Spark shareholders give the thumbs down to virtual-only annual meetings

Spark shareholders give the thumbs down to virtual-only annual meetings
Fiona Rotherham
By Fiona Rotherham Nov. 4 (BusinessDesk) - Spark New Zealand's intention to move to a virtual-only annual meeting next year raised the ire of shareholders attending this year's one in person in Auckland today. Chairman Mark Verbiest said as the country’s leading digital services company, Spark intends to take a leadership role in what it regards as “the inevitable transition to virtual shareholder meetings”. “The reality is in today’s world all procedural aspects of the traditional shareholder meetings can now be virtualised, at consid...