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Commentary
Pick n Pay Holdings Limited and its Subsidiaries
Directors’ Responsibility
Directors’ Approval
Company Secretary's certificate
Independent Auditor’s Report
Directors’ Report
Income Statements
Balance Sheets
Statements of Changes in Equity
Cash Flow Statements
Notes to the AFS
Pick n Pay Stores Limited and its Subsidiaries
Divisional Directors
Pick n Pay Stores Limited
Pick n Pay Holdings Limited
Proxies
Pick n Pay Stores Limited
Pick n Pay Holdings Limited
 
Election to Receive Annual
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Directors' report
 
Pick n Pay Holdings Limited and its subsidiaries
 

SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS

On 11 June 2008 the Company’s shareholders approved the following special resolution:

General authority to repurchase Company shares

It was resolved that the Company or any of its subsidiaries may, in accordance with sections 85 and 89 of the Companies Act, acquire issued shares of the Company or its holding company, upon such terms and conditions and in such amounts as the directors of the Company may determine from time to time. Acquisition of such shares is subject to the articles of association of the Company, the provisions of the Companies Act and the Listings Requirements of the JSE Limited (“JSE”), and provided further that acquisitions by the Company and its subsidiaries of shares in the Company may not, in the aggregate, exceed in any one financial year 5% of the Company’s issued share capital.

Subsidiary companies special resolutions

On 11 June 2008, Pick n Pay Stores Limited passed the same special resolution as the Company.

100%-owned subsidiary companies, Bedworth Sentrum (Pty) Limited, Pick n Pay (Steeledale) (Pty) Limited and Pick n Pay (Steelpark) (Pty) Limited passed special resolutions in terms of section 228 of the Companies Act, to sell their only asset being investment property.

DIRECTORS AND SECRETARY

In terms of the Company’s Articles of Association the directors listed here retire by rotation and they offer themselves for re-election. Information pertaining to the directors and the Company Secretary appear here.

DIRECTORS’ INTEREST IN SHARES

  2009     2008  
  %     %  
Beneficial 0.2     0.2  
Non-beneficial 51.1     51.1  
Total 51.3     51.3  


The directors’ interest in shares is their effective shareholding in the Company, excluding treasury shares.

BORROWINGS

The Company’s overall level of borrowings is unchanged from the prior year.

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

All corporate governance structures to referred to on pages 40 to 45 also apply to Pick n Pay Holdings Limited.

SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

There have been no facts or circumstances of a material nature that have arisen between the financial year-end and the date of this report.

 

 
 
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