Strength & Stability - ECS Holdings Limited
Strength & Stability - ECS Holdings Limited
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(ii)<br />
Resolution 6(b), if passed, will authorise the Directors to issue new shares in pursuance of the share issue mandate granted under<br />
Resolution 6(a), to subscribers or placees, on a non pro rata basis, at a discount of not more than 20% to the weighted average price<br />
for trades done on the SGX-ST for the full market day on which the placement or subscription agreement is signed.<br />
The maximum discount of 20% is proposed pursuant to the SGX-ST’s news release of 19 February 2009 which, inter alia, introduced<br />
further measures to accelerate and facilitate the fund raising efforts of listed issuers.<br />
(iii) Resolution 6(c), if passed, will authorise the Directors to offer and grant options and to allot and issue shares pursuant to the <strong>ECS</strong> Share<br />
Option Scheme II, provided that the aggregate number of shares issued pursuant to the <strong>ECS</strong> Share Option Scheme II shall not exceed<br />
fifteen (15) per cent of the total number of issued shares in the capital of the Company from time to time.<br />
(iv) Resolutions 6(d) and 6(e), if passed, will authorise the Company, its subsidiaries and associated companies, from the date of the annual<br />
general meeting until the conclusion of the next annual general meeting, to enter into interested person transactions with certain<br />
interested persons of the Company, its subsidiaries and/or associated companies. Each of such mandates shall, unless revoked or varied<br />
by the Company in general meeting, continue in force until the next annual general meeting of the Company. For further details on<br />
the interested person transactions and interested persons referred to, please see the appendices Appendix A to this Notice.<br />
(v)<br />
Resolution 6(f), if passed, will renew effective up to the next annual general meeting (unless earlier revoked or varied by the Company<br />
in general meeting) the Share Buy-back Mandate for the Company to purchase or acquire its ordinary shares. The amount of financing<br />
required for the Company to purchase or acquire its ordinary shares, and the impact on the Company’s financial position, cannot be<br />
ascertained as at the date of the Notice of Annual General Meeting as these will depend on the number of ordinary shares purchased or<br />
acquired and the price at which such ordinary shares were purchased or acquired. For further details on the Share Buyback Mandate,<br />
please see Appendix B to this Notice.<br />
Proxies :<br />
A member entitled to attend and vote at the annual general meeting may appoint not more than two proxies to attend and vote on his behalf<br />
and where a member appoints more than one proxy, the proportion of the shareholding concerned to be represented by each proxy shall be<br />
specified in the form of proxy. A proxy need not be a member of the Company. The instrument appointing a proxy must be deposited at<br />
the office of the Company’s Share Registrar, M & C Services Private <strong>Limited</strong>, 138 Robinson Road #17-00, The Corporate Office, Singapore<br />
068906, not less than forty-eight hours before the time set for the holding of the annual general meeting.<br />
NOTICE OF BOOKS CLOSURE AND DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE<br />
NOTICE IS ALSO HEREBY GIVEN that the Share Transfer Books and Register of Members of the Company will be closed on 9<br />
May 2009, for the purpose of determining the members’ entitlements to the dividend to be proposed at the Annual General Meeting<br />
of the Company to be held on 30 April 2009. Duly completed registrable transfers in respect of shares in the Company received up to<br />
the close of business at 5.00 p.m. on 8 May 2009 by the Company’s Share Registrar, M & C Services Private <strong>Limited</strong>, will be registered<br />
to determine members’ entitlements to such dividend. Members whose securities accounts with The Central Depository (Pte) Ltd are<br />
credited with shares in the Company as at 5.00 p.m. on 8 May 2009 will be entitled to such proposed dividend.<br />
The proposed dividend, if approved at the Annual General Meeting, will be paid on 22 May 2009.<br />
Notice of Annual<br />
General Meeting<br />
Annual Report 2008<br />
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