REASONS FOR AND BENEFITS OF THE TRANSACTIONS Sample Clauses
REASONS FOR AND BENEFITS OF THE TRANSACTIONS. Jiaogong Maintenance and Zhejiang Shunchang fully understand business and operating needs of LongLiLiLong Co, and maintain effective communication to provide more quality services to LongLiLiLong Co. Both Jiaogong Maintenance and Zhejiang Shunchang has the relevant qualifications and experience to provide the Maintenance Services to LongLiLiLong Co. In addition, LongLiLiLong Co went through a tender process and obtained the relevant quotations from other independent service providers to select the service provider of the Maintenance Services. Zhejiang Shunchang and Jiaogong Maintenance finally won the respective tenders. The transactions contemplated under the Agreements are and will be conducted in the ordinary and usual course of business of the Group, and the consideration paid by LongLiLiLong Co to Jiaogong Maintenance and Zhejiang Shunchang, respectively, will not be higher than the average market price and will not be less favourable than those provided by other independent service providers to LongLiLiLong Co for similar services. Given the above, the Directors (including the independent non-executive Directors) are of the view that the terms of the Agreements are on normal commercial terms, in the ordinary and usual course of business of the Group and are fair and reasonable and in the interests of the Company and the Shareholders as a whole. As at the date of this announcement, LongLiLiLong Co is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company. As at the date of this announcement, Communications Group holds approximately 67% of the issued share capital of the Company. By virtue of this shareholding interest, Communications Group is a controlling shareholder (as defined under the Listing Rules) of the Company. As at the date of this announcement, each of Jiaogong Maintenance and Zhejiang Shunchang is an indirect subsidiary of Communications Group. Therefore, Zhejiang Shunchang and Jiaogong Maintenance are connected persons of the Company and as a result, the respective transactions contemplated under the Dedicated Road Maintenance Agreements constitute continuing connected transactions for the Company under Chapter 14A of the Listing Rules. Pursuant to Rule 14A.81 to Rule 14A.83 of the Listing Rules, the respective transactions contemplated under the Dedicated Road Maintenance Agreements are required to be aggregated with the respective transactions contemplated under the Previous Road Maintenance Agreements which were continuing connected transactions en...
REASONS FOR AND BENEFITS OF THE TRANSACTIONS. Dongrui’s principal activity is importing and exporting factoring business, domestic and offshore factoring business and consulting service related to commercial factoring. The terms of each of the Factoring Agreement 1 and the Factoring Agreement 2 are agreed after arm’s length negotiations between the parties on normal commercial terms. The Directors consider that the entering into each of the Factoring Agreement 1 and the Factoring Agreement 2 is in the ordinary and usual course of business of Dongrui and will generate revenue and cash flow stream from the factoring interest. The provision of factoring principal amount to Chongqing Baicui under each of the Factoring Agreement 1 and the Factoring Agreement 2 will be financed by the internal resources of the Group. Given each of the Factoring Agreement 1 and the Factoring Agreement 2 was entered into in the ordinary and usual course of business of the Company on normal commercial terms, the Directors are of the view that the terms of each of the Factoring Agreement 1 and the Factoring Agreement 2 are fair and reasonable and are in the interest of the Company and the Shareholders as a whole.
