FWL Notice of 2023 Annual Meeting of Shareholders
Foley Wines Limited Page 1 Notice of Annual Meeting
9 October 2023
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 2023 Annual Meeting of Shareholders of Foley Wines
Limited will be held at:
Venue: The Runholder, Te Kairanga, 89 Martins Road, Martinborough.
Time: Thursday, 16 November 2023, commencing at 10.30am.
AGENDA:
The agenda for the meeting is as follows:
1. Chairman’s Introduction
2. Chief Executive’s Presentation
3. 2023 Financial Report
4. Shareholder Questions
5. Ordinary Resolutions:
To consider, and if thought fit, to pass the following ordinary resolutions, requiring a simple
majority of votes by those shareholders entitled to vote and voting:
5.1 Auditor (note 1):
Resolution 1: That the Board be authorised to determine the auditor’s fees and expenses for
the 2024 financial year.
5.2 Election of Directors (note 2):
5.2.1 Resolution 2: To re-elect Anthony Anselmi as a Director of Foley Wines Limited.
5.2.2 Resolution 3: To elect Robert P Foley II as a Director of Foley Wines Limited.
6. General Business: To consider any other business that may be properly brought before the
meeting.
All resolutions to be put to the meeting are discussed in the Explanatory Notes attached.
PROXIES
➢ A Voting/Proxy form is attached for your use. Refer to the Final Section on the Notes for
instructions for completing the Voting/Proxy form. Please deliver the completed proxy to the
Company by 10.30 am on Tuesday 14 November 2023.
For administrative and venue confirmation purposes, we would appreciate if you could please RSVP
by Friday 27 October 2023 to Sara on 03 572 8200 or email admin@foleywines.co.nz. Thank you.
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NOTES TO THE AGENDA
Note 1 – Auditor: Resolution 1
Deloitte Limited (Deloitte) is the current auditor of Foley Wines Limited. The Companies Act 1993
provides that a company’s auditor is automatically reappointed unless the shareholders resolve to
appoint a replacement auditor, or there is another reason for the auditor not to be reappointed.
Section 207S of the Companies Act 1993 further provides that the auditors’ fees and expenses must
be fixed by the Company, or in the manner that the Company determines at a shareholders’ meeting.
Shareholders are being asked to resolve that the Board is authorised to fix the fees and expenses of
Deloitte for the current year.
Note 2 - Election of Directors: Resolutions 2-3
Robert P Foley II (Rob) was appointed to the Board with effect from 1 April 2023. In accordance
with clause 10.6 of the Company’s constitution and NZX Listing Rule 2.7.1, Rob retires from office
at the 2023 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. Rob has confirmed that he is available for election.
In accordance with clause 10.9 of the Company’s Constitution Tony Anselmi, being a Non-executive
director who has served longer than nine years, is subject to annual re-election. Tony has confirmed
that he is available for re-election.
Biographies:
Robert P Foley II (Non-Executive Director)
Robert P Foley II was appointed to the Board on 1 April 2023 following the retirement from the
Board of his father William P Foley II. Robert Foley is currently the CEO for the Henderson Silver
Knights ice hockey club as well as President of Foley Family Farms which currently farms 5,000
acres of vineyards across California and Oregon. Robert’s professional career began in 2010 at
Chalk Hill Winery in Sonoma California in the hospitality department and cellar door. In 2014 he
transitioned to a regional beverage distributor, Epic Wines and Spirits, as a brand manager before
moving to Las Vegas Nevada in 2016 to join the hockey operations department with the NHL
expansion franchise Vegas Golden Knights. Robert works closely with the management team of
Wharekauhau Country Estate located near Palliser Bay NZ.
Robert has a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Chapman University.
Robert has advised that he is also a director of Winter Sports, Inc.
The Board have determined that Robert Foley is not an Independent Director in accordance with
NZX Main Board Listing Rule 2.6.1 due to him being the son of William P Foley II and Carol J
Foley, substantial product holders.
Anthony Anselmi O.B.E. (Non-Executive Independent Director)
Anthony Anselmi (Tony) was appointed to the Board in September 2012 and is a member of the
Audit and Risk Committee. Tony’s business career began in footwear retail in his late teens, and
today the family-owned business of which Tony is a director owns and operates retail stores
throughout New Zealand and in the State of Victoria, Australia. Tony developed a manufacturing
plant in TeKuiti which supplied footwear to retailer throughout New Zealand. The land containing
the factory buildings is now being redeveloped by Tony, into a new housing precinct. Tony has had
considerable experience in farmland development and dry stock and dairy farming. Tony was a
director of the State-Owned Enterprise Forestry Corporation until it was sold by the Government
and Inframax a Local Authority Trading Enterprise. He was for a period Chairman of the New
Zealand Footwear Manufacturers Federation and the King Country Regional Development Council.
Tony has invested with Bill Foley in Foley Holdings New Zealand since 2009.
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Tony has advised that he is also a Director of the following entities:
Overland Footwear Company Limited
Overland Group Australia Limited
Overland Manufacturing Limited
Fabia Overland Holdings Company Limited
Fabia Products Limited
New Zealand Abalone Limited
William & Monica Anselmi Memorial Family Trust Company Limited
The Board have determined that Tony Anselmi is an Independent Director in accordance with the
NZX Listing Rules.
Nominations for Directors closed at 5.00 pm on Friday 22 September 2023.
No further Nominations were received.
