Trifast Regulatory News (TRI)

13 Oct 2005 12:44

Trifast PLC13 October 2005 Issued by Citigate Dewe Rogerson Limited, BirminghamDate: Thursday 13 October 2005 Immediate Release NOT FOR RELEASE OR DISTRIBUTION IN OR INTO THE USA, CANADA, THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND, AUSTRALIA OR JAPAN Trifast plc Result of Extraordinary General Meeting The Directors of Trifast plc are pleased to announce that at the ExtraordinaryGeneral Meeting held today, the resolutions required to approve the acquisitionof Serco Ryan Limited (the "Acquisition"), to adopt new articles of associationand to grant the required section 80 and 89 authorities (inter alia to implementthe Placing and Open Offer) were duly passed. The completion of the Acquisition is now subject only to the admission of thePlacing and Open Offer Shares to the Official List and to trading on the LondonStock Exchange's main market for listed securities. The Placing and Open Offer Sharesare expected to be so admitted at 8.00 a.m. on 17 October 2005. A copy of the document setting out the resolutions has been submitted to theUK Listing Authority's Document Viewing Facility, which is situated at:Financial Services Authority, 25 The North Colonnade, Canary Wharf, London, E14 5HS. Enquiries:Trifast plc Citigate Dewe RogersonJim Barker, Chief Executive Fiona TooleyStuart Lawson, Group Finance Director Tel: +44(0)121 455 8370Tel: +44 (0)1825 747200 Mobile: +44 (0)7785 703523Website: www.trifast.com N M Rothschild & Sons Limited Ravi Gupta Tel: +44 (0)20 7280 5000 Arden Partners Limited Richard Day Tel: +44 (0)20 7398 1632 Terms defined in the announcement of the Company on 20 September 2005 bear thesame meaning when used in this announcement. N M Rothschild & Sons Limited, which is authorised and regulated in the UnitedKingdom by the Financial Services Authority, is acting exclusively for Trifastplc in connection with the Acquisition and is neither advising nor treating as aclient any other person and will not be responsible to anyone other than Trifastplc for providing the protections afforded to clients of N M Rothschild & SonsLimited nor for providing advice in relation to the Acquisition. Arden Partners Limited, which is authorised and regulated in the United Kingdomby the Financial Services Authority, is acting exclusively for Trifast plc inconnection with the Placing and Open Offer. Arden Partners Limited will not beresponsible to anyone other than Trifast plc for providing the protectionsoffered to clients of Arden Partners Limited nor for providing advice inrelation to the Placing and Open Offer. Neither the Placing nor the Open Offer is being made, directly or indirectly, inor into, or by use of the mails, or by any means or instrumentality (including,without limitation, facsimile transmission, internet, email, telex or telephone)of interstate or foreign commerce, or of any facility of a national securitiesexchange, of the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan or the Republic ofIreland and neither can be accepted by any such use, means instrumentality orfacility or from within the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan or theRepublic of Ireland. Neither the Placing nor the Open Offer constitutes an offer of securities forsale, or the solicitation of an offer to buy securities in the United States andthe new Ordinary Shares to be issued pursuant to the Placing and the Open Offerhave not been and will not be registered under the United States Securities Actof 1933, or under the laws of any state, district or other jurisdiction of theUnited States or of Canada, Australia, Japan or the Republic of Ireland and noregulatory clearances in respect of new Ordinary Shares have been or will be,applied for in any jurisdiction. Accordingly, unless an exemption under the USSecurities Act of 1933 or other relevant securities laws is applicable, the newOrdinary Shares are not being, and may not be offered, sold, resold, deliveredor distributed, directly or indirectly, in or into the United States or Canada,Australia, Japan or the Republic of Ireland or to, or for the account or benefitof, any US person or person resident in Canada, Australia, Japan or the Republicof Ireland. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange