Century Global Commodities Corp. Announces Results of 2021 Shareholder Meeting
HONG KONG, Sept. 20, 2021 - Century Global Commodities Corp. ("Century" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the results of the 2021 Annual General Meeting of shareholders that was held on September 20, 2021 in Hong Kong, China.The Company is pleased to report that, as in prior years, a very high shareholder response was achieved, with 89.850% 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 seven members;
- elected the Board of Directors; 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 seven (7). The voting results on this matter are as follows:
| Setting the Number of Directors at 7 | |||
| FOR | 88,348,831 | 100.000% | |
| AGAINST | 50 | 0.000% | |
| ABSTAINED | 0 | 0% | |
* % results rounded to 0.000%.
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:
| Director | FOR | AGAINST | ABSTAINED | ||||||
| Sandy Chim | 88,205,800 | 99.838% | 143,081 | 0.162% | 0 | 0% | |||
| Howard Bernier | 88,348,831 | 100.000% | 50 | 0.000% | 0 | 0% | |||
| Hua Bai | 88,205,800 | 99.838% | 143,081 | 0.162% | 0 | 0% | |||
| Jionghui Wang | 88,348,831 | 100.000% | 50 | 0.000% | 0 | 0% | |||
| Yiyan Chen | 88,205,800 | 99.838% | 143,081 | 0.162% | 0 | 0% | |||
| Gloria Wong | 88,348,831 | 100.000% | 50 | 0.000% | 0 | 0% | |||
| Jianlong Yang | 88,205,800 | 99.838% | 143,081 | 0.162% | 0 | 0% | |||
* % results rounded to 0.000%.
Re-appointment of Auditors
At the meeting, the Company's shareholders re-appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Chartered Accountants, as auditors of the Company for the 2021-2022 financial year. The voting results on this matter are as follows:
| Re-appointment of Auditors | |||
| FOR | 88,503,931 | 99.998% | |
| AGAINST | 0 | 0% | |
| ABSTAINED | 2,050 | 0.002% | |
* % results rounded to 0.000%.
ABOUT CENTURY
Century Global Commodities Corp. (TSX:CNT) is primarily a resource exploration and development company with a large portfolio of multi-billion tonne iron ore projects in Canada, mostly discovered by its own exploration team. It has other non-ferrous metals properties under exploration as well as a well-established food distribution business (Century Food) in Hong Kong.
The Joyce Lake DSO Iron Ore Project
Joyce Lake, our most advanced project, is a DSO (direct shipping ore) project in Newfoundland and Labrador, close to the town of Schefferville, Quebec which is serviced by a rail link directly to ocean shipping iron ore ports at Sept-?les. A new 43km dedicated haul road will be constructed to connect the Project to the rail link. The Project has completed feasibility and permitting studies and can be brought to production within approximately 30 months.
Century Food
Century Food is a subsidiary operation of the Company which it started a few years ago and is a value-adding marketing and distribution business of quality food products sourced from such regions as Europe and Australia and sold in the Hong Kong market.
For further information please contact:
Sandy Chim, President & CEO
Century Global Commodities Corp.
416-977-3188
IR@centuryglobal.ca
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