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YNBY International Limited Proxy Solicitation & Information Statement 2025

Apr 7, 2025

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Proxy Solicitation & Information Statement

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SWIRE PACIFIC

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited and The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited take no responsibility for the contents of this announcement, 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 announcement.

SWIRE PACIFIC LIMITED

太古股份有限公司

(Incorporated in Hong Kong with limited liability)

(Stock Codes: 00019 and 00087)

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an ordinary general meeting of the shareholders of Swire Pacific Limited (the "Company"), being the annual general meeting for 2025, will be held at the Ballroom, Level 5, Island Shangri-La Hong Kong, Pacific Place, Supreme Court Road, Central, Hong Kong on Thursday, 15th May 2025 at 9:00 a.m. to receive the report of the Directors and the audited financial statements for the year ended 31st December 2024 and:

  1. To re-elect Directors.
  2. To re-appoint auditors and authorise the Directors to fix their remuneration.

As special business, to consider and, if thought fit, to pass the following resolutions:

Ordinary Resolutions

  1. THAT:

(a) subject to paragraph (b), the exercise by the Directors during the Relevant Period of all the powers of the Company to make on-market share buy-backs (within the meaning of the Code on Share Buy-backs) be approved;
(b) the aggregate number of shares of any class which may be bought back pursuant to the approval in paragraph (a) above shall not exceed 10 per cent of the number of shares of that class in issue at the date of passing this Resolution; and
(c) for the purpose of this Resolution:

"Relevant Period" means the period from the passing of this Resolution until 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 law to be held; and
(iii) the revocation or variation of the authority given under this Resolution by ordinary resolution of the shareholders in general meeting;

references to "shares" include securities which carry a right to subscribe for or purchase shares; and


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treasury shares shall be excluded from the calculation of the number of shares of the Company in issue.

4. THAT:

(a) subject to paragraph (b), the exercise by the Directors during the Relevant Period of all the powers of the Company to allot, issue and deal with additional shares and to make or grant offers, agreements and options which will or might require the exercise of such powers during or after the end of the Relevant Period be approved;

(b) the aggregate number of shares of any class allotted or agreed conditionally or unconditionally to be allotted (whether pursuant to an option or otherwise) by the Directors pursuant to the approval in paragraph (a), otherwise than pursuant to (i) a Rights Issue or (ii) any scrip dividend or similar arrangement providing for the allotment of shares in lieu of the whole or part of a dividend on shares, shall not exceed 20 per cent of the number of shares of that class in issue at the date of passing this Resolution provided that the aggregate number of shares of any class so allotted (or so agreed conditionally or unconditionally to be allotted) pursuant to this Resolution wholly for cash (otherwise than pursuant to (i) a Rights Issue or (ii) any scrip dividend or similar arrangement providing for the allotment of shares in lieu of the whole or part of a dividend on shares) shall not exceed 5 per cent of the number of shares of that class in issue at the date of passing this Resolution;

(c) for the purpose of this Resolution:

“Relevant Period” means the period from the passing of this Resolution until 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 law to be held; and

(iii) the revocation or variation of the authority given under this Resolution by ordinary resolution of the shareholders in general meeting;

“Rights Issue” means an offer of shares to holders of shares or any class thereof on the register on a fixed record date in proportion to their then holdings of such shares or class thereof (subject to such exclusions 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 recognised regulatory body or any stock exchange in, any territory outside Hong Kong);

treasury shares shall be excluded from the calculation of the number of shares of the Company in issue; and

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any reference to an allotment, issue, grant or offer of, or dealing with shares of the Company shall include a sale or transfer of treasury shares of the Company (including to satisfy any obligation upon the conversion or exercise of any convertible securities, options, warrants or similar rights to subscribe for shares of the Company) to the extent permitted by, and subject to the provisions of, the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited and all applicable laws and regulations.

By Order of the Board

SWIRE PACIFIC LIMITED

太古股份有限公司

Bernadette Lomas

Company Secretary

Hong Kong, 8th April 2025


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Notes:

  1. Any member entitled to attend and/or vote at the meeting convened by the above notice is entitled to appoint one or more proxies to attend and/or vote instead of him/her. A proxy need not be a member of the Company.

  2. All forms of proxy must be deposited with the Company’s share registrars, Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited, 17M Floor, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Hong Kong, not less than 48 hours before the time appointed for the meeting or any adjourned meeting thereof. In calculating the period mentioned for depositing the form of proxy, no account is to be taken of any part of a day that is a public holiday.

  3. The register of members will be closed from 12th May 2025 to 15th May 2025, both days inclusive. In order to be entitled to attend and vote at the annual general meeting, all transfers should be lodged with the Company’s share registrars, Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited, 17th Floor, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Hong Kong, for registration not later than 4:30 p.m. on Friday, 9th May 2025.

  4. The Directors who will retire are Guy Bradley, Patrick Healy, Gordon Orr and Xu Ying. Separate resolutions will be proposed for their re-election. Rose Lee will also retire at the forthcoming annual general meeting but does not offer herself for re-election.

  5. Each of the resolutions set out in this notice will be voted on by poll.

  6. Shareholders with disabilities are requested to indicate in advance whether, because of their disabilities, they need special arrangements to assist them in participating at the meeting.

  7. The Company may announce further updates on the annual general meeting arrangement on the Company’s website (www.swirepacific.com) as and when appropriate.

As at the date of this announcement, the Directors of the Company are:

Executive Directors: Guy Bradley (Chairman), David Cogman, Patrick Healy, Martin Murray; Non-Executive Directors: Gordon McCallum, Merlin Swire; and Independent Non-Executive Directors: Paul Etchells, Rose Lee, Edith Ngan, Gordon Orr, Xu Ying and Bonnie Zhang.