REG-Fidelity European Trust Plc: Correction - Result of General Meeting

Fidelity European TrustAnnouncement

Mon 14:15

This announcement replaces the “Result of General Meeting” announcement
released 13:15:00 on 15 September 2025. The original announcement contained an
incorrect percentage of votes “for” the resolution, this has been
corrected to 99.88%. The updated announcement is provided below in full.

 

FIDELITY EUROPEAN TRUST PLC

15 September 2025

 

Fidelity European Trust PLC

Legal Entity Identifier: 549300UC0QPP7Y0W8056

Result of General Meeting

The Board of Fidelity European Trust PLC (the "Company") is pleased to
announce that the ordinary resolution relating to the issue of New Shares in
connection with the proposed combination of the assets of the Company with the
assets of Henderson European Trust plc ("HET") was approved by the Company's
shareholders at the general meeting of the Company held today.

 

The implementation of the proposals remains conditional upon, amongst other
things, the passing of the resolution to be proposed at the Second HET General
Meeting to be held on Friday, 26 September 2025.

 

Details of the number of votes cast for, against and withheld in respect of
the resolution, which was voted on by way of poll, are set out below and will
also be published on the Company's website:  www.fidelity.co.uk/Europe. 

 

 Resolution                                                   Votes For (including discretionary)     Votes Against     Total Votes                               Votes Withheld ***  
                                                              Number              %*                  Number   %*       Number       % of issued Share capital**  Number              
 Authority to allot New Shares in connection with the Issue.  164,421,986         99.88               198,741  0.12     164,620,727  40.81                        264,118             

 

* Rounded to two decimal places. 
** Excludes Shares held in treasury. The number of Shares in issue as at the
voting record time of 6.00 p.m. (London time) on 11 September 2025 (the
"Voting Record Time") was 416,447,910, of which 13,017,387 Shares were held in
treasury. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company as at
the Voting Record Time, and therefore for the purposes of the General Meeting,
was 403,430,523.

*** A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation
of the proportion of votes "for" or "against" the Resolution.

 

 

The full text of the resolution can be found in the notice of General Meeting
contained in the Company’s circular to Shareholders dated 21 August 2025
(the "Circular"). The Circular is available for viewing at the National
Storage Mechanism which can be located at
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism and on the Company's
website at www.fidelity.co.uk/Europe.

 

In accordance with UK Listing Rule 6.4.2, a copy of the resolution will be
submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for
viewing at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

Defined terms used in this announcement have the meanings given in the
Circular unless the context otherwise requires.

 For further information please contact:                                          
 FIL Investment Services (UK) Limited                        +44 (0)800 700 000   
 Claire Dwyer                                                                     
 Daniel Summerland Dominic Newman                                                 
 Dickson Minto Advisers LLP (Sponsor and Financial Adviser)  +44 (0)20 7649 6823  
 Douglas Armstrong Andrew Clark Jamie Seedhouse                                   

 



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