Result of AGM

Eden Research plc

27 June 2024

 

27 June 2024

Eden Research

("Eden" or "the Company")

Result of Annual General Meeting

Eden Research plc (AIM: EDEN), the AIM-quoted company focused on sustainable biopesticides and plastic-free formulation technologies for use in the global crop protection, animal health and consumer products industries, is pleased to announce that all resolutions put forward to shareholders at the Company's Annual General Meeting held earlier today were duly passed.

The total number of votes received by proxy on each resolution, as more fully disclosed in the Notice of Meeting available on the Company's website, was as follows:

#	Resolution	For	%	Against	%	Withheld
1	To lay the 2023 Annual Report	230,082,724	93.89	14,978,000	6.11	14,818,795
2	Re-appoint auditors	259,337,444	99.87	332,075	0.13	210,000
3	Elect Derek McAllan	259,473,982	99.99	11,691	0.01	393,846
4	Re-elect Sean Smith	259,469,698	99.94	154,821	0.06	255,000
5	Grant authority to the Directors to allot Ordinary Shares	252,687,622	97.32	6,962,053	2.68	229,844
6	Disapply statutory pre-emption rights on allotment of shares*	259,377,414	99.93	193,415	0.07	308,690

Notes:

·    * denotes Special Resolution.

·    A vote Withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes cast For or Against the resolution, nor in the calculation of the percentage of issued share capital voted for any resolution.

·    Votes For and Against are expressed as a percentage of votes validly cast for that resolution by proxy, excluding any Withheld votes.

For further information contact:

Eden Research plc
Sean Smith Alex Abrey	www.edenresearch.com 01285 359 555
Cavendish Capital Markets Limited (Nominated advisor and broker)
Giles Balleny / George Lawson (corporate finance) Charlie Combe (corporate broking) Michael Johnson (sales)	020 7220 0500
Hawthorn Advisors (Financial PR)
Victoria Ainsworth	[e-mail]

Notes to Editors:

Eden Research is the only UK-listed company focused on biopesticides for sustainable agriculture. It develops and supplies innovative biopesticide products and natural microencapsulation technologies to the global crop protection, animal health and consumer products industries.

Eden's products are formulated with terpene active ingredients, based on natural plant defence metabolites. To date, they have been primarily used on high-value fruits and vegetables, improving crop yields and marketability, with equal or better performance when compared with conventional pesticides. Eden has three products currently on the market:

Based on plant-derived active ingredients, Mevalone® is a foliar biofungicide which initially targets a key disease affecting grapes and other high-value fruit and vegetable crops.  It is a useful tool in crop defence programmes and is aligned with the requirements of integrated pest management programmes. It is approved for sale in a number of key countries whilst Eden and its partners pursue regulatory clearance in new territories thereby growing Eden's addressable market globally.

Cedroz™ is a bionematicide that targets free living nematodes which are parasitic worms that affect a wide range of high-value fruit and vegetable crops globally.  Cedroz is registered for sale on two continents and Eden's commercial collaborator, Eastman Chemical, is pursuing registration and commercialisation of this important new product in numerous countries globally.

Eden's seed treatment product, Ecovelex was developed to safely tackle crop destruction caused by birds - a major cause of losses in maize and other crops. Ecovelex works by creating an unpleasant taste or odour that repels birds, leaving the seeds safely intact and the birds unaffected and free to find alternative food sources. The product is based on Eden's plant-derived chemistry, registered in the EU, U.S. and elsewhere, and formulated using Eden's Sustaine® microencapsulation system.

Eden's Sustaine^® encapsulation technology is used to harness the biocidal efficacy of naturally occurring chemicals produced by plants (terpenes) and can also be used with both natural and synthetic compounds to enhance their performance and ease-of-use. Sustaine microcapsules are naturally-derived, plastic-free, biodegradable micro-spheres derived from yeast. It is one of the only viable, proven and immediately registerable solutions to the microplastics problem in formulations requiring encapsulation.

Eden was admitted to trading on AIM on 11 May 2012 and trades under the symbol EDEN. It was awarded the London Stock Exchange Green Economy Mark in January 2021, which recognises London-listed companies that derive over 50% of their total annual revenue from products and services that contribute to the global green economy. Eden derives 100% of its total annual revenues from sustainable products and services.

For more information about Eden, please visit:  www.edenresearch.com.

 

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