REASONS FOR AND BENEFITS OF THE TRANSACTIONS. HYG has been leasing the Factory from Mr. X Xxxxx and Mr. X Xxxxx for use as factory purpose for more than seven years, and intends to continue the lease after the expiry of the Previous Dongguan Factory Lease Agreement through the Dongguan Factory Lease Agreement. The above property is rented as to the practical business needs of the Group. By entering into of the Dongguan Factory Lease Agreement to renew the lease, HYG can avoid incurring removal fees, renovation fees and all other incidental cost and expenses for moving into new properties. HYG has been leasing the Dormitory from Mr. X Xxxxx and Mr. X Xxxxx for use as staff dormitory purpose for more than seven years, and intends to continue the lease after the expiry of the Previous Dongguan Dormitory Lease Agreement through the Dongguan Dormitory Lease Agreement. The above property is rented as to the practical business needs of the Group. By entering into of the Dongguan Dormitory Lease Agreement to renew the lease, HYG can avoid incurring removal fees, renovation fees and all other incidental cost and expenses for moving into new properties. The Directors (including the independent non-executive Directors) consider that the terms of the Lease Agreements (including the annual cap) are on normal commercial terms and in the ordinary and usual course of business of the Group, and are fair and reasonable and in the interests of the Company and its Shareholders as a whole. Having considered the material interest of Mr. X Xxxxx and Mr. X Xxxxx as the landlords under the Lease Agreements, each of Mr. X Xxxxx and Mr. X Xxxxx has abstained from voting on the resolutions of the Board approving the Lease Agreements and the transactions contemplated thereunder. Save as disclosed above, to the best of knowledge of the Directors having made all reasonable enquiries, none of the other Directors has a material interest in the Lease Agreements and the transactions contemplated thereunder and thus, was required to abstain from voting on the resolutions of the Board approving the Lease Agreements and the transactions contemplated thereunder. Each of Mr. X Xxxxx and Mr. X Xxxxx is an executive Director and a controlling shareholder and is a connected person of the Company. Accordingly, the transactions contemplated under the Lease Agreements will constitute continuing connected transactions for the Company under Chapter 14A of the Listing Rules. As one of the applicable percentage ratios in respect of the annual cap for...
REASONS FOR AND BENEFITS OF THE TRANSACTIONS. The appointment of member(s) of the Wharf Group to provide the Services in respect of existing properties and/or property projects held by the Group from time to time would enable the Group to benefit from the brand, experience and vast resources of the Wharf Group in property businesses in the relevant markets. Further Individual Agreements for the provision of the Services by Wharf Group member(s) in respect of various properties and/or property projects held by the Group may be negotiated or contemplated. In order to regulate, inter alia, the relevant transactions relating to such further Individual Agreements, and for the purpose of administrative convenience, the Renewal Master Property Services Agreement, under which the Aggregate Cap Amounts are agreed, offers flexibility for further appointments as abovementioned, and is considered beneficial to the Group. As the Company is a 71.44%-owned subsidiary of Wharf while the Manager(s)/Agent(s) is/are wholly-owned subsidiary(ies) of Wharf, the Transactions constitute continuing connected transactions for the Company under the Listing Rules. Since one or more of the applicable percentage ratios set out in Rule 14.07 of the Listing Rules in respect of each of the Aggregate Cap Amounts is/are greater than the 0.1% threshold under Rule 14A.33(3), while all such ratios are below the 5% threshold under Rule 14A.34, of the Listing Rules, the Transactions are exempt from the independent shareholders’ approval requirement under Rule 14A.34 of the Listing Rules, but are subject to requirements regarding announcement and reporting etc. under Chapter 14A of the Listing Rules. Going forward, during the term of the Renewal Master Property Services Agreement, no further announcement will be made on each occasion any member of the Group enters into any Individual Agreement(s) or renew any Existing Agreement(s) and/or Individual Agreements with any member of Wharf Group subject to fulfillment of the conditions as mentioned above, particularly the Aggregate Cap Amounts not being exceeded.
REASONS FOR AND BENEFITS OF THE TRANSACTIONS. As mentioned above, the Service Agreements will be entered into with associates (as defined under the Listing Rules) of Xx Xxxxx, a non-executive director of the Company. Xx Xxxxx (and his associates) has extensive experience in property development, in particular the design, development, marketing and sale of residential properties and resorts in Phuket, Thailand. In particular, Andaman Property has participated in the design and development of Andara Resort & Villas and Andara Signature Resort Villas in Phuket, Thailand. The Service Agreements would allow the Company to benefit from Xx Xxxxx’x abundant local resources and experience in the Thai property development and hospitality market. Moreover, various associates of Xx Xxxxx are already involved in the Project which commenced development in 2018. Andaman Property has been acting as the development manager for the Phase 1A Development and development of the Phase 1A Associated Facilities under the Original Phase 1A Development Management Agreement. It is beneficial for the Project to continue the engagement of Andaman Property as the development manager for the provision of Development Management Services for the Phase 1A Development, as well as engagement of Xx Xxxxx’x other associates to provide the relevant Sales Agency Services, Common Area Management Services and Cleaning Services for the Project during and upon completion of development of the Project. None of the other Directors has any material interest in the Service Agreements or the transactions contemplated thereunder, except Xx Xxxxx who has abstained from voting on the relevant resolution of the Board approving each of the Service Agreements and the transactions contemplated thereunder. As the principal business of the Group is property development and management, the Directors (including the independent non-executive directors but excluding Xx Xxxxx) consider that the transactions contemplated under the Service Agreements have been entered into in the usual and ordinary course of business of the Group. They also consider that each of the Service Agreements has been negotiated and conducted on an arm’s length basis between the parties and is on normal commercial terms. The Directors (including the independent non-executive directors but excluding Xx Xxxxx) are of the view that the terms of each of the Service Agreements are fair and reasonable and in the interests of the Company and the Shareholders as a whole, and the Service Agreements...
