Sino Land Company Limited • Annual Report 2019
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SINO LAND COMPANY LIMITED • ANNUAL REPORT 2019 This annual report (“Annual Report”) is available in both English and Chinese. Shareholders who have received either the English or the Chinese version of the Annual Report may request a copy in the language different from that has been received by writing to the Company’s Share Registrars, Tricor Standard Limited at Level 54, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Hong Kong. The Annual Report (in both English and Chinese versions) has been posted on the Company’s website at www.sino.com. Shareholders who have chosen to rely on copies of the Corporate Communications (including but not limited to annual report, summary financial report (where applicable), interim report, summary interim report (where applicable), notice of meeting, listing document, circular and proxy form) posted on the Company’s website in lieu of any or all the printed copies thereof may request printed copy of the Annual Report. Shareholders who have chosen or are deemed to have consented to receive the Corporate Communications using electronic means through the Company’s website and who have difficulty in receiving or gaining access to the Annual Report posted on the Company’s website will upon request be sent the Annual Report in printed form free of charge. Shareholders may at any time choose to change their choice of language and means of receipt (i.e. in printed form or by electronic means through the Company’s website) of all future Corporate Communications from the Company by giving notice in writing by post to the Company’s Share Registrars, Tricor Standard Limited at Level 54, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Hong Kong or by email at [email protected]. CONTENTS Corporate Information 2 Notice of Annual General Meeting 3 Group Financial Summary 6 Chairman’s Statement 10 Biographical Details of Directors & Senior Management 22 Corporate Governance Report 28 Environmental, Social and Governance Report 54 Risk Management Report 78 Directors’ Report 88 Review of Operations 110 Independent Auditor’s Report 190 Consolidated Statement of Profit or Loss 196 Consolidated Statement of Profit or Loss and 197 Other Comprehensive Income Consolidated Statement of Financial Position 198 Consolidated Statement of Changes In Equity 200 Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows 201 Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements 204 Disclosure Pursuant to Rule 13.22 of the Listing Rules 325 Major Properties Held by the Group 326 Proxy Form Sino Land Company Limited Annual Report 2019 CORPORATE INFORMATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS PRINCIPAL BANKERS Robert Ng Chee Siong, Chairman Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited Daryl Ng Win Kong, JP, Deputy Chairman Hang Seng Bank Limited Ronald Joseph Arculli, GBM, CVO, GBS, OBE, JP# The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited Allan Zeman, GBM, GBS, JP* DBS Bank Ltd., Hong Kong Branch Adrian David Li Man-kiu, JP* China Construction Bank (Asia) Corporation Limited Steven Ong Kay Eng* Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Asia) Limited Wong Cho Bau, JP* Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Limited Ringo Chan Wing Kwong Bangkok Bank Public Company Limited Gordon Lee Ching Keung The Bank of East Asia, Limited Sunny Yeung Kwong Velencia Lee (appointed on 1st July, 2019) INVESTOR RELATIONS CONTACT (# Non-Executive Director) Please direct enquiries to: (* Independent Non-Executive Directors) General Manager – Corporate Finance Telephone : (852) 2734 8312 AUDIT COMMITTEE Fax : (852) 2369 1236 Adrian David Li Man-kiu, JP, Chairman Email : [email protected] Allan Zeman, GBM, GBS, JP Steven Ong Kay Eng REGISTERED OFFICE NOMINATION COMMITTEE 12th Floor, Tsim Sha Tsui Centre, Robert Ng Chee Siong, Chairman Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Allan Zeman, GBM, GBS, JP Kowloon, Hong Kong Adrian David Li Man-kiu, JP Telephone : (852) 2721 8388 REMUNERATION COMMITTEE Fax : (852) 2723 5901 Steven Ong Kay Eng, Chairman Website : www.sino.com Allan Zeman, GBM, GBS, JP Email : [email protected] Adrian David Li Man-kiu, JP Daryl Ng Win Kong, JP SHARE REGISTRARS Tricor Standard Limited AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVES Level 54, Hopewell Centre, Robert Ng Chee Siong 183 Queen’s Road East, Ringo Chan Wing Kwong Hong Kong CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER AND Telephone : (852) 2980 1333 COMPANY SECRETARY Fax : (852) 2861 1465 Velencia Lee Email : [email protected] AUDITOR LISTING INFORMATION Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Stock Code 83 Certified Public Accountants, Hong Kong SOLICITORS American Depositary Receipt Woo, Kwan, Lee & Lo CUSIP Number 829344308 Clifford Chance Trading Symbol SNLAY ADR to Ordinary Share Ratio 1:5 SHAREHOLDERs’ CALENDAR