum price payable by the Company for the purchase of its own ordinary shares will be 10 pence per share (being an amount equal to the nominal value of an ordinary share). The authority to purchase the Company's own ordinary shares will only be exercised if the Directors consider that there is likely to be a beneficial impact on earnings per ordinary share and that it is in the best interests of the Company at the time. The resolution renews a similar resolution passed at the annual general meeting of the Company held on 5 June 2014. The Company is permitted to hold in treasury any shares purchased by it using its distributable profits. Such shares will remain in issue and will be capable of being re-sold by the Company.
You are asked to either:
The Meeting will be held at The Goring Hotel, Beeston Place, Grosvenor Gardens, London SW1W 0JW.
The board believes that the resolutions to be put to the Meeting are in the best interests of the shareholders as a whole and, accordingly, recommends that shareholders vote in favour of the resolutions, as the Directors intend to do in respect of their beneficial shareholdings in the Company.
Yours sincerely
M C Perkins Chairman
(Registered in England and Wales with no. 29559)
NOTICE is hereby given that the annual general meeting of Camellia Plc (the "Company") will be held at The Goring Hotel, Beeston Place, Grosvenor Gardens, London SW1W 0JW on 4 June 2015 at 11.30 a.m. for the transaction of the following business:
To consider and, if thought fit, to pass the following resolutions, each of which will be proposed as an ordinary resolution:
To consider and, if thought fit, to pass the following resolution, which will be proposed as a special resolution:
J A Morton Secretary
23 April 2015 Registered Office: Linton Park Linton, near Maidstone Kent ME17 4AB
Completion of the form of proxy or appointment of a proxy through CREST will not prevent a member from attending and voting in person.
In order for a proxy appointment made by means of CREST to be valid, the appropriate CREST message (a "CREST Proxy Instruction") must be properly authenticated in accordance with Euroclear UK & Ireland's specifications and must contain the information required for such instructions, as described in the CREST Manual (www.euroclear.com/CREST). The message must be transmitted so as to be received by the issuer's agent, Capita Asset Services (ID RA1Ø), by 11.30 a.m. on 2 June 2015. For this purpose, the time of receipt will be taken to be the time (as determined by the timestamp applied to the message by the CREST Applications Host) from which the issuer's agent is able to retrieve the message by enquiry to CREST in the manner prescribed by CREST.
CREST members and, where applicable, their CREST sponsors or voting service providers should note that Euroclear UK & Ireland does not make available special procedures in CREST for any particular messages. Normal system timings and limitations will therefore apply in relation to the input of CREST Proxy Instructions. It is the responsibility of the CREST member concerned to take (or, if the CREST member is a CREST personal member or sponsored member or has appointed (a) voting service provider(s), to procure that his/her CREST sponsor or voting service provider(s) take(s)) such action as shall be necessary to ensure that a message is transmitted by means of the CREST system by any particular time. In this connection, CREST members and, where applicable, their CREST sponsors or voting service providers are referred, in particular, to those sections of the CREST Manual concerning practical limitations of the CREST system and timings.
The Company may treat as invalid a CREST Proxy Instruction in the circumstances set out in Regulation 35(5)(a) of the Uncertificated Securities Regulations 2001 (as amended).
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