Result of Annual General Meeting

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Tufton Assets Limited announced the results of its Annual General Meeting held on 21 October 2026, where all eleven resolutions, including the approval of the annual report and financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2026, the re-appointment of auditors, director remuneration, and dividend policy, were passed by a significant majority of shareholders representing 65.14% of the issued share capital. Notably, resolutions concerning the receipt of the annual report and the dividend policy received unanimous support, with 100% of votes cast in favour. The re-election of four directors and the authority to make acquisitions of the company's own shares also passed with over 99.9% of votes in favour.

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Tufton Assets Limited
21 October 2026
 

21 October 2026

 

Tufton Assets Limited

(the "Company")

 

Result of Annual General Meeting

 

The Company announces the results of its Annual General Meeting ("AGM") held at 09.00 a.m. on
21 October 2026. Resolutions 1-11 inclusive were duly passed by way of a poll.

 

The full results of the AGM were as follows:

 

ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS

FOR

AGAINST

TOTAL VOTES

% OF ISSUED SHARE CAPITAL VOTED

VOTES WITHHELD*

Votes

%

Votes

%

1.   To receive the Company's Annual Report and Audited Financial Statements for the year ended 30 June 2026.

 

174,178,053

100.00

5,000

0.00

174,183,053

65.14%

20,259

2.   To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers CI LLP as auditor to the Company until the conclusion of the next general meeting at which accounts are laid before the Company.

 

174,075,990

99.95

79,911

0.05

174,155,901

65.13%

47,411

3.   To authorise the Directors to determine the remuneration of the auditor.

 

174,121,835

99.98

29,583

0.02

174,151,418

65.13%

51,894

4.   To approve the remuneration of the Directors for the year ended 30 June 2026, as set out in the Directors' Report.

 

174,010,975

99.95

86,775

0.05

174,097,750

65.11%

105,562

5.   To re-elect Mr Robert King as a Director who retires by rotation in accordance with Article 21.3 of the Articles.

 

174,145,494

99.99

14,492

0.01

174,159,986

65.13%

43,326

6.   To re-elect Mr Paul Barnes as a Director who retires by rotation in accordance with Article 21.3 of the Articles.

 

174,096,706

99.96

63,280

0.04

174,159,986

65.13%

43,326

7.    To re-elect Ms Christine Rødsæther as a Director who retires by rotation in accordance with Article 21.3 of the Articles.

 

174,062,296

99.94

97,690

0.06

174,159,986

65.13%

43,326

8.   To re-elect Ms Trina Le Noury as a Director who retires by rotation in accordance with Article 21.3 of the Articles.

 

174,062,296

99.94

97,690

0.06

174,159,986

65.13%

43,326

9.  Authority to make acquisitions of the Company's own shares.

 

174,118,928

99.96

64,125

0.04

174,183,053

65.14%

20,259

10. To approve the Company's dividend policy.

 

174,178,053

100.00

5,000

0.00

174,183,053

65.14%

20,259

EXTRAORDINARY RESOLUTION


11.  Authority to allot and issue shares and to sell shares held in treasury as if the pre-emption rights in the Articles do not apply.

 

173,904,672

99.97

223,869

0.13

174,128,541

65.12%

74,771

 

 

*A 'vote withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted towards the proportion of votes 'for' and 'against' a resolution.

 

As at the date of the AGM, the number of ordinary shares in issue, and therefore the total number of voting rights was 267,406,330.

 

A copy of the full text of Extraordinary Resolution 11 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:

 

Tufton Investment Management Ltd (Investment Manager)

Nicolas Tirogalas

Nikos Petrakakos

 

c/o H/Advisors

Singer Capital Markets

James Maxwell, Alex Bond (Corporate Finance)

Alan Geeves, Sam Greatrex (Sales)

 

+44 (0)20 7496 3000

Hudnall Capital LLP

Andrew Cade

 

+44 (0)20 7520 9085

H/Advisors

William Clutterbuck

Billy Moran

tufton@h-advisors.global

+44 (0) 77 8529 2617

+44 (0) 75 5491 2008

 

About the Company

Tufton Assets Limited, (LSE:SHIP) invests in a diversified portfolio of second-hand commercial sea-going vessels with the objective of delivering strong cash flow and capital gains to investors. The Company raised a total of approximately $316.5 million through its 20 December 2017 Initial Public Offering on the Specialist Fund Segment of the London Stock Exchange and via subsequent capital raises, and the Company has returned US$205.1 million to investors over the same period of time.

 

The Company's investment manager is Tufton Investment Management Ltd, a leading investment manager focused on the shipping and offshore industries, with more than $1.5 billion of mandated assets under management across several private and listed funds.

 

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