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SSY Group Limited Proxy Solicitation & Information Statement 2025

Apr 16, 2025

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Proxy Solicitation & Information Statement

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Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited and The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited take no responsibility for the contents of this notice, make no representation as to its accuracy or completeness and expressly disclaim any liability whatsoever for any loss howsoever arising from or in reliance upon the whole or any part of the contents of this notice.

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石四萊集團有限公司

SSY Group Limited

(Incorporated in the Cayman Islands with limited liability)

(Stock Code: 2005)

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the annual general meeting (the “Meeting”) of SSY Group Limited (the “Company”) will be held at 2:00 p.m. on 16 May 2025 at Rooms 4902-03, 49th Floor, Central Plaza, 18 Harbour Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong for the following purposes:

ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS

  1. To receive and adopt the audited consolidated financial statements of the Company and its subsidiaries and the reports of the directors and of the independent auditor for the year ended 31 December 2024.
  2. A. To re-elect Mr. Qu Jiguang as an executive Director of the Company.
    B. To re-elect Mr. Su Xuejun as an executive Director of the Company.
    C. To re-elect Ms. Qu Wanrong as an executive Director of the Company.
    D. To re-elect Mr. Chow Kwok Wai as an independent non-executive Director of the Company.
  3. To authorise the board of Directors of the Company (the “Directors”) to fix the Directors’ remuneration.
  4. To re-appoint KPMG as auditor of the Company and to authorise the Directors to fix its remuneration.

  1. To consider and, if thought fit, pass the following ordinary resolution of the Company:

“THAT the Company be and is hereby authorised to declare and pay a final dividend of HK$0.095 per share for the year ended 31 December 2024 out of the Company’s retained earnings first, followed by the share premium account, to the shareholders of the Company.”

  1. As special business to consider and, if thought fit, pass with or without amendments the following resolutions as ordinary resolutions of the Company:

A. “THAT:

(a) subject to paragraph (c) of this Resolution, and pursuant to the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on the Stock Exchange, the exercise by the Directors during the Relevant Period (as hereinafter defined) of all the powers of the Company to allot, issue or otherwise deal with additional shares in the capital of the Company (the “Shares”) (including any sale or transfer of treasury shares) and to make or grant offers, agreements and options (including warrants, bonds and debentures convertible into Shares) which might require the exercise of such powers be and is hereby generally and unconditionally approved;

(b) the approval given in paragraph (a) of this Resolution shall authorise the Directors during the Relevant Period to make or grant offers, agreements and options (including warrants, bonds and debentures convertible into Shares) which might require the exercise of such powers after the end of the Relevant Period;

(c) the aggregate number of Shares allotted or agreed conditionally or unconditionally to be allotted (whether pursuant to an option or otherwise), and including any sale or transfer of treasury shares by the Directors pursuant to the approval given in paragraph (a) of this Resolution, otherwise than pursuant to:

(i) a Rights Issue (as hereinafter defined);

(ii) the exercise of rights of subscription or conversion under the terms of any warrants issued by the Company or any securities which are convertible into Shares;

(iii) the exercise of the subscription rights under any option scheme or similar arrangement for the time being adopted for the grant or issue to eligible persons of Shares or rights to acquire Shares; or

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(iv) any scrip dividend or similar arrangement providing for the allotment of Shares in lieu of the whole or part of a dividend on Shares in accordance with the articles of association of the Company,

shall not exceed 20 per cent of the aggregate number of Shares in issue (excluding treasury shares, if any) as at the date of the passing of this Resolution, and the said approval shall be limited accordingly; and

(d) for the purpose of this Resolution:

“Relevant Period” means the period from the passing of this Resolution until whichever is the earliest of:

(i) the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company;

(ii) the expiration of the period within which the next annual general meeting of the Company is required by the articles of association of the Company or any applicable laws to be held; and

(iii) the date on which the authority set out in this Resolution is revoked or varied by way of ordinary resolution of the shareholders of the Company in general meeting.

“Rights Issue” means an offer of Shares open for a period fixed by the Directors to holders of Shares on the register of members of the Company on a fixed record date in proportion to their then holdings of such Shares (subject to such exclusion or other arrangements as the Directors may deem necessary or expedient in relation to fractional entitlements or having regard to any restrictions or obligations under the laws of, or the requirements of any recognized regulatory body or any stock exchange in, any territory applicable to the Company).

