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Notice of meeting and proxy form

AGM16 July 2023BLTConsumer Staples

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PROXY FORM/ADMISSION CARD FOR BLIS TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED 2023 ANNUAL MEETING

Notice is hereby given that the Annual Meeting of Shareholders of Blis Technologies Limited (the Company) will be held at the Dunedin Public Art

Gallery, Auditorium, 30 The Octagon, Dunedin on Thursday, 17 August 2023, commencing at 9:00am. If you will attend the Meeting, please bring

this form to assist with y

our registration. If you will not attend the Meeting but wish to be represented by proxy, please complete and return this form

(in accordance with the lodgement instructions above) to Blis Technologies Limited share registry, Link Market Services, by no later than 9:00am,

Tuesday 15 August 2023. Shareholders are also able to attend the Annual Meeting online via the Link Market Services Virtual Annual

Meeting platform at www.virtualmeeting.co.nz/blt23. If you will be attending online, you will require your Holder Number for verification purposes.

Appointment of proxy

All shareholders are entitled to attend and vote at the meeting or to appoint a proxy and vote in their place, unless specifically excluded, in the case of a

corporate shareholder, a representative to attend and vote instead of him/her and that proxy or representative need not also be a shareholder. If you wish,

you may appoint “The Chair of the Meeting” as your proxy or as alternative to your named proxy. The Chair of the Meeting intends to vote all discretionary

proxies in favour of the relevant resolution.

Voting of your holding

Direct your proxy how to vote by making the appropriate election, either online or on this Proxy Form, in respect of each resolution. If you return this form

without directing the proxy how to vote on any particular matter, the proxy may vote as he/she thinks fit or abstain from voting. If you make more than one

election in respect of a resolution your vote will be invalid on that resolution. If this Proxy Form is returned duly signed by a Shareholder with voting

instructions included, but without specifying a person that is appointed as proxy, the Chairperson is deemed to be the proxy for the purpose of that form,

but only to vote to the extent of the voting instructions provided.

Attending the meeting

If you wish to vote i n person, you should attend the Meeting. Please bring this Proxy Form/Admission Card with you to the Meeting to assist with

your registration.

A corporation which is a Shareholder may appoint a representative to attend the Meeting on its behalf in the same manner as it could appoint a proxy. A

proxy

does not need to be a shareholder of the Company.

Signing instructions for proxy forms

Individual

This Proxy Form must be signed by the shareholder or his/her/its attorney duly authorised in writing.

Joint Holding

In the case of a joint shareholding, this Proxy Form may be signed by either, or on behalf of, t he joint shareholder (or their duly authorised attorney).

Power of Attorney

This Proxy Form and the power of attorney or other authority, if any, under which it is signed, or a copy of that power or authority certified by a Solicitor,

Justice of the Peace or Notary Public must be received at the office of Link Market Services Limited, in any manner as per the instructions below

Corporate Shareholder

In the case of a corporate shareholder, this Proxy Form must be signed by a director or a duly authorised officer acting under the express or implied

authority of the shareholder, or an attorney duly authorised by the shareholder.

Go online to https://investorcentre.linkmarketservices.co.nz/voting/BLT to appoint your proxy

PROXY/CORPORATE REPRESENTATIVE FORM
STEP 1: APPOINT A PROXY TO VOTE ON YOUR BEHALF

I/We being a shareholder(s) of Blis Technologies Limited hereby appoint:

________________________________________________________of ______________________________________________________

(full name of proxy) (full address)

Or

________________________________________________________of ______________________________________________________

(full name of proxy) (full address)

as my/our proxy to vote for me/us on my/our behalf at the Annual Meeting of the Company to be held on Thursday 17 August 2023 and at

any adjournment of that meeting and to vote on any resolutions to amend any of the resolutions, on any resolution so amended, and on any

other resolution proposed at the meeting (or any adjournment thereof). Unless otherwise instructed as above, the proxy will vote on each resolution as

he/she sees fit, or may abstain from voting. The proxy is appointed only in respect of the above meeting or any adjournment thereof.

STEP 2

: ITEMS OF BUSINESS – PROXY VOTING INSTRUCTIONS


Complete this part if you have appointed a proxy above and you

want to direct the proxy as to how the proxy should vote.

