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Annual Report
2013
2. Equitable Treatment
of All Shareholders
The Company treated all its shareholders
equitably without discrimination of their status
as major or minor shareholders, Thai or foreign
shareholders. Major activities are as follows:
2.1 Access to the Company’s Information
To ensure that all shareholders can
equally have access to the Company’s information,
the Company uses SET’s channels as the main
communication channel. The Chairman of the Board
of Directors, Directors, Chief Executive Officer and
Deputy Chief Executive Officer are the authorized
persons responsible for the Company’s information
disclosure. The Company’s website is provided as an
additional channel for communication. Shareholders
can also seek information from related divisions which
are theCorporate SecretaryOffice, CorporateRelations
Division and Investors’ Relations Department.
2.2 Preparation of Bilingual Document
For equal treatment of both Thai and foreign
investors, the Company prepares all published
information in both Thai and English languages,
including all the information provided through the
SET’s ELCID,meeting invitation,meetingdocument and
report, press conference and the Company’s website.
2.3 Proposing Additional Agenda for the
Annual General Shareholders’ Meeting
and Nominating Directors Prior to the
Meeting
Since 2008, the Company has adopted
SET’s guideline encouraging listed companies to
offer opportunity for minor shareholders to propose
meeting agenda and/or nominate persons for director
election in advance. In 2013, the Company published
an invitation to the shareholders’ meeting through
ELCID and the Company’s website on 21 August 2012,
providing clear details about criteria, method, process
andchannel of agendaproposing. The announcement
was published for approximately four month time
during 1 September and 31 December 2012).
However,noneoftheshareholdersproposedadditional
agenda or nominated persons for director election.
2.4 Proxy Appointment
For convenience, shareholders who cannot
participate in the shareholders’ meeting can appoint
other persons to attend the meeting and vote on
their behalf. The Company prepared and delivered
proxy document to the shareholders together with
the meeting notice. Proxy appointment is available
in three forms as designed by the Department of
Business Development Ministry of Commerce. FormA
is the general proxy appointment form. Form B is a
proxy appointment that lists specific items for proxy
appointment. Form C is the proxy appointment
that is used only when the shareholder is a foreign
investor with a custodian in Thailand. Shareholders
can also download the proxy document from the
Company’s website or use other form of proxy or
prepare it themselves.
The Company nominated four independent
directors and the Chief Executive Officer. Personal
information of each nominated person and each
person’s conflict of interest status were provided on
each concerned agenda for shareholders to appoint
as their proxy to attend themeeting and vote on their
behalf. In themeeting, 249 shareholders assigned the
Company’s independent directors as their proxywhile
14 shareholders assigned the Chief Executive Officer
as their proxy.
2.5 Ballots
In voting at the annual general shareholders’
meeting, theCompany prepared andprovidedballots
for every participant. Computerized system was
deployed for tallying. In voting for directors, individual
vote and ballot was kept as reference.
(9) Shareholders’ and investors’ plant
visit
(10) Media relations activities
(11) Exhibition
(12) Executive interviews
(13) Website hits/pageviews for 2013
(average per month)
(from 1 January 2013 – 31 December 2013
: 131,211 views)
10,900 views
1 time
4 times
11 times
1 time
