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Worsley Investors Limited

Pre-Annual General Meeting Information Aug 13, 2025

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Pre-Annual General Meeting Information

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THIS DOCUMENT IS IMPORTANT AND REQUIRES YOUR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION. If you are in any doubt about the contents of this document or the action you should take, you should consult immediately your stockbroker, bank manager, solicitor, accountant, or other financial adviser, authorised under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (as amended).

If you have sold or otherwise transferred all of your shares in Worsley Investors Limited, please send this document and Form of Proxy, as soon as possible, to the purchaser or transferee or to the stockbroker, bank or other agent through whom the sale or transfer was effected for transmission to the purchaser or transferee.

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

WORSLEY INVESTORS LIMITED

(a closed-ended company incorporated in Guernsey with registration number 43007)

Royal Plaza, Royal Avenue, St Peter Port, Guernsey GY1 2HL 1 1

Tel: +44 (0) 2035 303600

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 2025 annual general meeting of Worsley Investors Limited (the "Company") will be held at 1 Royal Plaza, Royal Avenue, St Peter Port, Guernsey GY1 2HL on 16 September 2025 at 12 noon (the "AGM") to consider and, if thought fit, pass the following resolutions, of which resolutions 1 to 6 will be proposed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 7 and 8 as special resolutions.

Shareholders are encouraged to read the explanatory notes included within this notice, which provide additional information on certain non-standard items of business being proposed at the annual general meeting.

ORDINARY BUSINESS

To consider and, if thought fit, pass the following resolutions, each of which will be proposed as an ordinary resolution:

    1. TO receive and consider the audited financial statements, the Directors' report and the Auditor's report for the year ended 31 March 2025.
    1. TO approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 March 2025.
    1. THAT Mr Robert Burke be re-elected as a Director of the Company.
    1. THAT Mr Blake Nixon be re-elected as a Director of the Company.
    1. THAT BDO Limited, which has indicated its willingness to continue in office, be re-appointed as Auditor of the Company to hold office from the conclusion of this annual general meeting until the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company.
    1. THAT the Directors be authorised to determine the remuneration of the Auditor for their next period of office.

SPECIAL BUSINESS

To consider and, if thought fit, pass the following resolutions, each of which will be proposed as a special resolution:

    1. THAT the Company be and is hereby generally and unconditionally authorised in accordance with Section 315 of The Companies (Guernsey) Law, 2008 (as amended) (the "Law") (subject to the UK Listing Rules and all other applicable legislation and regulations) to make market acquisitions (as defined in the Law) of its ordinary shares of no par value in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares"), provided that:
    2. a. The maximum number of Ordinary Shares hereby authorised to be purchased is 14.99 per cent. of the Ordinary Shares in issue immediately following the passing of this resolution;
    3. b. the minimum price (exclusive of expenses) which may be paid for an Ordinary Share is 1 penny;
  • c. the maximum price (exclusive of expenses) which may be paid for an Ordinary Share shall be not more than the higher of (i) 5 per cent. above the average market value for the five business days prior to the day the purchase is made and (ii) the higher of the price of the last independent trade and the highest independent bid at the time of the purchase for any number of the Ordinary Shares on the trading venues where the purchase is carried out;
  • d. The authority hereby conferred shall expire at the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company held in 2026 or 18 months from the date of this resolution, whichever is the earlier, unless such authority is varied, revoked or renewed prior to such time;
  • e. the Company may make a contract to purchase Ordinary Shares under the authority hereby conferred prior to the expiry of such authority which will or may be executed wholly or partly after the expiration of such authority and may make an acquisition of Ordinary Shares pursuant to any such contract; and
  • f. any Ordinary Share bought back may be held in treasury in accordance with the Law or subsequently cancelled by the Company.
    1. THAT, in substitution for all existing authorities to disapply pre-emption rights, the Directors be and are hereby authorised to sell from treasury equity securities (within the meaning of the Articles) for cash, as if article 6.2 of the Articles did not apply to any such sale from treasury, up to an aggregate amount not exceeding 15 per cent. of the Ordinary Shares in issue immediately following the passing of this resolution which may be at the lower of (i) the last published net asset value per Ordinary Share, or (ii) a price below the last published net asset value per Ordinary Share but not less than 30 per cent. above the weighted average price at which the shares were acquired into treasury, provided that any such sale from treasury must be at a price which is not more than 5% below the prevailing mid-market price per Ordinary Share. This authority shall expire at the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company held in 2026 unless such authority is renewed, varied or revoked by the Company, save that the Company may prior to the expiry of such period make any offer or agreement which would or might require such shares to be sold from treasury or rights to be granted after such expiry and the Directors may sell from treasury such shares in pursuance of any such offer or agreement as if the authority conferred hereby had not expired.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD

Apex Fund and Corporate Services (Guernsey) Limited

Company Secretary

13 August 2025

1 Royal Plaza Royal Avenue St Peter Port Guernsey GY1 2HL

Resolution 2: Directors' Remuneration Report

Under the Law, Guernsey-registered companies are not required to publish a Directors' Remuneration Report. However, in consideration of best practices in corporate governance the Company has included details of its directors' remuneration within the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2025 and an ordinary resolution will be proposed seeking shareholder approval of the Directors' Remuneration Report. This is an advisory rather than a binding vote.

