BEIJING, Oct. 31, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Bitauto Holdings
Limited ("Bitauto" or the "Company) (NYSE: BITA), a leading
provider of internet content and marketing services, and
transaction services for China's
fast-growing automotive industry, today announced that it will hold
its 2018 annual general meeting of shareholders at 46th Floor,
Tower II, JingAn Kerry Centre, 1539 Nanjing West Road, Shanghai 200040, the
People's Republic of China at 10
a.m. (Beijing time) on
November 30, 2018.
No proposal will be submitted for shareholder approval at the
annual general meeting. Instead, the annual general meeting
will serve as an open forum for shareholders and holders of the
Company's American Depositary Shares ("ADSs") to discuss Company
affairs with management.
The board of directors of the Company has fixed the close of
business on November 9, 2018 (Eastern
Daylight Time) as the record date (the "Record Date") for
determining the shareholders entitled to receive notice of the
annual general meeting or any adjournment or postponement
thereof. Holders of record of the Company's ordinary shares at
the close of business on the Record Date are entitled to attend the
annual general meeting and any adjournment or postponement thereof
in person. Beneficial owners of the Company's ADSs are welcome to
attend the annual general meeting in person.
Bitauto has filed its annual report on Form 20-F (the "Annual
Report"), which includes the Company's audited financial statements
for the fiscal year ended December 31,
2017, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"SEC"). Bitauto's Annual Report can be accessed on the investor
relations section of its website at http://ir.bitauto.com or
on the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov.
Holders of the Company's ordinary shares or ADSs may obtain a
hard copy of the Annual Report, free of charge, by emailing to
ir@bitauto.com or by writing to:
Bitauto Holdings Limited
10th Floor, New Century Hotel Office Tower
No. 6 South Capital Stadium Road
Beijing 100044, People's Republic of China
Attention: IR Department
About Bitauto Holdings Limited
Bitauto Holdings Limited (NYSE: BITA) is a leading provider of
internet content & marketing services, and transaction services
for China's fast-growing
automotive industry. Bitauto's business consists of three segments:
advertising and subscription business, transaction services
business and digital marketing solutions business.
Bitauto's advertising and subscription business provides a
variety of advertising services to automakers through the
bitauto.com website and corresponding mobile apps. The website and
mobile apps provide consumers with up-to-date automobile pricing
and promotional information, specifications, reviews and consumer
feedback. Bitauto also provides transaction-focused online
advertisements and promotional services to its business partners
via Yixin's online platform for automakers, automobile dealers,
auto finance partners and insurance companies. Bitauto offers
subscription services via its SaaS platform, which provides
web-based and mobile-based integrated digital marketing solutions
to automobile dealers in China.
The SaaS platform enables automobile dealer subscribers to create
their own online showrooms, list pricing and promotional
information, provide automobile dealer contact information, place
advertisements and manage customer relationships to help them reach
a broad set of purchase-minded customers and effectively market
their automobiles to consumers online.
Bitauto's transaction services business is primarily conducted
by its controlled subsidiary, Yixin Group Limited (SEHK: 2858), a
leading online automobile retail transaction platform in
China, which provides transaction
platform services as well as self-operated financing services.
Bitauto's digital marketing solutions business provides
automakers with one-stop digital marketing solutions, including
website creation and maintenance, online public relations, online
marketing campaigns, advertising agent services, big data
applications and digital image creation.
For more information, please visit ir.bitauto.com.
For investor and media inquiries, please contact:
Suki Li
Bitauto Holdings Limited
Phone: +86-10-6849-2145
ir@bitauto.com
Clarisse Pan
Foote Group
Phone: +86-10-8429-9544
bitauto@thefootegroup.com
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