Itafos Announces Results of 2024 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders
June 19 2024 - 12:11PM
Itafos Inc. (TSX-V: IFOS) (“Itafos” or the “Company”) is pleased to
announce that all items of business were approved at its annual
general meeting of shareholders held today (the “Meeting”).
At the Meeting, the following six incumbent
directors were overwhelmingly re-elected: Anthony Cina, Ricardo De
Armas, G. David Delaney, Ronald Wilkinson, Stephen Shapiro and
Isaiah Toback. Elena Viyella de Paliza did not stand for
re-election at the Meeting. “On behalf of Itafos and the board of
the directors, I would like to thank Elena for her contributions to
the Company over the past three years and wish her well in all of
her future endeavours,” commented Anthony Cina, Chair of the board
of directors.
The appointment of the Company’s auditor,
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, was also ratified by shareholders.
Additionally, in accordance with the policies of
the TSX Venture Exchange (“TSX-V”), the Company obtained
disinterested shareholder approval to amend the Company’s
restricted share unit plan (the “RSU Plan”) to a “fixed up to 20%
Plan”. The Company also obtained disinterested shareholder approval
to amend the Company’s stock option plan (the “Stock Option Plan”)
to a “fixed up to 20% Plan”. As a result of these
amendments, the number of shares issuable under all of the
Company’s equity-based compensation plans (including the Stock
Option Plan and the RSU Plan), in the aggregate, will be fixed at a
maximum 38,398,527 shares, representing 20% of the number of issued
and outstanding shares. For further details on the amendments to
the RSU Plan and the Stock Option Plan, please refer to the
Company’s management information circular for the Meeting dated May
21, 2024 which is available on the Company’s SEDAR+ profile at
www.sedarplus.ca.
About Itafos
The Company is a phosphate and specialty fertilizer company. The
Company’s businesses and projects are as follows:
- Conda – a vertically integrated phosphate fertilizer business
located in Idaho, US with production capacity as follows:
- approximately 550kt per year of monoammonium phosphate (“MAP”),
MAP with micronutrients (“MAP+”), superphosphoric acid (“SPA”),
merchant grade phosphoric acid (“MGA”) and ammonium polyphosphate
(“APP”); and
- approximately 27kt per year of hydrofluorosilicic acid
(“HFSA”);
- Arraias – a vertically integrated phosphate fertilizer business
located in Tocantins, Brazil with production capacity as follows:
- approximately 500kt per year of single superphosphate (“SSP”)
and SSP with micronutrients (“SSP+”); and
- approximately 40kt per year of excess sulfuric acid (220kt per
year gross sulfuric acid production capacity);
- Farim – a high-grade phosphate mine project located in Farim,
Guinea-Bissau;
- Santana – a vertically integrated high-grade phosphate mine and
fertilizer plant project located in Pará, Brazil; and
- Araxá – a vertically integrated rare earth elements and niobium
mine and extraction plant project located in Minas Gerais,
Brazil.
The Company is a Delaware corporation that is headquartered in
Houston, TX. The Company’s shares trade on the TSX-V under the
ticker symbol “IFOS”. The Company’s principal shareholder is CL
Fertilizers Holding LLC (“CLF”). CLF is an affiliate of Castlelake,
L.P., a global private investment firm.
For more information, or to join the Company’s mailing list to
receive notification of future news releases, please visit the
Company’s website at www.itafos.com.
Forward-Looking Information
Certain information contained in this news
release constitutes forward-looking information. All information
other than information of historical fact is forward-looking
information. The use of any of the words “intend”, “anticipate”,
“plan”, “continue”, “estimate”, “expect”, “may”, “will”, “project”,
“should”, “would”, “believe”, “predict” and “potential” and similar
expressions are intended to identify forward-looking information.
This information involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties
and other factors that may cause actual results or events to differ
materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking
information. No assurance can be given that this information will
prove to be correct and such forward-looking information included
in this news release should not be unduly relied upon.
Forward-looking information is subject to a
number of risks and other factors that could cause actual results
and events to vary materially from that anticipated by such
forward-looking information. Although the Company has attempted to
identify important factors that could cause actual results to
differ materially from those contained in forward-looking
statements, there may be other factors that cause results not to be
as anticipated, estimated or intended. Factors that may cause
actual results to differ materially from expected results described
in forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to,
those risk factors set out in the Company’s annual information form
and other disclosure documents available under the Company’s
profile on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca and on the Company’s website
at www.itafos.com. Readers are cautioned that the foregoing
list of risks, uncertainties and assumptions are not exhaustive.
The forward-looking information included in this news release is
expressly qualified by this cautionary statement and is made as of
the date of this news release. The Company undertakes no obligation
to publicly update or revise any forward-looking information except
as required by applicable securities laws.
NEITHER THE TSX-V NOR ITS REGULATION SERVICES
PROVIDER (AS THAT TERM IS DEFINED IN THE POLICIES OF THE TSX-V)
ACCEPTS RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ADEQUACY OR ACCURACY OF THIS NEWS
RELEASE.
For further information, please contact:
For Additional Information Contact: Matthew
O’NeillExecutive Vice President & Chief Financial
Officerinvestor@itafos.com713-242-8446
For Media and Investor Relations:irlabsAlyssa
BarryPrincipal and Co-Founder1-833-947-5227alyssa@irlabs.ca
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