REG - Herald Inv Trust PLC - Result of AGM

Herald Investment TrustAnnouncement

20/04/2021 15:40

RNS Number : 0735W
  
Herald Investment Trust PLC
  
20 April 2021
  
 

HERALD INVESTMENT TRUST PLC 
 
LEI: 213800U7G1ROCTJYRR70

Result of AGM
 
Herald Investment Trust plc (the "Company") is pleased to announce that Resolutions 1 to 2 and 4 to 12 put forward at its Annual General Meeting ("AGM") held earlier today were passed. Every resolution put forward passed with in excess of 96% of votes cast being cast in favour. Resolution 3, being the re-election of Ian Russell who resigned from the Board on 1 March 2021, was retracted prior to the AGM. 
 
As announced on the 26 February 2021, in response to the COVID-19 crisis and UK Government stay at home measures and restrictions on public gatherings, the Annual General Meeting was a closed meeting with shareholders voting in advance by proxy.
 
The text of all the resolutions is contained in the notice of meeting in the Company's Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2020. 
 
The proxy votes received were as follows:
 



Resolution


In favour/ Discretionary**


Against


Withheld




1


To receive and adopt the directors' report, the Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2020.


33,469,579  


99.99%


1,402   


0.01%


82




2


To approve the directors' remuneration report for the year ended 31 December 2020.


33,430,087  


99.90%


34,490   


0.10%


6,486        




3


Retracted


N/A


N/A


N/A


N/A


N/A




4


To re-elect Stephanie Eastment.


33,457,329


99.97%


6,496


0.02%


6,928




5


To re-elect Tom Black.


33,239,433  


99.32%


224,021   


0.67%


7,299        




6


To re-elect Karl Sternberg.


33,177,489  


99.14%


285,965   


0.85%


7,299        




7


To re-elect James Will.


33,456,640  


99.97%


6,814   


0.02%


7,299        




8


To re-elect Henrietta Marsh.


33,457,329  


99.97%


6,496   


0.02%


6,928        




9


To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as independent auditor to the Company.


32,208,957  


96.27%


1,249,138   


3.73%


12,968        




10


To authorise the audit committee to determine the remuneration of the independent auditor.


33,464,607  


99.98%


5,546


0.02%


910




11


To authorise the Company to repurchase its shares.*


33,465,434  


99.99%


1,904


0.01%


3,725




12


That a general meeting be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice.*


33,333,180  


99.59%


136,651


0.41%


1,232



 
*Special resolutions
** Chairman's discretionary votes included
 
On the record date for voting at the meeting, the Company's issued share capital was 65,036,519 ordinary shares, therefore, the total number of ordinary shares with voting rights in the Company was 65,036,519.
 
Copies of all the resolutions passed, other than ordinary business, will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at:  https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
 
20 April 2021
 
Enquiries
 
PraxisIFM Fund Services (UK) Limited
Brian Smith/ Jenny Thompson  02045139266
Company Secretary
 
 

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