Centaur Media PLC Result of General Meeting (0387M)

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Centaur Media PLC

25 July 2017

Centaur Media plc

Incorporated in England and Wales

Registration number: 04948078

LEI: 2138005WK87G7DQRQI62

ISIN: GB0034291418

25 July 2017

Centaur Media Plc

Result of General Meeting

Centaur Media Plc (the "Company") announces that at its General Meeting held at 12.00 noon today, Tuesday 25 July 2017, the ordinary resolutions proposed to the meeting were passed on a show of hands.

Full details of the resolutions passed, together with explanatory notes, are set out in the Company's circular dated 7 July 2017 (the "Circular"), including notice of the General Meeting, which is available on the Company's website, www.centaurmedia.co.uk. The resolutions were proposed as ordinary resolutions. Defined terms used but not defined in this announcement have the same meaning as set out in the Circular.

Results of the proxy votes received for each resolution are as follows:

 
 Resolution                       Number    Percentage      Number    Percentage      Number        Total  Percentage 
                                of votes      of total    of votes      of total          of       number    of total 
                                     for         votes     against         votes       votes    of shares      voting 
                                                  cast                      cast    withheld         over      rights 
                                                                                                    which 
                                                                                                    proxy 
                                                                                                    forms 
                                                                                                     were 
                                                                                                submitted 
--------------------------  ------------  ------------  ----------  ------------  ----------  -----------  ---------- 
 1. THAT the 
  disposal of 
  the entire issued 
  share capitals 
  of Ascent Publishing 
  Limited and 
  Centaur Consumer 
  Exhibitions 
  Limited be approved 
  and the directors 
  be authorised 
  to take all 
  such steps as 
  may be necessary 
  or desirable 
  to implement 
  and complete 
  such disposal.             130,095,289         99.97      34,990          0.03         Nil  130,130,279       90.03 
--------------------------  ------------  ------------  ----------  ------------  ----------  -----------  ---------- 
 2. THAT, conditional 
  on the passing 
  of Resolution 
  1, the acquisition 
  of the entire 
  issued share 
  capital of MarketMakers 
  Incorporation 
  Limited be approved 
  and the directors 
  be authorised 
  to take all 
  such steps as 
  may be necessary 
  or desirable 
  to implement 
  and complete 
  such acquisition.          130,125,322         99.99       4,957          0.01         Nil  130,130,279       90.03 
--------------------------  ------------  ------------  ----------  ------------  ----------  -----------  ---------- 
 

Notes:

(1) A "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the total number of votes cast for or against a resolution.

(2) There were 151,410,226 ordinary shares in issue in the Company including 6,870,437 treasury shares at 12.00 noon on 23 July 2017, the deadline for receipt of proxy votes. Therefore the total voting rights in the Company at 12.00 noon on 23 July 2017 was 144,539,789.

A copy of the resolutions passed at the General Meeting has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism in accordance with 9.6.2(R) of the Listing Rules and will shortly be available for inspection.

The previously announced timetable for the expected completion dates of the Acquisition and the Disposal is unchanged and is set out below.

 
 Event                                                                                       Expected time/date 
 Expected date of publication of the Company's interim results for the six months ended 30         26 July 2017 
  June 2017 
 Expected date for completion of the Disposal                                                     1 August 2017 
 Expected date for completion of the Acquisition                                                  4 August 2017 
 Long stop date for shareholder approval of the Disposal                                      30 September 2017 
 Long stop date for shareholder approval of the Acquisition                                   30 September 2017 
 

Notes:

1. Future dates are indicative only and are subject to change by the Company, in which event details of the new times and dates will be notified to the FCA and, where appropriate, to Shareholders.

2. References to times in this document are to London time.

Name of contact and telephone number for queries:

Swag Mukerji

Chief Financial Officer

020 7970 4000

This information is provided by RNS

The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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