Please note: For each resolution you must tick one box. If you mark the abstain box for an item, you are directing your proxy not to vote on your behalf

during a poll and your votes will not be counted computing the required majority, for that item.

BUSINESS

To consider and, if thought fit, pass the following ordinary resolutions:

Tick () in box to vote

ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS For Against Abstain Discretion

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1.That Dr Jörn Andreas be elected as a director of the Company.

2.That the Directors be authorised to fix the remuneration of the auditors for the ensuing year.

STEP 3: SHAREHOLDER QUESTIONS

Shareholders present at the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting (either in person or via the virtual meeting platform at www.virtualmeeting.co.nz/blt23 will

have the opportunity to ask questions during the Meeting. If you cannot attend the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting but would like to ask a question, you

can submit a question online by going to https://investorcentre.linkmarketservices.co.nz/voting/BLT and completing the online validation process or

complete the question section below and return to Link Market Services. Questions will need to be submitted by 9:00am on Tuesday 15 Augus

t 2023.

The Board will address and answer questions at the Annual Meeting.

STEP 4: SIGN: SIGNATURE OF SHAREHOLDER(S)

This section must be completed

Shareholder 1 Shareholder 2 Shareholder 3

or duly authorised officer or attorney or duly authorised officer or attorney or duly authorised officer or attorney

Contact Name ___________________________________________ Contact Daytime Telephone _______________________ Date ____________

Electronic Investor Communications: If you received the Notice of Meeting and Proxy Form by mail and wish to receive your future investor

communications by email please provide your email address below.

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Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of shareholders of
Blis Technologies Limited (Company) will be held at the Dunedin

Public Art Gallery, Auditorium, 30 The Octagon, Dunedin, and

online at www.virtualmeeting.co.nz/blt23, on Thursday 17 August

2023 commencing at 9:00am (registrations will open at 8:30am).

NOTICE OF

MEETING

2023

NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING
BLIS TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED

BUSINESS

The business of the Meeting will be:

1.Chair’s Address

Amelia (Aimee) McCammon (Acting Chair)

2.Chief Executive Officer’s Address

Brian Watson

3.Election of Dr Jörn Andreas as a director

(Resolution 1)

To consider, and if thought fit, pass the

following Ordinary Resolution:

“That Dr Jörn Andreas be elected as a

Director of the Company.”

See Explanatory Notes

4.Auditors (Resolution 2)

To record that Deloitte are reappointed as

auditors of the Company in accordance with

section 207T of the Companies Act 1993 and

if thought fit, to pass the following Ordinary

Resolution:

“That the Directors be authorised to fix the

remuneration of the auditors for the ensuing

year.”

5.

Other business

To consider any other ordinary business

which may properly be brought before the

Meeting.

VIRTUAL ANNUAL MEETING

Shareholders will be able to attend the Meeting in person, or,

alternatively, will be able to attend and participate at the Meeting

virtually via an online platform provided by the Company’s share

registrar, Link Market Services at www.virtualmeeting.co.nz/blt23.

Shareholders attending and participating in the Meeting virtually via

the online platform will be able to vote and ask questions during the

Meeting.

More information regarding virtual attendance at the Meeting

(including how to vote and ask questions virtually during the Meeting)

is available in the Virtual Annual Meeting Online Portal Guide,

which is available at https://bcast.linkinvestorservices.co.nz/BLT/

VMOnlineGuideBLT.pdf

P

ROXIES

All shareholders are entitled to attend and vote at the Meeting or to

appoint a proxy to attend and vote in their place.

A proxy need not be a shareholder of the Company. Enclosed with this

notice of Meeting is a proxy/corporate representative form. If you wish,

you may appoint “The Chair of the Meeting” as your proxy or as an

alternative to your named proxy. The Chair of the Meeting intends to

vote all discretionary proxies in favour of the relevant resolution.

For the appointment of a proxy to be valid, the form must be lodged at

the Company’s Share Registry, Link Market Services, by any of the

methods specified on the proxy form (being online, by scanning and

emailing, post or delivery), to be received no later than 48 hours before

the start of the Meeting (that is, by 9:00am on Tuesday 15 August

2023

). Postal voting is not permitted.