Resolutions 3 and 4: Re-appointment of Directors

The Company's Articles of Incorporation prescribe that, at each annual general meeting of the Company, all the Directors who held offices at the two preceding annual general meetings and did not retire shall retire from office. The Directors believe that, while regular rotation is in keeping with good governance, the unquestionable benefits of ensuring that there is some continuity mean that it is in the best interests of the Company that not all Directors offer themselves for re-election each year. Accordingly, Mr Burke and Mr Nixon are standing for re-election at the AGM with Mr Scott, who was re-elected last year, not standing for re-election this year.

The Board remains satisfied that the individual contributions of each Director are, and will continue to be, important to the Company's long-term sustainable success. Biographical details for each of the Directors standing for re-election and details of their individual contributions to the operation of the Board during the year are set out below.

Robert Burke (Director)

Robert Burke is a resident of Ireland and was appointed to the board of the Company as an independent Director on 28 March 2019. He also serves as an independent non-executive director of a number of investment companies and investment management companies which are domiciled in Ireland as well as a number of companies engaged in retail activities, aircraft leasing, pharmaceuticals, corporate service provision and group treasury activities. He is a graduate of University College Dublin with degrees of Bachelor of Civil Law (1968) and Master of Laws (1970). He was called to the Irish Bar in 1969 and later undertook training for Chartered Accountancy with Price Waterhouse (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) in London, passing the final examination in 1973. He later was admitted as a Solicitor of the Irish Courts and was a tax partner in the practice of McCann FitzGerald in Dublin from 1981 to 2005 at which point he retired from the partnership to concentrate on directorship roles in which he was involved. He continues to hold a practice certificate as a solicitor and is a member of the Irish Tax Institute.

Blake Nixon (Director)

Blake Nixon was one of the pioneers of activism in the UK and has wide corporate experience in the UK and overseas. Following three years at Jordan Sandman Smythe (now part of Goldman Sachs), a New Zealand stockbroker, Blake emigrated to Australia, where he spent three years as an investment analyst at Industrial Equity Limited ("EL"), then Australia's fourth largest listed company. In 1989 he transferred to IEL's UK operation and early in 1990 led the takeover of failing LSE listed financial conglomerate, Guinness Peat Group plc ('GPG'). The group was then relaunched as an investment company, applying an owner orientated approach to listed investee companies. Blake was UK Executive Director, responsible for GPG's UK operations and corporate function, for the following 20 years, finally retiring as a non-executive director in December 2015. He is a founding partner of Worsley Associates LLP, an activist fund manager, and has served as a non-executive director of a number of other UK listed companies, as well as numerous unlisted companies. He is a British resident and was appointed to the Board on 23 January 2019.

Resolution 7: Market acquisitions

Resolution 7 gives the Company authority to make market acquisitions of the Company's own Ordinary Shares, up to a maximum of 14.99 per cent. of the Company's Ordinary Shares in issue as at the time immediately following the passing of the resolution, and subject to minimum and maximum purchase prices as set out in parts b. and c. of resolution 7. This authority will only be invoked if, after taking proper advice, the Directors consider that benefits will accrue to shareholders generally.

In normal market circumstances the Directors intend to favour pro rata capital distributions ahead of Ordinary Share repurchases in the market, however, if the Ordinary Shares have traded at a significant discount to net asset value for a prolonged period the Board will consider the use of income on market repurchases over other uses of capital. If the Board does decide that the Company should repurchase Ordinary Shares, purchases will only be made through the market for cash at prices below the estimated prevailing net asset value per Ordinary Share where the Directors believe such purchases will result in an increase in the net asset value per Ordinary Share.

Resolution 8: Disapplication of pre-emption under the Articles

Resolution 8 gives the Directors authority to sell shares from treasury without first offering them to existing holders on a pro rata basis. The number of shares allotted under this power is limited to a maximum of 15 per cent of the number of Ordinary Shares in issue immediately following the passing of this resolution.

