Brown (N.) Group PLC
21 February 2007
N Brown Group plc
Return of Value
Results of EGM
N Brown Group plc (the 'Company') announces that, at the Extraordinary General
Meeting of the Company held earlier today to approve, among other things, the
Return of Value and Share Capital Consolidation, each of the ordinary and
special resolutions put to Shareholders was duly passed.
Proxy appointments were validly made in respect of 209,084,022 Existing Ordinary
Shares; being 70.66 per cent. of the issued share capital of 295,906,293
Existing Ordinary Shares. All the resolutions were passed at the meeting on a
show of hands, however, a summary of the proxy votes received by the Company
prior to the meeting was as follows:
Resolution Votes for and discretionary Votes against Votes withheld
1. Return of
Value and Share 207,742,335 9,025 1,332,662
Consolidation
2. To authorise the
Directors to allot 207,715,196 8,241 1,360,585
New Ordinary Shares
3. To disapply 207,608,815 12,693 1,462,514
pre-emption rights
The Record Date for the Return of Value and Share Capital Consolidation is 5.00
p.m. on 21 February 2007. The latest time and date for dealings in Existing
Ordinary Shares is also 5.00 p.m. on 21 February 2007.
Notes:
All definitions used in the Circular to Shareholders dated 25 January 2007 apply
to this announcement.
Two copies of all the resolutions passed by the Company other than resolutions
concerning ordinary business have been submitted to the UK Listing Authority,
and will shortly be available for inspection at the UK Listing Authority's
Document Viewing Facility, which is situated at:
Financial Services Authority
25 The North Colonnade
Canary Wharf
London
E14 5HS
Tel: 0207 066 1000
Enquiries:
N Brown Group plc: 0161 238 2202
Alan White, CEO
Dean Moore, CFO
Credit Suisse: 020 7888 8888
John Hannaford
Gavin Anderson: 020 7554 1400
Fergus Wylie
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