Sports Direct International Plc
26 November 2007
26th November 2007
Sports Direct International PLC ("Sports Direct" or "the Company")
Notice of Extraordinary General Meeting
Sports Direct announces that it is today posting a notice to shareholders
calling an Extraordinary General Meeting ("EGM") of the Company to be held at
11.00am on Wednesday 19 December 2007 at Merrill Lynch International, 2 King
Edward Street, London, EC1A 1HQ.
The EGM has been called to consider a resolution varying the authority of the
Company given at the Annual General Meeting in September to purchase its own
shares. The resolution proposed would increase the number of its own shares that
the Company could purchase from 10% of the issued share capital at the date of
the AGM to a little under 15% of such capital, thus giving the Company authority
to purchase a further 35,999,999 shares.
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For further information contact:
Sports Direct International
Michael Oliver, Company Secretary 0870 333 9400
Financial Dynamics
Jonathon Brill / Ben Foster / Andrew Dowler 020 7831 3113
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