Haier Smart Home Co., Ltd.
Qingdao City, China
ISIN D-Shares: CNE1000031C1 ISIN A-Shares: CNE000000CG9 ISIN H-Shares: CNE1000048K8
hereby invites all holders of D-Shares (D-Shareholders) to attend the
First Extraordinary General Meeting of 2024 (the 'EGM' or 'General Meeting')
on Friday, 20 December 2024 at 14:00 (CST) (07:00 CET)
at Rendanheyi Research Center, Haier Science and Technology Innovation Ecological Park, Laoshan District, Qingdao, People's Republic of China (PRC)
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Agenda Items of the EGM - Ordinary Resolution
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To Consider and Approve the Resolution on Acceptance of Voting Rights Entrustment and Related-Party Transaction
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Preconditions for attending the General Meeting and for exercising voting rights
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Only those shareholders are entitled to attend the General Meeting and to cast votes (including exercising their voting right
by absentee vote) whose names are entered in the Company's share register after close of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange on 11 December 2024 (Record Date) and whose registration for the General Meeting is received by the Company during the registration period until 19 December 2024, 17:00 (CET) at the following address
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Haier Smart Home Co., Ltd. c/o Computershare Operations Center 80249 München E-Mail: [email protected]
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in German or English language.
Shareholders are advised that they may freely dispose of their shares even after registration to the General Meeting. The
only criterion for participating in the General Meeting and the number of voting rights to be exercised in relation to the
Company is the number of shares held by a shareholder as of the Record Date, i.e. any disposal or other transfer of shares
after the Record Date will not have any effect on a Shareholder's rights to participate in the meeting or the number of voting
rights to be exercised. The same will apply to any acquisition of shares after the Record Date. A person who does not hold
any shares on the Record Date and becomes a Shareholder only after that date will not have a right to either vote at, or participate
in the General Meeting.
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Voting through a proxy or by absentee vote
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1. Voting through a proxy
Shareholders may also have their voting rights and other rights exercised at the General Meeting by an authorised party after
issuing a corresponding proxy. In the case of a proxy, timely registration of the holding of shares concerned is always necessary
pursuant to the above rules.
The Company also offers its shareholders the option of authorising proxies named by the Company. These proxies shall exercise
voting rights as instructed in the event of their authorisation and are not authorised to exercise voting rights without a
specific instruction from the shareholder. Nor do proxies named by the Company accept instructions to speak, to raise objections
to General Meeting resolutions, to ask questions or to table motions.
Any issuance of a proxy, its revocation and evidence thereof in dealings with the Company must be in text form. Shareholders
may also use the registration form for the General Meeting to issue proxies and instructions. This form is sent to the shareholders
duly entered in the share register, along with the invitation to the General Meeting.
The form will also be available for download on the Company's website at
https://smart-home.haier.com/en/sm/
Shareholders are asked to use this form as far as possible to grant proxies and to issue instructions.
Any authorisations, evidence of proxies and the issuance of instructions to the proxies named by the Company may be posted
or e-mailed prior to the General Meeting to the above address under II. by 19 December 2024, 17:00 (CET) (arriving). Any posted or e-mailed authorisations, evidence of proxies and instructions to the proxies named by the Company
received after this time cannot be considered. Evidence of authorisations can still be submitted on the day of the General
Meeting at the entrance and exit check point.
2. Voting by absentee vote
Shareholders may also exercise their voting rights at the General Meeting by absentee vote. In the case of absentee voting,
too, timely registration of the holding of shares concerned is always necessary under the provisions of II. above.
Absentee votes may be sent to the Company by 19 December 2024, 17:00 (CET) (arriving) to the address mentioned above under II. Shareholders may use the registration form for the General Meeting for
absentee voting as well. This form is sent to the shareholders duly entered in the share register, along with the invitation
to the General Meeting. The form will also be available for download on the Company's website at
https://smart-home.haier.com/en/sm/
Shareholders are asked to use this form for absentee voting wherever possible. Absentee voting does not preclude attendance
at the General Meeting. The personal attendance of a shareholder or an authorised third party at the General Meeting shall
be deemed to be a revocation of a previously given absentee vote.
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Right to submit proposals
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Shareholders that individually or jointly hold more than 1% of the Company’s total shares may put forward proposals to the
Company and submit them in writing to the convener 10 days prior to the convening of the shareholders’ general meeting. Further
details are in Article 84 of the Company’s Articles of Association.
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Publications on the Company's Website and in the Federal Gazette
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The complete content of each agenda item of this invitation is available on the Company's website at
https://smart-home.haier.com/en/sm/
Further documents will be uploaded on the Company website before the day of the General Meeting. After the General Meeting,
the voting results will be made available on the Company's website.
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Total number of shares and voting rights at the time of convening
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At the time of convening the General Meeting, the total number of the issued shares of the Company amounts to 9,382,913,334
registered shares with a par value of RMB 1.00 each, comprising 6,254,501,095 A-Shares, 2,857,398,266 H-Shares, and 271,013,973
D-Shares. Each of the A-Shares, H- Shares, and D-Shares grants one vote at the General Meeting. Hence, the total number of
voting rights at the time of convening the General Meeting amounts to 9,382,913,334.
Of the total A-shares, 59,919,870 A-shares have been repurchased by the Company from the open market and are to be used in
the employee share incentive schemes, or otherwise might be cancelled. These A-shares will not participate in voting in the
General Meeting. Subtracting these A-shares from the total number of issued shares and voting rights, the total number of
voting rights at the time of convening the General Meeting amounts to 9,322,993,464.
Qingdao City, China, in November 2024
Haier Smart Home Co., Ltd.
The Board of Directors
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