VANCOUVER, BC, June 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ - Village Farms
International, Inc. ("Village Farms" or the "Company") (NASDAQ:
VFF) (TSX: VFF) today announced it will hold its Annual and Special
Meeting of Shareholders (the "Meeting") on June 25, 2020 at 1:00 p.m.
Eastern Daylight Time in a virtual format.
Due to the uncertain public health impact
of COVID-19 and in consideration of the health and safety
of the Company's shareholders, colleagues and boarder community,
this year's meeting will be held in a virtual meeting format only.
Shareholders will be able to listen to, participate in and vote at
the Meeting in real time through a web-based platform
(access information below).
The Company's Proxy Statement describing the formal business to
be conducted at the meeting and containing detailed instructions
about how to participate in the meeting is available in the
Investor Relations section of the Company's website at
www.villagefarms.com under "Investor Relations/Shareholder
Meeting Materials".
To Vote Ahead of the Virtual Meeting
As in prior
years, shareholders have multiple options to cast their vote ahead
of the Meeting, which include online, via telephone or via mail.
Details on using each method are included in the Proxy Statement
and the Form of Proxy.
The Company's Notice of Meeting, Proxy Statement and the
accompanying Form of Proxy (collectively the "Meeting Materials")
were mailed on or about May 26, 2020.
Shareholders who have not yet received their Meeting Materials
should contact their broker if they are a non-registered
shareholder or contact Computershare (1-800-564-6253 or
https://www-us.computershare.com/Investor/Contact/Enquiry) if they
are a registered shareholder. Shareholders planning to vote ahead
of the meeting must submit their proxy voting instructions to
Computershare no later than 1:00 p.m.
Eastern Daylight Time on Tuesday, June 23, 2020.
Accessing the Virtual Meeting
In order to access the
Meeting, registered Shareholders, duly appointed proxyholders
(including non-registered Shareholders who have duly appointed
themselves as proxyholder) and guests (including non-registered
Shareholders who have not duly appointed themselves as proxyholder)
must log in online as set out below.
- Step 1: Visit
https://www.issuerdirect.com/virtual-event/vff.
- Step 2: Enter name and email.
Online access will be available prior to the Meeting for
participants to log in. The Company encourages participants to
access the Meeting webcast prior to the start time.
Participants should allow ample time to log in to the Meeting
online and complete the check-in procedures.
Participants can submit questions in writing to the Virtual
Meeting website during the Meeting in the Q&A tab on the
virtual platform. Participants, however, must first join the
meeting as described above. No questions will be taken in any other
manner the day of the Meeting.
To Vote at the Virtual Meeting
Registered and/or non-registered shareholders who wish to vote
their proxies at the Meeting or have their designated proxy cast
their vote at the Meeting on their behalf, should follow the
instructions set out in the Proxy Statement.
Replay
A replay of the Annual Meeting will be available in the
"Investor Relations" section of the Company's website starting
approximately 24 hours after the meeting is finished.
About Village Farms International, Inc.
Village Farms is one of the largest and longest-operating
vertically integrated greenhouse growers in North America and the only publicly traded
greenhouse produce company in Canada. Village Farms produces and distributes
fresh, premium-quality produce with consistency 365 days a year to
national grocers in the U.S. and Canada from more than nine million square feet
of Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) greenhouses in
British Columbia and Texas, as well as from its partner greenhouses
in British Columbia, Ontario and Mexico. The Company is now
leveraging its 30 years of experience as a vertically integrated
grower for the rapidly emerging global cannabis opportunity through
its majority ownership of British
Columbia-based Pure Sunfarms Corp., one of the single
largest cannabis growing operations in the world. The Company
also intends to pursue opportunities to become a vertically
integrated leader in the U.S. hemp-derived CBD market, subject to
compliance with all applicable U.S. federal and state laws, Village
Farms has established two joint ventures, Village Fields Hemp and
Arkansas Valley Green and Gold Hemp, for outdoor hemp cultivation
and CBD extraction and is pursuing controlled environment hemp
production at a portion of its Texas greenhouse operations, which total 5.7
million square feet of production area.
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