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Henderson Smaller Companies Investment TrustAnnouncement

01/07/2025 16:15

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RNS Number : 2797P  Henderson Smaller Cos Inv Tst PLC  01 July 2025

JANUS HENDERSON FUND MANAGEMENT UK LIMITED

 

THE HENDERSON SMALLER COMPANIES INVESTMENT TRUST PLC

 

LEGAL ENTITY IDENITIFIER: 213800NE2NCQ67M2M998

 

1 July 2025

 

 

THE HENDERSON SMALLER COMPANIES INVESTMENT TRUST PLC

 

General Meeting held on Tuesday, 1 July 2025

 

The Henderson Smaller Companies Investment Trust plc announces that, at the
General Meeting held earlier today, the proposed special resolution was duly
passed on a poll.

 

The special resolution authorises:

 

§      market purchases of the Company's ordinary shares up to a maximum
of 14.99% of the issued ordinary share capital excluding shares held in
Treasury (equivalent to 10,102,879 ordinary shares as at close on 30 June
2025) at the maximum price per share (exclusive of expenses) not exceeding the
higher of: a) 105% of the average middle market quotations for the five
business days preceding the date of purchase; and b) the higher of the last
independent bid and the highest current independent bid on the London Stock
Exchange;

 

§      this authority shall expire at the conclusion of the annual
general meeting, expected to be held in October 2025.

 

The full text of the resolution can be found in the Notice of General Meeting
issued on 6 June 2025, which is available for viewing at:

https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
(https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism) .

 

The poll results will shortly be available on the Company's website at:

www.hendersonsmallercompanies.com (http://www.hendersonsmallercompanies.com)

 

The special business resolutions will be submitted to the National Storage
Mechanism ("NSM") and will shortly be available for inspection on the NSM
website at:

https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
(https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism) .

 

 

The poll results received were as follows:

 

 

Poll Results for the General Meeting held at 10.00 am on Tuesday, 1 July 2025

 

    Special resolution                                                              Number of votes FOR  % of votes FOR  Number of votes AGAINST  % of votes AGAINST  Total votes cast  % of Issued capital  Number of votes withheld
 1  To authorise the directors to repurchase ordinary shares in an amount of up to  24,679,704           99.34%          415,344                  1.66%               25,095,048        37.11%               8,910
    14.99% of the issued share capital excluding Treasury shares.

 

 

 

For the purposes of section 341 of the Companies Act 2006, the votes validly
cast are expressed in the table above as a percentage of the Company's total
voting rights as at close of business on 27 June 2025, being the time at which
a shareholder had to be registered in the register of members to attend and
vote at the AGM. A vote 'withheld' is not a vote in law and has therefore not
been counted as a vote 'for' or 'against' any resolutions. The aggregate
number of ordinary shares in issue at the date of this announcement is
74,385,131, of which 6,987,667 were held in Treasury at close on 30 June 2025.
Each ordinary share carries one vote.

 

 

For further information please contact:

 

Janus Henderson Secretarial Services UK Ltd

Corporate Secretary to The Henderson Smaller Companies Investment Trust plc

Telephone: 020 7818 1818

 

Harriet Hall

PR Director Investment Trusts

Janus Henderson Investors

Tel: 020 7818 2919

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