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JANUS HENDERSON FUND MANAGEMENT UK LIMITED
HENDERSON EUROTRUST PLC
LEGAL ENTITY IDENTIFIER: 213800DAFFNXRBWOEF12
15 November 2023
HENDERSON EUROTRUST PLC
Annual General Meeting held on
Wednesday 15 November 2023
Henderson EuroTrust plc announces that at the Annual General Meeting held earlier today all resolutions proposed were duly passed on a show of hands, three of which were special resolutions authorising:
· the Directors to allot or to sell from treasury up to 10% of the issued ordinary share capital without first offering them to existing shareholders in accordance with statutory pre-emption procedures;
· the Company to make market purchases of up to 14.99% of the Company's ordinary share capital (excluding treasury shares); and
· the Company to hold general meetings other than an Annual General Meeting on not less than 14 clear days' notice.
The full text of all the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Meeting, copies of which are available for viewing at:
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
The proxy votes received in relation to each resolution were as follows:
|
Resolutions |
Votes for (including at Chairman's discretion) |
% |
Votes against |
% |
Total votes cast (excluding votes withheld) |
Votes withheld |
|
1. Annual Report and audited financial statements |
110,104,828 |
95.89 |
4,720,161 |
4.11 |
114,824,989 |
58,184 |
|
2. Increase in aggregate Director Fees |
114,546,807 |
99.80 |
233,885 |
0.20 |
114,780,692 |
102,481 |
|
3. Directors' Remuneration Policy |
114,671,809 |
99.88 |
141,987 |
0.12 |
114,813,796 |
69,377 |
|
4. Directors' Remuneration Report |
114,674,809 |
99.88 |
139,340 |
0.12 |
114,814,149 |
69,024 |
|
5. Approve a final dividend of 3.0p per share |
114,780,241 |
100.00 |
4,443 |
0.00 |
114,784,684 |
98,489 |
|
6. Elect Stephen White as a Director |
114,697,240 |
99.96 |
42,316 |
0.04 |
114,739,556 |
143,617 |
|
7. Re-elect Nicola Ralston as a Director |
113,224,023 |
98.73 |
1,461,491 |
1.27 |
114,685,514 |
197,659 |
|
8. Re-elect Stephen King as a Director |
113,554,902 |
98.91 |
1,250,612 |
1.09 |
114,805,514 |
77,659 |
|
9. Re-elect Rutger Koopmans as a Director |
113,546,492 |
98.90 |
1,259,022 |
1.10 |
114,805,514 |
77,659 |
|
10. Re-elect Ekaterina Thomson as a Director |
113,490,614 |
98.92 |
1,242,859 |
1.08 |
114,733,473 |
149,700 |
|
11. Re-appoint BDO LLP as statutory auditor |
114,694,052 |
99.97 |
30,823 |
0.03 |
114,724,875 |
158,298 |
|
12. Authorise Directors to determine the remuneration of the statutory auditor |
114,739,336 |
99.99 |
6,745 |
0.01 |
114,746,081 |
137,092 |
|
13. Authority to allot relevant securities |
114,785,191 |
99.98 |
19,688 |
0.02 |
114,804,879 |
78,294 |
|
14. Authority to disapply pre-emption rights * |
114,574,558 |
99.86 |
161,893 |
0.14 |
114,736,451 |
146,722 |
|
15. Authority to repurchase ordinary shares * |
109,808,982 |
95.70 |
4,939,168 |
4.30 |
114,748,150 |
135,023 |
|
16. 14 days' notice for a General Meeting * |
114,537,265 |
99.76 |
274,214 |
0.24 |
114,811,479 |
54,194 |
* special resolution
The number of ordinary shares in issue at the date of this announcement is 212,055,410, of which 200,000 shares are held in treasury. As at the date of this announcement the Company's total voting rights therefore comprises 211,855,410 shares with one vote each.
A copy of the special business resolutions will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism ("NSM") and will shortly be available for inspection on the NSM's website at:
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.
For further information please contact:
Melanie Stoner
For and on behalf of Janus Henderson Secretarial Services UK Limited
Corporate Secretary to Henderson EuroTrust plc
Tel: 020 7818 4082
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