Result of AGM

RNS Number : 6801D

Witan Investment Trust PLC

28 April 2017

 

WITAN INVESTMENT TRUST PLC

28 APRIL 2017

Annual General Meeting Held On Thursday 27 April 2017

Witan Investment Trust plc ('the Company') hereby gives notification that, at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on Thursday 27 April 2017, all the resolutions, as set out in full in the notice of meeting dated 13 March 2017, 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 £5,001,775.

3. That the Company be authorised to make market purchases of its own ordinary shares up to a maximum of 26,860,811 ordinary shares (being 14.99% of the ordinary shares).

4. That the Company be authorised 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).

5. That any General Meeting of the Company (other than the Annual General Meeting) may be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice.

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]

 

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