BEIJING, Oct. 29, 2019 /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 2019 annual general meeting of shareholders at 42/F,
Edinburgh Tower, The Landmark, 15 Queen's Road Central,
Hong Kong at 10 a.m. (Hong
Kong time) on December 19,
2019.
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 7, 2019 (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,
2018, 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's business consists of three segments:
advertising and subscription business, transaction services
business and digital marketing solutions business.
Bitauto's advertising and subscription business provides a
variety of advertising services to automakers through the
bitauto.com website and corresponding mobile apps which
provide consumers with up-to-date automobile pricing and
promotional information, specifications, reviews and consumer
feedback. Bitauto also provides transaction-focused online
advertisements and services for promotional activities to its
business partners, including automakers, automobile dealers, auto
finance partners and insurance companies. Bitauto offers
subscription services via its SaaS platform, which provides
web-based and mobile-based integrated digital marketing solutions
to new car automobile dealers in China. The SaaS platform enables automobile
dealer subscribers to create their own online showrooms, list
pricing and promotional information, provide automobile 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 primarily conducted
by its controlled subsidiary, Yixin Group Limited (SEHK: 2858), a
leading online automobile finance transaction platform in
China, which provides transaction
platform services as well as self-operated financing services.
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, advertising agent services, big data
applications and digital image creation.
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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