Hello and welcome to the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of Kits Eyecare Ltd. Please note that today's meeting is being recorded. If you participate in today's meeting and disclose personal information, you will be deemed to consent to the recording, transfer, and use of same. If you disclose personal information of another person in today's meeting, you will be deemed to represent and warrant to Computershare and to Kits Eyecare Ltd that you first obtain all required consents for the disclosure, recording, transfer use of such personal information from all appropriate persons before your disclosure. You can submit questions or comments by clicking on the Q&A icon. It is now my pleasure to turn today's meeting over to Roger Hardy, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of Kits Eyecare Ltd. The floor is yours.
Good morning. Thanks operator. My name is Roger Hardy, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer, I'd like to welcome you to this annual meeting of the holders of common shares of Kits Eyecare Ltd, which I will refer to as Kits. For those of you who are shareholders, thank you for joining us today. We also welcome all other guests in attendance. I have on the line with me Zhe Choo, Chief Financial Officer of Kits. We decided to hold this annual shareholders meeting in an all virtual format to ensure that all shareholders have the same opportunities to participate and vote regardless of their geographic location. We will now proceed with today's meeting. The purpose of this meeting is to, first off, receive Kits financial statements for the years ended December 31st, 2024 and 2023, and the auditor's report thereon.
Number two, to reappoint MNP LLP as the auditors of Kits for the ensuing year and authorize the directors to fix their remuneration. Number three, elect the directors of Kits for the ensuing year. Finally, number four, to transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting and any adjournment or postponement thereof. These matters are set out in the Management Information Circular dated April 22th, 2025, made available to shareholders in connection with this meeting. This meeting is held virtually via live webcast, we think it is necessary to set out a few rules for the orderly conduct of the meeting. Number one, questions can be submitted using the instant messaging service of the virtual interface. Please note that only registered shareholders or duly appointed proxy holders are entitled to submit questions in respect of a motion during the meeting.
Number two, when asking a question, please indicate your name, which entity you represent, if any, and confirm whether you are a registered shareholder or duly appointed proxy holder. For each question we answer, we will summarize the question and read out loud the name of the person who asked the question and, if applicable, the entity such person represents. Number three, due to time constraints, unless questions are regarding procedural matters or directly related to the motions before the meeting, they will not be addressed during the meeting. For the purpose of the meeting today, voting on all matters will be conducted by electronic ballot. Registered shareholders and duly appointed proxy holders will be entitled to vote on each item of business.
If you are a beneficial owner of common shares and have not appointed yourself as a proxy holder and are therefore attending this meeting as a guest, you will not be entitled to vote. If you've already voted by proxy and you vote again during the online ballot during the meeting, your online vote during the meeting will revoke your previously submitted proxy. If you've already voted by proxy and do not wish to revoke your previously submitted proxy, do not vote again during the online ballot. Kits elected to send out proxy- related materials to this meeting to its registered holders by mail and to its non-registered shareholders using the notice-and-access provisions under National Instrument 51-102, Continuous Disclosure Obligations, and National Instrument 54-101, Communications with Beneficial Owners of Securities of a Reporting Issuer.
I will refer to these provisions in the meeting as the notice- and- access provisions. To expedite the meeting, I will move and second all motions. I will act as Chairman of the meeting and Zhe Choo, Chief Financial Officer, will act as secondary. Moving on to the agenda. With the consent of the meeting, I appoint Computershare Investor Services Inc through its representative, as scrutineer, to compute the votes of any polls taken at this meeting and to report thereon to me as chair. Number three of today's agenda is the notice of the meeting. The notice calling this meeting and the accompanying Management Information Circular dated April 22nd, 2025, and the form of proxy have been provided to each shareholder of Kits of record at the close of business on April 16th, 2025 by mail or in accordance with the notice- and- access provision.
