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Notice of Annual Shareholders
Meeting






Thursday 26 October 2023



Notice of Freightways’ Annual Shareholders Meeting:

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Notice is hereby given to all Shareholders that the Annual Meeting of Shareholders of Freightways Group Limited

(Freightways) will be held on Thursday, 26 October 2023 at 10.00am.


Freightways expects to offer shareholders the ability to attend the Annual Meeting virtually through the

Computershare Meeting Services web platform, as well as in-person in the World Cup Lounge, Eden Park, Reimers

Avenue, Kingsland, Auckland. Your CSN/Securityholder Number can be found on your Proxy/Voting Form for

verification purposes.


Further details on how to participate virtually are provided in the Virtual Meeting Guide available at

www.computershare.com/vm-guide-nz. Shareholders are encouraged to review this Guide prior to the Annual

Meeting. If you have any questions or need assistance with the online process, please contact Computershare on +64

9 488 8777 between 8.30am and 5.00pm, Monday to Friday.


KEY DATES:

• Latest time for receipt of proxy forms: 24 October 2023, 10.00am

• Annual Shareholders Meeting: 26 October 2023, 10.00am






NOTICE OF MEETING



Notice of Freightways’ Annual Shareholders Meeting:

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A. Chairman’s introduction


B. Chief Executive Officer’s Review and Trading Update


C. Resolutions


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


1. That Mark Rushworth be re -elected as a director of Freightways.

2. That Peter Kean be re-elected as a director of Freightways.

3. That the total quantum of the annual directors’ fee pool be increased by $107,855 from an aggregate of

$857,145 to an aggregate of $965,000, such aggregate amount to be divided amongst the directors as they

deem appropriate.

4. That the directors are authorised to fix the Auditors’ remuneration.


By Order of the Board


Stephan Deschamps

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

29 September 2023











BUSINESS



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Shareholders may exercise their right to vote at the meeting either by being present in person or by appointing a proxy

to attend and vote in their place. A proxy need not be a shareholder of Freightways. A body corporate shareholder

may appoint a representative to attend the meeting on its behalf. A combined admission card and proxy form is

enclosed with this notice. If you wish to vote by proxy, you may either visit www.investorvote.co.nz to lodge your

proxy or by completing and signing the proxy form and sending it to Freightways’ share registrar, Computershare

Investor Services Limited. The proxy form will only be effective if it is received by Freightways’ share registrar no later

than 10.00am Tuesday, 24 October 2023, being 48 hours prior to the commencement of the meeting. A reply-paid

envelope is enclosed if mailing the proxy form from within New Zealand.





All references to the "Listing Rules" are references to the NZX Listing Rules, dated 1 April 2023.

RESOLUTIONS ON RE-ELECTION OF DIRECTORS

Shareholders should note the average tenure on the Board among the current directors is less than 5 years, following

the retirement of two directors of long tenure (including the previous Board Chair) in 2021 and the appointment of

three directors during 2021 and 2022.

















PROXIES AND REPRESENTATIVES

EXPLANATORY NOTES



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That Mark Rushworth be re-elected a director of the Company.

Mark Rushworth is retiring by rotation and offers himself for re-

election. The Board has determined that Mark is an independent

director and unanimously recommends that shareholders vote in

favour of his re-election.

Mark was appointed a director in September 2015. He has

extensive experience in the technology sector, with a decade’s

governance experience, predominantly in the high tech and

innovation space. An electrical engineer by training, with

widespread operations and marketing experience, he spent 4

years on the senior executive team of Vodafone NZ, where among

other things he had executive accountability for the fixed line

business and as director of Marketing. Mark previously served as

chief executive of Pacific Fibre, ihug and financial services

company, Paymark Limited. Mark is currently Chief Executive

Officer of private equity owned UP Education and a director of a

number of private companies.




RESOLUTION 2: RE-ELECTION OF DIRECTOR



That Peter Kean be re-elected a director of the Company.

Peter Kean is retiring by rotation and offers himself for re-

election. The Board has determined that Peter is an independent

director and unanimously recommends that shareholders vote in

favour of his re-election.

Peter was appointed a director in July 2016. He brings to

Freightways many years of senior executive experience with the

Lion group of companies in both New Zealand and Australia.

Peter’s last executive roles were as Managing Director of Lion

Nathan New Zealand and Managing Director of Lion Dairy and

Drinks, based in Melbourne. Peter retired from Lion in 2014 and

has since developed his career in governance. Peter is involved in

a number of private companies both in New Zealand and in

Australia.




RESOLUTION 1: RE-ELECTION OF DIRECTOR

Mark Rushworth BE(Hons), MEM

Peter Kean PMD Harvard



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RESOLUTION 3: DIRECTORS’ FEES


That the total quantum of the annual directors’ fee pool be increased by $107,855 from an aggregate of $857,145 to

an aggregate of $965,000, such aggregate amount to be divided amongst the Directors as they deem appropriate.

