The Annual General Meeting (hereinafter - the Meeting) of AB Linas Agro Group (hereinafter - the Company) was held on 28 October 2022.
The total number of the Company's shares is 160,394,398, the number of shares granting voting rights is 159,643,426, and the own shares in the amount of 750,972 acquired by the Company do not grant voting rights.
In total, 14 Company's shareholders, who owned Company shares at the end of the Accounting day of the Meeting (21 October 20221), participated in the Meeting, having 135,595,795 share votes, which amounted to 84.94 percent of the total number of the Company's share votes.
Twelve(12) duly filled General Voting Ballots were presented before the Meeting.
The CFO of the Company Mažvydas Šileika, deputizing Company's CEO, participated in the Meeting.
The quorum existed.
Decisions of the Meeting:
1. Presentation of the Company's Audit Committee Activity Report.
Presented (enclosed). No voting.
2. Presentation of the independent auditors' report.
Presented. No voting.
3. Presentation of the Consolidated Annual Report of the Company for the financial year 2021/2022.
Presented. No voting.
4. Approval of the Company's Remuneration Report.
Decision: Approve the Company's Remuneration Report.
Results of voting:
FOR - 135,595,795 votes (including 135,589,794 share votes of shareholders who voted in advance).
AGAINST - 0.
DID NOT VOTE - 0.
5. Approval of the consolidated and the Company's set of financial statements for the financial year ended 30 June 2022.
Decision: Approve the consolidated and the Company's set of financial statements for the financial year ended 30 June 2022.
Results of voting:
FOR - 135,595,795 votes (including 135,589,794 share votes of shareholders who voted in advance).
AGAINST - 0.
DID NOT VOTE - 0.
6. Approval of the Distribution of the Company's Profit (Loss).
Decision: Approve the Distribution of the Company's Profit (Loss):
| 1) | Retained earnings - profit (loss) of the previous financial year at the end of the accounting financial year | EUR 39,378,602 |
| 2) | Net profit (loss) of the financial year | EUR 12,131,783 |
| 3) | The profit (loss) of the accounting financial year not recognized in the profit (loss) account | - |
| 4) | The transfers from the reserves | EUR 3,527,291 |
| 5) | The shareholder's contributions to cover the losses of the Company (if shareholders decided to cover all or part of losses) | - |
| 6) | The total profit (loss) available for appropriation | EUR 55,037,676 |
| 7) | The part of the profit allocated to the legal reserve | EUR 606,589 |
| 8) | The part of the profit allocated to the reserve of the own share acquisition | - |
| 9) | The part of the profit allocated to the reserve of shares issue | EUR 3,601,794 |
| 10) | The part of the profit allocated to the other reserves | - |
| 11) | The part of the profit allocated for the payment of dividends | EUR 5,000,000* |
| 12) | The part of the profit allocated for payment of annual bonuses to the Board, employees and other purposes | - |
| 13) | Retained earnings - profit at the end of the financial year carried forward to the next financial year | EUR 45,829,293 |
* Dividends in the amount of EUR 5,000,000 are allocated for the financial year ended on 30 June 2022, which consist of EUR 0.0313 with taxes per one share of the Company (calculated without own shares acquired by the Company).
Results of voting:
FOR - 135,595,795 votes (including 135,589,794 share votes of shareholders who voted in advance).
AGAINST - 0.
DID NOT VOTE - 0.
7. Increase the Company's share capital.
Decision:
7.1. Under provisions of AB Linas Agro Group rules for shares issue, to increase the share capital of the Company from EUR 46,514,375.42 up to EUR 46,714,920.57, by issuing 691,535 ordinary registered book-entry shares with the par value of EUR 0.29 and issue price of each share equal to EUR 0.705, issued for the purpose of granting shares of the Company free of charge to the employees and/or members of the Company's corporate bodies (the New Shares).
7.2. Establish that the total issue price of all New Shares equals EUR 487,532.18, of which EUR 200,545.15 shall be the nominal value of the New Shares, and EUR 286,987.03 shall be the share premium.
