Dissemination of Corporate Communications
Pursuant to the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the “Listing Rules”), the Companies Ordinance (Chapter 622 of the Laws of Hong Kong) and the articles of association of the Company, the Company has adopted electronic dissemination of Corporate Communications1 through the websites of the Company and Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (“HKEX”) in place of sending printed copies. The Company will only send the printed form of future Corporate Communications to its shareholders upon request in writing.
Notification of publication of Corporate Communications
Registered shareholders may either register for the News Alerts service of HKEX or provide their email address to the Company for receiving its email notifications of publication of the Corporate Communications. Please refer to the Reply Form for Registered Shareholder for more details.
Non-registered shareholders may either register for the News Alerts service of HKEX or liaise with their Intermediary(ies)2 and provide it/them with their email address for receiving the Company’s email notifications of publication of its Corporate Communications. Please refer to the Reply Form for Non-registered Shareholder for more details.
If no functional email address is provided, the shareholders will not be able to receive any email notification and will have to check the websites of the Company and HKEX proactively for the publication of the Corporate Communications.
Actionable Corporate Communications3
Pursuant to the Listing Rules, the Company is required to send Actionable Corporate Communications to its registered shareholders individually. Registered shareholders are recommended to provide an email address to the Company for receiving Actionable Corporate Communications electronically. If no functional email address is provided, or for certain Actionable Corporate Communications which, because of its nature, have to be sent to the registered shareholders by post, the Company will send Actionable Corporate Communications in printed form by post to their respective addresses as appear in the register of members of the Company.
Request for printed or electronic form of Corporate Communications
Both the English and Chinese versions of the Corporate Communications in printed form or electronic form will be sent to the shareholders free of charge upon request in writing to the Company c/o Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited (“Computershare”, the Share Registrar of the Company) by email at shkp@computershare.com.hk or by post at 17M Floor, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Wan Chai, Hong Kong.
Change of choice of language and/or means of receipt of Corporate Communications and/or Actionable Corporate Communications
Shareholders may also at any time change their choice of language and/or means of receipt of all future Corporate Communications and/or Actionable Corporate Communications by giving reasonable notice (of not less than 7 days) in writing. Such request may be sent to the Company c/o Computershare by email or by post or by completing, signing and returning the above Reply Form to the Company c/o Computershare. The request from shareholders for printed form will be valid until, whichever is earlier, such request is revoked by them in writing or the time when the Company publishes its next Annual Report.
Should you have any queries relating to this matter, please call the Company’s hotline at (852) 2828 8648 from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Monday to Friday, excluding public holidays.
1 Corporate Communications mean any documents from the Company for the information or action of its securities holders or the investing public, which include but are not limited to (a) directors’ reports and annual financial statements together with independent auditor’s reports; (b) interim reports; (c) notices of meetings; (d) listing documents; (e) circulars; and (f) proxy forms.
2 Intermediary(ies) refer(s) to the bank(s), broker(s), custodian(s), nominee(s) or HKSCC Nominees Limited through which the shareholders’ shares in the Company are held.
3 Actionable Corporate Communications mean any corporate communications from the Company that seek instructions from its securities holders on how they wish to exercise their rights or make an election as the securities holders of the Company but exclude notices of general meetings and proxy forms.