CORPORATE REPRESENTATIVES

A body corporate which is a shareholder may appoint a person to

attend the Meeting on its behalf in the same manner as that in which it

could appoint a proxy. The form to appoint a proxy/corporate

representative must be signed on behalf of the body corporate by a

person acting under the body corporate’s express or implied authority.

V

OTING

Resolutions 1 and 2 are ordinary resolutions (Ordinary Resolutions).

In order for them to be passed, they require the affirmative vote of

a simple majority, being more than 50% of the votes cast by those

shareholders entitled to vote and who vote in person or by proxy.

By order of the Board of Directors

Amelia McCammon (Acting Chair)

17 July 2023

EXPLANATORY NOTES
In these explanatory notes, references to ‘Listing Rules’ are

to the NZX Listing Rules.

1.ROTATION OF DIRECTORS

1.1 The Listing Rules state that Directors must not hold

office (without re-election) past the third annual

Meeting following the Director’s appointment, or three

years, whichever is longer.

1.2 Accordingly, Mr Tony Balfour retires by rotation at this

Meeting and, as previously announced, has decided

not to seek re-election. As such, he will retire from the

Board at the Meeting. The Board thanks Tony for his

outstanding contribution to the Board over the last

three years.

1.3

All other Directors have been elected (or re-elected) at

the two most recent annual Meetings so will continue

to hold office.

2. RESOLUTION 1

Election of Dr Jörn Andreas

2.1 Dr Jörn Andreas is a Board

Member of Probi AB and was

appointed by the Board in

accordance with clause 11.2

(b) of the constitution on 1

January 2023.

2.3


Under the Listing Rules, any Director appointed by

the Board during the year shall hold of

fice until the

commencement of the next annual meeting, when they

will cease to hold office and, being eligible, may put

themselves forward for election at that meeting.

2.4 Accordingly, Dr Jörn Andreas ceases to hold office

at the Meeting and offers himself for election by

shareholders.

2.5


Further details in relation to Dr Jörn Andreas are set

out below

. These details will also be available on the

Company’s website: www.blis.co.nz/pages/corporate-

governance.

Dr Jörn Andreas

2.6


Dr Jörn Andreas is currently President Scent & Care

and Member of the Executive Board of Symrise AG ,

a leading supplier of the fragrance cosmetic industry

.

Dr Jörn Andreas leads the Scent & Care division from

Holzminden, Germany, with the goal of expanding

Symrise’s position in cosmetic ingredients.

2.7

Dr Jörn Andreas joined the Board of Blis Technologies

Limited in January 2023. Prior to joining Symrise AG,

Dr Jörn Andreas worked with The Boston Consulting

Group and Bayer AG.

2.8 He received a PhD in Economic Sciences from Karlsruhe

Institute of T

echnology, Germany.

2.9

The Board has determined that Dr Jörn Andreas is not

an Independent Director due to his role as Director

of Probi, which is a substantial product holder of Blis

T

echnologies Limited.

2.10 The Board supports his election as a Director.

www.blis.co.nz
Physical Address

Blis Technologies Limited

Ground Floor

442 Moray Place

Dunedin 9016

Postal Address

PO Box 2208

Dunedin 9044

New Zealand

Email

info@blis.co.nz

Telephone

+64 3 474 0988

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Corporate Markets
Before you begin

Ensure your browser is compatible.

Check your current browser by going to

the website: whatismybrowser.com

Supported browsers are:

To attend and vote you must have your

securityholder number and postcode.

Appointed Proxy: Your proxy number will

be provided by Link before the meeting.

Please make sure you have this

information before proceeding.

Virtual Meeting

Online Guide

•Chrome – Version 44 & 45 and after

•Firefox – 40.0.2 and after

•Safari – OS X v10.9 & OS X v10.10 and after

•Internet Explorer – 11

and up

•Edge – 92.0 and up

Virtual Meeting Online Guide
Step 2

Log in to the portal using your full name, mobile

number, email address, and participant type.

Please read and accept the terms and conditions

before clicking on the blue ‘Register and Watch

Meeting’ button.

