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ESSENTIAL FACT
HORTIFRUT S.A.
Issuer of securities registered in the Securities Registry
Santiago, April 4, 2023
Mrs.
Solange Berstein J.
President
Financial Market Commission
PRESENT
Ref: Communicates Essential Fact – Proposition of
Distribution of Definitive Dividend, Minimum
Mandatory, and Summons to Ordinary Meeting of
Shareholders.
Dear Madam President:
Hereby, in accordance with the provisions of the
Articles 9 and 10 of the Securities Market Law, in General Standard No. 30 and
in Circular N*660, both of your Commission, duly authorized for this purpose, I inform
to you the following Essential Fact regarding Hortifrut S.A. (the “Company”):
T – Proposal for Distribution of Definitive Dividend, Mandatory Minimum.-
The Board of Directors of the Company, held on this date, April 4, 2023, agreed to propose
to the Ordinary Shareholders’ Meeting of the Company cited for next April 26, 2023
(whose citation detail is indicated in II below), the distribution, by concept of Dividend
Definitive, Mandatory Minimum, of 50% of the distributable net profit obtained by the
Company during the Fiscal Year 2022, which amounts to the total sum of US$3,814,190.94. In
Consequently, and to the extent that the Board accepts such proposal, a dividend will be paid
final of US$0.0066067 per share against distributable net income earned
during Fiscal Year 2022. This dividend shall be payable as Dividend N”45, Definitive,
as of May 19, 2023, in favor of the shareholders of the Company that
are registered in the Register of Shareholders at midnight on May 13,
2023.
The amount of US$0.0066067 per share indicated above will be paid in its equivalent in
pesos, national currency, according to the “Observed Dollar” exchange rate that appears
published in the Official Journal of May 12, 2023.
TI.- Summons to the Ordinary Shareholders’ Meeting.-
The Board of Directors of the Company held on this date, April 4, 2023, also agreed:
to call the Company’s Ordinary Shareholders’ Meeting (the “Meeting”) for April 26,
2023, at 12:00 hours, at Av. Del Cóndor 600, 4th Floor, Ciudad Empresarial, Huechuraba,
Santiago. Remote means will be implemented to participate and vote in the Board, as
indicates below, in accordance with the provisions of General Standard N*435 and
Circular Letter N*1.141.
The purpose of the Board shall be to hear and pronounce, as appropriate, on the
Subjects indicated below:
1. Annual Report, Balance Sheet and Financial Statements corresponding to the 2022 Financial Year; the
status of the Company; and the respective report of the External Audit Firm;
Distribution of a final dividend charged to 2022 profits;
Dividend Policy;
Election of the Board of Directors;
Setting the remuneration of the Board of Directors for the Fiscal Year 2023, and report of the
expenses of the Board of Directors in Fiscal Year 2022;
6. Fixing the remuneration of the Directors’ Committee and approval of the budget
of its operating expenses for the financial year 2023; and report on activities and
expenses incurred by the Directors’ Committee in 2022;
Designation of the External Audit Company;
Designation of Risk Rating Agencies;
Information about transactions with related parties; and
0. Other matters of social interest that are specific to the Ordinary Shareholders’ Meeting.
HAVE
Under
They will have the right to participate in the Meeting, and to exercise their right to speak and vote, the
holders of shares registered in the Register of Shareholders at midnight on the fifth day
working day prior to the day of its celebration, that is, registered at midnight on April 20
of 2023.
The Board of Directors of the Company has resolved the implementation of remote means of
participation and voting in the Board, with the intention that the Board be held in
Exclusively remote. To this end, the shareholder interested in participating in the Meeting, or
Your representative must register by sending an email to the box
registers(udev.cl, expressing their interest in participating in the Meeting, attaching a
scanned image of your identity card on both sides; or passport; of power, if
Appropriate; and the application form for participation to the Board. The rest of the
required documentation and more detailed information regarding how to register,
participate and vote remotely to the Board and other aspects that are appropriate to the
effect, “shall be communicated in due course on the Company’s website,
https://investor.hortifrut.com/investor-relations/.
The notices of convocation will be published in the “Diario Financiero” of Santiago on the days
April 14, 19 and 24, 2023.
The shareholders may obtain copies of the documents on which the
matters on which they must decide at the Meeting, as of April 14, 2023,
in the link of the website of the Company, https://investor.hortifrut.com/investor-relations/.
Among these documents, information on the proposals of
external audit firms to be proposed to the Board for the financial year 2023 and their
respective foundations.
Yours sincerely yours,
Juan Fpracio htenrte Cometty
Juan Ignacio Allende Connelly
General Manager
Hortifrut S.A.
Dc. Stock Exchange – Santiago
Electronic Exchange of Chile – Santiago
Link to file in CMFChile: https://www.cmfchile.cl/sitio/aplic/serdoc/ver_sgd.php?s567=9d238c283a44d7fcb73dea33233614ffVFdwQmVVMTZRVEJOUkVVd1RYcG5NVTEzUFQwPQ==&secuencia=-1&t=1682376108