Listing Level One (OTC) Closure of Register of Members 21st October, 2019 to for entitlement to attend 24th October, 2019 Depositary Bank The Bank of New York and vote at (both dates inclusive) 101 Barclay Street, Annual General Meeting 22nd Floor – West, New York, NY 10286, Annual General Meeting 24th October, 2019 U.S.A. Closure of Register of Members 30th October, 2019 to for dividend entitlement 31st October, 2019 (both dates inclusive) Record Date for 31st October, 2019 final dividend entitlement Last Date for lodging 22nd November, 2019 form of election 4:30 p.m. for scrip dividend Interim Dividend HK14 cents per share Paid 23rd April, 2019 Final Dividend HK41 cents per share Payable 3rd December, 2019 2 Sino Land Company Limited Annual Report 2019 NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of the Shareholders of Sino Land Company Limited (“Company”) will be held at The Pacific Rooms, 9th Floor, Towers Wing, The Royal Pacific Hotel & Towers, 33 Canton Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, on Thursday, the 24th day of October, 2019 at 9:30 a.m. for the following purposes: 1. To receive, consider and adopt the audited Financial Statements and the Directors’ and Independent Auditor’s Reports for the year ended 30th June, 2019. 2. To declare a final dividend. 3. To re-elect retiring Directors and to authorise the Board to fix the Directors’ remuneration for the financial year ending 30th June, 2020. 4. To re-appoint Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu as Auditor for the ensuing year and to authorise the Board to fix their remuneration. 5. To consider and, if thought fit, pass with or without amendments, the following resolutions as Ordinary Resolutions: Ordinary Resolutions (i) “THAT: (a) subject to paragraph (i)(b) below, the exercise by the Directors of the Company during the Relevant Period of all the powers of the Company to buy back shares of the Company on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (“Stock Exchange”) or on any other stock exchange on which the shares of the Company may be listed and recognised by the Securities and Futures Commission and the Stock Exchange for this purpose, subject to and in accordance with all applicable laws and the requirements of the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on the Stock Exchange or of any other stock exchange as amended from time to time be and is hereby generally and unconditionally approved; (b) the aggregate number of shares to be bought back pursuant to the approval in paragraph (i)(a) above shall not exceed 10% of the total number of shares of the Company in issue as at the date of passing this resolution and the said approval shall be limited accordingly; and (c) for the purposes of this resolution: “Relevant Period” means the period from the passing of this resolution until whichever is the earlier of: (1) the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company; (2) the expiration of the period within which the next Annual General Meeting of the Company is required by law or the articles of association of the Company to be held; and (3) the date on which the authority set out in this resolution is revoked or varied by an ordinary resolution of the shareholders in general meeting.” 3 Sino Land Company Limited Annual Report 2019 NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (Continued) (ii) “THAT: (a) a general mandate be and is hereby unconditionally given to the Directors of the Company to exercise during the Relevant Period all the powers of the Company to allot, issue and deal with additional shares of the Company, to allot, issue or grant securities of the Company, including bonds, debentures and notes convertible into shares of the Company and to make or grant offers or agreements which would or might require the exercise of such powers either during or after the Relevant Period, provided that these powers of the Directors and this general mandate are in respect of and in addition to any shares which may be issued on the exercise of the subscription rights under the Company’s securities or pursuant to any scrip dividend scheme or pursuant to a rights issue or pursuant to any rights of conversion under any existing convertible bonds, debentures or notes of the Company, and provided further that these powers of the Directors and this general mandate shall be subject to the restrictions that the aggregate number of shares allotted or agreed to be allotted or issued pursuant thereto, whether by way of conversion or otherwise, shall not exceed 20% of the total number of shares of the Company in issue as at the date of passing this resolution; and (b) for the purposes of this resolution: “Relevant Period” means the period from the passing of this resolution until whichever is the earlier of: (1) the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company; (2) the expiration of the period within which the next Annual General Meeting of the Company is