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YOWIE GROUP LTD AGM Information 2022

Oct 30, 2022

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YOWIE GROUP LTD ABN 98 084 370 669

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

TIME : 11:00am (AEDST) DATE : Wednesday, 30 November 2022 PLACE : Roof Top Conference Room Level 7 370 St Kilda Road Melbourne, Victoria 3004

The Notice of Meeting, Explanatory Statement and Proxy Form should be read in their entirety. If you are in doubt as to how you should vote, you should seek advice from your accountant, solicitor or other professional adviser prior to voting.

This Notice of Meeting can be accessed on the Company’s website at www.yowiegroup.com

CONTENTS PAGE

Business of the Annual General Meeting (setting out the proposed resolutions) 2
Meeting and Voting Information 3
Explanatory Statement (explaining the proposed resolutions) 5
Glossary 7
Proxy Form Attached

IMPORTANT DATES

An indicative timetable of key proposed dates is set out below. These dates are indicative only and are subject to change.

Event Date
Snapshot date for eligibility to vote 11.00am (AEDST) Monday, 28 November 2022
Last day for receipt of Proxy Forms* 11.00am (AEDST) Monday, 28 November 2022
Meeting 11.00am (AEDST) Wednesday, 30 November 2022
  • Proxy Forms received after 11.00am (AEDST) on Monday, 28 November 2022 will be disregarded.

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BUSINESS OF THE MEETING

AGENDA

Financial Statements and Reports

To receive and consider the annual financial report of the Company for the financial year ended 30 June 2022 together with the declaration of the directors, the directors’ report, the remuneration report and the auditor’s report.

1. RESOLUTION 1 – ADOPTION OF REMUNERATION REPORT

To consider and, if thought fit, to pass the following resolution as a non-binding resolution :

“That, for the purpose of Section 250R(2) of the Corporations Act and for all other purposes, approval is given for the adoption of the Remuneration Report as contained in the Company’s annual financial report for the financial year ended 30 June 2022.”

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

Voting Prohibition Statement:

A vote on this Resolution must not be cast (in any capacity) by or on behalf of any of the following persons:

  • (a) a member of the Key Management Personnel, details of whose remuneration are included in the Remuneration Report; or

  • (b) a Closely Related Party of such a member.

However, the Company will not disregard a vote if it is cast:

  • (a) by a person as proxy for a person who is entitled to vote, in accordance with the directions on the proxy form; or

  • (b) by the person chairing the meeting as proxy for a person who is entitled to vote, in accordance with a direction on the proxy form to vote as the proxy decides (even if the resolution is connected directly or indirectly with the remuneration of Key Management Personnel).

2. RESOLUTION 2 – RE-ELECTION OF DIRECTOR – NICHOLAS BOLTON

To consider and, if thought fit, to pass the following resolution as an ordinary resolution in accordance with clause 13.3 of the Constitution:

“That Mr Nicholas Bolton is re-elected as a Director.”

DATED: 28 OCTOBER 2022

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD

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NEVILLE BASSETT COMPANY SECRETARY

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Voting For the purposes of determining voting and attendance entitlements at the entitlement Meeting, Shares will be taken to be held by the persons who are registered as holding the Shares at 11.00am (AEDST) on Monday, 28 November 2022 . (snapshot date) Accordingly, transactions registered after that time will be disregarded in determining entitlements to attend and vote at the Meeting. Participation The Meeting will be held as a physical meeting. Shareholders may attend and participate (including to vote) in person at Roof Top Conference Room, Level 7, 370 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, Victoria. Shareholders are therefore encouraged to appoint a proxy to attend and vote at the Meeting on their behalf. IMPORTANT: The Company will be observing social distancing rules and other COVID-19 COVID-19 legal requirements that may apply having regard to the circumstances at matters the time of the Meeting. Attending the Meeting in person may be affected or prevented by lockdowns, social gathering restrictions, travel restrictions or other governmental orders in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Company may be required to take special measures in response, such as limiting physical attendee numbers or prohibiting physical attendance at the Meeting altogether.

In light of the evolving COVID-19 situation, Shareholders are strongly encouraged to consider appointing the Meeting Chair as proxy to attend and vote at the Meeting on their behalf. Appointment of A Shareholder that is a corporation may appoint an individual to act as its Corporate representative in accordance with section 250D of the Corporations Act. Shareholder The Shareholder must lodge a satisfactory and duly executed appointment representatives document with the Share Registry in accordance with the instructions below. Appointment of A Shareholder may appoint an attorney to act on the Shareholders’ behalf attorneys at the Meeting. To do so, the Shareholder must lodge a duly executed power of attorney with the Share Registry in accordance with the instructions below. Appointment of A Shareholder entitled to attend and vote at the Meeting is entitled to proxies appoint up to two proxies. A proxy does not need to be a Shareholder.

