Results of General Meeting

Baillie Gifford Japan Trust PLC

17 June 2026

 

17 June 2026

THE BAILLIE GIFFORD JAPAN TRUST PLC

(THE "COMPANY" OR "BGFD")

Results of General Meeting

Following the general meeting of the Company (the "General Meeting"), which was held earlier today, the Board is pleased to announce that the resolution set out in the notice of the General Meeting (the "Resolution") was duly passed on a poll as a special resolution.

Immediately prior to the passing of the Resolution, the Company's issued share capital comprised 94,328,209 ordinary shares of 5 pence each in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares"), of which 27,021,769 Ordinary Shares were held in treasury. Accordingly, the Company was granted the authority to repurchase up to 10,089,235 Ordinary Shares pursuant to the terms of the Resolution.

Details of the number of votes cast for, against and withheld in respect of the Resolution are set out in the table below and will also be published on the Company's website (www.japantrustplc.co.uk).

Resolution		Votes For (including discretionary)		Votes Against		Total Votes		Votes withheld(3)
		Number	% of Ordinary Shares voted(2)	Number	% of Ordinary Shares voted(2)	Number	% of issued Ordinary Share capital voted(2)
To authorise the Company to purchase Ordinary Shares.		42,324,334	99.91	36,126	0.09	42,360,460	62.88	1,884
Notes:
1.	Each holder of Ordinary Shares present at the General Meeting, in person or by proxy, was entitled to one vote per Ordinary Share held at the voting record date, being 6.00 p.m. on 15 June 2026 (the "Record Date"). At the Record Date, the Company's issued Ordinary Share capital comprised 94,328,209 Ordinary Shares, of which 27,021,769 Ordinary Shares were held in treasury. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company at the Record Date was 67,306,440.
2.	Rounded to two decimal places
3.	A "Vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the percentage of Ordinary Shares voted "For" or "Against" the Resolution or in the calculation of the proportion of issued Ordinary Share capital voted.

A copy of the notice of the General Meeting is available for viewing at the National Storage Mechanism (https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism) and on the Company's website (www.japantrustplc.co.uk).

A copy of the Resolution passed at the General Meeting will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

For further information please contact:

The Baillie Gifford Japan Trust PLC Sam Davis	Contact via Company Secretary
Investec Bank plc (Company Broker to The Baillie Gifford Japan Trust PLC) David Yovichic and Helen Goldsmith	[phone]
Baillie Gifford & Co Limited (Alternative Investment Fund Manager and Company Secretary) Naomi Cherry	[phone]

Notes

BGFD's Legal Entity Identifier: 54930037AGTKN765Y741

 

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