B. “THAT:

(a) subject to paragraph (b) of this Resolution, the exercise by the Directors during the Relevant Period (as hereinafter defined) of all the powers of the Company to repurchase its own Shares on the Stock Exchange subject to and in accordance with all applicable laws and/or the requirements of the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on the Stock Exchange as amended from time to time, be and is hereby generally and unconditionally approved;

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(b) the aggregate number of Shares which may be repurchased by the Company pursuant to paragraph (a) of this Resolution during the Relevant Period shall not exceed 10 per cent of the aggregate number of Shares in issue (excluding treasury shares, if any) as at the date of the passing of this Resolution, and the said approval shall be limited accordingly; and

(c) for the purpose of this resolution, “Relevant Period” means the period from the passing of this resolution until whichever is the earliest of:

(i) the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company;

(ii) the expiration of the period within which the next annual general meeting of the Company is required by the articles of association of the Company or any applicable laws to be held; and

(iii) the date on which the authority set out in this Resolution is revoked or varied by way of ordinary resolution of the shareholders of the Company in general meeting.”

C. “THAT, conditional upon the passing of the Resolutions 6A and 6B in the notice convening the Meeting, the general mandate granted to the Directors to exercise the powers of the Company to allot, issue or otherwise deal with additional Shares of the Company (including any sale or transfer of treasury shares) pursuant to Resolution 6A as set out in the notice convening the Meeting be and is hereby extended by the addition thereto an amount representing the aggregate number of Shares repurchased by the Company under the authority granted pursuant to Resolution 6B as set out in the notice convening the Meeting provided that such amount shall not exceed 10 per cent of the aggregate number of Shares in issue (excluding treasury shares, if any) as at the date of the passing of this Resolution.”

By order of the Board

Chow Hing Yeung

Executive Director and Company Secretary

Hong Kong, 17 April 2025

Notes:

  1. Any member entitled to attend and vote at the Meeting is entitled to appoint another person as his proxy to attend and vote instead of him/her. A member who is the holder of two or more Shares may appoint more than one proxy to attend and vote on his behalf. A proxy need not be a member of the Company.

  1. To be valid, a form of proxy, together with the power of attorney or other authority (if any) under which it is signed or a certified copy of such power or authority must be delivered to the Company’s branch share registrar and transfer office in Hong Kong, Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited, at Shops 1712-1716, 17th Floor, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong not less than 48 hours before the time appointed for holding the Meeting or any adjournment thereof.

  2. The register of members of the Company will be closed from Tuesday, 13 May 2025 to Friday, 16 May 2025, both dates inclusive, during which period, no transfer of shares will be registered. In order to qualify to attend and vote at the Meeting, all properly completed transfer forms accompanied by the relevant share certificates must be lodged with the Company’s branch share registrar and transfer office in Hong Kong, Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited at Shops 1712-1716, 17th Floor, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong by no later than 4:30 p.m., Monday, 12 May 2025.

In order to qualify for the proposed final dividend to be approved at the Meeting, all properly completed transfer forms, accompanied by the relevant share certificates, must be lodged with the Company’s branch share registrar and transfer office in Hong Kong, Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited at Shops 1712-1716, 17th Floor, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong by no later than 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, 21 May 2025 which is the Record Date for the proposed final dividend.

  1. Where there are joint holders of any Share, any one of such persons may vote at any meeting, either in person or by proxy, in respect of such Share as if he were solely entitled thereto; but if more than one of such joint holders be present at any meeting the vote of the senior who tenders a vote, whether in person or by proxy, shall be accepted to the exclusion of the votes of the other joint holders, and for this purpose seniority shall be determined by the order in which the names stand in the register of members in respect of the joint holding.

  2. The Company encourages that the Shareholders to consider appointing the chairman of the Meeting as his/her proxy to vote on the relevant resolution at the Meeting, instead of attending the Meeting in person.

  3. If Typhoon Signal No. 8 or above is expected to be hoisted or a Black Rainstorm Warning Signal is expected to be in force any time after 6:00 a.m. on the date of the Meeting, then the Meeting will be adjourned in accordance with the existing articles of association of the Company and the shareholders will be informed of the date, time and place of the adjourned meeting and, if necessary, be given notice thereof pursuant to the existing articles of association of the Company.

  4. An explanatory statement regarding the general mandate of the repurchase of Shares sought in the above Resolution 6B is set out in Appendix I to the circular of the Company dated 17 April 2025.

  5. Please refer to Appendix II to the circular of the Company dated 17 April 2025 for the details of the retiring Directors subject to re-election at the Meeting.

  6. For the avoidance of doubt, treasury shares, if any and registered under the name of the Company, are not entitled to vote at the AGM. For the avoidance of doubt, for the purpose of the Listing Rules, treasury shares held under the name of CCASS shall abstain from voting at the Company’s general meeting(s).

  7. As at the date of this notice, the executive Directors are Mr. Qu Jiguang, Mr. Su Xuejun, Mr. Meng Guo, Mr. Chow Hing Yeung and Ms. Qu Wanrong, the non-executive Director is Mr. Liu Wenjun, and the independent non-executive Directors are Mr. Wang Yibing, Mr. Chow Kwok Wai and Mr. Jiang Guangce.

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