The Board of Directors of GAB wishes to announce that pursuant to Paragraph 10.09 of the Main Market Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad Listing Requirements ("the Listing Requirements"), the Company will be seeking the approval of its shareholders for a Proposed Shareholders' Mandate at the forthcoming 50th Annual General Meeting ("AGM") of the Company to be convened.

The Company had, at its 49th AGM held on 21 November 2013, obtained a general mandate from its shareholders for the Company and its subsidiaries to enter into recurrent related party transactions. The authority conferred pursuant to the mandate will however lapse at the conclusion of the forthcoming 50th AGM unless authority for its renewal is obtained from the shareholders of the Company at the said AGM.

The Recurrent Related Party Transactions are necessary for the Company and its subsidiaries' day-to-day operations and they are carried out in the ordinary course of business based on normal commercial terms which are not more favourable to the related parties than those generally available to the public and are not detrimental to the minority shareholders of the Company.