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INGHAMS GROUP LIMITED AGM Information 2018

Sep 13, 2018

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INGHAMS GROUP LIMITED

ACN 162 709 506

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

NOTICE is given that an Annual General Meeting of the members of INGHAMS GROUP LIMITED ACN 162 709 506 (“Company” or “Ingham’s”) will be held at the Vibe Hotel, 171 Pacific Highway North Sydney on 18 October 2018 at 10:00am (Sydney time) (“Meeting”).

BUSINESS

1. Financial Report

To receive and consider the Financial Report of the Company and its controlled entities and the Reports of the Directors and Auditor for the year ended 30 June 2018.

To consider and, if thought fit, pass the following resolutions as ordinary resolutions:

2. Re-election of Director

That Linda Bardo Nicholls, AO being eligible, be re-elected as a Director of the Company.

3. Remuneration Report

That the Remuneration Report for the year ended 30 June 2018 be adopted.

Note: The vote on this resolution is advisory only and does not bind the Directors or the Company.

A voting exclusion applies to this resolution (see section 2 of the notes relating to voting).

The notes relating to voting and the Explanatory Memorandum form part of this Notice of Meeting.

By Order of the Board

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David Matthews Company Secretary 14 September 2018

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Notes relating to voting

1. Entitlement to vote

In accordance with Regulation 7.11.37 of the Corporations Regulations 2001 (Cth), the Board has determined that persons who are registered holders of shares in the Company as at 7.00pm (Sydney time) on Tuesday 16 October 2018 will be entitled to attend and vote at the Meeting as a shareholder. Share transfers registered after that time will be disregarded in determining entitlements to attend and vote at the Meeting.

If more than one joint holder of shares is present at the Meeting (whether personally, by proxy or by attorney or by representative) and tenders a vote, only the vote of the joint holder whose name appears first on the register will be counted.

The vote on each resolution will be decided on a poll, and each shareholder present in person or by proxy shall have one vote for every fully paid ordinary share held (subject to the restrictions on voting referred to below).

2. Voting exclusion for Item 3

The Company will disregard any votes cast on Item 3:

  • by or on behalf of a member of the Company’s key management personnel (“ KMP ”) named in the Company’s Remuneration Report for the year ended 30 June 2018 or their closely related parties, regardless of the capacity in which the vote is cast; or

  • as a proxy by a person who is a member of the Company’s KMP at the date of the Meeting or their closely related parties,

unless the vote is cast as proxy for a person entitled to vote on Item 3:

in accordance with a direction in the proxy form; or

  • by the Chairman of the Meeting pursuant to an express authorisation in the proxy form to exercise the proxy even though the resolution is connected with the remuneration of KMP.

3. Proxies

  • a. A shareholder entitled to attend and vote has a right to appoint a proxy to attend and vote on their behalf. A proxy need not be a shareholder and can be either an individual or a body corporate.

  • b. A shareholder can appoint a proxy by completing and returning a signed proxy form (see section 4 of these notes relating to voting, and the enclosed proxy form).

  • c. A shareholder that is entitled to cast 2 or more votes may appoint 2 proxies and may specify the proportion or number of votes each proxy is appointed to exercise. If no proportion or number is specified, each proxy may exercise half of the shareholder’s votes.

  • d. If a shareholder appoints a body corporate as a proxy, that body corporate will need to ensure that it:

  • appoints an individual as its corporate representative to exercise its powers at the Meeting, in accordance with section 250D of the Corporations Act; and

  • provides satisfactory evidence of the appointment of its corporate representative prior to commencement of the Meeting.

  • e. If you wish to indicate how your proxy should vote, please mark the appropriate boxes on the proxy form. If you do not direct your proxy how to vote on a particular item of business, you are authorising your proxy to vote as they decide, subject to any applicable voting exclusions.

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  • f. Unless the Chairman of the Meeting is your proxy, members of the Company’s KMP (which includes each of the Directors) will not be able to vote as proxy on Item 3 unless you direct them how to vote. If you intend to appoint a member of the KMP (such as one of the Directors) as your proxy, you should ensure that you direct that person how to vote on Item 3.