I've been advised by Computershare Investor Services Inc and have been provided with an affidavit of mailing confirming that the notice calling this meeting, together with a form of proxy, were mailed to each shareholder of record at the close of business on April 16th, 2025. With the consent of the meeting, reading of the notice of the meeting will be dispensed with. I therefore declare that proper notice for the meeting has been given. Number four on the agenda is the declaration of a quorum. We do have a quorum of shareholders for the transaction of business at this meeting, being at least two persons present or represented by proxy, who hold in aggregate at least 20% of the votes entitled to be cast at this meeting. I've received the preliminary report on attendance from the scrutineer and have determined that a quorum is present.
I adopt this report. If notice has been served in accordance with the British Columbia Business Corporations Act and the company articles, I declare this meeting to be regularly called and properly constituted for the transaction of business. On behalf of the board, I thank those shareholders who have chosen to attend the meeting virtually today. I also thank those who submitted their proxies in advance. I will now take a moment to ask the balloting be opened to registered holders and appointed proxy holders.
I show the polls are now open. At this point, all registered holders and proxy holders who have properly logged in with their control numbers or usernames and wish to vote, will be able to see on the screen all motions being brought forth at this meeting. Please register your votes by accessing the voting page and selecting the for or withhold button next to the name of each proposed director and the resolutions with respect to the reappointment of MNP LLP as Kits auditors. The voting will be open until shortly after all motions have been presented. Once the electronic balloting closes, the voting page will disappear and your votes will automatically be submitted. The secretary will confirm for us when the polls have closed.
The first item of business is to put before the meeting Kits financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31st, 2024 and 2023, and the auditor's report thereon. We'll dispense with the reading of the financial statements and the auditor's report, as no action is required to be taken by the shareholders on these financial statements. I now declare that the financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31st, 2024 and 2023 received by shareholders as submitted to this meeting. Next up, the appointment of auditors. The next item of business is the appointment of auditors for the ensuing year and the authorization of the directors to fix their remuneration. I will now move and second a resolution appointing the auditors for the current year and authorizing the directors to fix their remuneration.
I move that MNP LLP be reappointed auditors of Kits to hold office until the close of the next annual meeting of shareholders, or until their successors are appointed at such remuneration as may be fixed by the directors and the directors are authorized to fix such remuneration. I also second the motion. Second item of business is the election of directors. Pursuant to Kits' articles, there can be, at any time, a minimum of three and a maximum of 15 directors of Kits, as described in the Management Information Circular made available to shareholders in connection with this meeting. There are six nominee directors for election as directors. Nominees are Roger Hardy, Arshil Abdulla, Nick Bozikis, Peter Lee, Anne Kavanagh, and Andrew Reid. I would like to advise the meeting that Kits did not receive any further nominations in accordance with the Advance Notice Policy.
I will now nominate the directors and second the nominations. I nominate each of the persons whose name appears in the Management Information Circular under the heading Election of Directors to be a director of Kits till the close of the next annual meeting of shareholders or until their successors are appointed. I also second the nominations. As you know, Kits allows for the election of directors on an individual basis. According to our majority voting policy, any nominee who receives a greater number of votes withheld than votes for with respect to his or her election by the shareholders in an uncontested election of directors will tender his or her resignation promptly to the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, which will recommend to the board whether or not to accept such resignation.
I should advise the meeting that by virtue of the votes already received by proxy, it is clear that all directors will receive more than enough votes to be elected today. Unless there are any questions, I will move on to closing the voting process. There being no other business, we will proceed to close the polls. For those of you who have not voted on all the resolutions, please do so now. We'll be closing the polls in one minute. Thank you everyone. The polls are now closed. I've been advised by the scrutineer that the ballots and proxies deposited for the meeting have now been voted, and that each of the resolutions has been carried with the effect that each of the six nominees has been elected as director of Kits to serve until the next annual meeting of shareholders or until their successors are elected or appointed.
The appointment of MNP LLP as the auditors of Kits have been approved and the board of directors has been authorized to fix their remuneration. We will file a report setting out the voting results on SEDAR+ and its website early tomorrow morning. The items of business as set out in the notice of meeting have now been dealt with. As there is no further business to come before the meeting, I declare the meeting to be concluded. On behalf of Kits, I want to thank everybody for their attending today. Thank you all. Have a great day.
This concludes the meeting. You may now disconnect.