Last checked at 9 Jul 2012 13:10
9 July 2012
CENTAUR MEDIA PLC
Result of General Meeting
Centaur Media plc (LSE:CAU, the "Company") confirms that at the General Meeting of its Shareholders held at 10.00 a.m. today, the Resolution to approve the acquisition of the entire issued share capital of E-consultancy.com Limited (as set out in the notice of General Meeting sent to Shareholders on 22 June 2012) was passed without amendment. The voting results were as detailed below:
Resolution | For | Against | Withheld | |||
Number of votes | % | Number of votes | % | Number of votes | % | |
To approve the terms of the Proposed Acquisition (as such term is defined in the circular to the Company's shareholders dated 22 June 2012) | 112,439,430 | 92.6 | 8,479,953 | 7.0 | 471,699 | 0.4 |
Notes:
1) The "For" vote includes those giving the Chairman discretion.
2) A vote "Withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes "For" or "Against" a resolution.
3) Votes are expressed as a percentage of votes received.
4) Voting was conducted by show of hands.
5) The number of shares in issue as at 6 July 2012 was 141,870,469, excluding 8,337,491 shares held in treasury.
Terms defined in the circular sent to Shareholders on 22 June 2012 have the same meanings in this announcement.
The full text of the Resolution can be found in the Notice of General Meeting contained in the circular dated 22 June 2012, which is available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism (http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM) and also on the Company's website at http://www.centaur.co.uk/.
A copy of the resolution passed will shortly be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.
Enquiries:
Centaur Geoff Wilmot, Chief Executive Mark Kerswell, Finance Director
| +44 (0) 20 7970 4506 |
College Hill (PR adviser to Centaur) Adrian Duffield/Malar Velaigam
| +44 (0) 20 7457 2020 |
Trillium Partners Limited (Financial adviser to Centaur) Stephen Routledge/Andrew Zelouf
| +44 (0) 20 3008 8375 |
Numis Securities Limited (Sponsor and broker to Centaur) Lorna Tilbian/Chris Wilkinson/Nick Westlake
| +44 (0) 20 7260 1000 |
Numis Securities Limited, which is authorised and regulated in the United Kingdom by the Financial Services Authority, is acting as Sponsor and broker to the Company and for no one else in connection with the Proposed Acquisition. Apart from the responsibilities and liabilities, if any, which may be imposed on Numis Securities Limited, by FSMA or the regulatory regimes established thereunder, Numis Securities Limited accepts no responsibilities to anyone other than the Company for providing the protections afforded to its customers or for providing advice in relation to the Proposed Acquisition or any other arrangements referred to herein.