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Centaur Media plc
Incorporated in England and Wales
Registration number: 04948078
LEI: 2138005WK87G7DQRQI62
ISIN: GB0034291418
25 July 2017
Centaur Media Plc
Result of General Meeting
Centaur Media Plc (the "Company") announces that at its General Meeting held at 12.00 noon today, Tuesday 25 July 2017, the ordinary resolutions proposed to the meeting were passed on a show of hands.
Full details of the resolutions passed, together with explanatory notes, are set out in the Company's circular dated 7 July 2017 (the "Circular"), including notice of the General Meeting, which is available on the Company's website, www.centaurmedia.co.uk. The resolutions were proposed as ordinary resolutions. Defined terms used but not defined in this announcement have the same meaning as set out in the Circular.
Results of the proxy votes received for each resolution are as follows:
Resolution | Number of votes for | Percentage of total votes cast | Number of votes against | Percentage of total votes cast | Number of votes withheld | Total number of shares over which proxy forms were submitted | Percentage of total voting rights |
1. THAT the disposal of the entire issued share capitals of Ascent Publishing Limited and Centaur Consumer Exhibitions Limited be approved and the directors be authorised to take all such steps as may be necessary or desirable to implement and complete such disposal. | 130,095,289 | 99.97 | 34,990 | 0.03 | Nil | 130,130,279 | 90.03 |
2. THAT, conditional on the passing of Resolution 1, the acquisition of the entire issued share capital of MarketMakers Incorporation Limited be approved and the directors be authorised to take all such steps as may be necessary or desirable to implement and complete such acquisition. | 130,125,322 | 99.99 | 4,957 | 0.01 | Nil | 130,130,279 | 90.03 |
Notes:
(1) A "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the total number of votes cast for or against a resolution.
(2) There were 151,410,226 ordinary shares in issue in the Company including 6,870,437 treasury shares at 12.00 noon on 23 July 2017, the deadline for receipt of proxy votes. Therefore the total voting rights in the Company at 12.00 noon on 23 July 2017 was 144,539,789.
A copy of the resolutions passed at the General Meeting has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism in accordance with 9.6.2(R) of the Listing Rules and will shortly be available for inspection.
The previously announced timetable for the expected completion dates of the Acquisition and the Disposal is unchanged and is set out below.
Event | Expected time/date |
Expected date of publication of the Company's interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2017
| 26 July 2017
|
Expected date for completion of the Disposal | 1 August 2017
|
Expected date for completion of the Acquisition | 4 August 2017
|
Long stop date for shareholder approval of the Disposal | 30 September 2017
|
Long stop date for shareholder approval of the Acquisition | 30 September 2017
|
Notes:
1. Future dates are indicative only and are subject to change by the Company, in which event details of the new times and dates will be notified to the FCA and, where appropriate, to Shareholders.
2. References to times in this document are to London time.
Name of contact and telephone number for queries:
Swag Mukerji
Chief Financial Officer
020 7970 4000