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Centaur Media PLC
25 July 2017
 

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

 

 

 

 


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