UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

 

FORM 6-K

 

 

 

REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER

PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16 UNDER

THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

For the month of September 2014

 

 

 

Commission File Number: 001-33082

 

 

 

HOME INNS & HOTELS MANAGEMENT INC.

 

 

 

No. 124 Caobao Road

Xuhui District, Shanghai 200235

People’s Republic of China

(Address of principal executive offices)

 

 

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F.

 

Form 20-F  x          Form 40-F  ¨

 

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(1):  ¨

 

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(7):  ¨

 

 

 

 
 

 

SIGNATURE

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

 

  HOME INNS & HOTELS MANAGEMENT INC.
   
    By:

/s/ Cathy Xiangrong Li

    Name: Cathy Xiangrong Li
     
    Title: Chief Financial Officer

 

Date: September 30, 2014

 

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Exhibit Index

 

Exhibit 99.1 – Press Release

 

Exhibit 99.2 – Notice of Annual General Meeting

 

Exhibit 99.3 – Form of Proxy for Annual General Meeting

 

Exhibit 99.4 – Ballot for Annual General Meeting

 

Exhibit 99.5 – Depositary’s Voting Card for American Depositary Shares

 

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Exhibit 99.1

 

Home Inns to Hold 2014 Annual General Meeting on November 18, 2014

 

Shanghai, September 29, 2014 — Home Inns & Hotels Management Inc. (NASDAQ: HMIN) (“Home Inns” or “the Company”), a leading economy hotel chain in China, today announced that it will hold its 2014 annual general meeting of shareholders at Suite 2215, 22/F, Two Pacific Place, 88 Queensway, Hong Kong on November 18, 2014 at 10:00 a.m., local time. Holders of record of ordinary shares of the Company at the close of business on October 10, 2014 are entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the annual general meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof. Holders of the Company’s American Depositary Shares (“ADSs”) who wish to exercise their voting rights for the underlying ordinary shares must act through the depositary of the Company’s ADS program, The Bank of New York Mellon.

 

The notice of the annual general meeting, which sets forth the resolutions to be submitted to shareholder approval at the meeting, is available on the Investor Relations section of the company’s website at http://english.homeinns.com. Home Inns has filed its annual report on Form 20-F, including its audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2013, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Home Inns’ Form 20-F can be accessed on the above-mentioned website, as well as on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov.

 

Shareholders may request a hard copy of the company’s annual report, free of charge, by contacting IR Department, Home Inns & Hotels Management Inc., No. 124 Caobao Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai 200235, People’s Republic of China, telephone: +86-21-3337-3333*3872, fax: +86 21 6483-5665, email: ir@homeinns.com.

 

About Home Inns

 

Home Inns is a leading economy hotel chain in China based on number of hotels and hotel rooms as well as geographic coverage of the hotel chain. Since the Company commenced operations in 2002, it has built Home Inns as one of the best-known economy hotel brands in China. In October of 2011, the Company acquired Motel 168, another well-known hotel chain in China, as its second economy hotel brand. Home Inns Group aims to offer a consistent product and high-quality services to primarily serve the fast growing population of value-conscious individual business and leisure travelers who demand clean, comfortable and convenient lodging. Home Inns Group's ADSs, each of which represents two ordinary shares, are currently trading on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “HMIN.” For more information about Home Inns Group, please visit http://english.homeinns.com.

 

For investor and media inquiries, please contact:

 

Ethan Ruan
Home Inns & Hotels Management Inc.
Tel: +86-21-3337-3333*3872
Email: zjruan@homeinns.com

 

Cara O’Brien
FTI Consulting
Tel: + 852-3768-4537
Email: cara.obrien@fticonsulting.com

 

 

 


 

Exhibit 99.2

 

HOME INNS & HOTELS MANAGEMENT INC.

(Incorporated in the Cayman Islands with limited liability)

(NASDAQ Ticker: HMIN)

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NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

to be held on November 18, 2014

(or any adjourned or postponed meeting thereof)

 

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Annual General Meeting (“AGM”) of Home Inns & Hotels Management Inc. (the “Company”) will be held at Suite 2215, 22/F, Two Pacific Place, 88 Queensway, Hong Kong on November 18, 2014 at 10:00 a.m., local time, and at any adjourned or postponed meeting thereof, for the following purposes:

 

1.To consider and, if thought fit, pass the following resolutions as special resolutions:

 

RESOLVED, as special resolutions:

 

THAT the legal name of the Company be changed from “Home Inns & Hotels Management Inc.” to “Homeinns Hotel Group”; and

 

THAT each director or officer of the Company be and is hereby authorized to take any and every action that might be necessary, appropriate or desirable to effect the foregoing resolution as such director or officer, in his or her absolute discretion, thinks fit.”

