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ECSPONENT LIMITED - Distribution of a circular and notice of a general meeting
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Distribution of a circular and notice of a general meeting ECSPONENT LIMITED Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa Registration number: 1998/013215/06 JSE Code: ECS - ISIN: ZAE000179594 Debt Issuer Code: ECSD Hybrid Issuer Code: ECSH (“the Company” or “Ecsponent”) DECLARATION ANNOUNCEMENT RELATING TO A PROPOSED CHANGE OF NAME, DISTRIBUTION OF A CIRCULAR AND NOTICE OF A GENERAL MEETING CHANGE OF NAME Shareholders are advised that the Company’s board of directors proposes that the name of the Company be changed from “Ecsponent Limited” to “Afristrat Investment Holdings Limited” (“Change of Name”). The Change of Name is conditional upon the approval of shareholders by means of a special resolution. The salient dates relating to the proposed Change of Name are set out in the table below. DISTRIBUTION OF A CIRCULAR With reference to the announcement released on SENS on 30 July 2020, shareholders are advised that a circular will be distributed to shareholders today, which sets out details relating to the proposed: • specific issue of shares for cash (“Specific Issue”); and • Change of Name, (the “Circular”) The Circular is available on the Company’s website at the following link: https://www.ecsponentlimited.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/August-2020-Specific-Issue-of-Shares- and-Proposed-Name-Change.pdf. NOTICE OF GENERAL MEETING Notice is hereby given that a general meeting of Shareholders will be held entirely via a remote interactive electronic platform, namely, Zoom, on Thursday, 10 September 2020 at 10:00 to consider the resolutions necessary to approve the Specific Issue and Change of Name (“General Meeting”). SALIENT DATES The salient dates and times relating to the proposed Change of Name and General Meeting are set out below: 2020 Record date for shareholders to receive the Circular, incorporating the notice of General Meeting Friday, 7 August Last day to trade in order to be eligible to participate in and vote at the General Meeting Tuesday, 1 September Record Date (for voting purposes) Friday, 4 September Last day to lodge Forms of Proxy for the General Meeting by 10:00 on Tuesday, 8 September Ordinary Shareholders or their duly authorised proxies who wish to participate in the General Meeting, must register to do so by lodging a completed Application Form by 10:00 on Tuesday, 8 September General Meeting to be held at 10:00 on Thursday, 10 September Results of the General Meeting released on SENS on or about Thursday, 10 September Change of Name special resolution lodged with CIPC for registration Thursday, 10 September Expected date of receipt of CIPC registration of Change of Name special resolution Friday, 18 September Expected release on SENS of the finalisation announcement in respect of the Change of Name by 11:00 Monday, 21 September Expected publication in the press of the finalisation announcement in respect of the Change of Name Tuesday, 22 September Expected last day to trade prior to the Change of Name becoming effective Tuesday, 29 September Expected termination date for trading under the name of “Ecsponent Limited” and commencement of trading under the new name “Afristrat Investment Holdings Limited”, under share code “ATI”, short name “Afristrat” and ISIN ZAE000287587 from the commencement of trade Wednesday, 30 September Expected record date for the Change of Name Friday, 2 October Expected date that the accounts of dematerialised shareholders with their CSDPs or Brokers will be updated with the new name Monday, 5 October Expected date that new share certificates will be issued to certificated shareholders, posted by registered post, at their risk Monday, 5 October The above dates and times are subject to change. Any such change will be released on SENS. Shareholders may not dematerialise or rematerialise their share certificates between Tuesday, 29 September 2020 and Friday, 2 October 2020, both dates inclusive. For more information about this announcement or the Ecsponent group, email investor.relations@ecsponent.com or visit www.ecsponentlimited.com/investor-relations. Pretoria 12 August 2020 Sponsor and Transaction Sponsor to Ecsponent Questco Proprietary Limited and Questco Corporate Advisory Proprietary Limited Date: 12-08-2020 01:26:00 Produced by the JSE SENS Department. The SENS service is an information dissemination service administered by the JSE Limited ('JSE'). The JSE does not, whether expressly, tacitly or implicitly, represent, warrant or in any way guarantee the truth, accuracy or completeness of the information published on SENS. The JSE, their officers, employees and agents accept no liability for (or in respect of) any direct, indirect, incidental or consequential loss or damage of any kind or nature, howsoever arising, from the use of SENS or the use of, or reliance on, information disseminated through SENS.