7.3. Establish that the New Shares are granted free of charge, and they are paid by the Company from the reserve set up by the Company for shares issue.
7.4. Establish that right to subscribe and acquire the New Shares free of charge shall be granted to the employees and/or members of the corporate bodies of the Company who have concluded the Share Option Agreement of the Company in 2018 and accordingly in 2022 have submitted a notice to the Company regarding the use of the option (the Option Holders). The list of Option Holders, who are entitled to acquire the New Shares is not published to ensure the protection of personal data.
7.5. Authorize (including the power to delegate) the Chief Executive Officer of the Company to sign share subscription agreements with the Option Holders.
Results of voting:
FOR - 135,595,795 votes (including 135,589,794 share votes of shareholders who voted in advance).
AGAINST - 0.
DID NOT VOTE - 0.
8. Revocation of the pre-emption right of all shareholders of the Company to acquire the newly issued shares to grant shares of the Company free of charge to the employees and/or members of the Company's corporate bodies.
Decision. Considering that the Company seeks to grant shares of the Company free of charge to the employees and/or members of the corporate bodies of the Company who have concluded the Share Option Agreement of the Company and have submitted a notice to the Company regarding the use of the option, to revoke pre-emption right of all shareholders of the Company to acquire the New Shares.
Results of voting:
FOR - 135,595,795 votes (including 135,589,794 share votes of shareholders who voted in advance).
AGAINST - 0.
DID NOT VOTE - 0.
9. Approval of terms and conditions regarding the payment of the subscribed shares.
Decision:
9.1. Establish that each Option Holder to whom a right to subscribe for a certain number of the New Shares has been granted shall be informed hereof by the Head of the Company upon signing within 10 (ten) business days from the date of the resolutions adopted by the Meeting.
9.2. Establish that the Option Holders shall have a right to subscribe for a certain number of the New Shares by concluding a share subscription agreement with the Company within 30 (thirty) days from the date of the resolutions adopted by the Meeting.
9.3. If during the period for the subscription of the New Shares, not all the New Shares are subscribed, the share capital of the Company may be increased by the amount of the nominal values of the New Shares that have been subscribed.
9.4. Details of terms and conditions regarding the payment by the Company for the New Shares shall be provided in the share subscription agreement of the New Shares.
Results of voting:
FOR - 135,595,795 votes (including 135,589,794 share votes of shareholders who voted in advance).
AGAINST - 0.
DID NOT VOTE - 0.
10. Election of the Company's Board members.
Decision:
10.1. To remove the Board of the Company.
10.2. To elect to the Board of the Company for a new 4 (four) year term:
1) Andrius Pranckevicius;
2) Arunas Zubas;
3) Dainius Pilkauskas;
4) Darius Zubas;
5) Jonas Bakšys;
6) Mažvydas Šileika.
None of the candidates is considered independent.
Results of voting:
Each candidate received the same number of electoral votes - 135,595,795 votes (including 135,589,794 early votes).
FOR - 135,595,795 votes (including 135,589,794 share votes of shareholders who voted in advance).
AGAINST - 0.
DID NOT VOTE - 0.
11. Approval of a new wording of the Articles of Association of the Company.
Decision:
11.1. Taking into account the increase of the share capital of the Company, the change in the number of the Board members, and the formation of the Supervisory Board, to amend the Articles of Association of the Company and approve a new wording of the Articles of Association (enclosed).
11.2. Authorize (including the power to delegate) the Chief Executive Officer of the Company to announce the Register of Legal Entities of the Republic of Lithuania about the decision to increase the share capital of the Company, to sign the new wording of the Articles of Association of the Company and to register them with the Register of Legal Entities of the Republic of Lithuania pursuant to the procedure under law, as well to perform other actions provided in the Law On Securities of the Republic of Lithuania and other applicable laws, and to sign other documents associated with the implementation of the resolutions adopted herein.
Results of voting:
FOR - 135,595,795 votes (including 135,589,794 share votes of shareholders who voted in advance).
