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FRENCKEN GROUP LIMITED
ANNUAL REPORT 2014
SHAREHOLDERS RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES (CONT'D)
Principle 16 (Cont'd)
The Company does not practise selective disclosure. In line with continuous obligations of the Company pursuant to the
Singapore Exchange’s Listing Rules, the Board’s policy is that all shareholders should be equally informed of all major
developments impacting the Group.
Information is disseminated to shareholders on a timely basis through:
• Company’s corporate website
• SGXNET announcements and news releases
• Annual Report prepared and issued to all shareholders
The Company has a dedicated investor relations team which focuses on facilitating communications with shareholders and
analysts on a regular basis and attending to their queries or concerns. The Company also conduct presentation to analyst
and investors to keep the market and investors apprised of the Group’s corporate development and financial performance.
At the Company’s Annual General Meetings, shareholders are given the opportunity to express their views and direct
questions to Directors and management regarding the Company. The Chairman of the Audit, Remuneration and Nominating
Committees will normally be present at Annual General Meetings and other general meetings of shareholders to assist the
Board in addressing shareholders’ questions. The External Auditors are also invited to attend the Annual General Meeting
to assist the Directors in answering any queries relating to the conduct of the audit and the preparation and content of the
auditors’ report.
Resolutions to be passed at general meetings are always separate and distinct in terms of issue and are consistent with the
Code’s recommendation that companies avoid ‘bundling’ resolutions unless the resolutions are interdependent and linked
so as to form one significant proposal.
The Company has not adopted voting by poll for all resolutions this year. The Company will make arrangement to meet the
requirement of the Listing Manual of the SGX-ST in relation to poll voting from 1 August 2015.
The Company is not implementing absentia voting methods such as voting by mail, facsimile or e-mail until authentication
of shareholders identity information and other related security issues are satisfactorily resolved.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
The Executive Committee is responsible to the Board for the management of our Group’s operational activities and the
interests of its subsidiaries. The Executive Committee meets four (4) times each year and reports to the Board on a regular
basis. The Directors as a whole, however, continue to hold statutory responsibility for the duties delegated to the Executive
Committee and discharged by the Executive Committee on behalf of the Board.
The Executive Committee comprised the following members in FY2014:
Gooi Soon Hock
(President) (demised on 30 December 2014)
Hendrik Gezinus Tappel
(Vice President)
Sim Mong Huat
(Vice President)
David Chin Yean Choon
(Vice President)
Roger Gerardus Elisabeth Hendriks
(Vice President)
As at the date of the Corporate Governance Statement, and following the reorganisation of the Group’s management
structure, the Executive Committee comprises:
Group President
(pending appointment)
Sebastiaan Johannes (Jack) van Sprang (CEO of Mechatronics Division)
David Wong Keng Yin
(CEO of IMS Division)
David Chin Yean Choon
(Vice President)
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE STATEMENT
(CONT’D)