The Directors intend to sell shares out of treasury pursuant to the authority granted by resolution 8 only if the Directors believe that it would be in the best interests of the Company's shareholders as a whole to do so. Shareholder attention is drawn to the fact that this resolution will authorise the sale of shares out of treasury at a price below the prevailing net asset value per Ordinary Share ("NAV"), however, the Directors confirm that no sale of shares out of treasury will be made pursuant to the authority granted by resolution 8 at lower than the last published NAV unless the price is not less than 30 per cent. above the weighted average price at which the shares were acquired into treasury, and that any such sale from treasury must be at a price which is not more than below 5% of the prevailing mid-market price per Ordinary Share.

Proxies

    1. A shareholder is entitled to appoint another person as his proxy to exercise all or any of his rights to attend and to speak and vote at the AGM. A shareholder may appoint more than one proxy in relation to the AGM provided that each proxy is appointed to exercise the rights attached to a different share or shares held by that shareholder. A proxy need not also be a shareholder of the Company.
    1. Shareholders will find enclosed a form of proxy for use in connection with the AGM (and any adjournment). The form of proxy should be completed in accordance with the instructions. To be valid, the form of proxy (together with the power of attorney or other authority, if any, under which it is executed or a notarially certified copy of such power or authority) must be deposited at the offices of the Company's registrars, Computershare Investor Services (Guernsey) Limited (the "Registrar"), c/o The Pavilions, Bridgwater Road, Bristol BS99 6ZY, online at www.investorcentre.co.uk/eproxy (you will be asked to enter the Control Number, Shareholder Reference Number (SRN) and PIN shown on your proxy form and agree to certain terms and conditions) or at the email address: #[email protected] at least 48 hours before the time of the AGM. Where a form of proxy is given by email the power of attorney or other authority, if any, under which it is executed or a notarially certified copy of such power or authority must be deposited at the offices of the Company's Registrars at the above address by the appointed time. A space has been included in the form of proxy to allow shareholders to specify the number of shares in respect of which that proxy is appointed. Shareholders who return the form of proxy duly executed but leave this space blank will be deemed to have appointed the proxy in respect of all of their shares. Shareholders who wish to appoint more than one proxy in respect of their shareholding should contact the Company's Registrar, on their helpline number: 0370 707 4040 from within the UK or on +44 370 707 4040 if calling from outside the UK for additional forms of proxy, or you may photocopy the form of proxy provided with this document indicating on each copy the name of the proxy you wish to appoint and the number of ordinary shares in the Company in respect of which the proxy is appointed. All forms of proxy should be returned together in the same envelope.

In the case of joint holders, any one holder may vote. If more than one holder is present at the AGM, only the vote of the senior will be accepted, seniority being determined in the order in which the names appear on the register of shareholders of the Company.

  1. To allow effective constitution of the AGM, if it is apparent to the Chairman that no shareholders will be present in person or by proxy, other than by proxy in the Chairman's favour, then the Chairman may appoint a substitute to act as proxy in his stead for any shareholder, provided that such substitute proxy shall vote on the same basis as the Chairman.

Corporate representatives

A corporate shareholder may by resolution of its board or other governing body, authorise such person or persons as it thinks fit to act as its representative at the AGM. Where a person is authorised to represent a corporate shareholder, he may be required to produce a certified copy of the resolution from which he derives his authority.

Right to attend and vote

To be entitled to attend and vote at the AGM (and for the purpose of the determination by the Company of the votes they may cast), shareholders must be registered in the register of members of the Company at 5.00 p.m. on 12 September 2025 or, in the event of any adjournment, at 5.00 p.m. on the date which is two business days before the time of the adjourned meeting. Changes to entries on the register of shareholders after the relevant deadline shall be disregarded in determining the rights of any person to attend and vote at the AGM.

CREST members

    1. CREST members who wish to appoint a proxy or proxies by utilising the CREST electronic proxy appointment service may do so for the AGM (and any adjournments thereof) by utilising the procedures described in the CREST manual (the "CREST Manual"). CREST personal members or other CREST sponsored members, and those CREST members who have appointed a voting service provider(s) should refer to their CREST sponsor or voting service providers, who will be able to take the appropriate action on their behalf.
    1. 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 Limited's specifications and must contain the information required for such instructions, as described in the CREST Manual. The message must be transmitted so as to be received by the Registrar, by the latest time for receipt of proxy appointments specified in this notice of AGM. 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.
    1. CREST members and, where applicable, their CREST sponsors or voting service providers should note that Euroclear UK & Ireland Limited 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 members are a CREST personal member or sponsored member or has appointed a voting service provider, to procure that their CREST sponsor or voting service provider takes) 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 limitations of the CREST system and timings. The Company may treat as invalid a CREST Proxy Instruction in the circumstances set out in Regulation 34 of the Uncertificated Securities (Guernsey) Regulations 2009.

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