AGAINST - 0.
DID NOT VOTE - 0.
12. Election of the Company's Supervisory Board members and determination of remuneration.
Decision:
12.1. To elect members of the Supervisory Board of the Company for 4 (four) year term: [three members].
1) Arunas Bartusevicius (independent member);
2) Carsten Højland (independent member);
3) Tomas Tumenas.
12.2. Set the annual remuneration fund to the Supervisory Board in the amount of EUR 70,000 (seventy thousand euros).
12.3. Authorize (including the power to delegate) the Chief Executive Officer of the Company to sign Supervisory Board membership agreements with elected members of the Supervisory Board.
Results of voting:
Each candidate received the same number of votes - 134,875,458 votes (of which 134,869,457 votes were cast in advance), and 720,337 early votes were not cast.
Voting results for clauses 12.2 and 12.3:
FOR - 135,595,795 votes (including 135,589,794 share votes of shareholders who voted in advance).
AGAINST - 0.
DID NOT VOTE - 0.
13. Election of the Company's Audit Committee members, determination of remuneration, and approval of the Regulations of the Audit Committee.
Decision:
13.1. To approve the Regulations of the Audit Committee (enclosed);
13.2. To elect members of the Audit Committee of the Company for a new term of office of 4 (four) years:
1) Irma Antanaitiene;
2) Lukas Kuraitis (independent member);
3) Skaiste Malevskiene (independent member).
13.3. To set the annual salary to each member of the Audit Committee: EUR 800 (eight hundred euros) to the Chairman of the Audit Committee, and EUR 600 (six hundred euros) to the member of the Audit Committee.
Results of voting:
FOR - 135,595,795 votes (including 135,589,794 share votes of shareholders who voted in advance).
AGAINST - 0.
DID NOT VOTE - 0.
14. Approval of the Remuneration Policy.
Decision. To approve AB Linas Agro Group Remuneration Policy (enclosed).
Results of voting:
FOR - 135,595,795 votes (including 135,589,794 share votes of shareholders who voted in advance).
AGAINST - 0.
DID NOT VOTE - 0.
15. Approval of the Rules on granting shares.
Decision:
15.1. To change AB Linas Agro Group Rules for share issue and approve its new wording (enclosed).
15.2. To authorize the Head of the Company to ensure proper implementation of the Rules for shares issue.
Results of voting:
FOR - 135,595,795 votes (including 135,589,794 share votes of shareholders who voted in advance).
AGAINST - 0.
DID NOT VOTE - 0.
For more information, please contact:
Mažvydas Šileika
CFO of AB Linas Agro Group
Mob. +370 619 19 403
E-mail m.sileika@linasagro.lt
Attachments
- AB Linas Agro Group Audit Committee Activity Report 2021-2022 (https://ml-eu.globenewswire.com/Resource/Download/e3ecbc03-aeb4-42c5-b47b-ba1f19d2e6f4)
- Articles of Association (https://ml-eu.globenewswire.com/Resource/Download/72e45fc8-4032-42f7-85f8-0e8471a8f28f)
- Rules for Shares Issue (https://ml-eu.globenewswire.com/Resource/Download/1ac5de29-b934-4228-9e95-3d74f8c2aee5)
- Remuneration Policy (https://ml-eu.globenewswire.com/Resource/Download/2bcc131d-f84a-4276-8a86-737b6ba1f560)
- Audit Committee Regulations (https://ml-eu.globenewswire.com/Resource/Download/1d5b993e-8083-4f26-8791-029ca873683c)
- Members of Audit Committee (https://ml-eu.globenewswire.com/Resource/Download/03bd0e42-a2c2-4910-9841-2ca8567d169d)
- Members of Supervisory Board (https://ml-eu.globenewswire.com/Resource/Download/3b542bfe-8de1-4a92-96dc-4801a2f73458)
- Members of the Board (https://ml-eu.globenewswire.com/Resource/Download/d5878c95-6570-4113-a9f9-9b915e128a98)
