Formal Notice - Poll Results of EGM

RNS Number : 2732A

Air China Ld

19 December 2014

 



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Air China Limited 

(a joint stock limited company incorporated in the People's Republic of China with limited liability)
(Stock Code: 00753)

POLL RESULTS OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING

The board of directors (the "Board") of Air China Limited (the "Company") is pleased to announce the results of the resolution passed at the extraordinary general meeting of the Company held on 18 December 2014 (the "EGM").

Reference is made to: (i) the circular of the Company dated 31 October 2014 (the "Circular"); (ii) the notice of EGM dated 31 October 2014; and (iii) the further notice of EGM dated 1 December 2014, containing details of the resolution tabled at the EGM. Unless otherwise indicated, capitalised terms used in this announcement shall have the same meanings as those defined in the Circular.

The Board is pleased to announce that the proposed resolution set out in the form of proxy for the EGM was duly passed by the Shareholders by way of poll at the EGM held on Thursday, 18 December 2014 at The Phoenix Room, 29/F, Air China Building, 36 Xiaoyun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, PRC.

As at the date of the EGM, the total number of shares of the Company was 13,084,751,004. CNAHC, the controlling shareholder of the Company, and CNACG, the wholly-owned subsidiary of CNAHC, have a material interest in the proposed ordinary resolution at the EGM and are required to abstain, and have abstained, from voting on the ordinary resolution at the EGM. As at the date of the EGM, CNAHC and CNACG held an aggregate of 6,983,881,013 shares. Accordingly, the total number of shares entitling the Shareholders to attend and vote for or against the ordinary resolution proposed at the EGM was 6,100,869,991 shares. The Shareholders and authorised proxies holding in aggregate 3,293,853,025 shares, entitling them to vote for or against the proposed ordinary resolution, were present at the EGM.

Save as disclosed above, there were no other restrictions on any Shareholders to cast votes on the resolution proposed at the EGM.

The poll results in respect of the proposed resolution at the EGM were as follows:

ORDINARY RESOLUTION				Votes of Shareholders
				For		Against
1.		To consider and approve the entry into of the trademark licensing framework agreement between the Company and China National Aviation Holding Company dated 28 October 2014 and the transaction contemplated thereunder.		2,959,491,900 (89.85%)		334,359,125 (10.15%)
As more than 50% of the votes were cast in favour of the above resolution, the resolution was duly passed as an ordinary resolution.

KPMG Huazhen (Special General Partnership) was the scrutineer for the vote-taking at the EGM.

By order of the Board Air China Limited Rao Xinyu　Tam Shuit Mui Joint Company Secretaries

Beijing, the PRC, 18 December 2014

As at the date of this announcement, the directors of the Company are Mr. Cai Jianjiang, Ms. Wang Yinxiang, Mr. Cao Jianxiong, Mr. Feng Gang, Mr. John Robert Slosar, Mr. Ian Sai Cheung Shiu, Mr. Song Zhiyong, Mr. Fan Cheng, Mr. Fu Yang*, Mr. Yang Yuzhong*, Mr. Pan Xiaojiang* and Mr. Simon To Chi Keung*.

*　Independent non-executive director of the Company

 

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