 

The board of directors of the Company has fixed the close of business on October 10, 2014 as the record date (the “Record Date”) for determining the shareholders entitled to receive notice of and to vote at the AGM or any adjourned or postponed meeting thereof.

 

Please refer to the proxy form, which is attached to and made a part of this notice. Holders of record of the Company’s ordinary shares at the close of business on the Record Date are entitled to vote at the AGM and any adjourned or postponed meeting thereof. Holders of the Company’s American depositary shares (“ADSs”) who wish to exercise their voting rights for the underlying shares must act through The Bank of New York Mellon, the depositary of the Company’s ADS program.

 

Holders of record of the Company’s ordinary shares as of the Record Date are cordially invited to attend the AGM in person. Your vote is important. If you cannot attend the AGM in person, you are urged to complete, sign, date and return the accompanying proxy form as promptly as possible. We must receive the proxy form no later than 48 hours before the time of the AGM to ensure your representation at such meeting.

 

Shareholders may obtain a copy of the Company’s annual report, free of charge, from the Company’s website at http://english.homeinns.com, or by contacting IR Department, Home Inns & Hotels Management Inc., No. 124 Caobao Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai 200235, People’s Republic of China, telephone: +86-21-3337-3333*3872, fax: +86 21 6483-5665, email: ir@homeinns.com.

 

  By Order of the Board of Directors,
   
  David Jian Sun
  Director and Chief Executive Officer

 

Shanghai, September 29, 2014

 

 

 


 

Exhibit 99.3

 

HOME INNS & HOTELS MANAGEMENT INC.

(Incorporated in the Cayman Islands with limited liability)

(NASDAQ Ticker: HMIN)

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Form of Proxy for Annual General Meeting

to be held on November 18, 2014

(or any adjourned or postponed meeting thereof)

 

Introduction

 

This Form of Proxy is furnished in connection with the solicitation by the board of directors of Home Inns & Hotels Management Inc., a Cayman Islands company (the “Company”), of proxies from the holders of the issued and outstanding ordinary shares, par value US$0.005 per share, of the Company (the “Ordinary Shares”) to be exercised at the Annual General Meeting of the Company (the “AGM”) to be held at Suite 2215, 22/F, Two Pacific Place, 88 Queensway, Hong Kong on November 18, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. (local time), and at any adjourned or postponed meeting thereof, for the purposes set forth in the accompanying Notice of Annual General Meeting (the “AGM Notice”).

 

Only the holders of record of the Ordinary Shares at the close of business on October 10, 2014 (the “Record Date”) are entitled to notice of and to vote at the AGM. In respect of the matters requiring shareholders’ vote at the AGM, each Ordinary Share is entitled to one vote. The quorum of the AGM is shareholders holding no less than an aggregate of one-third of all voting share capital of the Company in issue present in person or by proxy and entitled to vote at the AGM. This Form of Proxy and the accompanying AGM Notice will be first mailed to the shareholders of the Company on or about September 29, 2014.

 

The Ordinary Shares represented by all properly executed proxies returned to the Company will be voted at the AGM as indicated or, if no instruction is given, the holder of the proxy will vote the shares in his discretion, unless a reference to the holder of the proxy having such discretion has been deleted and initialed on this Form of Proxy. Where the chairman of the AGM acts as proxy and is entitled to exercise his discretion, he is likely to vote the shares FOR the resolutions. As to any other business that may properly come before the AGM, all properly executed proxies will be voted by the persons named therein in accordance with their discretion. The Company does not presently know of any other business which may come before the AGM. However, if any other matter properly comes before the AGM, or any adjourned or postponed meeting thereof, which may properly be acted upon, unless otherwise indicated the proxies solicited hereby will be voted on such matter in accordance with the discretion of the proxy holders named therein. Any person giving a proxy has the right to revoke it at any time before it is exercised (i) by filing with the Company a duly signed revocation at its registered office at Maples Corporate Services Limited, P.O. Box 390, Ugland House, Grand Cayman, KY1-1104, Cayman Islands, with a copy delivered to its offices at No. 124 Caobao Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai 200235, People’s Republic of China or (ii) by voting in person at the AGM.