  • g. If you intend to appoint the Chairman of the Meeting as your proxy, you can direct the Chairman how to vote by marking the boxes for the relevant resolution (for example, if you wish to vote “for”, “against” or to “abstain” from voting). However, if you appoint the Chairman of Meeting as your proxy, or they become your proxy by default, and you do not mark a box next to Item 3, then by completing and submitting the proxy form, you will be expressly authorising the Chairman to vote as they see fit in respect of Item 3 even though this Item is connected with the remuneration of the Company’s KMP.

  • h. If:

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  - a poll is duly demanded at the Meeting in relation to a proposed resolution; a shareholder has appointed a proxy (other than the Chairman of the Meeting) and the appointment of the proxy specifies the way the proxy is to vote on the resolution; and that shareholder’s proxy is either not recorded as attending the Meeting or does not vote in accordance with the shareholder’s direction on the resolution,
  • the Chairman of the Meeting will, before voting on the resolution closes, be taken to have been appointed as the proxy for the shareholder for the purposes of voting on that resolution and must vote in accordance with the written direction of that shareholder.

  • i. Please note that the Chairman intends to vote all available undirected proxies in favour of each resolution.

4. Proxy form

A proxy form accompanies this Notice of Meeting and to be effective must be received no later than 10:00am (Sydney time) Tuesday 16 October 2018 at:

Mail: Inghams Group Limited
C/ - Link Market Services Limited
Locked Bag A14
Sydney South NSW 1235 Australia
By Hand: Inghams Group Limited
C/- Link Market Services Limited
1A Homebush Bay Drive, Rhodes NSW
2138; or
Level 12, 680 George Street, Sydney NSW 2000
Facsimile:+ 61 2 9287 0309 Online: linkmarketservcies.com.au

5. Corporate representatives

A body corporate that is a shareholder, or which has been appointed as a proxy, may appoint an individual to act as its representative at the Meeting. The appointment must comply with the requirements of section 250D of the Corporations Act. The representative should bring to the Meeting evidence of his or her appointment, including any authority under which it has been signed, unless it has previously been given to the Company.

6. Voting by attorney

A shareholder entitled to attend and vote may appoint an attorney to act on his or her behalf at the Meeting. An attorney may but need not be a member of the Company. An attorney may not vote at the Meeting unless the instrument appointing the attorney, and the authority under which the instrument is signed or a certified copy of the authority, are received by the Company in the same manner, and by the same time, as outlined above for proxy forms.

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EXPLANTORY MEMORANDUM

for Annual General Meeting of Inghams Group Limited

1. Annual Financial Report

The Corporations Act requires: (i) the reports of the Directors and Auditors; and (ii) the annual Financial Report, including the Financial Statements and Notes of the Company for the year ended 30 June 2018, to be laid before the Annual General Meeting.

Neither the Corporations Act nor the Company’s Constitution requires a vote of shareholders on the reports or statements. However, shareholders will be given an opportunity to raise questions or comments on the management of the company.

A reasonable opportunity will also be given at the meeting for shareholders as a whole to ask the Company’s Auditor questions relevant to the conduct of the audit, the preparation and content of the Auditor’s Report, the accounting policies adopted by the Company in relation to the preparation of the financial statements and the independence of the Auditor in relation to the conduct of the audit.

2. Re-election of Director – Linda Bardo Nicholls, AO, BA, MBA (Harvard), FAICD

Pursuant to the ASX Listing Rules and the Company’s Constitution, Linda Bardo Nicholls, AO will retire at the conclusion of the Meeting.

Being eligible, Ms Nicholls is seeking re-election as a Director at the Meeting.

Ms Nicholls was appointed to the Ingham’s Board as a non-executive Director on 7 October 2016. She has more than 30 years’ experience as a senior executive and director in banking, insurance and funds management in Australia, New Zealand and the United States. Ms Nicholls is Chairman of Japara Healthcare and Chairman of Melbourne Health. She is also a director of Fairfax Media and Medibank Private, and is a Member of the Museums Board of Victoria. Ms Nicholls was previously Chairman of Healthscope, Chairman of Australia Post, Chairman of Keolis Downer (trading as Yarra Trams) and a Director of Pacific Brands, Sigma Pharmaceuticals, St George Bank and the Olivia Newton John Cancer Research Institute.

The Board considers Ms Nicholls to be independent.

