SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 6-K
Report of Foreign Private Issuer
Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
For the month of February 2016
G. Willi-Food International Ltd.
(Translation of registrant’s name into English)
4 Nahal Harif St., Yavne, Israel 81106
(Address of principal executive offices)
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Attached hereto and incorporated by reference herein is a press release issued by G. Willi-Food International Ltd. (“Registrant”) on February 18, 2016.
This report on Form 6-K is hereby incorporated by reference in the Registration Statements on Form F-3 (File No. 333-11848 and 333-138200) of the Registrant.
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/s/ Pavel Buber | ||
| Name: Pavel Buber | |||
| Title: Chief Financial Officer | |||
Date: February 18, 2016
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
G. WILLI-FOOD ANNOUNCESINITIATION OF INVESTIGATION BY ISRAELI
SECURITIES AUTHORITY
YAVNE, Israel –February 18, 2016- G. Willi-Food International Ltd. (NASDAQ: WILC) (the “Company” or “Willi-Food”), a global company that specializes in the development, marketing and international distribution of kosher foods, announced today thatas a result of suspicions of certain breaches of Israeli securities laws and criminal offenses, the Israel Securities Authority (“ISA”) initiated an investigation. The ISA conducted a search on February 17, 2016 at the offices of the Company, and the offices of its Parent Company, Willi-Food Investments Ltd., BSD Crown Ltd., and B.G.I Investments (1961) Ltd. (the “Group”),during which certain computers and other materials were seized by the ISA. Similarly, a number of officers and directors within the Group are being questioned by the ISA, and the chairman of our board of directors and the indirect controlling shareholder of the Group, Mr. Gregory Gurtovoy, has been detained.
The Group is not a party to these proceedings. The Company will continue to provide updates to the market as required by applicable law.
ABOUT G. WILLI-FOOD INTERNATIONAL LTD.
G. Willi-Food International Ltd. (http://www.willi-food.com) is an Israeli-based company specializing in high-quality, great-tasting kosher food products. Willi-Food is engaged directly and through its subsidiaries in the design, import, marketing and distribution of over 600 food products worldwide. As one of Israel's leading food importers, Willi-Food markets and sells its food products to over 1,500 customers in Israel and around the world including large retail and private supermarket chains, wholesalers and institutional consumers. The company's operating divisions include Willi-Food in Israel and Gold Frost, a wholly owned subsidiary who designs, develops and distributes branded kosher, dairy-food products.
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENT
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 relating to future events or our future performance, such as statements regarding trends, demand for our products and expected sales, operating results, and earnings. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied in those forward-looking statements. These risks and other factors include but are not limited to: monetary risks including changes in marketable securities or changes in currency exchange rates- especially the NIS/U.S. Dollar exchange rate, payment default by any of our major clients, the loss of one of more of our key personnel, changes in laws and regulations, including those relating to the food distribution industry, and inability to meet and maintain regulatory qualifications and approvals for our products, termination of arrangements with our suppliers, in particular Arla Foods, loss of one or more of our principal clients, increase or decrease in global purchase prices of food products, increasing levels of competition in Israel and other markets in which we do business, changes in economic conditions in Israel, including in particular economic conditions in the Company's core markets, our inability to accurately predict consumption of our products and changes in consumer preferences, our inability to protect our intellectual property rights, our inability to successfully integrate our recent acquisitions, insurance coverage not sufficient enough to cover losses of product liability claims and risks associated with product liability claims. We cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements. The matters discussed in this press release also involve risks and uncertainties summarized under the heading "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2014, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 30, 2015. These factors are updated from time to time through the filing of reports and registration statements with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We do not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking information contained in this press release.
Company Contact:
G. Willi - Food International Ltd.
Pavel Buber, Chief Financial Officer
(+972) 8-932-1000
pavel@willi-food.co.il
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SOURCE: G. Willi-Food International Ltd.