Shareholder Communication

Shareholder Communication

Pursuant to the Rule 2.07A of the Rules (the “Listing Rules”) Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the “Stock Exchange”) and the articles of association of Acotec Scientific Holdings Limited (the “Company”), the Company will disseminate its future Corporate Communications1 and Actionable Corporate Communications2 to its Shareholders3 in the manner described herein.

 

ARRANGEMENTS

 

1.Actionable Corporate Communications

 

The Company will send the Actionable Corporate Communications to its Shareholders individually in electronic form by email. If a Shareholder does not provide an email address to the Company or the email address provided is not functional4, the Company will send the Actionable Corporate Communications in printed form together with a request form for soliciting the Shareholder’s functional email address to facilitate electronic dissemination of Actionable Corporate Communications in the future.

 

2.Corporate Communications

 

The Company will make the Corporate Communications available on its website (www.acotec.com) and the Stock Exchange’s website (www.hkexnews.hk).

 

A notice of publication of the Website Version5 of Corporate Communications, in both English and Chinese, will be sent by the Company to the Shareholders by email or by post (only if the Shareholder does not provide an email address to the Company or the email address provided is not functional4) on the publication date of the Corporate Communications.

 

PROVISION OF SHAREHOLDER’S EMAIL ADDRESS TO THE COMPANY

 

In support of electronic communication by email, the Company recommends its Shareholders to provide the Company with their email address at any time in future by reasonable notice in writing to the Company’s branch share registrar in Hong Kong. In this regard, please complete the “Form for provision of email address, hardcopy request and preference in the means of corporate communications” published under the section “Investment Relations – Shareholders Communications” in the Company’s website (www.acotec.com) in accordance with the instructions printed thereon and sign and return it by post or by hand to the Company’s branch share registrar in Hong Kong at 17M Floor, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong.

 

It is the responsibility of the Shareholders to provide an email address that is functional. If the Company does not possess the email address of a Shareholder or the email address provided is not functional, the Company will act in accordance with the above arrangements. The Company will be considered to have complied with the Listing Rules if it sends Actionable Corporate Communications to the email address provided by a Shareholder without receiving any “non-delivery message”.

 

REQUEST FOR PRINTED COPY OF CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS AND ACTIONABLE CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS

 

For those Shareholders who wish to receive a printed version of all future Corporate Communications and Actionable Corporate Communications or, if for any reason, have difficulty in gaining access to the Company’s website, the Company will, upon receipt of request in writing by the Shareholder to the Company’s branch share registrar in Hong Kong, send future Corporate Communications and Actionable Corporate Communications to such Shareholders in printed form free of charge. In this regard, please complete the “Form for provision of email address, hardcopy request and preference in the means of corporate communications” published under the section “Investor Relations – Shareholders Communications” in the Company’s website (www.acotec.com) in accordance with the instructions printed thereon and sign and return it by post or by hand to the Company’s branch share registrar in Hong Kong at 17M Floor, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong.

 

Please note that the request for printed copy of Corporate Communications and Actionable Corporate Communications will be valid for one year from the date of request unless being revoked or superseded (whichever is earlier). Further request in writing will be required if a Shareholder prefers to continue receiving printed copy of future Corporate Communications and Actionable Corporate Communications.

 

Notes:

1.Corporate Communications refer to any document(s) issued or to be issued by the Company for the information or action of the Shareholders or the investing public, including but not limited to (a) the directors’ report and its annual accounts together with a copy of the auditors’ report and, where applicable, its summary financial report; (b) the interim report and, where applicable, its summary interim report; (c) the quarterly report, if any; (d) a notice of meeting; (e) a listing document; (f) a circular; and (g) a proxy form.
2.Actionable Corporate Communications refer to any corporate communications of the Company that seek instructions from the Shareholders on how they wish to exercise their rights or make elections as the Shareholders.
3.Holder(s) of the share(s) of the Company.
4.It is the responsibility of a Shareholder to provide an email address that is functional. The Company will be considered to have complied with the Listing Rules if it sends Actionable Corporate Communications to the email address provided by a Shareholder without receiving any “non-delivery message”.
5.The version of Corporate Communications being published, in both English and Chinese, on the Company’s website and the Stock Exchange’s website.

 

1:Arrangement of Electronic Dissemination of Corporate Communications and Reply Form to Registered Shareholders

2:Arrangement of Electronic Dissemination of Corporate Communications and Reply Form to Non-Registered Shareholders

3:Form for provision of email address, hardcopy request and preference in the means of corporate communications