 

To be valid, this Form of Proxy must be completed, signed and returned to the Company’s offices (to the attention of: Ethan Ruan) at No. 124 Caobao Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai 200235, People’s Republic of China as soon as possible so that it is received by the Company no later than 48 hours before the time of the AGM.

 

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HOME INNS & HOTELS MANAGEMENT INC.

(Incorporated in the Cayman Islands with limited liability)

(Nasdaq Ticker: HMIN)

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Form of Proxy for Annual General Meeting

to Be Held on November 18, 2014

(or any adjourned or postponed meeting thereof)

 

I/We _________________________________________________________________________ of ___________________________________________________________________________,

being the registered holder of _____________________ ordinary shares 1, par value US$0.005 per share, of Home Inns & Hotels Management Inc. (the “Company”), hereby appoint the Chairman of the Annual General Meeting 2 or _____________________________________ of ___________________________________________________________________________

as my/our proxy to attend and act for me/us at the Annual General Meeting (or at any adjourned or postponed meeting thereof) of the Company to be held at Suite 2215, 22/F, Two Pacific Place, 88 Queensway, Hong Kong, and in the event of a poll, to vote for me/us as indicated below, or if no such indication is given, as my/our proxy thinks fit 3.

 

No.   RESOLUTION   FOR 3   AGAINST 3   ABSTAIN 3
1.     The special resolutions as set out in Item 1 of the Notice of Annual General Meeting regarding the change of the legal name of the Company from “Home Inns & Hotels Management Inc.” to “Homeinns Hotel Group”, as previously approved by the Company’s board of directors.            

 

Dated _______________, 2014   Signature(s) 4  

  

 

 

1Please insert the number of shares registered in your name(s) to which this proxy relates. If no number is inserted, this form of proxy will be deemed to relate to all the shares in the Company registered in your name(s).

 

2If any proxy other than the Chairman of the Annual General Meeting is preferred, strike out the words “the Chairman of the Annual General Meeting or” and insert the name and address of the proxy desired in the space provided. A shareholder may appoint one or more proxies to attend and vote in his stead. Any alteration made to this form of proxy must be initialed by the person(s) who sign(s) it.

 

3IMPORTANT: If you wish to vote for a particular resolution, tick the appropriate box marked “for”. If you wish to vote against a particular resolution, tick the appropriate box marked “against”. If you wish to abstain from voting on a particular resolution, tick the appropriate box marked “abstain”.

 

4This form of proxy must be signed by you or your attorney duly authorized in writing or, in the case of a corporation, must be either under seal or executed under the hand of an officer or attorney duly authorized to sign the same.

 

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Exhibit 99.4

 

HOME INNS & HOTELS MANAGEMENT INC.

(Incorporated in the Cayman Islands with limited liability)

(Nasdaq Ticker: HMIN)

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Ballot for the Annual General Meeting

Held on November 18, 2014

(or any adjourned or postponed meeting thereof)

 

I/We ______________________________________________________________________________________ of ____________________________________________________________________________________________,

being the registered holder of _____________________ ordinary shares 1, par value US$0.005 per share, of Home Inns & Hotels Management Inc. (the “Company”), hereby cast my ballot as follows:

 

 

No.   RESOLUTION   FOR 2   AGAINST 2   ABSTAIN 2
1.     The special resolutions as set out in Item 1 of the Notice of Annual General Meeting regarding the change of the legal name of the Company from “Home Inns & Hotels Management Inc.” to “Homeinns Hotel Group”, as previously approved by the Company’s board of directors.            

  

  Signature(s) 3  

  

 

1Please insert the number of shares registered in your name(s) to which this ballot relates. If no number is inserted, this ballot will be deemed to relate to all the shares in the Company registered in your name(s).
   
2IMPORTANT: If you wish to vote for a particular resolution, tick the appropriate box marked “for”. If you wish to vote against a particular resolution, tick the appropriate box marked “against”. If you wish to abstain from voting on a particular resolution, tick the appropriate box marked “abstain”.
   
3This ballot must be signed by you or your attorney duly authorized in writing or, in the case of a corporation, must be either under seal or executed under the hand of an officer or attorney duly authorized to sign the same.

  

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Exhibit 99.5