Important Information: General Note Applicable to All Resolutions requiring Votes at the
Annual Meeting
Pursuant to section 125 of the Companies Act 1993, the Board has determined that, for the purposes of
voting at the Annual Meeting, only those registered shareholders of the Company as at 10.30 am on
Tuesday 14 November 2023, being a day not more than 20 working days before the meeting, shall be
entitled to exercise the right to vote at the meeting either in person or by appointing a proxy to attend
and vote instead of that shareholder.
Voting will be conducted by way of a poll.
You may vote
1. By Attending. You should bring the Voting/Proxy Form (included with this Notice) with you
since voting will be by way of a poll.
2. By Proxy. If you do not plan to attend, you can appoint a proxy to vote for you.
A Voting/Proxy Form is included with this Notice of Annual Meeting which allows you to vote either
for, against, or abstain from, the resolutions notified in this Notice of Meeting.
Any shareholder of the Company, who is entitled to attend and vote at the Annual Meeting, is entitled
to appoint a proxy to attend the meeting and vote on his or her behalf. A proxy need not be a shareholder
of the Company.
If you appoint a proxy, you may either direct your proxy how to vote for you, or you may give the proxy
discretion to vote as he or she sees fit. If you wish to give your proxy discretion then you should make
the appropriate election on the Proxy Form, to grant your proxy that discretion.
You will be deemed to have given your proxy discretion if you do not make an election in relation to
any of resolutions 1 to 3.
The Chairman of the meeting is willing to act as proxy for any shareholder who appoints him or her for
that purpose.
The Chair of the meeting and the Directors intend to vote all undirected proxies in favour of the
resolutions. The Chairman and any Directors appointed as proxy will vote any discretionary proxies in
favour of resolutions 1 to 3.
If your named proxy does not attend the meeting, or if the proxy is not named but the proxy form is
otherwise completed, the Chairman of the meeting will act as your proxy and may only vote in
accordance with your express instruction.
To be valid, a completed Voting/Proxy Form must be returned by no later than 10.30 am on
Tuesday 14 November 2023. Any Voting/Proxy Form received after that time will not be valid for the
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Annual Meeting.
You may return your completed Voting/Proxy Form by:
• Delivering it in person to FWL Head Office, Grove Mill, 13 Waihopai Valley Road, Blenheim;
• Scan and email (please use “FWL Proxy” as the subject of your email) to
admin@foleywines.co.nz;
• Return the Voting/Proxy Form by mail to Foley Wines Ltd, Attn: Jane Trought, PO Box 67,
Renwick 7243, New Zealand.; or
• Fax the Voting/Proxy Form to: +64 3 572 8211.
Results of the voting will be posted on the NZX website and the Company’s website following the
conclusion of the Annual Meeting and finalisation of the voting results.
The Company’s external auditors, Deloitte, will be available at the meeting to answer any questions
from Shareholders relevant to the external audit.
Shareholders not yet receiving Shareholder Offers, please email: marketing@foleywines.co.nz
By Order of the Board of Directors
Jane Trought
Chief Financial Officer
Foley Wines Limited
9 October 2023.
Foley Wines Limited, 13 Waihopai Valley Road, RD6 Blenheim 7276, Marlborough, New Zealand.
PO Box 67, Renwick 7243, New Zealand.
p. +64.3.572.8200 f. +64.3.572.8211 e. admin@foleywines.co.nz w. www.foleywines.co.nz
VOTING/PROXY FORM
[Shareholder Mailing Name] CSN/Shareholder No: [CSN]
[Address]
[Address]
[Address] No Shares: [Holding]
To: Foley Wines Limited
PO Box 67
Renwick 7243
I/We <SHAREHOLDER FULL NAME>
of <ADDRESS>
being a shareholder of Foley Wines Limited
HEREBY APPOINT ________________________________________________
[print name of proxy]
of ______________________________________________________________
or failing him/her ___________________________ of ______________________
as my/our proxy to vote on my/our behalf as directed below and on any other matter to be put to the
Annual Meeting of Shareholders of the Company to be held on Thursday 16 November 2023
commencing at 10.30 am and at any adjournment thereof.
I/we direct my/our proxy to vote in the following manner:
Vote with a tick
Ordinary Resolution: For Against Abstain Discretion
1. Auditors (note 1):
“THAT the Board be authorised to determine the auditor’s fees and expenses for the 2024 financial
year.”
2. Directors Elections (note 2):
“TO re-elect Anthony Anselmi as a Director of Foley Wines Limited.”
3. Directors Elections (note 2):
“TO elect Robert P Foley II as a Director of Foley Wines Limited.”
Foley Wines Limited Page 2 AGM Voting/Proxy Form
Signed this ______________ day of _______________________ 2023.
_________________________ ________________________
Signature of Shareholder Signature of Shareholder
All co-shareholders must sign.
If you are unable to attend the meeting and wish to vote, please return the completed form to the Foley Wines
Limited Head Office located at 13 Waihopai Valley Rd, RD6, Blenheim, by post to Foley Wines Limited, PO
Box 67, Renwick 7243, email to admin@foleywines.co.nz, or fax to 03 5728211 by 10.30am Tuesday 14
November 2023.
Please note: To be valid, a completed Proxy Form must be received at the address noted above by no later than
10.30am Tuesday 14 November 2023, being 48 hours prior to the commencement of the meeting. Any Proxy Form
received after that time will not be valid for the meeting.
There are no voting restrictions on resolutions 1 to 3. If your named proxy does not attend the meeting, or if the proxy
is not named but the proxy form is otherwise completed, the Chairman of the meeting will act as your proxy and may
only vote in accordance with your express instruction.
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