Result of AGM

RNS Number : 9428L

Witan Investment Trust PLC

30 April 2015

 



WITAN INVESTMENT TRUST PLC

30 APRIL 2015

Annual General Meeting Held On Thursday 30 April 2015

Witan Investment Trust plc ('the Company') hereby gives notification that, at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on Thursday 30 April 2015, all the resolutions, as set out in full in the notice of meeting dated 18 March 2015, were duly passed.  The resolutions in respect of special business were duly passed as follows:

1. That the Directors be authorised to allot relevant securities.

2. That the Directors be authorised to disapply pre-emption rights on the allotment or sale from treasury of equity securities up to a nominal amount of £4,800,275.

3. To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own ordinary shares up to a maximum of 28,437,678 ordinary shares (being 14.99% of the ordinary shares).

4. To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own preference shares up to a maximum of 2,055,000 of the 3.4% cumulative preferences shares and 500,000 of the 2.7 cumulative preference shares (being 100% of the preference shares in issue).

A copy of the full text of the resolutions in respect of special business passed at the Annual General Meeting has been lodged with the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for viewing at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do.

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For further information please contact:

Andrew Bell

Chief Executive Officer

Witan Investment Trust plc

Telephone:  [phone]

Jason Nisse/Willa Malcolm

Newgate Communications

Telephone: [phone]

Email: [e-mail]

 

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