REASONS FOR AND BENEFITS OF THE TRANSACTIONS. EV Cargo is a holding company and, to the best knowledge of the Directors upon making reasonable enquiries, the EV Cargo Group is principally engaged in the provision of air and ocean freight forwarding and logistics services, mainly in the United Kingdom and other parts of Europe for customers which are mainly supermarkets and department stores. The EV Cargo Group has operations in over 100 countries and investments across three continents in 26 countries, with warehousing space of 3 million sq. ft., 1,300 trucks and 4,750 logistics professionals. On the other hand, the Group operates local offices in 13 cities across eight countries and territories, including Hong Kong, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Taipei, Tokyo, Seoul, Paris and Chiasso. While the Group is able to provide freight forwarding and local logistics services to its customers worldwide in locations where it has local presence, the Group has been maintaining a large freight forwarder business partners network across more than 100 countries to extend the coverage of the Group’s air freight forwarding services to many more locations worldwide, and the EV Cargo Group has been one of the Group’s freight forwarder business partners. Similarly, the EV Cargo Group may also from time to time require the Group’s local offices to provide air freight forwarding and local logistics services for its customers in locations where the EV Cargo Group does not have its local presence. In this regard, as disclosed in the Company’s prospectus for its initial public offering dated 30 September 2020, the Group has entered into a master agency agreement with EV Cargo, being a member of the EV Cargo Group, for the appointment of each other as agent for the provision of air freight forwarding services with origins or destinations in the PRC and the United Kingdom. The Directors believe that, by entering into the EV Cargo Group Master Agency Agreement, both the Group and the EV Cargo Group will be able to continue its business cooperation on global basis, and the Group will benefit from the freight forwarding business brought in by the EV Cargo Group and the freight forwarding services it could provide to the Group in jurisdictions in which the Group does not have local presence. The Directors (including the independent non-executive Directors), after reviewing the terms of the EV Cargo Group Master Agency Agreement, are of the view that the EV Cargo Group Master Agency Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereunder hav...
REASONS FOR AND BENEFITS OF THE TRANSACTIONS. The entering into of the 2017 Master Lease Agreement is for the continuing administrative, operational, marketing, promotional and sales needs of the Group. Following the expiry of the 2014 Master Lease Agreement, the Group may have to renew some of the Existing Leases when their respective terms expire, and may further enter into new Leases to satisfy the future business needs of the Group from time to time. Accordingly, the Company and the Lessor entered into the 2017 Master Lease Agreement to agree on the Annual Caps and set out a framework of the terms for the Leases to be made or renewed within the duration of the Term. In view of the above and that (i) compared with leasing from independent third parties, the Lessor has a better understanding of the Group’s requirements in terms of premises required for its usual course of business; (ii) the amount of rent payable by the relevant Group Companies pursuant to the Existing Leases and the other expired leases entered into under the 2014 Master Lease Agreement were not above the market rent; and (iii) the Lessor agreed that the amount of rent payable under the Leases to be entered into will be determined based on and will not be exceeding the market rent, the Directors (including the independent non-executive Directors) considered that the Leases contemplated under the 2017 Master Lease Agreement would be entered into, in the ordinary and usual course of business of the Group and that the 2017 Master Lease Agreement (together with the Annual Caps) was entered into on normal commercial terms (or better to the Group) after arm’s length negotiations between the parties, and the terms of the Leases contemplated under the 2017 Master Lease Agreement (together with the Annual Caps) are fair and reasonable and in the interests of the Company and its Shareholders as a whole. As Xx. Xxx Che-xxx, Xx. Xxxxxxx Xxx Xxx Xxxx, Xx. Xxxxx Xxxx Xxx Xxx Xx and Xx. Xxxxxxxxx Xxx Xxx Xxx, being all the executive Directors of the Company, are the discretionary beneficiaries of the Lui’s Family Trust which has 100% indirect shareholding interest in the Lessor, each of them is considered to have material interests in the 2017 Master Lease Agreement and has abstained from voting on the resolutions of the Board approving the 2017 Master Lease Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereunder. The Lessor is a connected person of the Company within the meaning of the Listing Rules by virtue of its being a wholly-owned subsidiar...