To appoint a second proxy, a Shareholder must state on each Proxy Form (in the appropriate box) the percentage of voting rights which are the subject of the relevant proxy. If both Proxy Forms do not specify that percentage, each proxy may exercise half the Shareholder’s votes. Fractions of votes will be disregarded.

Appointing the Meeting Chair as proxy

Shareholders may appoint the Meeting Chair as their proxy by marking the relevant box on the Proxy Form. Proxy Forms submitted without specifying the name of the proxy or expressly nominating the Meeting Chair as proxy will be deemed an appointment of the Meeting Chair. The Meeting Chair will be deemed proxy for a Shareholder if the proxy named in the Proxy Form does not attend the Meeting.

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Directing a proxy how to vote

Shareholders may direct a proxy whether to vote for or against, or to abstain from voting, on the Resolution by marking the relevant box on the Proxy Form. Shareholders may also specify the proportion or number of votes that a proxy may exercise. All votes must be cast in accordance with such directions.

Directed proxies that are not voted on a poll at the Meeting by an appointed proxy will default to the Meeting Chair who will be required to vote proxies as directed on a poll.

Subject to any legal restrictions on proxy voting, a proxy may vote on the Resolution at their discretion unless the Proxy Form directs the proxy how to vote on the Resolution.

Lodgement of a Proxy form / appointment documents

The Proxy Form (and any power of attorney or other authority, if any, under which it is signed) or a copy or facsimile which appears on its fact to be an authentic copy of the Proxy Form (and the power of attorney or other authority) must be lodged with the Company no later than 11.00am (AEDST) on Monday, 28 November 2022 being not later than 48 hours before the commencement of the Meeting. Any Proxy Form received after that time will not be valid. Proxy Forms may be lodged:

online: https://investorcentre.linkgroup.com by hand: Link Market Services Limited Parramatta Square, Level 22, Tower 6 10 Darcy Street Parramatta NSW 2150 by post: Yowie Group Ltd C/- Link Market Services Limited Locked Bag A14 Sydney South NSW 1235 Australia Fax: +61 2 9287 0309

All enquiries: Telephone: +61 1300 554 474

Proxy voting The Meeting Chair intends to vote all undirected proxies in favour of intention of Resolutions 1 and 2. In exceptional cases, the Meeting Chair may change Meeting Chair their voting intention, in which case the Company will make an announcement to ASX in this regard.

Voting Voting on each of the Resolutions at the Meeting will be conducted by way procedure of a poll.

Questions by The Meeting Chair will allow a reasonable opportunity at the Meeting for Shareholders Shareholders to ask questions or make comments on each Resolution.

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EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

This Explanatory Statement has been prepared to provide information which the Directors believe to be material to Shareholders in deciding whether or not to pass the Resolutions which are the subject of the business of the Annual General Meeting.

This Explanatory Statement forms part of and should be read in conjunction with the accompanying Notice of Annual General Meeting.

1. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND REPORTS

In accordance with the requirements of the Company’s Constitution and the Corporations Act, the 2022 Annual Report will be tabled at the Annual General Meeting (the Annual Report ). Shareholders will have the opportunity of discussing the Annual Report and making comments and raising queries in relation to the Annual Report.

There is no requirement for a formal resolution on this item.

Representatives from the Company’s auditors, RSM Australia Partners, will be present to take Shareholders’ questions and comments about the conduct of the audit and the preparation and content of the audit report.

Annual Report Online

Shareholders who have not elected to receive a hard copy of the Annual Report can access the report on the Company’s website at www.yowiegroup.com .

2. RESOLUTION 1 – ADOPTION OF REMUNERATION REPORT

2.1 General

Pursuant to section 250R(2) of the Corporations Act, the Company is required to put the Remuneration Report to the vote of Shareholders. The Directors’ Report for the year ended 30 June 2022 contains the Remuneration Report which sets out the remuneration policy for the Company and reports on the remuneration arrangements in place for the Directors and Key Management Personnel.

Resolution 1 is advisory only and does not bind the Directors of the Company. Of itself, a failure of Shareholders to pass Resolution 1 will not require the Directors to alter any of the arrangements in the Remuneration Report.

A reasonable opportunity will be provided for discussion of the Remuneration Report at the Annual General Meeting.

2.2 Voting consequences

If at least 25% of the votes cast on a remuneration report resolution are voted against adoption of the remuneration report in two consecutive annual general meetings and a resolution was not put to the vote at the earlier annual general meeting under an earlier application of section 250V of the Corporations Act, a company will be required to put to its shareholders a resolution proposing the calling of an extraordinary general meeting to consider the appointment of directors of the company ( Spill Resolution ) at the second annual general meeting.