The Directors review fees annually to ensure the aggregate amount available for Directors’ remuneration is adequate

to allow Directors’ fees to remain aligned with market levels. The Directors did not apply for any annual incremental

adjustment to the aggregate pool of Directors’ fees last year, so the current fee levels were last adjusted in 2021.

This year, the directors obtained independent market advice from Ernst & Young Limited (EY). A summary of EY’s

benchmarking report is attached, including an independence declaration from the EY engagement partner. The

Directors propose to apply an increase this year which allows non-executive directors to be paid at approximately the

median level of peer group market data presented in the EY report. The proposed increase also allows for members

of Board committees, in particular the Chairs of the committees whose workload is higher to be paid at approximately

the median level of peer group market data presented in the EY report.

The increase in the aggregate fee pool requested of shareholders, which is below the amount recommended by EY, is

12.6%, with anticipated payments as follows:


POOL

Fees (per annum)


Position

2022

$

2023

$

Percentage

Increase

Board of Directors

Chair 180,000 185,000 2.8%

Director 100,000 100,000 0%

Audit & Risk Committee

Chair 20,000 23,000 15%

Member - 14,000 -

People & Remuneration Committee

Chair 15,000 19,000 26.7%

Member - 10,000 -

Committee Work Pool (unallocated - only

used if required)

42,145 42,145 -


Total Annual Pool Limit 857,145 965,000 12.6%

The specified fees are the total fees that were or are anticipated to be paid to each director for each relevant period,

including committee chair or committee member fees (as applicable).

It should be noted that currently the aggregate annual fees paid to six directors amounts to $857,145. The total

amount of proposed fee increases the Board is contemplating paying going forward amounts to $107,855 in aggregate

above current levels. This would allow for the payment of the additional director if deemed appropriate and would

leave a balance of $42,145 unused (4.3 percent of the aggregate increased fee pool) for any unforeseen and

extraordinary work.

In accordance with NZX Main Board Listing Rule 6.3.1, the directors and their Associated Persons are restricted from

voting on this resolution.








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That the directors are authorised to fix the Auditors’ remuneration.

The present auditors of the Company are PricewaterhouseCoopers. Under the Companies Act 1993 they will

continue in office.





















The Freightways Annual Shareholders Meeting will be held on Thursday 26 October 2023 at 10am in the World Cup

Lounge, Level 4, South Stand, Eden Park, entrance via Gate G (off Reimers Avenue). Please park in the P5 parking

area (highlighted green above).

There will be a limited number of car parks available by the South Stand entrance on a first come, first served basis.


RESOLUTION 4: AUDITORS

MEETING VENUE – EDEN PARK


P5

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Review of Non-
Executive Director Fee

Practices


Summary report


Freightways Group Limited


27 September 2023

Freightways Group Limited
September 2023

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1. Executive summary

Freightways Group Limited (Freightways) has engaged Ernst & Young Limited (EY) to prepare a report in

relation to Non-Executive Directors’ (NED) fees. We confirm that our report has been prepared

independently and is not subject to any influence from the management or any Board member of

Freightways or any third party.

The findings in this section summarise the market positioning of Freightways’ Chair, other NEDs and

Committee fees compared to the market data. Fees are ‘at’ the relevant market reference point if

positioned within 10% of the market data reference point.

The market information pertaining to fee policy practices within the comparator group has been sourced

from EY’s Directors’ fees database, supplemented with data from the most recent financial year-end

annual reports. The information from annual reports is publicly available information. The comparator

group has been agreed with Freightways as the basis from which we perform our analysis.

We acknowledge that there is a time lag in remuneration disclosures from the chosen organisations.

Generally, Ernst & Young does not support ‘ageing’ market data to account for this time lag. Therefore,

the data used in this analysis is factual and has not been aged.

1.2 Board Chair, Other NEDs and fee pool policy positioning

Table 1 below compares Freightways’ Board Chair fee policy, other NEDs fee policy and the aggregated

fee pool to the agreed comparator group.

Table 1: Board Chair, Other NEDs and fee pool policy positioning

Chair fee policy Other NEDs fee policy Fee pool policy

Freightways’ Board Chair fee policy is

aligned to all three quartiles, although

we note that the interquartile range is

narrow.

Freightways’ other NEDs fee policy is

aligned to both the median and the 75

th


percentile, although we note that the

interquartile range is narrow.

Freightways’ approved maximum

aggregate fee pool is aligned to the

median of the market data.

1.3 Recommendations

When developing the recommendations below, we have considered the following factors:

• Director workload, including whether the workload required of NEDs has changed significantly

since Freightways’ last review of Director’s fees and/or is likely to increase prior to the next

review. This also includes consideration of Committee workload as represented by meeting

frequency compared to the comparator group.

