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Edinburgh Investment TrustAnnouncement

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RNS Number : 5595G  Edinburgh Investment Trust PLC  19 July 2023

19 July 2023

 

LEI number: 549300HV0VXCRONER808

The Edinburgh Investment Trust plc

(the "Company")

RESULT OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The Board of The Edinburgh Investment Trust plc (ticker: EDIN), is pleased to
announce that all the resolutions put forward at its Annual General Meeting
held earlier today were passed.

 

The full text of all the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual
General Meeting contained in the Company's Annual Financial Report for the
year ended 31 March 2023. The proxy votes lodged with the Registrar will
shortly be available via the Company's website at:
www.edinburgh-investment-trust.co.uk
(http://www.edinburgh-investment-trust.co.uk)

 

The proxy votes received were as follows:

 

 

 Resolution                                                                      For          % For   Against    % Against  Withheld*
 1. To receive and consider the Annual Financial Report for the year ended 31                 99.98%             0.02%      15,283
 March 2023

                                                                                 47,633,268           8,675
 2. To approve the Annual Statement and Report on                                             99.59%             0.41%      119,752

Remuneration for the year ended 31 March 2023

                                                                                 47,343,454           194,020
 3. To declare a final dividend on the ordinary shares                                        99.93%             0.07%      10,651

                                                                                 47,612,173           34,402
 4. To re-elect Steven Baldwin as a Director of the Company                                   99.83%             0.17%      106,857

                                                                                 47,462,127           81,742
 5. To re-elect Elisabeth Stheeman as a Director of the Company                               99.86%             0.14%      91,772

                                                                                 47,490,647           68,307
 6. To re-elect Patrick Edwardson as a Director of the Company                                99.87%             0.13%      106,857

                                                                                 47,481,033           62,836
 7. To re-elect Aidan Lisser as a Director of the Company                                     99.89%             0.11%      133,065

                                                                                 47,466,784           50,877
 8. To elect Annabel Tagoe-Bannerman as a Director of the Company                             99.83%             0.17%      114,994

                                                                                 47,454,651           81,081
 9. To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors of the Company                       99.72%             0.28%      37,869

                                                                                 47,484,630           131,477
 10. To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the                           47,606,123   99.95%  22,766     0.05%      28,337

remuneration of the auditors
 11. To authorise the Directors to allot shares up to 10% of the issued share    47,483,369   99.69%  149,178    0.31%      18,179
 capital.
 12. Special resolution. To approve disapplication of pre-emption rights,        47,391,396   99.49%  242,831    0.51%      19,749
 subject to passing resolution 11.
 13. Special resolution. To authorise the Company to make market purchases of    44,819,483   94.09%  2,815,125  5.91%      19,368
 its own ordinary shares.
 14. Special resolution. To authorise that the general meetings of the Company,  47,480,550   99.68%  152,991    0.32%      20,435
 other than Annual General Meetings, may be called on 14 clear days' notice.

 

*A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is therefore not counted towards the
proportion of votes "For" or "Against" the resolution.

 

At the time of the above meeting, the Company's issued share capital consisted
of 195,666,734 ordinary shares. The Company held 32,070,209 shares in
treasury.  Therefore, the total number of ordinary shares with voting rights
was 163,596,525. Each ordinary share held entitles the holder to one vote and
there are no restrictions on those voting rights.

 

 

In accordance with LR9.6.2R, copies of all the resolutions passed other than
resolutions concerning ordinary business will be submitted to the National
Storage Mechanism website and will shortly be available for inspection at
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
(https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism)

 

Enquiries

 

Apex Listed Companies Services (UK) Limited (Company Secretary)

 

020 3327 9720

 

 

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