16 Dec 2019 13:51
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Honeycomb Investment Trust plc (the "Company")
Result of General Meeting
The Company announces that at the General Meeting held earlier today the following resolution was passed by the requisite majority on a poll:
Resolution 1 (Ordinary Resolution): THAT the continuation of the Company as an investment trust until the annual general meeting of the Company falling five years after the date of this resolution be approved.
The results of the poll were as follows:
Resolution (* indicates special resolution) | Shares For | % | Shares Against | % | Shares Marked as Votes Withheld / Abstentions | Number of Votes Validly cast |
Resolution 1 | 35,341,722 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 35,341,722 |
NOTES:
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1. | Votes "For" and "Against" are expressed as a percentage (rounded to two decimal places) of votes validly cast.
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2. | A "Vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the percentage of shares voted "For" or "Against".
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3. | The number of shares in issue at close of business on 12 December 2019 was 39,449,919 and no shares were held in treasury. 89.59% of voting capital was instructed. |
4. | Copies of the resolution will be made available for inspection from the National Storage Mechanism, at: www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM. |
5. | These poll results (inclusive of proxy results lodged before the General Meeting) will be available shortly on the Company's website at www.honeycombplc.com/announcements.
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For further information about this announcement please contact:
Link Company Matters Limited - Corporate Secretary
Paula O'Reilly
020 7954 9796
Pollen Street Capital
Chris Palmer / Steve Plowman
020 3728 6750
Liberum Capital Limited
Chris Clarke / Owen Matthews
020 3100 2000
Camarco - Investor Relations
Ed Gascoigne-Pees
020 3757 4994
16 December 2019