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ASTRAL FOODS LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa) (Registration number: 1978/003194/06) ISIN Code: ZAE000029757 JSE Share Code: ARL A2X Share Code: ARL (“Astral Foods” or the “Company”) AVAILABILITY OF AUDITED ANNUAL FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, INTEGRATED REPORT, NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, AVAILABILITY OF B-BBEE ANNUAL COMPLIANCE REPORT AND PROPOSED MEETING WITH THE REMUNERATION COMMITTEE Integrated Report Shareholders are advised that the Integrated Report (“IR2023”) and the Notice of Annual General Meeting (“AGM”), are available on the Company’s website at: https://www.astralfoods.com/assets/AstralSens2023.pdf The IR2023 incorporates the Audited Annual Financial Statements (“AFS”), also available at: https://senspdf.jse.co.za/documents/2023/jse/isse/ARL/IAR2023.pdf PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc., the Company’s independent auditor, has audited the AFS and has expressed an unmodified audit opinion thereon. The Notice of AGM was distributed to shareholders today and is available on the Astral Food’s website at: https://www.astralfoods.com/assets/AGMAnnouncement.pdf In the event that shareholders wish to receive the full IR2023 printed in hard copy, this can be requested from the Company Secretary at leonie.marupen@astralfoods.com Notice of AGM Notice is hereby given that the AGM of shareholders of Astral Foods will be held at 08:00 on Thursday, 1 February 2024 virtually and in the Company’s Boardroom at Lanseria Corporate Estate, 13 Thunderbolt Lane, Lanseria Ext 26, Gauteng to consider and, if deemed fit, pass with or without modification, the resolutions set out in the Notice of AGM. The salient dates of the AGM are as follows: Record date to receive the Notice of AGM Friday, 1 December 2023 Distribution date of the Notice of AGM Friday, 8 December 2023 Last day to trade to be eligible to vote at the AGM Tuesday, 23 January 2024 Record date for voting purposes at the AGM Friday, 26 January 2024 Forms of proxy to be lodged by no later than 08:00 on* Wednesday, 31 January 2024 AGM to be held at 08:00 on Thursday, 1 February 2024 Results of the AGM announced on SENS on or about Thursday, 1 February 2024 *For administrative purposes. Any Form of Proxy not delivered to the transfer secretaries by this time and date may be provided to the transfer secretaries/chairman of the AGM by no later than immediately prior to the commencement of voting on the resolutions tabled at the AGM. Availability of B-BBEE Annual Compliance Report Shareholders are advised that Astral Foods’ annual compliance report in terms of section 13G(2) of the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (“B-BBEE”) Amendment Act, 2013 (Act No 46 of 2013) is available on the Company’s website at: https://www.astralfoods.com/assets/Astral%20BBBEE%20certificate%2004122023.pdf Virtual meeting with the Remuneration Committee (“REMCOM”) Astral’s REMCOM would like to invite shareholders to a virtual meeting to be held at 14:00 (South African time) on Monday, 22 January 2024, via MS Teams, prior to the Company’s AGM on Thursday, 1 February 2024, for shareholders to raise any concerns or questions pertaining to any of the resolutions, specifically the non-binding advisory resolutions on the Remuneration Policy. The MS Teams link may be requested by contacting Inge Bird at inge@kris.co.za prior to Wednesday, 17 January 2024. Lanseria 8 December 2023 Sponsor Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking, a division of Nedbank Limited
