Result of AGM

RNS Number : 7422K

Edinburgh Dragon Trust plc

17 December 2018

 

Edinburgh Dragon Trust plc

Results of Annual General Meeting on 17 December 2018

At today's Annual General Meeting all resolutions were passed by shareholders. The proxy votes received in respect of the Annual General Meeting are shown in the following table:

Resolution	Number of Votes For & Discretionary	Number of Votes Against	Number of Votes  Withheld
1.     To receive the reports of the Directors and auditor and the audited financial statements for the year ended 31 August 2018	142,308,960	12,311	36,746
2.     To receive and adopt the Directors' Remuneration Report, excluding the Directors' Remuneration Policy, for the year ended 31 August 2018	142,120,252	178,252	59,513
3.     To approve a final dividend of 4.0p per Ordinary share	142,312,081	10,006	35,930
4.     To re-elect Mr McKenzie as a Director	134,168,226	8,108,097	81,693
5.     To re-elect Ms Langridge as a Director	142,201,765	82,725	73,526
6.     To re-elect Mr Maynard as a Director	142,174,110	103,951	79,956
7.     To re-elect Mr McLaren as a Director	134,462,489	7,819,613	75,915
8.     To re-elect Mr Ricketts as a Director	142,218,814	60,394	78,809
9.     To elect Mr Will as a Director	142,221,187	47,167	89,662
10.   To re-appoint KPMG LLP as auditor of the Company	140,988,250	1,095,529	274,237
11.   To authorise the Directors to fix the remuneration of the auditor for the year to 31 August 2019	142,131,283	77,452	149,282
12.   To continue the Company as an investment trust	141,967,959	362,453	27,605
13.   To authorise the Directors to allot shares	142,232,328	66,432	59,257
14.   To approve the disapplication of pre-emption rights	142,129,665	143,200	85,152
15.   To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares	142,164,294	158,136	35,587
16.   To allow general meetings to be held on not less than 14 days' notice	141,044,881	1,278,909	34,227

The total number of votes cast was 142.3 million.  Resolutions 1 - 13 were ordinary resolutions and Resolutions 14-16 were special resolutions.

A copy of the above proxy results has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM *.  The document is also available for download from the Company's website, www.edinburghdragon.co.uk

*Neither the NSM website nor the Company's website nor the content of any website accessible from hyperlinks on those websites (or any other website) is (or is deemed to be) incorporated into, or forms (or is deemed to form) part of this announcement.

For Edinburgh Dragon Trust plc

Aberdeen Asset Managers Limited, Secretary

 

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