Recommendation

The Board (with Ms Nicholls abstaining) recommends that shareholders vote in favour of the re-election of Linda Bardo Nicholls, AO as a Director.

3. Remuneration Report

Shareholders will have a reasonable opportunity at the Meeting to ask questions about or make comments on the Remuneration Report. The Remuneration Report is contained in the Company’s Annual Report and sets out the remuneration policies of the Company and reports on the remuneration arrangements in place for the Company’s KMP during the year ended 30 June 2018.

As prescribed by the Corporations Act, the vote on the adoption of the Remuneration Report is advisory only and does not bind the Directors or the Company. However, the Board will take the outcome of the vote and discussion at the Meeting into account in setting remuneration policy for future years.

Recommendation

The Board recommends that shareholders vote in favour of the adoption of the Remuneration Report.

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Inghams Group Limited ACN 162 709 506

LODGE YOUR VOTE

ONLINEwww.linkmarketservices.com.au

BY MAIL  Inghams Group Limited C/- Link Market Services Limited Locked Bag A14 Sydney South NSW 1235 Australia

BY FAX

+61 2 9287 0309

BY HAND Link Market Services Limited 1A Homebush Bay Drive, Rhodes NSW 2138; or Level 12, 680 George Street, Sydney NSW 2000

ALL ENQUIRIES TO Telephone: +61 1300 554 474

X99999999999 X99999999999 PROXY FORM I/We being a member(s) of Inghams Group Limited and entitled to attend and vote hereby appoint: APPOINT A PROXY the Chairman of the OR if you are NOT appointing the Chairman of the Meeting as your proxy, please write the name of the person or Meeting (mark box) body corporate you are appointing as your proxy or failing the person or body corporate named, or if no person or body corporate is named, the Chairman of the Meeting, as my/our proxy to act on my/our behalf (including to vote in accordance with the following directions or, if no directions have been given and to the extent permitted by the law, as the proxy sees fit) at the Annual General Meeting of the Company to be held at 10:00am on Thursday, 18 October 2018 at The Vibe Hotel, 171 Pacific Hwy, North Sydney NSW 2060 (the Meeting ) and at any postponement or adjournment of the Meeting. Important for Resolution 3: If the Chairman of the Meeting is your proxy, either by appointment or by default, and you have not indicated your voting intention below, you expressly authorise the Chairman of the Meeting to exercise the proxy in respect of Resolution 3, even though the Resolution is connected directly or indirectly with the remuneration of a member of the Company’s Key Management Personnel ( KMP ). The Chairman of the Meeting intends to vote undirected proxies in favour of each item of business. VOTING DIRECTIONS Proxies will only be valid and accepted by the Company if they are signed and received no later than 48 hours before the Meeting. Please read the voting instructions overleaf before marking any boxes with an T Resolutions For Against Abstain * 2 Re-election of Director Linda Bardo Nicholls, AO

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 * If you mark the Abstain box for a particular Item, you are directing your proxy not to vote on your behalf on a show of hands or on a poll and your votes will not be counted in computing the required majority on a poll.

SIGNATURE OF SHAREHOLDERS – THIS MUST BE COMPLETED

Shareholder 1 (Individual) Joint Shareholder 2 (Individual) Joint Shareholder 3 (Individual) Sole Director and Sole Company Secretary Director/Company Secretary (Delete one) Director

This form should be signed by the shareholder. If a joint holding, either shareholder may sign. If signed by the shareholder’s attorney, the power of attorney must have been previously noted by the registry or a certified copy attached to this form. If executed by a company, the form must be executed in accordance with the company’s constitution and the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth).

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HOW TO COMPLETE THIS SHAREHOLDER PROXY FORM

YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS

LODGEMENT OF A PROXY FORM

This is your name and address as it appears on the Company’s share register. If this information is incorrect, please make the correction on the form. Shareholders sponsored by a broker should advise their broker of any changes. Please note: you cannot change ownership of your shares using this form.

This Proxy Form (and any Power of Attorney under which it is signed) must be received at an address given below by 10:00am on Tuesday, 16 October 2018, being not later than 48 hours before the commencement of the Meeting. Any Proxy Form received after that time will not be valid for the scheduled Meeting.

