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5 April 2012
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WALKER CRIPS GROUP PLC
("Walker Crips" or the "Company")
Result of General Meeting
Further to the announcement made on 13 March 2012, Walker Crips Group plc, the financial services group, is pleased to announce that the ordinary resolution proposed at the General Meeting held earlier today to approve the Disposal of Walker Crips Asset Managers Limited, its wholly-owned fund management subsidiary, was duly passed.
Completion of the Disposal remains subject to, inter alia, approval from the FSA of a change in controller of WCAM. A further announcement will be made in due course.
A breakdown of the proxy votes lodged 48 hours prior to the General Meeting is set out below:
For | Against | Votes Withheld* | Proxy's Discretion | Total (excluding votes withheld) | |
Total number of proxy votes exercisable by all proxies validly appointed: | 23,161,653 | 307,164 | Nil | 47,682 | 23,516,499 |
* A 'vote withheld' is not a vote in law. These were not calculated in the proportion of the votes 'For' or 'Against' the Resolution.
Proxy voting figures for the General Meeting are also available on the Company's website www.wcgplc.co.uk.
The full text of the Resolution has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do.
For further information please contact:
Rodney FitzGerald, CEO | Walker Crips Group plc www.wcgplc.co.uk | +44 (0) 20 3100 8000 |
Gordon NeillyRishi Zaveri | Canaccord Genuity Limited www.canaccordgenuity.com | +44 (0) 20 7050 6778+44 (0) 20 7050 6780 |
Media enquiries:
Geri Jacks | Walker Crips Group plcwww.wcgplc.co.uk | +44 (0) 20 3100 8000 |
Notes:
Unless the context otherwise requires, defined terms used in this announcement shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Company's circular to Shareholders dated 13 March 2012.
Canaccord Genuity Limited, which is authorised and regulated in the United Kingdom by the Financial Services Authority, is acting as sponsor and financial adviser exclusively for the Company in connection with the Disposal. Canaccord Genuity Limited is not acting for any other person and will not be responsible to any other person for providing the protections afforded to clients of Canaccord Genuity Limited or for advising any other person in connection with the Disposal.
Neither the contents of the Company's website nor the contents of any website accessible from hyperlinks on the Company's website (or any other website) is incorporated into, or forms part of, this announcement.