If more than 50% of shareholders vote in favour of the Spill Resolution, the company must convene the extraordinary general meeting ( Spill Meeting ) within 90 days of the second annual general meeting.

At the Company’s previous annual general meeting the votes cast against the remuneration report considered at that annual general meeting were less than 25%. Accordingly, the Spill Resolution is not relevant for this Annual General Meeting.

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3. RESOLUTION 2 – RE-ELECTION OF DIRECTOR – NICHOLAS BOLTON

3.1 General

Resolution 2 relates to the re-election of Nicholas Bolton as a Director.

Clause 13.2 of the Constitution requires that at the Company's annual general meeting in every year, one-third of the Directors for the time being, or, if their number is not a multiple of 3, then the number nearest one-third (rounded upwards in the case of doubt), shall retire from office, provided always that no Director (except a Managing Director) shall hold office for a period in excess of 3 years, or until the third annual general meeting following his or her appointment, whichever is the longer, without submitting himself or herself for re-election.

The Directors to retire at an annual general meeting are those who have been longest in office since their last election, but, as between persons who became Directors on the same day, those to retire shall (unless they otherwise agree among themselves) be determined by drawing lots.

Under clause 13.4 of the Constitution directors appointed as additional directors and up for reelection under clause 13.4 shall not be taken into account in determining the Directors who are to retire by rotation.

A Director who retires by rotation under clause 13.2 of the Constitution is eligible for re-election.

The Company currently has 4 Directors (excluding the Managing Director).

Mr Nicholas Bolton, who has served as a director since 30 November 2020, retires by rotation and seeks re-election.

3.2 Qualifications and other material directorships

Mr Nicholas Bolton – Non-Executive Director

Mr Bolton has managed operational, investments and restructures assets in aviation, finance, property, energy, shipping, infrastructure and IT sectors. Mr Bolton is focused on delivering superior risk adjusted returns through active management and innovative solutions to challenging issues for investors and banking industries.

Mr Bolton is the Chief Executive Office and Managing Director of ASX-listed Keybridge Capital Limited.

3.3 Independence

If re-elected, the Board considers Mr Bolton will be a non-independent Director due to his association with Keybridge Capital Limited, a substantial shareholder of the Company.

3.4 Board recommendation

All the Directors, except Mr Bolton, recommend that Shareholders vote in favour of Resolution 2.

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GLOSSARY

AEDST means Australian Eastern Daylight Saving Time as observed in Melbourne, Victoria

Annual General Meeting or Meeting means the meeting convened by the Notice.

ASX means ASX Limited.

ASX Listing Rules means the Listing Rules of ASX.

Board means the current board of directors of the Company.

Closely Related Party of a member of the Key Management Personnel means:

  • (a) a spouse or child of the member;

  • (b) a child of the member’s spouse;

  • (c) a dependent of the member or the member’s spouse;

  • (d) anyone else who is one of the member’s family and may be expected to influence the member, or be influenced by the member, in the member’s dealing with the entity;

  • (e) a company the member controls; or

a person prescribed by the Corporations Regulations 2001 (Cth).

Company means Yowie Group Ltd (ACN 084 370 669).

Constitution means the Company’s constitution.

Corporations Act means the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth).

Directors means the current directors of the Company.

Key Management Personnel has the same meaning as in the accounting standards and broadly includes those persons having authority and responsibility for planning, directing and controlling the activities of the Company, directly or indirectly, including any director (whether executive or otherwise) of the Company.

Notice or Notice of Annual General Meeting means this notice of meeting including the Explanatory Statement and the Proxy Form.

Remuneration Report means the remuneration report set out in the Director’s report section of the Company’s annual financial report for the year ended 30 June 2022.

Resolutions means the resolutions set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting, or any one of them, as the context requires.

Share means a fully paid ordinary share in the capital of the Company.

Shareholder means a holder of a Share.

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ABN 98 084 370 669

LODGE YOUR VOTE

ONLINEhttps://investorcentre.linkgroup.com

BY MAIL  Yowie Group Ltd 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 Parramatta Square, Level 22, Tower 6, 10 Darcy Street, Parramatta NSW 2150

ALL ENQUIRIES TO Telephone: 1300 554 474 Overseas: +61 1300 554 474

X99999999999 X99999999999 PROXY FORM I/We being a member(s) of Yowie Group Ltd 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 11:00am (AEDT) on Wednesday, 30 November 2022 at the Roof Top Conference Room, Level 7, 370 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, Victoria 3004 (the Meeting ) and at any postponement or adjournment of the Meeting. Important for Resolution 1: 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 1, 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 * 1 Adoption of Remuneration Report 2 Re-Election of Director – Nicholas Bolton  * If you mark the Abstain box for a particular Item, you are directing your proxy not to vote on your behalf on a poll and your votes will not be counted in computing the required majority on a poll.