APPOINTMENT OF PROXY

Proxy Forms may be lodged using the reply paid envelope or:

If you wish to appoint the Chairman of the Meeting as your proxy, mark the box in Step 1. If you wish to appoint someone other than the Chairman of the Meeting as your proxy, please write the name of that individual or body corporate in Step 1. A proxy need not be a shareholder of the Company.

  • ONLINE

www.linkmarketservices.com.au

Login to the Link website using the holding details as shown on the Proxy Form. Select ‘Voting’ and follow the prompts to lodge your vote. To use the online lodgement facility, shareholders will need their “Holder Identifier” (Securityholder Reference Number (SRN) or Holder Identification Number (HIN) as shown on the front of the Proxy Form).

DEFAULT TO CHAIRMAN OF THE MEETING

Any directed proxies that are not voted on a poll at the Meeting will default Reference Number (SRN) or Holder Identification Number (HIN) to the Chairman of the Meeting, who is required to vote those proxies as as shown on the front of the Proxy Form). directed. Any undirected proxies that default to the Chairman of the Meeting will be voted according to the instructions set out in this Proxy BY MOBILE DEVICE QR Code Form, including where the Resolution is connected directly or indirectly Our voting website is designed specifically with the remuneration of KMP. for voting online. You can now lodge VOTES ON ITEMS OF BUSINESS – PROXY APPOINTMENT your proxy by scanning the QR code adjacent or enter the voting link You may direct your proxy how to vote by placing a mark in one of the www.linkmarketservices.com.au into boxes opposite each item of business. All your shares will be voted in your mobile device. Log in using the accordance with such a direction unless you indicate only a portion of Holder Identifier and postcode for your voting rights are to be voted on any item by inserting the percentage or shareholding. number of shares you wish to vote in the appropriate box or boxes. If you do not mark any of the boxes on the items of business, your proxy may To scan the code you will need a QR code reader application vote as he or she chooses. If you mark more than one box on an item your which can be downloaded for free on your mobile device. vote on that item will be invalid. BY MAIL APPOINTMENT OF A SECOND PROXY  Inghams Group Limited You are entitled to appoint up to two persons as proxies to attend the C/- Link Market Services Limited Meeting and vote on a poll. If you wish to appoint a second proxy, an Locked Bag A14 additional Proxy Form may be obtained by telephoning the Company’s share registry or you may copy this form and return them both together. Sydney South NSW 1235 Australia To appoint a second proxy you must: (a) on each of the first Proxy Form and the second Proxy Form state the  BY FAX percentage of your voting rights or number of shares applicable to that +61 2 9287 0309 form. If the appointments do not specify the percentage or number of votes that each proxy may exercise, each proxy may exercise half your  BY HAND votes. Fractions of votes will be disregarded; and delivering it to Link Market Services Limited (b) return both forms together. 1A Homebush Bay Drive Rhodes NSW 2138 SIGNING INSTRUCTIONS or You must sign this form as follows in the spaces provided: Level 12 Individual: where the holding is in one name, the holder must sign. 680 George Street Joint Holding:* where the holding is in more than one name, either Sydney NSW 2000 shareholder may sign.

Power of Attorney: to sign under Power of Attorney, you must lodge the Power of Attorney with the registry. If you have not previously lodged this document for notation, please attach a certified photocopy of the Power of Attorney to this form when you return it.

  • During business hours (Monday to Friday, 9:00am–5:00pm)

Companies: where the company has a Sole Director who is also the Sole Company Secretary, this form must be signed by that person. If the company (pursuant to section 204A of the Corporations Act 2001 ) does not have a Company Secretary, a Sole Director can also sign alone. Otherwise this form must be signed by a Director jointly with either another Director or a Company Secretary. Please indicate the office held by signing in the appropriate place.

CORPORATE REPRESENTATIVES

If a representative of the corporation is to attend the Meeting the appropriate “Certificate of Appointment of Corporate Representative” should be produced prior to admission in accordance with the Notice of Meeting. A form of the certificate may be obtained from the Company’s share registry or online at www.linkmarketservices.com.au.

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND AND VOTE AT THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, PLEASE BRING THIS FORM WITH YOU. THIS WILL ASSIST IN REGISTERING YOUR ATTENDANCE.