Result of AGM

RNS Number : 1512J

Edinburgh Dragon Trust plc

15 December 2015

 

Edinburgh Dragon Trust plc

Annual General Meeting on 15 December 2015

Results of Resolutions at Annual General Meeting

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:

	For (inc discretionary)	Against	Abstain
1     Approval of 2015 annual report	106,548,147	15,707	21,557
2     Approval of Directors' remuneration report	106,219,787	305,294	60,331
3     Approval of final dividend of 3.0p per share	106,567,778	1,639	15,994
4     Re-election of Mr McKenzie	106,400,539	137,382	47,490
5     Re-election of Mrs Langridge	106,404,917	113,120	67,374
6     Re-election of Mr Maynard	106,398,343	131,014	56,054
7     Re-election of Mr McLaren	106,330,463	191,215	63,734
8     Re-appointment of KPMG LLP	106,326,882	230,297	28,232
9     Auditors' remuneration	106,471,483	83,958	29,970
10    Continuation as an investment trust	91,133,579	283,194	15,168,638
11    Section 551 Authority	106,463,887	90,915	30,609
12    Disapplication of pre-emption rights	106,320,113	159,653	105,646
13    Share buyback authority	106,509,082	31,010	45,319
14    Allow notice period of 14 days	104,093,997	2,478,458	12,956

The total number of votes cast was 106.6 million.  Resolutions 1 - 11 were ordinary resolutions and Resolutions 12-14 were special resolutions.

As previously announced Tony Lowrie retired from the Board at the conclusion of the AGM.

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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