Last checked at 16 Jun 2023 12:00
16th June 2023
Woodbois Limited
("Woodbois", the "Group" or the "Company")
(AIM: WBI)
Results of General Meeting
Woodbois Limited (AIM: WBI), the African focused sustainable forestry, reforestation, carbon sequestration and timber trading company is pleased to announce that at its General Meeting held at 11:00am on 16th June 2023 all resolutions were duly passed on a poll, which included proxies lodged before the Meeting. The voting results are given below.
Resolutions | For | Against | Abstain | |
1 | To adjust the nominal value per ordinary share to 0.01p | 97.9% | 1.8% | 0.3% |
2 | To authorise the directors to allot ordinary shares up to a nominal value of £275,000 | 98.2% | 1.4% | 0.4% |
3 | To authorise the directors to allot ordinary shares with a nominal value of up to £275,000 without pre-emption | 97.2% | 1.8% | 1.0% |
1. The number of votes validly cast were in respect of 487,387,158 voting ordinary shares, representing 19.6% of the 2,485,850,726 issued voting share capital of the Company, being the total in issue at 6.00pm on 14th June 2023.
2. Percentages are rounded to one decimal place. Resolutions 1 and 2 were ordinary resolutions, Resolution 3 was a special resolution
Enquiries:
Woodbois Limited Paul Dolan - Chief Executive Officer Carnel Geddes - Chief Financial Officer
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+44 (0)20 7099 1940
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Canaccord Genuity (Nominated Advisor and Joint Broker) Henry Fitzgerald-O'Connor Harry Pardoe Gordon Hamilton
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Novum Securities (Joint Broker) | |
Colin Rowbury Jon Bellis | +44(0)20 7399 9427 |
Background on Woodbois
Woodbois Limited (AIM:WBI) is an African-focused forestry company, divided into three distinct, but highly complementary divisions comprising the production and supply of sustainable African hardwood products, the trading of timber and timber products, and a reforestation and carbon credit division.
Woodbois' forestry division has production facilities in Gabon and Mozambique, managing a total of c470,000 hectares of natural forest concessions. The trading division comprises an experienced team of timber specialists, who source and supply sustainable timber to a global customer base. Its proprietary technology developed in-house, captures, stores and presents data, providing a matching engine to build scale and optimise trading opportunities with its global customer base.
The Company's carbon sequestration and trading division aims to generate voluntary carbon credits for corporate partners through the delivery of large-scale reforestation projects. The conditional lease announced today is its first project.
The Company's focus on the transparency and sustainability of its timber operations has been recognised by The Zoological Society of London, which ranked Woodbois joint eighth in its Sustainability Policy Transparency Toolkit ('SPOTT'') ESG policy transparency assessments for the worldwide timber and pulp industries for 2022.
The Company agreed a new partnership with World Forest ID, which will enhance the traceability and identification of timber, originating from the company's forest concessions in Gabon. World Forest ID is an international organisation, which is revolutionizing the protection of forests through the application of science-based origin tracing and species identification. World Forest ID is building an extensive global library of reference samples, from various forest regions, for use in cross verification.
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