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Annual General Meeting - Poll Results

 

JOHNSON ELECTRIC HOLDINGS LIMITED

(Incorporated in Bermuda with limited liability)

(Stock code: 179)

 

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD ON 30TH JULY 2007 – POLL RESULTS

 

The poll results in respect of the resolutions proposed and seconded at the Annual General Meeting (the “AGM”) of Johnson Electric Holdings Limited (the “Company”) held at JW Marriott Ballroom, Level 3, JW Marriott Hotel Hong Kong, Pacific Place, 88 Queensway, Hong Kong on Monday, 30th July 2007 were as follows:

 

 

RESOLUTIONS

No. of Votes (%)

 

For

Against

1.

To receive and adopt the Audited Consolidated Accounts and the Reports of the Directors and of the Auditor for the year ended 31st March 2007.

2,649,376,788
(99.998949%)

27,840
(0.001051%)

2.

To declare the final dividend of 8.5 HK cents, equivalent to 1.09 US cents per share in respect of the year ended 31st March 2007.

2,667,618,647
(99.998938%)

28,340
(0.001062%)

3.

(a) To re-elect Laura May-Lung Cha as an independent non-executive director.

2,667,578,197
(99.998231%)

47,190
(0.001769%)

 

(b) To re-elect Peter Kin-Chung Wang as a non-executive director.

2,441,793,397
(99.884321%)

2,827,910
(0.115679%)

 

(c) To re-elect Oscar de Paula Bernardes Neto as an independent non-executive director.

2,667,468,947
(99.994286%)

152,440
(0.005714%)

4.

To confirm the fees of Directors.

2,664,474,037
(99.909226%)

2,420,850
(0.090774%)

5.

To re-appoint Messrs. PricewaterhouseCoopers as Auditor of the Company at a fee to be agreed with the Directors.

2,666,899,387
(99.999231%)

20,500
(0.000769%)

6.

To fix the number of directors and to authorise the Directors to elect or appoint additional directors.

2,666,633,122
(99.988438%)

308,365
(0.011562%)

7.

To give a general mandate to the Directors to issue, allot and dispose of additional shares of the Company.

2,416,902,297
(91.100761%)

236,096,736
(8.899239%)

8.

To give a general mandate to the Directors to repurchase shares of the Company.

2,667,322,868
(99.987850%)

324,119
(0.012150%)

9.

To extend the general mandate granted to the Directors to issue additional shares repurchased by the Company pursuant to Resolution No. 8.

2,415,834,599
(91.060516%)

237,164,434
(8.939484%)

 

As more than 50% of the votes were cast in favour of each of the resolutions nos. 1 to 9, all resolutions were duly passed.

 

As at the date of the AGM, the total number of issued shares in the Company was 3,673,788,920 shares, which was the total number of shares entitling the holders to attend and vote for or against the resolutions at the AGM. There is no restriction on any shareholders casting votes on any of the resolutions at the AGM.

 

Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited, the Share Registrars of the Company in Hong Kong, acted as scrutineers for the poll at the AGM.

 

As at the date of this announcement, the Board of Directors of the Company comprises Patrick Shui- Chung Wang, Winnie Wing- Yee Wang, Richard Li-Chung Wang, being the Executive Directors, and Yik-Chun Koo Wang, Peter Kin-Chung Wang, being the Non-Executive Directors, and Peter Stuart Allenby Edwards, Patrick Blackwell Paul, Michael John Enright, Laura May-Lung Cha and Oscar de Paula Bernardes Neto, being the Independent Non-Executive Directors.

 

 

For and on behalf of
Johnson Electric Holdings Limited
Susan Chee-Lan Yip
Company Secretary

 

Hong Kong, 30th July 2007

 

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