Fairfax INDIA ANNOUNCES ANNUAL MEETING WEBCAST DETAILS

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TORONTO, April 07, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fairfax India Holdings Corporation (“Fairfax India”) (TSX: FIH.U) has formerly announced that, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, shareholders will not be able to attend in person at its annual meeting commencing at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, April 16, 2020, but that there will be a webcast of the formal annual meeting and a presentation by Prem Watsa, Fairfax India’s Chair, and Chandran Ratnaswami, Fairfax India’s CEO, followed by a Q&A session.  Following are instructions on how to access this webcast and to submit questions for the Q&A. 

Shareholders are encouraged to access the audio webcast, which may be found at beginning at 1:45 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, April 16, 2020. Alternatively, shareholders may also access the meeting by telephone beginning at such time at 800-988-9553 (Canada and U.S.) or 1-517-308-9106 (International) with the passcode “8417095”.

Questions can be submitted by sending them to . The questions will be received by Fairfax India’s moderator, Jeff Fenwick, Managing Director, Co-Head of Institutional Equity Research, Cormark Securities Inc., who will facilitate the Q&A session. 

Shareholders are encouraged to vote by proxy in advance of the meeting by one of the methods described in the management proxy circular.  Instructions on voting via proxy can be found in the management proxy circular and the proxy form sent to all shareholders.

Fairfax India is an investment holding company whose objective is to achieve long term capital appreciation, while preserving capital, by investing in public and private equity securities and debt instruments in India and Indian businesses or other businesses with customers, suppliers or business primarily conducted in, or dependent on, India.