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RNS Number : 4430B Distil PLC 30 September 2025
Distil plc
Annual General Meeting
Result of Annual General Meeting
Distil plc (AIM:DIS), announces that at the Company's Annual General Meeting
held earlier today, all resolutions put to the meeting were duly passed by
shareholders on a poll. The valid number of votes cast for and against each of
the resolutions proposed, and the number of votes withheld were as follows:
Resolution Votes for† % Votes against % Votes withheld
Resolution 1 (Ordinary)
That Adebola Adebo be elected as a Director of the Company. 535,847,759 99.5 2,729,988 0.5 162,264
Resolution 2 (Ordinary)
That Sarah Kingsbury be elected as a Director of the Company. 538,008,174 99.9 594,573 0.1 137,264
Resolution 3 (Ordinary)
That Don Goulding be re-elected as a Director of the Company 511,057,512 94.9 27,547,735 5.1 134,764
Resolution 4 (Ordinary)
That Shaun Claydon be re-elected as a Director of the Company 538,026,043 99.9 579,204 0.1 134,764
Resolution 5 (Ordinary)
To authorise the Directors to allot relevant securities. 508,206,753 94.6 28,765,679 5.4 1,767,579
Resolution 6 (Special)
To empower the Directors to allot equity securities for cash otherwise than 454,810,034 84.4 83,792,713 15.6 137,264
on a pre-emptive basis.
†Proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Chairman have been included
in the "for" total.
The Company is pleased to confirm that, as announced on 15 September 2025,
following Shareholders' approval for Resolutions 5 and 6 enabling the issue of
the Second Tranche Placing Shares, together with the First Tranche Placing
which completed on 18 September 2025, the Company has raised total gross
proceeds of £755,000.
Admission and Total Voting Rights
Application has been made to the London Stock Exchange for admission of the
290,163,230 Second Tranche Placing Shares to trading on AIM.
It is expected that admission will become effective and dealings in the Second
Tranche Placing Shares will commence on AIM at 8.00 a.m. on or around 2
October 2025. The Second Tranche Placing Shares have been issued fully paid
and will rank pari passu in all respects with the Company's existing Ordinary
Shares. Following Admission, the total number of Ordinary Shares in the
capital of the Company in issue will be 2,033,578,384 with voting rights. This
figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by
which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or
a change to their interest in, the Company's issued share capital pursuant to
the Company's Articles.
In addition, following Admission 580,769,230 Placing Warrants will be
issued.
Capitalised terms used in this announcement shall, unless defined in this
announcement or unless the context provides otherwise, bear the same meaning
ascribed to such terms in the Announcement made by the Company at 0700 on 15
September 2025.
For further information:
Distil PLC
Don Goulding, Executive Chairman Tel: +44 203 283 4006
SPARK Advisory Partners Limited
(NOMAD)
Neil Baldwin Tel: +44 203 368 3550
Mark Brady
Allenby Capital Ltd
(Broker)
James Reeve/Piers Shimwell Tel: +44 (0)20 3328 5656
Jos Pinnington/Matt Butlin
About Distil
Distil Plc is quoted on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange. It owns
drinks brands in a number of sectors of the alcoholic drinks market. These
include premium spiced rum, vodka, and gin and are called RedLeg Spiced Rum.
Blackwoods Vintage Gin, Blackwoods Vodka, TRØVE Botanical Vodkas, Blavod
Original Black Vodka and Diva Vodka
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