Notice of Meeting
Briscoe Group Limited
Notice of Annual Meeting
Notice is hereby given that an Annual Meeting of shareholders of Briscoe Group Limited (the “Company”) for the year
ended 29 January 2017 will be held at the offices of Simpson Grierson, Level 28, Lumley Centre, 88 Shortland Street,
Auckland on Tuesday 23 May 2017, commencing at 10:00am.
Shareholders are invited to join the Directors for morning tea at 9:30am prior to the meeting.
To view the latest financial statements for the year ended 29 January 2017, please visit
http://briscoegroup.co.nz/investor-centre/ and select the Annual Report for the period ended 29 January 2017.
Items of Business
The business of the meeting is comprised of ordinary business, being:
A. Financial Statements
To receive and consider the Company’s financial statements for the year ended 29 January 2017 together with
the Directors’ and Auditors’ reports.
B. Resolutions – Ordinary Business
Resolution 1. Re-election of Director – Dame Rosanne Meo
To consider, and if thought fit, to pass the following resolution as an ordinary resolution of the Company:
“That Dame Rosanne Meo, who will retire by rotation at the close of the meeting in accordance with NZX Main Board
Listing Rule 3.3.11 and the Company's Constitution, be re-elected as a Director of the Company.”
Resolution 2. Election of Director – Anthony (Tony) Batterton
To consider, and if thought fit, to pass the following resolution as an ordinary resolution of the Company:
“That Tony Batterton who having been appointed by the Company’s Board of Directors as an additional Director
effective from 1 June 2016, retires at the close of the meeting in accordance with NZX Main Board Listing Rule 3.3.6
and the Company's Constitution, be elected as a Director of the Company.”
Resolution 3. Election of Director – Richard Andrew (Andy) Coupe
To consider, and if thought fit, to pass the following resolution as an ordinary resolution of the Company:
“That Andy Coupe who having been appointed by the Company’s Board of Directors as an additional Director
effective from 1 October 2016, retires at the close of the meeting in accordance with NZX Main Board Listing Rule
3.3.6 and the Company's Constitution, be elected as a Director of the Company.”
See the Explanatory Notes to this notice for profiles of Dame Rosanne Meo, Tony Batterton and Andy Coupe.
Resolution 4. Re-appointment of Auditors
To consider, and if thought fit, to pass the following resolution as an ordinary resolution of the Company:
“That PricewaterhouseCoopers be re-appointed as Auditors of the Company and that the Board of Directors be
authorised to fix the remuneration of the Auditors for the ensuing year.”
C. General Business
To consider any other business that may properly be submitted to an annual meeting.
Requisite majorities
The resolutions are ordinary resolutions, requiring the approval of a simple majority of the votes of those shareholders
entitled to vote and voting (in person or by proxy) in order for them to be passed.
Voting by Proxy
A shareholder entitled to attend and vote at the meeting may appoint a proxy to attend and vote on that shareholder's
behalf. A proxy need not be a shareholder of the Company.
To appoint a proxy a shareholder should complete and sign the proxy form enclosed with this notice return it to the
office of the Company's Share Registrar, Link Market Services using the reply-paid envelope provided. Alternatively,
proxy votes can be lodged online by viewing the Link Market Services website:
https://investorcentre.linkmarketservices.co.nz/voting/BGR
. You will be required to enter your CSN/Holder number
and Authorisation Code (FIN) to securely access the website, and then follow the prompts to appoint your proxy and
exercise your vote.
For a proxy to be validly appointed, the proxy form must be received (either by post or online, as outlined above) no
later than 10:00 am on 21 May 2017. If the form is sent by post, it must be received by that time at the offices of the
Company’s Share Registrar, Link Market Services Limited, PO Box 91976, Victoria Street West, Auckland 1142 or
Deloitte Centre, Level 11, 80 Queen Street, Auckland, New Zealand.
The Chairman of the meeting may be appointed as a proxy and intends to vote any undirected/discretionary proxy
votes in favour of each resolution.
Explanatory Notes
Resolutions 1, 2 and 3: Re-election of Directors
Under NZX Main Board Listing Rule 3.3.11, one Director must retire at the meeting but shall be eligible for re-election.
Dame Rosanne Meo is required to retire under this rule, being the one Director who has been the longest in office since
last elected or deemed elected.
Under the NZX Main Board Listing Rule 3.3.6, any person who is appointed as a Director by the Directors shall retire
from office at the next meeting but shall be eligible for election by shareholders at that meeting. Both Tony Batterton
and Andy Coupe have been appointed as Directors by the Directors since the last Annual Meeting so will retire in
accordance with this Rule and stand for election by shareholders.
Profiles of the Directors seeking re-election
Dame Rosanne Meo, DNZM, OBE
Dame Rosanne was appointed as Chairman and Independent Director of Briscoe Group’s Board of Directors in May of
2001, six months before the company publicly listed on the NZSX.
Rosanne has worked as a company director for over 20 years and was amongst the first women professional directors in
New Zealand, the first woman to chair an SOE, and the first woman chairman of a NZSX listed company. Her
directorships have been principally in New Zealand but also in Australia and cover both public and private companies, as
well as extensive work in the voluntary sector, particularly in the Arts and community support.
In her capacity as an Independent Director of Briscoe Group, she is Chairman of the Human Resources Committee and is
a member of the Audit Committee.
In 1993 Rosanne was awarded an OBE and in early 2012 was knighted for service to business and for her contribution to
not-for-profit organisations.
She is currently Patron of the Auckland Philharmonia, Chairman of the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand and a
Director of AMP Administration (NZ) Ltd.
Tony Batterton, B.Comm, C.A.
Tony has more than 20 years private equity and investment banking experience in New Zealand with Evergreen
Partners and Direct Capital, and in London with HSBC Investment Bank. Prior to this he qualified as a Chartered
Accountant with Price Waterhouse. In addition to his role as an Independent Director of Briscoe Group, Tony is
currently a Partner and Executive Director of Evergreen Partners and a Non-Executive Director of various Direct Capital
entities, forest services manager PF Olsen and commercial property investor George H Investments.
Andy Coupe, LLB
Andy is a professional director who has had more than 30 years’ experience in investment banking. As well as Board
directorships with Farmright Ltd (which he Chairs), Gentrack Group Ltd, Kingfish Ltd, Barramundi Ltd, and Marlin Global
Ltd, he is also Chair of the New Zealand Takeovers Panel. In addition, in 2015 Andy was appointed the Chair of Solid
Energy New Zealand Ltd to lead the Company through the restructuring that led to a Deed of Company Arrangement
and the sale of the company’s assets. Andy is a Chartered member of the Institute of Directors.
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