Disclosure to Shareholders of Financial Assistance

The Warehouse Group Limited
26 The Warehouse Way
Northcote, Auckland 0627
PO Box 33470 Takapuna
Auckland, New Zealand 0740

phone +64 9 489 7000
fax +64 9 489 7444
web www.thewarehousegroup.co.nz


THE WAREHOUSE GROUP LIMITED ("Company")

DISCLOSURE TO SHAREHOLDERS OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
(Pursuant to sections 78(5) and 79 of the Companies Act 1993)
To: All shareholders of the Company
Introduction
This document ("Disclosure Document") is sent to you pursuant to sections 78(5) and 79 of the
Companies Act 1993 which require the Company to disclose to you certain information relating to any
proposal by the Company to provide financial assistance to any person.
Proposed Financial Assistance
The Directors have authorised the Company to provide financial assistance to The Warehouse
Management Trustee Company No.2 Limited ("Trustee"), the trustee of The Warehouse Group
Limited Executive Share Scheme ("Scheme"), by way of an advance of $3,000,000 under the loan
agreement between the Company and the Trustee dated 26 September 2005 ("Loan Agreement").
The text of the Resolution of Directors is disclosed on the reverse of this document. The advance will
be used by the Trustee to purchase ordinary shares ("Shares") in the Company in accordance with
the terms of the Scheme.
Explanatory Statement
The shareholders of the Company approved the establishment of the Scheme at the annual meeting
of the Company on 26 November 2004. Pursuant to the Scheme, selected executive employees and
executive directors ("Executive Employees") of the Company or of any subsidiary of the Company,
who have been nominated as participants of the Scheme are issued rights to be allocated and
transferred Shares upon the satisfaction of certain conditions ("Conditional Rights").
The Directors have determined that a maximum of $3,000,000 will be advanced to the Trustee in
respect of the purchase of Shares in connection with the issue of Conditional Rights in the 2015 and
2016 financial years of the Company.
The Loan Agreement sets out the terms of the advances by the Company to the Trustee, the
substantive terms of which are as follows:
(a) each advance will be interest-free and repayable on demand by the Company;
(b) on transfer of Shares to an Executive Employee, the Company will reimburse the Trustee for
the original purchase price of the transferred Shares. The Trustee must use the
reimbursement proceeds to repay each relevant advance from the Company; and
(c) the recourse of the Company under each relevant advance will be limited to the Shares held
by the Trustee, as well as the proceeds of any accumulated dividends and other income
derived by the Trustee on the Shares that it holds or has previously held.

As advised in the Company’s 2016 Annual Report, there will be no further Conditional Rights granted
under the Scheme as the Scheme has been replaced by a new cash-based incentive plan for
Executive Employees.





Joan Withers
Chair
20 February 2017

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THE WAREHOUSE GROUP LIMITED
EXTRACT from the Minutes of a Meeting of the Board of Directors of The Warehouse Group Limited
held on 25 January 2017 at The Warehouse, 26 The Warehouse Way, Northcote, Auckland at
8.30am.

A board paper outlining the provision of financial assistance to The Warehouse Management Trustee
Company No.2 Limited ("Trustee") was considered by the board.
Keith Smith and Joan Withers disclosed their interest for the purposes of section 140 of the
Companies Act 1993.
RESOLVED THAT the provision of financial assistance to the Trustee in relation to the issue of
conditional rights in the 2015 and 2016 financial years by way of an advance to a maximum amount of
$3,000,000 in accordance with the loan agreement between the company and Trustee dated 26
September 2005 is approved and that:
i. the giving of the Financial Assistance is in the best interests of the Company;
ii. the terms and conditions under which the Financial Assistance is to be given are fair and
reasonable to the Company; and
iii. the giving of the Financial Assistance is of benefit to those shareholders not receiving the
assistance and the terms and conditions under which the Financial Assistance is given are
fair and reasonable to those shareholders not receiving the assistance
on the basis that:
 The Financial Assistance will enable the trustee to purchase shares pursuant to, and for the
purposes of, the Scheme.
 The Scheme provides an effective incentive to participating executives to bring about an
increase in the value of the Company's shares.
 It is beneficial to the Company and its shareholders to provide an incentive to participating
executives to bring about an increase in the value of the Company's shares.
 The Scheme is likely to encourage the loyalty and retention of participating executives for the
benefit of the Company and its shareholders.
 In the opinion of Directors, the provision of the Financial Assistance is consistent with market
practice in the area of executive incentive schemes currently operated in New Zealand and
Australia.
FURTHER RESOLVED THAT:
iv. the Directors are satisfied on reasonable grounds that, immediately after the provision of the
Financial Assistance, the Company will satisfy the solvency test (as set out in section 4 of
the Companies Act 1993);
v. the Directors who vote in favour of these resolutions sign a certificate required by sections
76(4), 77(2) and 78(3) of the Companies Act 1993; and
vi. the Company discloses the financial assistance to shareholders as required by section 78(5)
of the Companies Act 1993.