BEIJING, Nov. 14, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Bitauto Holdings
Limited ("Bitauto" or the "Company) (NYSE: BITA), a leading
provider of internet content & marketing services, and
transaction services for China's fast-growing automotive industry,
today announced that it will hold its 2017 annual general meeting
of shareholders at 30/F, China World
Office 2, No. 1 Jian Guo Men Wai Avenue, Beijing 100004, the
People's Republic of China at 2:30
p.m. (Beijing time) on
December 12, 2017.
No proposal will be submitted for shareholder approval at the
annual general meeting. Instead, the annual general meeting
will serve as an open forum for shareholders and holders of the
Company's American Depositary Shares ("ADSs") to discuss Company
affairs with management.
The board of directors of the Company has fixed the close of
business on November 21, 2017 (Eastern
Daylight Time) as the record date (the "Record Date") for
determining the shareholders entitled to receive notice of the
annual general meeting or any adjournment or postponement
thereof. Holders of record of the Company's ordinary shares
at the close of business on the Record Date are entitled to attend
the annual general meeting and any adjournment or postponement
thereof in person. Beneficial owners of the Company's ADSs are
welcome to attend the annual general meeting in person.
Bitauto has filed its annual report on Form 20-F (the "Annual
Report"), which includes the Company's audited financial statements
for the fiscal year ended December 31,
2016, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"SEC"). Bitauto's Annual Report can be accessed on the investor
relations section of its website at http://ir.bitauto.com or
on the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov.
Holders of the Company's ordinary shares or ADSs may obtain a
hard copy of the Annual Report, free of charge, by emailing to
ir@bitauto.com or by writing to:
Bitauto Holdings Limited
10th Floor, New Century Hotel Office Tower
No. 6 South Capital Stadium Road
Beijing 100044, People's Republic of China
Attention: IR Department
About Bitauto Holdings Limited
Bitauto Holdings Limited (NYSE: BITA) is a leading provider of
internet content & marketing services, and transaction services
for China's fast-growing automotive industry. Bitauto manages its
businesses in three segments: its advertising and subscription
business, transaction services business and digital marketing
solutions business.
Bitauto's advertising and subscription business provides a
variety of advertising services mainly to automakers through its
bitauto.com website as well as corresponding mobile applications,
which provide consumers with up-to-date new and used automobile
pricing and promotional information, specifications, reviews and
consumer feedback. Bitauto also offers subscription services via
its SaaS platform, which provides web-based and mobile-based
integrated digital marketing solutions to automobile dealers in
China. The platform enables dealer
subscribers to create their own online showrooms, list pricing and
promotional information, provide dealer contact information, place
advertisements and manage customer relationships to help them reach
a broad set of purchase-minded customers and effectively market
their automobiles to consumers online.
Bitauto's transaction services business is a leading automotive
transaction services platform in China, which provides transaction facilitation
services to automobile dealers and online automotive financial
platform services to consumers and financial institutions including
banks, auto finance companies and insurance companies.
Bitauto's digital marketing solutions business provides
automakers with one-stop digital marketing solutions, including
website creation and maintenance, online public relations, online
marketing campaigns and advertising.
For more information, please visit ir.bitauto.com.
For investor and media inquiries, please contact:
Suki Li
Bitauto Holdings Limited
Phone: +86-10-6849-2145
ir@bitauto.com
Clarisse Pan
Foote Group
Phone: +86-10-8429-9544
bitauto@thefootegroup.com
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