Century Announces Results of 2020 Shareholder Meeting and Appointment of New CFO
September 22 2020 - 7:00AM
Century Global Commodities Corporation
(“
Century”
or the
“
Company”)
is pleased to announce the results of the 2020 Annual General
Meeting of shareholders that was held on September 21, 2020 in Hong
Kong, China.
The Company is pleased to report that, as in
prior years, a very high shareholder response was achieved, with
89.635% of Century’s outstanding shares having been voted at the
meeting. At that meeting, the shareholders:
- set the size of the Board of Directors at eight members;
- elected the Board of Directors;
- approved the Company’s Equity Incentive Plan; and
- re-appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company’s
auditors for the upcoming year.
Number
of
Directors
The number of directors of the Company for the
ensuing year was confirmed as and set at eight (8). The voting
results on this matter are as follows:
Setting
the
Number
of
Directors
at 8 |
FOR |
87,187,202 |
99.885% |
AGAINST |
100,050 |
0.115% |
ABSTAINED |
0 |
0% |
Election
of
Directors
Century’s shareholders accepted management’s
nominations for election to the Company’s Board of Directors with
overwhelming support. All of the nominees served as directors of
the Company prior to the meeting and were re-elected as directors
until the Company’s next annual meeting of shareholders. The voting
results on the election of directors are as follows:
Election of Directors |
Director |
FOR |
AGAINST |
ABSTAINED |
Sandy Chim |
87,065,171 |
99.746% |
222,081 |
0.254% |
0 |
0% |
Hua Bai |
87,065,000 |
99.745% |
222,252 |
0.255% |
0 |
0% |
Howard Bernier |
87,287,202 |
100%* |
50 |
0%* |
0 |
0% |
Jiong Hui Wang |
87,187,202 |
99.885% |
100,050 |
0.115% |
0 |
0% |
Kit Ying (Karen) Lee |
87,187,202 |
99.885% |
100,050 |
0.115% |
0 |
0% |
Yiyan Chen |
87,065,171 |
99.746% |
222,081 |
0.254% |
0 |
0% |
Pengfeng Zhu |
87,065,171 |
99.746% |
222,081 |
0.254% |
0 |
0% |
Gloria Wong |
87,187,202 |
99.885% |
100,050 |
0.115% |
0 |
0% |
* % results rounded to 0.000%.
Re-approval of Equity Incentive
Plan
At the meeting, the Company’s shareholders also
re-approved the Company’s Equity Incentive Plan, making the plan
available for grants of equity-based incentive compensation for the
next three years. The following are the results of the vote on this
matter:
Re-approval of Equity Incentive Plan |
FOR |
82,471,661 |
94.483% |
AGAINST |
174,181 |
0.200% |
ABSTAINED |
4,641,410 |
5.317% |
Re-appointment
of
Auditors
At the meeting, the Company’s shareholders
re-appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Chartered Accountants, as
auditors of the Company for the 2020-2021 financial year. The
voting results on this matter are as follows:
Re-appointment of Auditors |
FOR |
88,288,402 |
100.000%* |
AGAINST |
50 |
0.000%* |
ABSTAINED |
0 |
0% |
* % results rounded to 0.000%.
Appointment of New CFO
The Company also announced that effective
October 1, 2020, Bonnie Leung will take on the roles of Chief
Financial Officer and Co-Secretary of the Company, adding those
roles to her current role as Vice President (Finance) of the
Company. Alex Tsang will continue serving as Chief Financial
Officer and Co-Secretary until October 1, 2020, when Ms. Leung’s
appointment takes effect.
Ms. Leung joined Century in 2011 as Financial
Controller. She is a member of the Association of Chartered
Certified Accountants and the Hong Kong Institute of Certified
Public Accountants, and has 20 years of experience in financial
management. Ms. Leung graduated from the Chinese University of Hong
Kong and obtained her Master of Business Administration degree from
the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Prior to
joining Century, she worked in Ernst & Young and Philips,
having gained extensive experience in financial audits, IPOs,
internal audits, compliance and risk management.
Sandy Chim, Chairman of the Board, President
& Chief Executive Officer of Century said: “On behalf of the
Board of Directors, I want to thank Alex Tsang for his service to
the Company. Since joining the Company in the Fall of 2016, Mr.
Tsang made many important contributions to the Company and to the
projects undertaken by Century since that time. We are grateful for
his work and wish him much success as he moves onto other projects.
I also want to congratulate Ms. Leung on her new responsibilities.
I have every confidence in her abilities and know that with her
deep knowledge of the Company, having been developed through nearly
a decade as part of our management team, the financial oversight of
Century remains in good hands.”
About
Century
Century Global Commodities Corporation (TSX:CNT)
has established a large portfolio of iron ore projects with
extensive resources in Canada and has other metals and non-metals
operations as follows.Iron Ore
With Baowu and Minmetals, both Global Fortune
500 companies, as Chinese strategic partners, Century owns one of
the largest iron ore mineral resource bases in the world, across
five projects in Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador. Joyce Lake,
a direct shipping iron ore (“DSO”) project in Newfoundland and
Labrador, is our most advanced project. It has completed
feasibility and permitting studies and can be brought to production
within approximately 30 months. We are maintaining our properties
ready for advancement after a return to sustained higher iron ore
prices.
Quality Food Services
Century has established a professional marketing
team and built a distribution system of quality food products
sourced from advanced countries to serve the Hong Kong market.
For
further
information
please
contact:
Sandy Chim, President & CEOCentury Global Commodities
Corporation416-977-3188IR@centuryglobal.ca
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