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The General Meeting convened on 2 November 2020 is cancelled, the General Meeting´s resolution will take place outside the meeting through technical means.

The Board of directors of Kofola ČeskoSlovensko a.s. (“Company”) has decided to cancel the General Meeting due to the extraordinary measures taken by the state administration, namely the Resolution of the Government of the Czech Republic of 21 October 2020, no. 1078 (restriction of freedom of movement, ban on assembly of persons), which prevents the General Meeting from being held on the scheduled date of 2 November 2020. Given the uncertain development of the situation and of further measures to be adopted after 3 November 2020, the Board of Directors has decided to apply the rights under Section 19 of Act No. 191/2020 Coll. (Lex COVID), namely the right of the General Meeting to adopt a resolution on the distribution of the Company’s profit generated in 2019 outside of a meeting.

Since a modification of the Articles of Association must be certified by a public instrument, the remaining items of the agenda of the cancelled General Meeting (amendment of the articles of association of the Company and election of a member of the Company´s Supervisory Board) will be postponed to be addressed at a regular in-person General Meeting.

On 2 November 2020, the Company will notify the shareholders about the draft resolution for remote voting; the draft resolution will be made public in the same way the General Meetings are convened, i.e. by means of an announcement published in the Business Bulletin and on the Company’s website: https://investor.kofola.cz/en/general-meeting/. On the same date, the Company will publish the ballot on its website: https://investor.kofola.cz/en/general-meeting/.

Voting by means of ballot will start on 2 November 2020. The Company’s shareholders registered in the book-entry securities register administered by the Central Securities Depository as owners of the Company’s share(s) as of 26 October 2020 will be authorized to take part in the decision-making, i.e. vote. The ballots must be delivered within 15 days. The deadline for the delivery of the ballots is 18 November 2020.

Further information is published in section "General meeting" and “Regulatory information”.