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Village Farms International Announces Election of Directors and Annual General and Special Meeting Results
VANCOUVER, BC, June 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ - Village Farms International, Inc. (the "Company" or "Village Farms") (TSX: VFF) (NASDAQ: VFF) today announced the
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[{"type":"text","content":"VANCOUVER, BC, June 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ - Village Farms International, Inc. (the \"Company\" or \"Village Farms\") (TSX: VFF) (NASDAQ: VFF) today announced the voting results from its annual and special meeting of shareholders held earlier today (the \"Meeting\"). A total of 49,330,959 common shares of the Company, representing 60.76% of the issued and outstanding common shares of the Company, were voted in connection with the Meeting by shareholders and proxy holders.\nAll of the matters put forward before the Company's shareholders for consideration and approval, as set out in the Company's proxy statement dated May 6, 2021 (the \"Proxy Statement\"), were approved by the requisite majority of votes cast at the Meeting. Directors were elected as follows:\nNominee\nProxy Votes For\nProxy % For\nProxy Votes Withheld\nProxy % Withheld\nMichael A. DeGiglio\n32,242,381\n94.31%\n1,945,778\n5.69%\nJohn P. Henry \n32,418,671\n94.82%\n1,769,487\n5.18%\nDavid Holewinski \n32,526,521\n95.14%\n1,661,638\n4.86%\nJohn R. McLernon \n31,603,513\n92.44%\n2,584,645\n7.56%\nStephen C. Ruffini \n31,815,046\n93.06%\n2,373,112\n6.94%\nChristopher C. Woodward\n27,605,322\n80.75%\n6,582,837\n19.25%\nAlso, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP was re-appointed auditor of the Company to hold office until the next annual meeting of shareholders and the directors were authorized to fix the auditor's remuneration. In addition, the shareholders of the Company approved the renewal of and certain amendments to the Company's Amended and Restated Equity Plan (the \"Plan\") as well as all unallocated awards under the Plan, as further described in the Proxy Statement.\nFinal voting results of all matters voted on at the Meeting will be made available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.\nAbout Village Farms International, Inc.\nVillage Farms is one of the largest and longest-operating greenhouse growers in North America. The Company leverages decades of experience in large-scale, low-cost intensive agriculture as a vertically integrated produce supplier to pursue high-value, high-growth plant-based Consumer Packaged Goods opportunities in cannabis and CBD in North America and select markets internationally.\nThe Company's wholly owned Canadian subsidiary, British-Columbia-based Pure Sunfarms is currently one of the single largest cannabis operations in the world, one of the lowest-...