1 Feb 2017 14:50
Artemis VCT plc (the 'Company')
Result of Annual General Meeting
Following the Annual General Meeting of the Company, which was held earlier today, the Board is pleased to announce that all ordinary and special resolutions set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting were duly passed.
Details of the number of proxy votes cast for, against and withheld will be published on the Company's web site at artemisvct.co.uk
As a result of the passing of resolution 9 at the Company's Annual General Meeting, it has authority to repurchase up to a maximum of 7,982,252 of its ordinary shares. Such authority lasts until the Company's next Annual General Meeting in 2018, unless it has been fully exercised, or renewed or expressly revoked by shareholders before then.
Further announcements will be made each time the share repurchase authority is utilised.
A copy of the Company's Annual Financial Report for the year ended 30 September 2016, which contains the full text of the resolutions in the Notice of Annual General Meeting, was submitted to the National Storage Mechanism on 22 December 2016 and is available for inspection at morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM
For further information, please contact:
Artemis Fund Managers Limited
Company Secretary
Telephone: 0131 225 7300
1 February 2017