Result of AGM

RNS Number : 7652Z

Odyssean Investment Trust PLC

22 September 2020

 

ODYSSEAN INVESTMENT TRUST PLC

(THE "Company")

Results of the Annual General Meeting held on Tuesday, 22 September 2020

The Board is pleased to announce that at the Annual General Meeting held today, all resolutions as detailed below were duly passed by shareholders on a show of hands. The proxy voting figures are shown below:

Resolutions	Votes For	%	Votes Against	%	Total Votes Cast	Votes Withheld
Ordinary Resolutions
1.  To receive and accept the Strategic Report, Report of the Directors, Auditor's Report and the audited financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2020.	39,729,786	100.0	0	0.00	39,729,786	999
2.  To receive and approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 March 2020.	39,725,249	100.00	999	0.00	39,726,248	4,537
3.  To re-elect Jane Tufnell as a Director of the Company.	39,729,786	100.00	0	0.00	39,729,786	999
4.  To re-elect Arabella Cecil as a Director of the Company.	39,729,786	100.00	0	0.00	39.729,786	999
5.  To re-elect Peter Hewitt as a Director of the Company.	39,729,786	100.00	0	0.00	39,729,786	999
6.  To re-elect Richard King as a Director of the Company.	39,729,786	100.00	0	0.00	39,729,786	999
7.  To re-appoint KPMG LLP as Auditor of the Company.	39,727,749	100.00	999	0.00	39,728,748	2,037
8.  To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the Auditor's remuneration.	39,727,749	100.00	999	0.00	39,728,748	2,037
SPECIAL BUSINESS
9.  To authorise the Directors to allot 10% of ordinary shares in issue.	39,725,786	99.99	4,999	0.01	39,730,785	0
10.  To authorise the Directors to allot a further 10% of ordinary shares in issue.	39,722,786	99.98	7,999	0.02	39,730,785	0
Special Resolutions
11.  To authorise the Directors to dis-apply pre-emption rights in respect of up to 10% of ordinary shares in issue.	39,722,786	99.98	7,999	0.02	39,730,785	0
12.  To authorise the Directors to dis-apply pre-emption rights in respect of up to a further 10% of ordinary shares in issue.	35,588,737	89.57	4,142,048	10.43	39,730,785	0
13.  To authorise the Company to re-purchase shares in the market.	39,727,785	99.99	3,000	0.01	39,730,785	0
14.  To authorise the Directors to call general meetings (other than the AGM) on not less than 14 clear days' notice.	39,704,286	99.94	23,999	0.06	39,728,285	2,500

Any proxy votes which are at the discretion of the Chairman have been included in the "for" total.  A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculations of votes cast by proxy. 

At the date of the Annual General Meeting, the total number of Ordinary shares of 1p each in issue was 88,257,211 - with 275,000 shares held in Treasury. Therefore, the total number of voting rights was 87,982,211.

The proxy voting figures will shortly also be available on the Company's website at www.oitplc.com

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, the full text of the special business resolutions passed have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism . The special business resolutions will additionally be filed at Companies House.

22 September 2020

For further information contact:

Kerstin Rucht, Frostrow Capital LLP 

Company Secretary, 020 3709 8732

 

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