Important for Resolution 1: 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 1, 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.

SIGNATURE OF SHAREHOLDERS – THIS MUST BE COMPLETED

Shareholder 1 (Individual)
Joint Shareholder 2 (Individual)
Sole Director and Sole Company Secretary
Director/Company Secretary (Delete one)
Joint Shareholder 3 (Individual)
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 11:00am (AEDT) on Monday, 28 November 2022, 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:

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

https://investorcentre.linkgroup.com

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).

DEFAULT TO CHAIRMAN OF THE MEETING

Any directed proxies that are not voted on a poll at the Meeting will default to the Chairman of the Meeting, who is required to vote those proxies as directed. Any undirected proxies that default to the Chairman of the BY MAIL  Meeting will be voted according to the instructions set out in this Proxy Yowie Group Ltd Form, including where the Resolution is connected directly or indirectly C/- Link Market Services Limited with the remuneration of KMP. Locked Bag A14 VOTES ON ITEMS OF BUSINESS – PROXY APPOINTMENT Sydney South NSW 1235 You may direct your proxy how to vote by placing a mark in one of the Australia boxes opposite each item of business. All your shares will be voted in accordance with such a direction unless you indicate only a portion of  BY FAX voting rights are to be voted on any item by inserting the percentage or +61 2 9287 0309 number of shares you wish to vote in the appropriate box or boxes. If you BY HAND do not mark any of the boxes on the items of business, your proxy may  vote as he or she chooses. If you mark more than one box on an item your vote on that item will be invalid. Parramatta Square Level 22, Tower 6 APPOINTMENT OF A SECOND PROXY 10 Darcy Street You are entitled to appoint up to two persons as proxies to attend the Parramatta NSW 2150 Meeting and vote on a poll. If you wish to appoint a second proxy, an additional Proxy Form may be obtained by telephoning the Company’s share registry or you may copy this form and return them both together. subject to public health orders and restrictions To appoint a second proxy you must: (a) on each of the first Proxy Form and the second Proxy Form state the percentage of your voting rights or number of shares applicable to that form. If the appointments do not specify the percentage or number of votes that each proxy may exercise, each proxy may exercise half your votes. Fractions of votes will be disregarded; and (b) return both forms together. SIGNING INSTRUCTIONS You must sign this form as follows in the spaces provided: Individual: where the holding is in one name, the holder must sign. Joint Holding: where the holding is in more than one name, either shareholder may sign.

BY MAIL  Meeting will be voted according to the instructions set out in this Proxy Yowie Group Ltd Form, including where the Resolution is connected directly or indirectly C/- Link Market Services Limited with the remuneration of KMP. Locked Bag A14 VOTES ON ITEMS OF BUSINESS – PROXY APPOINTMENT Sydney South NSW 1235 You may direct your proxy how to vote by placing a mark in one of the Australia boxes opposite each item of business. All your shares will be voted in accordance with such a direction unless you indicate only a portion of  BY FAX voting rights are to be voted on any item by inserting the percentage or +61 2 9287 0309 number of shares you wish to vote in the appropriate box or boxes. If you BY HAND do not mark any of the boxes on the items of business, your proxy may  vote as he or she chooses. If you mark more than one box on an item your delivering it to Link Market Services Limited vote on that item will be invalid. Parramatta Square Level 22, Tower 6 APPOINTMENT OF A SECOND PROXY* 10 Darcy Street You are entitled to appoint up to two persons as proxies to attend the Parramatta NSW 2150

*during business hours Monday to Friday (9:00am - 5:00pm) and subject to public health orders and restrictions

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.

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COMMUNICATION PREFERENCE

We encourage you to receive all your shareholder communication via email. This communication method allows us to keep you informed without delay, is environmentally friendly and reduces print and mail costs.

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.

ONLINE

www.linkmarketservices.com.au

Login to the Link website using the holding details as shown on the Proxy Form. Select ‘Communications’ and click the first button to receive all communications electronically and enter your email address. To use the online facility, securityholders will need their “Holder Identifier” (Securityholder Reference Number (SRN) or Holder Identification Number (HIN) as shown on the front of the Proxy Form).

CORPORATE REPRESENTATIVES

If a representative of the corporation is to attend the Meeting virtually the appropriate “Certificate of Appointment of Corporate Representative” must be received at [email protected] prior to admission in accordance with the Notice of Annual General 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 PARTICIPATE IN AND VOTE AT THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, PLEASE BRING THIS FORM WITH YOU. THIS WILL ASSIST IN REGISTERING YOUR ATTENDANCE.