HENDERSON GLOBAL INVESTORS
THE HENDERSON SMALLER COMPANIES INVESTMENT TRUST PLC
24 September 2010
THE HENDERSON SMALLER COMPANIES INVESTMENT TRUST PLC
Annual General Meeting held on 24 September 2010
The Henderson Smaller Companies Investment Trust plc announces that, at the Annual General Meeting held earlier today, all the resolutions put to the meeting were duly passed. The resolutions that were passed included three special resolutions, one of which gives authority to the Company to make market purchases of its own ordinary shares up to a maximum of 14.99% of the issued share capital (equivalent to 11,228,528 ordinary shares as at 24 September 2010). Copies of the new Articles of Association will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection at: www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do. As previously announced, Mrs S M Davis retired from the Board at the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting.
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For further information please contact:
Neil Hermon
Fund Manager
The Henderson Smaller Companies Investment Trust plc
Telephone: 020 7818 4351
or
James de Sausmarez
Head of Investment Trusts
Henderson Global Investors
Telephone: 020 7818 3349