InterContinental Hotels Group PLC
01 June 2006
1 June 2006
INTERCONTINENTAL HOTELS GROUP PLC ANNOUNCES RESULTS OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL
MEETING
InterContinental Hotels Group PLC ("the Company") announces that at the EGM held
today, Shareholders approved the Resolutions connected with the Company's
proposed Share Consolidation and the renewal of the Company's authority to
enable the Company to continue to make market purchases of its Ordinary Shares
following the Share Consolidation.
The Share Consolidation was proposed in the context of a special interim
dividend of 118 pence per share, payable on the Company's Existing Ordinary
Shares immediately prior to the Share Consolidation. The expected timetable
remains as previously announced. The Special Dividend is expected to be paid on
22 June 2006 to Shareholders on the Register on 9 June 2006.
Application will be made in due course to the Financial Services Authority for
the admittance to the Official List of the New Ordinary Shares arising from the
Share Consolidation and to The London Stock Exchange for the New Ordinary Shares
to be admitted to trading on the main market. It is expected that admission
will take place and trading of the New Ordinary Shares will commence on 12 June
2006.
Voting was conducted by way of a poll on both the Resolutions proposed at the
EGM. Details of the votes cast are set out below.
Ordinary Resolution to approve the Share Consolidation
For: 245,505,756
Against: 366,639
Special Resolution to grant a new authority to make market purchases of New
Ordinary Shares
For: 245,466,573
Against: 334,429
All definitions used in the Circular to Shareholders dated 5 May 2006 have the
same meaning when used in this announcement.
For further information, please contact
InterContinental Hotels Group
Media Enquiries
Leslie McGibbon +44 (0)1753 410 425
+44 (0) 7808 094 471
Investor Relations
Gavin Flynn, Paul Edgecliffe-Johnson +44 (0) 1753 410 176
+44 (0) 7808 098 972
InterContinental Hotels Group PLC of the United Kingdom (LON:IHG, NYSE:IHG
(ADRs)) is the world's largest hotel group by number of rooms. InterContinental
Hotels Group owns, manages, leases or franchises, through various subsidiaries,
over 3,600 hotels and 537,500 guest rooms in nearly 100 countries and
territories around the world. The Group owns a portfolio of well recognised and
respected hotel brands including InterContinental(R) Hotels & Resorts, Crowne
Plaza(R) Hotels & Resorts, Holiday Inn(R) Hotels and Resorts, Holiday Inn
Express(R), Staybridge Suites(R), Candlewood Suites(R) and Hotel IndigoTM, and
also manages the world's largest hotel loyalty programme, Priority Club(R)
Rewards.
InterContinental Hotels Group offers information and online reservations for all
its hotel brands at www.ichotelsgroup.com and information for the Priority Club
Rewards programme at www.priorityclub.com.
For the latest news from InterContinental Hotels Group, visit our online Press
Office at www.ihgplc.com/media.
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