Ascential PLC Results of General Meeting
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Ascential PLC
22 April 2024
Ascential
plc
Results of General
Meeting
Ascential plc ("Ascential") is pleased to announce the
results of voting on the resolutions at its general meeting held at
1:00 p.m. (U.K. time) today (the "General Meeting").
On 4 April 2024, Ascential published
a shareholder circular (including the notice of the General
Meeting) (the "Circular"),
announcing the details of the proposed return of value of £850
million to shareholders through:
●
a tender offer to acquire up to £300 million of
Ascential's shares (the "Tender
Offer");
●
a special dividend of at least £450 million (the
"Special Dividend");
and
●
on-market share buyback programmes to acquire £100
million of Ascential's shares.
The General Meeting was held to
invite shareholders to consider the resolutions in connection with
the Tender Offer and a consolidation and division of Ascential's
issued share capital to accompany the Special Dividend (the
"Share Consolidation"), as
described in the Circular.
Ascential is pleased to announce
that both the special resolution to approve the Tender Offer and
the ordinary resolution to approve the Share Consolidation were
duly passed by the requisite majority of Ascential's shareholders.
The results of the votes are shown in the table below and will also
be available on Ascential's website.
Resolution
|
Votes For
|
Votes Against
|
Total Votes Cast
(Excluding votes
withheld)
|
Votes withheld
|
|
Number of shares
|
%
|
Number of shares
|
%
|
Number of shares
|
%
of relevant shares in issue
|
Number of shares
|
To approve the Tender
Offer
|
253,338,869
|
98.55
|
3,722,170
|
1.45
|
257,061,039
|
57.67%
|
2,696
|
To approve the Share
Consolidation
|
257,055,292
|
100.00
|
5,746
|
0.00
|
257,061,038
|
57.67%
|
2,697
|
The total voting rights of Ascential
as at 6:30 p.m. (U.K. time) on 18 April 2024, the time by which
shareholders wanting to attend, speak and vote at the General
Meeting were required to be entered on Ascential's register of
members, was 445,765,527 ordinary shares of 1 pence each. Ascential
does not hold any shares in treasury.
Any vote that gave the Chairman
discretion has been included in the 'For' votes. A vote withheld is
not a vote in law and is not counted towards the votes cast 'For'
or 'Against' a resolution.
In accordance with Listing Rule
9.6.2R, a copy of the resolutions will shortly be available for
inspection at the National Storage Mechanism document viewing
facility at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.
Contact Information
Ascential plc
Philip Thomas
Mandy Gradden
Rory Elliott
|
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Investor Relations
Director
|
+44 (0)20 7516 5000
|
Media enquiries
Matt Dixon
Jamie Ricketts
Edward Bridges
|
FTI Consulting LLP
|
+44 (0)20 3727 1000
|
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