Bioceres Crop Solutions Corp. (BIOX) Earnings Call Transcript & Summary

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. This is Jose Roque speaking, General Counsel, Bioceres Crop Solutions Corp. and Secretary of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the meeting. I would like to welcome you to the 2023 Annual Meeting of Shareholders of Bioceres Crop Solutions Corp. We are webcasting and recording this morning's proceedings so that we can prepare a complete transcript for shareholders and employees unable to attend the meeting. This meeting is held both at Linklaters premises in 1290, Avenue of the Americas, New York and virtually. We're pleased to have with us Ana Gois as Inspector of Elections, Pierre Perais in Linklaters and Ashleigh Nonato, attorney of the company. So will the meeting please come to order? Thank you. I report the notice of the meeting and the relevant meeting materials have been delivered to all members of record of the company by Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, the transfer agent and registrar of the company's common stock. The affidavit, proxy materials and audit documents are directed to be filed with the records of the company. I also present a list of the members of the company's common stock as of the close of business on October 3, 2023, the record date for this meeting, as prepared and certified by Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company to be filed with the records of the company. Continental Stock Transfer and Trust Company has completed the number of shares represented under the proxy card made available to the members. I report that the holders of 36,282,577 shares of common stock are present or represented at this meeting, which shares represent approximately 57.088% of the shares entitled to vote at this meeting, and a quorum is therefore present. Accordingly, I declared a meeting duly constituted. The meeting will now proceed to the proposals and its voting results. Proposal #1. Consider and vote the report of the Board of Directors of the company and the report of the independent auditor of the company's consolidated financial statements for the financial year ended June 30, 2023, and approve the company's consolidated financial statements for the financial year ended June 30, 2023. 36,171,753 votes have been cast in favor of proposal #1, 20,588 votes against it and 90,236 votes have abstained. Proposal #2. Consider and vote upon a proposal to appoint the following 7 directors to serve on the Board of Directors of the company until the 2024 Annual General Meeting of the company or until their respective successors are duly appointed and qualified. Federico Trucco, 35,797,578 votes have been cast in favor. 484,999 votes have been withheld. Enrique Lopez Lecube, 35,048,631 votes have been cast in favor, 1,233,946 votes have been withheld. Gloria Montaron Estrada, 35,266,893 votes have been cast in favor, 1,015,684 votes have been withheld. Keith McGovern, 36,188,873 votes have been cast in favor. 93,704 votes have been withheld. Ari Freisinger, 35,718 votes -- 35,718,000 votes -- 35,718,995 votes have been cast in favor, 563,582 votes have been withheld. Natalia Zang, 35,119,775 votes have been cast in favor. 1,162,902 votes have been withheld. Yogesh Mago, 35,737,094 votes have been cast in favor. 545,483 votes have been withheld. Proposal #3. Considering and vote upon the ratification of appointment of Price Warehouse & Co. S.R.L. as the independent registered public accounting firm of the company. 35,317,167 votes have been cast in favor of proposal #3. 879,418 votes against it, and 85,992 votes have abstained. We inform people attending virtually that you can submit questions, and the company will give you reply in the shortest time. There being no further matters to discuss, we thank you for attending, and the meeting is adjourned.