Note: If you close your browser, your session will

expire and you will need to re-register. If using the

same email address, you can request a link to be

emailed to you to log back in.

1. Get a Voti

ng Card

To register to vote – click on the

‘Get a Voting Card’ button.

This will bring up a box which looks like this.

If you are an individual or joint securityholder you

will need to register and provide validation by entering your

securityholder number and postcode.

If you are an appointed Proxy, please enter the

Proxy Number issued by Link in the PROXY DETAILS section.

Then click the ‘SUBMIT DETAILS AND VOTE’ button.

Once you have registered, your voting card will appear with

all of the resolutions to be voted on by securityholders at

the Meeting (as set out in the Notice of Meeting). You may

need to use the scroll bar on the right hand side of the

voting card to view all resolutions.

Securityholders and proxies can either submit a

Full Vote or Partial Vote.

Step 1

Open your web browser and go to

https://www.virtualmeeting.co.nz/blt23

Link Group Virtual Meeting Online Guide • 2

•A live webcast of the Meeting starts automatically

once the meeting has commenced. The meeting slides

will be transitioned throughout the webcast. If the

webcast does not start automatically please press the

play button and ensure the audio on your computer or

device is turned on.

•At the bottom – buttons for ‘Get a Voting Card’,

‘Ask a Question’ and a list of company documents to

download

Link Group Virtual Meeting Online Guide • 3
Full Votes

To submit a full vote on a resolution ensure you are in the

‘Full Vote’ tab. Place your vote by clicking on the ‘For’, ‘Against’, or

‘Abstain’ voting buttons.

Partial Votes

To submit a partial vote on a resolution ensure you are in the

‘Partial Vote’ tab. You can enter the number of votes (for any or all)

resolution/s. The total amount of votes that you are entitled to vote for

will be listed under each resolution. When you enter the number

of votes it will automatically tally how many votes you have left.

Note: If you are submitting a partial vote and do not use all of your entitled votes, the un-

voted portion will be submitted as No Instruction and therefore will not be counted.

Once you have finished voting on the resolutions scroll down to

the bottom of the box and click on the ‘Submit Vote’ or

‘Submit Partial Vote’ button.

Note: You can close your voting card without submitting your vote at any time while voting remains open. Any votes you

have already made will be saved for the next time you open up the voting card. The voting card will appear on

the bottom left corner of the webpage. The message ‘Not yet submitted’ will appear at the bottom of the page.

You can edit your voting card at any point while voting is open by clicking on ‘Edit Card’. This will reopen the voting card

with any previous votes made.

At the conclusion of the Meeting a red bar with a countdown timer will appear at the top of the Webcast and Slide

windows advising the remaining voting time. Please make any changes and submit your voting cards.

Once voting has been closed all submitted voting cards cannot be changed.

The ‘Ask a Question’ box will then pop up with
two sections for completion.

In the ‘Regarding’ section click on the drop down arrow and

select the category/resolution for your question.

Click in the ‘Question’ section and type your question and

click on ‘Submit’.

A

‘View Questions’ box will appear where you can view

your questions at any point. Only you can see the

questions you have asked.

If your question has been answered and you would like to

exercise your right of reply, you can submit another

question.

Contact us

New Zealand

T 0800 200 220

E meetings@linkmarketservices.co.nz

Note that not all questions are guaranteed to be

answered during the Meeting, but we will do our

best to address your concerns.

3. Downloads

View relevant documentation in the

Downloads section.

4. Voting closing

Voting will end 5 minutes after the

close of the Meeting.

At the conclusion of the Meeting a red bar with a

countdown timer will appear at the top of the Webcast

and Slide screens advising the remaining voting time. If

you have not submitted your vote, you should do so now.

Virtual Meeting Online Guide continued

2. How to ask a question

Note:

Only verified Securityholders, Proxyholders and

Corporate Representatives are eligible to ask questions.

If you have yet to obtain a voting card, you will

be prompted to enter your security holder

number or proxy details before you can ask a

question. To ask a question, click on the ‘Ask a

Question’ button either at the top or bottom

of the webpage.

Link Group Virtual Meeting Online Guide • 4

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