Financial Assistance for the Purchase of Shares
NZX & ASX RELEASE
1 December 2023
NOTICE OF PROVISION OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
Introduction
Under section 80(1)(b) of the Companies Act 1993, Freightways Group Limited ("Company") is required
to provide NZX Limited with the following notice in respect of the financial assistance provided to certain
employees in connection with the Company's Employee Share Plan ("Plan"). This notice is for
information only and no action is required.
Employee share plan
The Company established the Plan by a trust deed dated 30 June 2005 to enable employees to acquire
fully paid ordinary shares in the Company ("Shares").
The Plan involves the Company making loans to employees to fund the acquisition of Shares, issued by
the Company to Freightways Trustee Company Limited ("Trustee"), as trustee of the Plan, on behalf of
participating employees. Those loans are provided on an interest-free basis and are for a term of three
years. The loans will be repaid by employees in regular instalments over this three year term by way of a
deduction from their salary or wages.
Disclosure
The following financial assistance was provided by the Company in connection with the Plan on 1
December 2023:
1. The financial assistance was provided in respect of a total of 90,000 Shares ("Relevant Shares").
2. A total of $616,500 was paid by the Trustee as consideration for the issue of the Relevant Shares.
3. The nature of the financial assistance was interest-free loans with a term of three years. The
amount of those loans was $616,500 in total.
4. The financial assistance was provided for the benefit of the persons listed in Part A of the
schedule appended to this notice ("Participants"). Through a series of inter-company loans, the
Company provided financial assistance to Freightways Express Limited, which provided
financial assistance to the Trustee, which provided financial assistance to the subsidiaries of the
Company listed in Part B of the schedule appended to this notice ("Subsidiaries"). Each
Subsidiary then provided financial assistance to the Participants employed by that Subsidiary.
ENDS
For further information please contact
Stephan Deschamps
Chief Financial Officer
+64 9 571 9669
SCHEDULE
Part A: Participants
Refer list of Participants attached
Part B: Subsidiaries
Subsidiaries that received loans in connection with the Plan are:
• Air Freight NZ Limited
• Big Chill Distribution Limited
• Fieldair Engineering Limited
• Fieldair Holdings Limited
• Freightways Express Limited
• Freightways Information Services Limited
• Messenger Services Limited
• New Zealand Couriers Limited
• New Zealand Document Exchange Limited
• Parceline Express Limited
• Post Haste Limited
• The Information Management Group (NZ) Limited
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Financial assistance was provided for the benefit of the persons listed below
First Name Last Name
Aaditya Bhamidipati
Luke Rohloff
David Smillie
Luke Burgess
Kiri Clark
Adam Dawson
John Day
Hamish Graeme Knudsen
Shayne Luskie
John Macmillan
Mark James Mckay
Jason Ogden
Racquel Probine
Daniela Radulescu
Michael Jeffrey Smith
Thomas Steel
Shane Patoto Tauri
Allan Taverner
Perry Thomas
Jason Wolferstan
Neil Kenneth Worthington
Paula Couchman
Cris Dela Torre
Gareth Far
Robert Hawley
Christopher Heaton
Sean Henderson
Mark Noel Hendry
Heath Reynolds
Kim Lawton
Kelli-Anne Ball
Nicola Silke
Neil Wilson
Sridhar Arepalli
Honour Carmichael
Matthew Cocker
Rob Dewar
Madeleine Green
David Kelly
Patrick Moore
Matthew Patua
Fiji Philip
Scott Robinson
Margaret Chaudhry
Phoebe Erick
Val Fa'Agata
Alexander Jamieson
Rajbir Kaur
Kylie O'Callaghan
Jodie Richards
Kristin Ririnui
Wendy Vasa Tagatoa
Jabida Ali
Kylie Andrew
Elizabeth Aratangi
Edward Barboza
Ramya Biligiri
Allison Boehm
Gayle Brown
David Butt
Rose Campbell
Angela Canton
John Charles
Craig Cochrane
Tony Creighton
Ursala De Leeuw
Hamish Dickson
Nisha Dsilva
George East
Derek Edwards
Christina Falo
Roger Farrelly
Mark Godfrey
Ming Gutschlag
Paris Hayes
Shane Hodges
Kelly - Anne Hopa
Annette Husband
Sadsoungoen Kanokporn
Megan Kerr
Khush Kotwal
Jashlin Kumar
Carolyn Law
Darryl Matehe
Ashleigh McBride
Stuart McCusker
Richard Morgan
Louella Morning
Martin Morris
Gayatri Mudaliar
Kimiora Pene
Jaime Pullar
Karen Rayment
Leon Rong
Marie Kaye Scott
Angela Shane
Alastair Smith
Anuradha Solomon
Laura Thompson
Scott Thorburn
Michael Tovine
Dianne Van Aken
Kathleen van Zyl
Clare Elizabeth Vuleta
Jonathan Webb
Chris Young
Jennifer Zheng
Adrian Coleman
Rose Collins
Sherrin Corbett
Cong (Mason) Do
Matthew Fernie
Gregg Foster
Michael Greer
Carl Vincent Hopkinson
Jeya Seelan Jeya Raj
Wilson Jeyachandran
Nick Kent
Jignesh Kerai
Steven Kilpatrick
Claudia Konzen
Stephen Leggett
Brendan Wayne Mills
Lesley Milne
Amelia Pascua
Steven Pearson
Ranjit Ray
Rishlyn Nameel Reddy
Brian James Rusbridge
Jeremy Small
Maree Stockwell
Manuel Valdez
Rebecca Westbury
Teresa Wigzell
Sara Aghajari
Sorosh Aghajari
Garth Beaumont
Samantha Begbie
Errol Dsouza
Richard Ewers
Lindy-Jane Johns
Helen Lui
Tracey MacGillivray
Chris MacLeod-Cotter
Ajhurak McMillan
Jane Norton
Lana Palekotama
Johnothan (Johno) Riley
Rosheel Sharma
Greg Smith
Aaron Stubbing
Damian Tamati
Kris Tamati
Kylie Dawn Teale
Sharon Whitehead
Tanykah Pauline Wilson
Herbert Van Beuzekom
Ryan John Cauchi-Mills
Taryn Culpan
Matthew Warrington Ellis
Robert George Herriott
Ruhi Joshi
David Leuluai
Rusli Lim
Mike McKeefry
Keasi Ngauamo
Juliana Sendi
Jieyan (Sissi) Shao
Yuan (Jack) Shen
Natasha Souness
Daniel Ward
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