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RNS Number : 7563L  Herald Investment Trust PLC  23 April 2024

HERALD INVESTMENT TRUST PLC

 

LEI: 213800U7G1ROCTJYRR70

Result of AGM

 

Herald Investment Trust plc (the "Company") is pleased to announce that
Resolutions 1 to 11 put forward at its Annual General Meeting ("AGM") held
earlier today were passed on a poll. Every resolution put forward passed with
more than 21 million of votes, representing 39% of the total voting rights,
cast in favour.

 

The full text of all the resolutions is contained in the notice of meeting in
the Company's Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2023.

 

The results were as follows:

 

 Resolution                                                                               In Favour/             Against        Withheld

                                                                                          Discretionary**
                                                                                          Votes       %          Votes   %      Votes
 1       To receive and adopt the directors' report, the strategic report, the            21,050,625  99.998     438     0.002  2,265
         financial statements and auditor's report for the year ended 31 December 2023.
 2       To approve the directors' remuneration report, other than the Company's          21,021,798  99.937     13,218  0.063  18,312
         remuneration policy, for the year ended 31 December 2023.
 3       To re-elect Andrew Joy.                                                          21,032,848  99.947     11,108  0.053  9,372
 4       To re-elect Stephanie Eastment.                                                  21,034,424  99.950     10,543  0.050  8,361
 5       To re-elect Henrietta Marsh.                                                     21,034,438  99.950     10,529  0.050  8,361
 6       To re-elect James Will.                                                          21,032,148  99.944     11,808  0.056  9,372
 7       To elect Priya Guha.                                                             21,037,250  99.950     10,523  0.050  5,555
 8       To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as independent auditor to the           21,027,002  99.906     19,845  0.094  6,481
         Company.
 9       To authorise the audit committee to determine the remuneration of the            21,040,796  99.980     4,215   0.020  6,517
         independent auditor.
 10      To authorise the Company to repurchase its shares.*                              21,046,508  99.990     2,052   0.010  4,768
 11      That a general meeting be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice.*        21,039,469  99.946     11,292  0.054  2,567

 

*Special resolutions

** Chairman's discretionary votes included

 

The Company has 54,551,642 ordinary shares of 25p each in issue, therefore,
the total number of ordinary shares with voting rights in the Company was
54,551,642.

 

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

 

23 April 2024

 

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