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Availability of Annual Reports, B-BBEE Report, Notice of AGM and Woolworths Proprietary Limited AFS

Published: 2023-09-29 18:22:20 ET
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Woolworths Holdings Limited
(Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa)
Registration number: 1929/001986/06
Share code: WHL
ISIN: ZAE000063863
Bond company code: WHLI
LEI: 37890095421E07184E97
 (“WHL” or “Company” or “WHL Group”)


AVAILABILITY OF ANNUAL REPORTS, B-BBEE REPORT, NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
AND WOOLWORTHS PROPRIETARY LIMITED ANNUAL FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (“AFS”)

In terms of the JSE Limited (“JSE”) Listings and Debt Listings Requirements, shareholders   and
Senior Unsecured Floating Rate Noteholders are advised as follows:

Notice of availability of Annual Reports
The 2023 Integrated Annual Report, Good Business Journey Report and AFS for the 52 weeks ended
25     June   2023    are    available   online     on    WHL’s     corporate    website    at:
https://www.woolworthsholdings.co.za/investors/all-reports-and-results/
Notice of availability of Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment compliance report
The Company’s annual compliance report in terms of section 13(G)(2) of the Broad-Based Black
Economic Empowerment Act 53 of 2003, as amended, is available on the Company’s website at:
https://www.woolworthsholdings.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Woolworths-Holdings-
Limited-BEE-Commission-Compliance-Report.pdf

Notice of Annual General Meeting (“AGM”)
Notice is hereby given that the AGM of shareholders of the Company will be held by way of a hybrid
meeting on Wednesday, 22 November 2023 at 10:00. Shareholders are invited to attend the meeting
in person in the Auditorium, 1st Floor, Woolworths House, 93 Longmarket Street, Cape Town, 8001,
or online by electronic communication and participation via the virtual platform described in the
notice of AGM.
The Notice of AGM, together with the summary Annual Financial Statements of the Group for the 52
weeks ended 25 June 2023, has been posted today, 29 September 2023, to those shareholders who
have not elected to receive electronic communication. The Notice of AGM is also available on the
Company’s website at https://www.woolworthsholdings.co.za/governance/agm/

Salient dates

 Record date to determine which shareholders are entitled to            Friday, 22 September 2023
 receive the Notice of AGM

 Last day to trade in order to be eligible to attend and vote at      Tuesday, 14 November 2023
 the AGM

 Record date to determine which shareholders are entitled to            Friday, 17 November 2023
 attend and vote at the AGM
For administrative purposes only, proxy forms may be delivered as follows:

       •   to the Company‘s Transfer Secretaries, Computershare Investor Services
           Proprietary Limited, by hand at Rosebank Towers, 15 Biermann Avenue, Rosebank, 2196
           or via post at Private Bag X9000, Saxonwold, 2132, (or via email at
           proxy@computershare.co.za, by 10:00 on Tuesday, 21 November 2023); and
       •   thereafter, to the Company, for the attention of the Group Company Secretary at
           Governance@woolworths.co.za

Any forms of proxy not submitted by this time may nevertheless be submitted prior to the proxy
exercising a shareholder’s rights at the AGM, as follows:

       •   to the Company‘s Transfer Secretaries, Computershare Investor                 Services
           Proprietary Limited via email at proxy@computershare.co.za; and
       •   to the Chairman of the AGM via email at Governance@woolworths.co.za


Notice of availability of Woolworths Proprietary Limited AFS
Woolworths Proprietary Limited (“Guarantor”) is the Guarantor of the Company’s
Domestic Medium Term Note Programme. Senior Unsecured Floating Rate Noteholders are advised
that the Annual Financial Statements for the year ended 25 June 2023 (“2023 financial statements”)
of the Guarantor will be made available at WHL’s registered office on or about 04 October 2023 and
upon request from the Group Company Secretary at Governance@woolworths.co.za. Senior
Unsecured Floating Rate Noteholders are also advised that the audit report on the 2023 financial
statements of the Guarantor is unqualified, with no modifications applicable.


Cape Town
29 September 2023
Equity Sponsor and Debt Sponsor
Investec Bank Limited