SPAR shareholders (“Shareholders”) are referred to the announcement published on SENS on Thursday, 19 December 2024, wherein Shareholders were advised that the Company’s 2024 integrated annual report (“IAR”) containing, inter alia, the notice of annual general meeting (“AGM”) and the summarised consolidated annual financial statements for the year ended 30 September 2024, was available on the Company’s website at: www.thespargroup.com/pdf/SPAR_IAR_2024.pdf, and would be distributed to Shareholders today, 15 January 2025.
Following the proclamation issued by the President of the Republic of South Africa and published in the Government Gazette Vol. 714 No. 51837 on 27 December 2024, certain sections of the Companies Amendment Act, No. 16 of 2024 and the entirety of the Companies Second Amendments Act, No. 17 of 2024 (“Companies Act Amendments”), are now in force.
Under the Companies Act Amendments, section 61(8)(c)(iii) read with section 72(9A)(a) of the Companies Act, No. 71 of 2008 requires that public companies elect a social and ethics committee at each AGM. For SPAR to comply with this new requirement, the Company has issued a revised notice AGM (“Revised Notice”), available at https://thespargroup.com/pdf/SPAR_Revised_AGM_2025.pdf
The IAR, together with the Revised Notice, will be distributed to Shareholders today, 15 January 2025.
A revised Form of Proxy accompanies the Revised Notice, incorporating the aforesaid changes.
All other information about the AGM as announced on SENS on Thursday, 19 December 2024 remains unchanged.