Result of General Meeting

RNS Number : 2694Z

Edinburgh Dragon Trust plc

11 January 2011

 



11 January 2011

EDINBURGH DRAGON TRUST PLC

Result of General Meeting and Issue of CULS

The resolution proposed at the General Meeting held today of Edinburgh Dragon Trust plc (the "Company") to approve the issue of £50 million nominal of 3.5 per cent. convertible unsecured loan stock 2018 ("CULS") was passed.

The proxy votes received in respect of the resolution at the General Meeting are shown in the following table:

	For (inc discretionary)	Against	Abstain
Authority to allot shares	85,937,568	20,030,930	6,330,344

Accordingly £50 million nominal of CULS has been issued, subject to admission to the standard debt segment of the Official List and to trading on the London Stock Exchange's main market for listed securities. Admission is expected to take place, and dealings are expected to commence, at 8.00 a.m. on Wednesday 12 January 2011.

Enquiries:

James Moseley/Robin Archibald, Winterflood Securities 020 3100 0250/0290

William Hemmings/Ian Massie, Aberdeen Asset Managers Limited 020 7463 6223/0131 528 4123

Tom Eckersley/Rowan Brown, Maitland 020 7379 5151

The resolution that was passed at the General Meeting will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do.

A summary of proxy votes received will be available on the Company's website at, www.edinburghdragon.co.uk 

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