Tarsus Regulatory News (TRS)

15 Apr 2005 14:03

Tarsus Group PLC15 April 2005 Tarsus Group plc (the "Company") Result of Annual General Meeting and Scrip Dividend Alternative and Directors' Shareholdings Annual General Meeting At the annual general meeting of Tarsus Group plc, held earlier today, the Boardof the Company issued the following statement: "We reported record results in 2004 and we are pleased to confirm that tradingto date in 2005 is fully in line with our expectations. With a strong coreportfolio of exhibitions backed by a number of new and exciting launches wecontinue to look to the future with confidence." All the resolutions proposed at the annual general meeting were passed. Thoseresolutions include a resolution authorising the Directors to allot a number ofordinary shares of 5p each ("Ordinary Shares") in the capital of the Company.The Directors propose to use that authority to allot Ordinary Shares to thoseshareholders who have elected to receive the final cash dividend ("theDividend") for the year ended 31 December 2004 to which they would otherwise beentitled in the form of Ordinary Shares under the scrip dividend alternativeoffered by the Company in respect of that dividend ("the Scrip DividendAlternative"). A copy of the resolutions has been submitted to the UK Listing Authority, andwill be available for inspection at the UK Listing Authority's Document ViewingFacility, which is situated at: Financial Services Authority25 The North ColonnadeCanary WharfLondon E14 5HS Telephone Number: (0)20 7676 1000 Scrip Dividend Alternative Elections under the Scrip Dividend Alternative have been received fromshareholders in respect of 14,981,898 Ordinary Shares (representing 30.3 percent. of the existing issued share capital) and, as a result, the Board of theCompany has allotted 258,254 new Ordinary Shares ("New Ordinary Shares")(representing approximately 0.5 per cent. of the existing issued share capital).These New Ordinary Shares will rank pari passu in all respects with the existingOrdinary Shares. Application will be made for the admission of the New OrdinaryShares to the Official List and to the London Stock Exchange's market for listedsecurities and dealings are expected to commence on 22 April 2005. The total number of Ordinary Shares in issue following the allotment of the NewOrdinary Shares will be 49,782,683. Payments of approximately £1.24 million in aggregate will be made on 22 April2005 in respect of the Dividend to those shareholders who did not make anelection under the Scrip Dividend Alternative. Directors' Shareholdings Certain of the directors elected to take the Scrip Dividend Alternative and,following the allotment of New Ordinary Shares, and as notified to the Companytoday by each of those Directors, the shareholdings of those Directors are asfollows: Director Registered No. of New % of enlarged Total % of enlarged Holder Ordinary Shares issued share shareholding issued share capital capital ND Buch ND Buch - - - - State 109,166 0.22 6,440,874 12.94 Street Nominees Limited (Life Settlement) Hamilton 36,172 0.07 2,134,178 4.29 Trust Company Limited State 52,746 0.11 3,112,065 6.25 Street Nominees Limited (Children's Trust) Owlcastle - - 275,374 0.55 Limited Dominic 290 0.00 17,164 0.03 Buch Chloe 290 0.00 17,164 0.03 Buch --------- ---------- ---------- -------- Total 198,664 0.40 11,996,819 24.09 --------- ---------- ---------- -------- --------- ---------- ---------- --------R T E Ware R T E 4,817 0.01 284,215 0.57 Ware --------- ---------- ---------- -------- --------- ---------- ---------- --------B Becker B Becker 1,856 0.00 109,548 0.22 --------- ---------- ---------- -------- --------- ---------- ---------- --------H DDY ISA 400 0.00 30,073 0.06Scrimgeour Nominees --------- ---------- ---------- -------- Limited --------- ---------- ---------- --------R Pellow R S 38 0.00 2,274 0.004 Pellow --------- ---------- ---------- -------- 15 April 2005 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange