Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Dick Simpson, and as the Chairman of Vita Group, it's my pleasure to welcome you to today's Extraordinary General Meeting. I do thank you for your attending. As we set out in the notice of meeting dated on October the eighth, due to COVID restrictions on public gatherings, this meeting is being conducted virtually via the online Lumi platform. The login details were included in your notice of meeting. Today's online meeting allows shareholders, proxies, and guests to attend the meeting virtually and view our brief presentation while listening to our audio broadcast of the meeting. In addition, shareholders and proxies can ask questions and submit votes in real time. First, let me introduce our board, all of whom are joining us today. We've got Maxine Horne, our Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer. Neil Osborne, a Non-Executive Director. Paul Wilson, a Non-Executive Director, and Paul Mirabelle, who's also a Non-Executive Director. Our leadership team is also present today, including the Chief Financial Officer, Andrew Ryan, the Company Secretary, George Southgate, and our Chief Operating Officer, Peter Connors. I can announce that a quorum of shareholders is present so the meeting can proceed. I also note that we are permitted to count virtual attendees for the purpose of calculating the quorum. Now, let me explain how the EGM will work today. You may submit questions at any time, either verbally or via the messaging function. You're welcome to ask questions either way. However, we recommend you use the messaging option as it's quicker and easier for everybody. I would also like to remind you that only shareholders of the company or their appointed proxies and attorneys are entitled to vote or speak at this meeting. If I consider a question outside the scope of the business of the meeting, I do have the right to refer it. If you need any help using the Lumi system during the meeting, please call the number included in the online voting user guide. Let me tell you what it is. It's 03 9415 4024. Now we'll go through how to ask questions on the text. You select the messaging tab at the top of the Lumi platform, and at the top of that tab, there's a section for you to type your question. Once you've finished typing, please hit the arrow symbol to send. To ask a question verbally, you pause the broadcast on the Lumi platform by clicking the pause button, then click on the link Asking Audio Questions. A new page will open where you'll be prompted to enter your name and the topic of your question before being connected. You'll listen to the meeting on this page while you're waiting to ask your question. If you have any issues using this system, please return to the Lumi platform. Now, please note that while you submit the questions any time from now on, we'll address them when we get to the relevant time in the meeting, and if there are duplicates of questions, we'll try and answer it once. Let me explain how today's vote will go. Voting will be conducted by way of a poll in real time online via the Lumi platform. We only have one item of business for today's meeting. In order to provide you with enough time to vote, we'll open the voting shortly. At that time, if you're eligible to vote, a new voting tab will appear. To vote, select the tab by bringing up the resolution and present the voting options. Select one of the options to cast your vote. There is no need to hit Submit or an Enter button as the vote is automatically recorded. However, you can change your vote up until the time that we declare that the voting is closed. I now declare that the voting is open on today's sole item of business. The voting tab will soon appear, and please submit your votes at any time. I will give you some warning before we close the voting. Please let me remind you that if you're a proxy or Vita shareholder, if you're both attending the meeting, the proxy's authority to speak and vote at the meeting is suspended while the Vita shareholder is present at the meeting. The meeting will proceed as follows. Maxine and I will provide a brief presentation on the proposed sale of Vita Retail Information and Communication Technology, the ICT business, to Telstra. We'll invite questions and comments. Prior to voting on the resolution, I will advise the meeting of the proxy votes that have been cast for and against the resolution already, and then we will close the meeting. We'll now move to a brief presentation from Maxine first and then myself later. I'll hand over to you, Maxine. Thank you, Dick. By way of background, and as many of you will be aware, on the 11th of February 2021, Telstra announced to the ASX its intention to transition the Telstra branded retail store network, including Vita's 104 stores, to a full corporate ownership model. This was also announced to the ASX by Vita on the same date, at which time Vita confirmed this would mean that the conclusion of Vita's Telstra dealership agreement on its expiry date of the 13th of June 2025. Telstra also announced that it would commence discussions with Vita on transition arrangements. These discussions resulted in the negotiation with Telstra on the proposed transaction. On the 24th of September 2021, Vita announced it had entered into a share sale agreement, SSA, for the sale of Vita's ICT business to Telstra. The proposed transaction is subject to conditions. One being that Vita's shareholders approve the proposed transaction for the purposes of ASX Listing Rule 11.2 at an extraordinary general meeting. Given that the transaction constitutes a disposal of Vita's main undertaking, the shareholder vote is the purpose of the meeting today. On the 8th of October 2021, Vita issued the notice of meeting, which contains important information about the proposed sale of Vita's retail ICT business to Telstra. This includes key questions and answers for shareholders, the effect of the transaction on the business, and the proposed use of funds, including the special dividends. It also included an independent expert's report, which concluded that the proposed transaction is in the best interest of Vita shareholders. In addition, noting that no superior proposal has been made, the Board unanimously recommended that shareholders vote in favor of the proposed transaction. As outlined in the notice of meeting, the proposed transaction involves Telstra acquiring Fone Zone, a wholly owned subsidiary of Vita, which is the holding company for the corporate entities that hold and operate the retail ICT stores and Sprout accessories business. As part of the transaction, Telstra will assume control of the Vita people employing entity, and Vita will retain ownership of the Artisan business. Telstra will provide Vita with cash consideration of AUD 110 million, subject to a net working capital and net debt adjustment mechanism. If the transaction proceeds, it is expected that eligible Vita shareholders will receive a fully franked special dividend of approximately AUD 0.39-AUD 0.45 per Vita share, which will be paid in two tranches following completion of the proposed transaction. The two tranches are the major distribution, approximately AUD 60 million-AUD 65 million, equating to between AUD 0.36 and AUD 0.39 per share, and the final distribution, presently anticipated to be in the range of AUD 5 million-AUD 10 million, equating to between AUD 0.03 and AUD 0.06 per Vita share. It is expected that the remaining proceeds from the proposed transaction, net of costs of AUD 35 million, will be retained as working capital to fund the growth of the Artisan business. With that, I'll hand back to Dick to explain more about what these changes mean for Vita. Thanks, Maxine. If the proposed transaction proceeds, then Vita's operations, resources, talent, and activities will be 100% focused on delivering the Artisan strategy, thus maximizing our future growth opportunity. The Vita board and senior management team will change to reflect a smaller business, which will include, among quite a lot of other changes, a smaller board. Neil Osborne and I will be leaving the board at the AGM on next week. Paul Mirabelle will be assuming the role of Chair. Maxine Horne will exit the role of CEO of the company and join Paul Mirabelle and Paul Wilson as Non-Executive Directors on the board. Peter Connors, our long-term Chief Operating Officer, will be appointed CEO of the company. These changes will support the board and executive in continuing the strategy of delivering productivity gains and further grow the Artisan clinic network. Please note that our upcoming annual general meeting on the 26th of November will address the formalities of some of these proposed changes mentioned above, and this is all subject to the completion of today's transaction. Let me give you the key dates before we move on to questions. Assuming all conditions of the proposed transaction are met, the sale will be completed this Friday, the 12th of November. The first and major tranche of the special dividends that Maxine referred to will be paid on Friday the 26th of November to shareholders on record as at Friday, 19th of November at 6 P.M. Brisbane time. The details of the final tranche will be announced in the coming weeks as we progress through the adjustment period with the finalizing of the exit costs and the transitions. Now let me move to Q&A, the Q&A part of our meeting. If there are questions, our Company Secretary, George Southgate, will receive these questions and share them with the meeting attendees, and then I or somebody else will respond to the question, and to the relevant person. Please submit your questions if you have not already done so. I can see we have no questions at this time, Mr. Chairman, so I'll allow a minute for questions to be submitted. Thank you, George. No questions coming in, George? No questions have come in, Mr. Chairman. Okay. Well, let's then move to the formal business of today's meeting. I refer to the notice of meeting and take it as read. I intend to vote all open proxies that have been allocated to me as chair in favor of the resolution. Each Vita shareholder present, either in person or by proxy, has one vote for each Vita share that they hold. The resolution is now displayed on the screen. Pause and see if there are any further comments or questions on the resolution. No questions at this time, Mr. Chairman. All right. If you've not yet voted and you're eligible to vote, please select the voting icon and cast your vote. There is no need to hit the Submit or Enter button. The vote will be automatically counted. I'll now pause just to give anybody who hasn't voted time to vote. Okay. The voting is now closed. The proxy votes cast before the meeting are displayed on the screen. 98,748,000 proxy votes were cast prior to the meeting, with 98,214,000 in favor of the resolution, which equates to 59.3% of all securities held, and obviously well over the 50% mark required for such a resolution to pass. The final vote, the results of the voting, including your votes today, will be released to the stock exchange later today. That brings to a close this extraordinary general meeting. Thank you for your attendance and participation, as well as your support through the year. We appreciate both. Our AGM is planned for November 26th, and we invite you to join us again then. Thank you very much indeed for everybody participating.
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