REASONS FOR AND BENEFITS OF THE TRANSACTIONS. UNDER THE NEW PROPERTIES LEASING AGREEMENT
REASONS FOR AND BENEFITS OF THE TRANSACTIONS. As subsidiaries of Communications Group, Maintenance Co, Zhejiang Shunchang and Jiaogong Maintenance fully understand the Group’s business and operating needs, and maintain effective communication to provide more quality services to the Group. Each of Maintenance Co, Zhejiang Shunchang and Jiaogong Maintenance has the relevant qualifications and experience to provide the dedicated road maintenance services to the Group. In addition, the Group went through a tender process and obtained the relevant quotations from other independent service providers to select the service providers of the road maintenance services. Maintenance Co, Zhejiang Shunchang and Jiaogong Maintenance finally won the respective tenders. The transactions contemplated under the Dedicated Road Maintenance Agreements are and will be conducted in the ordinary and usual course of business of the Group, and the consideration payable by the Group to each of Maintenance Co, Jiaogong Maintenance and Zhejiang Shunchang will not be higher than the average market price and will not be less favourable than those provided by other independent service providers to the Group for similar services. Given the above, the Directors (including independent non-executive Directors) are of the opinion that the terms of the Dedicated Road Maintenance Agreements are on normal commercial terms, in the ordinary and usual course of business of the Group and are fair and reasonable and in the interests of the Company and the Shareholders as a whole.
REASONS FOR AND BENEFITS OF THE TRANSACTIONS. The Master Agreement provides a formal and unified framework of operations for the procurement of Products by the Group from the Supplier’s Group. It is expected that the Master Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereunder will likely to enable the Group to obtain more favourable pricing compared with that generally offered by other suppliers. The Directors (including the independent non-executive Directors) are of the view that the terms of the Master Agreement, the transactions contemplated thereunder and the New Annual Caps amounts in respect thereof are on normal commercial terms which are fair and reasonable and in the interests of the Company and the Shareholders as a whole. As none of the Directors have a material interest in the Master Agreement or the proposed transactions contemplated thereunder, no Director had abstained from voting on the relevant resolution proposed at the board meeting of the Company approving the Master Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereunder. As at the date of this announcement, the Gangaram Family, through Radha Japan, holds 25% equity interest in JH Singapore (a non-wholly owned subsidiary of the Company). Therefore, the Gangaram Family is a substantial shareholder of JH Singapore and a connected person of the Company at the subsidiary level under Chapter 14A of the Listing Rules. As the Supplier is wholly-owned by the Gangaram Family, the Supplier is an associate of the Gangaram Family and thus also a connected person of the Company at the subsidiary level under Chapter 14A of the Listing Rules. The transactions contemplated under the Master Agreement will therefore constitute continuing connected transactions of the Company under Chapter 14A of the Listing Rules. As (i) the Supplier is a connected person of the Company at the subsidiary level only; (ii) the highest applicable percentage ratio in respect of the New Annual Caps for the transactions contemplated under the Master Agreement exceeds 5%; (iii) the Master Agreement has been approved by the Board; and (iv) the terms of the Master Agreement have been confirmed by the independent non-executive Directors to be in the ordinary and usual course of business of the Group and on normal commercial terms which are fair and reasonable and in the interests of the Company and the Shareholders as a whole, the transactions contemplated under the Master Agreement are only subject to the reporting, announcement and annual review requirements under Chapte...