Result of General Meetings

RNS Number : 0876X
HSS Hire Group PLC
07 August 2018
 

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7 August 2018

HSS Hire Group plc ("HSS" or the "Company") 

Result of General Meetings

The Company is pleased to announce that at the General Meeting held today at 11:00 a.m. the ordinary resolution to approve the conditional agreement with Nationwide Platforms Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Loxam Group, with respect to the sale of UK Platforms Limited for a total Enterprise Value of £60.5 million, was duly passed on a poll. The results of the poll are as follows:

Ordinary resolution

Votes
for

% Votes for 1

Votes
against

% Votes against 1

Total votes validly cast

% of Issued share capital voted 1,2,3

Votes withheld 2

Resolution:

The Disposal be and is hereby approved

132,561,676

100.00

4,249

0.00

132,565,925

77.89

1,998

 

In addition, at the separate General Meeting held today at 11:30 a.m. the ordinary resolution to approve the proposed amendments to the Company's Long Term Incentive Plan and consequential amendments to the Company's other share plans, was also duly passed on a poll. The results of the poll are as follows:

Ordinary resolution

Votes
for

% Votes for 1

Votes
against

% Votes against 1

Total votes validly cast

% of Issued share capital voted 1,2,3

Votes withheld 2

Resolution:

The Share Plans and related awards be and are hereby approved

132,513,743

99.98

24,951

0.02

132,538,694

77.87

5,736

 

Notes:

1.     The percentages above are rounded to two decimal places.

2.     A "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes "for" or "against" a resolution.

3.     The number of ordinary shares in issue on 7 August 2018 was 170,207,142. Shareholders are entitled to one vote per share.

 

For further information please contact:

HSS Hire Group plc

Tel: 020 3757 9248

Steve Ashmore, CEO

Email: Investors@hss.com

Paul Quested, Chief Financial Officer


Jonathan Edwards, Investor Relations Manager




Numis Securities (Sponsor and Financial Adviser)

Tel: 020 7260 1000

Stuart Skinner


Stuart Ord


Freddie Naylor-Leyland




Teneo Blue Rubicon (Public Relations Adviser)

Tel: 020 3757 9248

Robert Morgan


Shona Buchanan


 


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