MP MENASHE, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Caesarstone Sdot-Yam Ltd. (NASDAQ:CSTE) (the "Company"), a
leading manufacturer of high quality engineered quartz surfaces, today
announced that the Annual General Meeting (the "Meeting") of its
shareholders will be held on December 3, 2015, at 6:00 pmIsrael time,
at the offices of the Company, MP Menashe 3780400, Israel.
The Meeting is being called for the following purposes:
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to re-elect Messrs. Moshe Ronen, Shachar Degani and Amihai Beer
and to elect Messrs. Amit Ben Zvi and Ronald Kaplan, to serve as
directors of the Company until the close of the next annual
general meeting of shareholders of the Company;
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to re-elect Messrs. Yonatan Melamed and Ofer Tsimchi, to serve as
directors of the Company until the close of the next annual
general meeting of shareholders of the Company;
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to vote on the proposal of Kibbutz Sdot-Yam to elect Messrs.
Yitzhak (Itzick) Sharir and Amnon Dick, to serve as directors of
the Company until the close of the next annual general meeting of
shareholders of the Company (the Company's board of directors
recommends our shareholders vote "AGAINST" this proposal of
Kibbutz Sdot Yam);
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to approve the compensation terms of the chairman of the Company's
board of directors, Mr. Yonathan Melamed, if elected, commencing
as of the date of the Meeting;
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to approve the compensation terms of all independent directors
residing outside of Israel (other than the chairman of the
Company's board of directors and external directors);
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to approve the change of the Company's name to Caesarstone Ltd.,
and approve the applicable amendment to the Company's articles of
association and memorandum of association to reflect such name
change, such change to become effective upon the authorization of
the Israeli Registrar of Companies;
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to approve an amendment to the 2011 Incentive Compensation Plan
(the "2011 Plan") to increase the aggregate number of ordinary
shares authorized for issuance under the 2011 Plan by 900,000
ordinary shares of the Company; and
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to approve the reappointment of Kost, Forer, Gabbay & Kasierer (a
member of Ernst & Young Global) as the Company's independent
auditors for the year ending December 31, 2015, and its service
until the annual general meeting of shareholders to be held in
2016 and to authorize the Company's board of directors, upon
recommendation of the audit committee of the Company, to determine
the compensation of the auditors in accordance with the volume and
nature of their services and receive an update regarding the
Company's independent auditors' remuneration for the past year.
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In addition, the shareholders will be requested to consider at the
Meeting the Company's financial statements for the year ended December
31, 2014.
We are currently not aware of any other matters that will come before
the Meeting. If any other matters are presented properly at the Meeting,
the persons designated as proxies intend to vote upon such matters in
accordance with their best judgment.
The affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the voting power
represented at the Meeting in person or by proxy and voting thereon is
necessary for the approval of Proposal Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 8. The
approval of Proposal No. 6 requires the affirmative vote of the holders
of 75% of the voting power represented at the Meeting in person or by
proxy and voting thereon.
Proposal No. 1 was redrafted and Proposal Nos. 2 and 3 were added in
this Amended Notice of Annual General Meeting of Shareholders to conform
with the request of our controlling shareholder, Kibbutz Sdot-Yam,
pursuant to Section 66(b) of the Companies Law 5759-1999 (the "Companies
Law"), and as an alternative to the original Proposal No. 1. At the
Meeting, shareholders will be asked to elect seven (7) out of the nine
(9) nominees in Proposal Nos. 1, 2 and 3 to serve as directors of the
Company until the close of the next annual general meeting of
shareholders of the Company. In the event that more than two (2)
nominees proposed in Proposal Nos. 2 and 3 receive the affirmative vote
of holders of a majority of the voting power represented at the Meeting
in person or by proxy and voting thereon, the two (2) nominees who
receive the highest number of affirmative votes in favor of their
election out of these four nominees proposed in Proposal Nos. 2 and 3
will be elected to serve as directors.
The board of directors recommends that shareholders vote
"FOR"
Proposal Nos. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 and "AGAINST" Proposal No. 3.
Only shareholders of record at the close of business on November 3,
2015, are entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the Meeting, or at any
adjournment or postponement thereof.
A proxy statement describing the various matters to be voted upon at the
Meeting along with a WHITE proxy card enabling the shareholders to
indicate their vote on each matter will be mailed on or about November
17, 2015, to all shareholders entitled to vote at the Meeting. Such
proxy statement shall also be furnished to the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission under cover of Form 6-K and will be available on the
Company's website www.caesarstone.com
on or about November 12, 2015. Proxies must be submitted to the Company
or to its transfer agent no later than forty eight (48) hours prior to
the Meeting. Proxies delivered to the Company or to its transfer agent
during the forty eight (48) hours preceding the time fixed for the
Meeting will be presented to the chairperson of the Meeting and, at his
discretion, may be voted as specified in the instructions included in
such proxies.
In accordance with the Companies Law and regulations promulgated
thereunder, any shareholder of the Company may submit to the Company a
position statement on its behalf, expressing its position on an agenda
item for the Meeting to the Company's offices, MP Menashe 3780400,
Israel, Attention: Michal Baumwald Oron, VP Business Development &
General Counsel, or by facsimile to +972-4-6364400, no later than
November 23, 2015.
If shareholders have questions or need assistance in voting their shares
for the Meeting, please contact the Company's proxy solicitor, Morrow &
Co. They can be reached by dialing +203-658-9400 or toll-free within the
United States at 800-662-5200, or via e-mail at CSTE@morrowco.com.
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Maxim Ohana
Chairman of the Board of Directors
MP Menashe, Israel
November 11, 2015
About Caesarstone
Caesarstone manufactures high quality engineered quartz surfaces, which
are used in both residential and commercial buildings as countertops,
vanities, wall cladding, floors and other interior surfaces. The wide
variety of colors, styles, designs and textures of Caesarstone®
products, along with Caesarstone's inherent characteristics such as
hardness, non-porous, scratch and stain resistance and durability,
provide consumers with excellent surfaces for their internal spaces
which are highly competitive to granite, manufactured solid surfaces and
laminate, as well as to other engineered quartz surfaces. Caesarstone's
four collections of products — Classico, Supremo, Motivo and Concetto —
are available in over 50 countries around the world. For more
information about the Company, please visit our website www.caesarstone.com.
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