• Market movements and trends for NED fees as observed in the Institute of Directors’ Fees

Report 2022/23 (3.5% for Chairs and 3.1% for other NEDs respectively)

• Current NED fees versus the comparator group and Freightways’ position against the

comparator group data set: equating to 112% of the median for market capitalisation (i.e.

between the median and the 75

th

percentile)

• The internal relativities of fee practices between the Chair, other NEDs and Committee Members

at Freightways.

Based on the considerations above, information provided by Freightways’ Board and the EY Directors’ fee

database, our recommended fee structure for Freightways NEDs is set out in Table 2 below.

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Table 2: Recommended fee increases

Role

Freightways’

Current Practice

($)

Recommended

Fee

($)

Recommended

Increase

(%)

Chair fee policy 180,000 185,000 2.8

Other NEDs fee policy 100,000 100,000 -

Committee fee policies

Audit and Risk Committee – Chair 20,000 23,000 15

Audit and Risk Committee – Member - 14,000 -

People and Remuneration Committee – Chair 15,000 19,000 26.7

People and Remuneration Committee – Member - 10,000 -

Nominations Committee - Chair - - -

Nominations Committee - Member - - -

Fee pool

Aggregate fee pool 857,145 990,000 12.6

1.4 Aggregate fee pool

The current available fee pool is $857,145. The fees received by Directors of Freightways for the year

ended 30 June 2022 was $723,668, impacted by Director resignations during this period. If the above

recommendations were adopted, the aggregate fees paid to Directors would exceed the current

maximum aggregate fee pool limit of $857,145.

To ensure Freightways has sufficient aggregate fee pool headroom, EY recommends the approved

maximum aggregate fee pool limit be increased to $990,000 inclusive of the committee work pool of

$42,145. Increasing the maximum aggregate fee pool limit to $990,000 would provide Freightways with

fee pool headroom of approximately 1.5x the proposed NED fee policy.

Thank you for the opportunity to assist Freightways with this assignment.


Una Diver

Partner – People Advisory Services

Ernst & Young Limited

Freightways Group Limited
September 2023

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Appendix A

Freightways’ comparator group (n=19)

Table 3: Comparator group (n=19)

Organisation

Market Capitalisation

($ millions) as at 1June 2023

Air New Zealand Limited 2,611

Argosy Property Limited 932

Arvida Group Limited 861

Briscoe Group Limited 971

Chorus Limited 3,626

Delegat Group 977

Genesis Energy 2,930

Goodman Property Trust 3,066

Kiwi Property Group Limited 1,445

Manawa Energy 1,487

Precinct Properties New Zealand Limited 1,927

Property for Industry Limited 1,180

Pushpay Holdings Limited 1,622

Skellerup Holdings Limited 939

SkyCity Entertainment Group Limited 1,726

Summerset Group Holdings Limited 2,087

Tourism Holdings 831

Vital Healthcare Property Trust 1,523

Vulcan Steel 1,072

25

th

percentile 974

Median 1,487

75

th

percentile 2,007

Freightways Group Limited

1,670

Between the median and the 75

th


percentile




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Our report may be relied upon by Freightways Group Limited for the purpose of

understanding the remuneration market for Non-Executive Director roles only pursuant to

the terms of our engagement letter dated 19 April 2023. We disclaim all responsibility to

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or relating to or in any way connected with the contents of our report, the provision of our

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How to Vote on Items of Business

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Casting your vote

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abstain from voting on the resolutions.

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STEP 1

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World Cup Lounge, Level 4, South Stand, Eden Park, Reimers

Avenue, Kingsland, Auckland on Thursday, 26 October 2023 at

10:00am

ATTENDANCE SLIP


or Sole Director/Director or Director (if more than one)

Contact Name Contact Daytime Telephone Date

Business

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

Please note: For each resolution below you must tick one box. If a box relating to a resolution is not ticked, the vote on that resolution

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held in the World Cup Lounge, Level 4, South Stand, Eden Park, Reimers Avenue, Kingsland, Auckland on Thursday, 26 October 2023 at 10:00am and

at any adjournment of that meeting.

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Shareholder 1 Shareholder 2 Shareholder 3

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I/We being a shareholder/s of Freightways Group Limited

hereby appoint

or failing him/her

1.That Mark Rushworth be re-elected as a director of Freightways.

2.That Peter Kean be re-elected as a director of Freightways.

3.That the total quantum of the annual directors’ fee pool be increased by $107,855

from an aggregate of $857,145 to an aggregate of $965,000, such aggregate amount

to be divided amongst the directors as they deem appropriate.

4.That the directors are authorised to fix the Auditors’ remuneration.

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