easyHotel PLC Result of General Meeting (6043M)

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RNS Number : 6043M

easyHotel PLC

14 October 2016

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14 October 2016

easyHotel plc

Result of General Meeting

On 28 September 2016 easyHotel plc (LSE: EZH) ("easyHotel" or the "Company"), the owner, developer, operator and franchisor of "super budget" branded hotels, announced the placing of 38,000,000 new ordinary shares of 1 pence each ("Ordinary Shares") in the capital of the Company (the "Placing Shares") by Investec Bank plc to raise approximately GBP38.0 million (before expenses) (the "Placing"). The Placing was subject, inter alia, to the approval by Shareholders of the Resolutions set out in the Notice of General Meeting.

The Company is pleased to announce that all of the Resolutions were duly passed at the General Meeting held earlier today.

The Placing remains conditional, inter alia, upon Admission. Admission is expected to become effective at 8.00 a.m. on 17 October 2016.

Following Admission the number of Ordinary Shares in issue is expected to be 100,500,000 (the "Voting Rights Figure"). The Company has no shares in treasury at the date of this announcement. The Voting Rights Figure may be used by Shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their voting rights interest, or a change to that interest, in the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

Terms defined in the circular dated 28 September 2016 have the same meaning in this announcement, save where the context otherwise requires.

Enquiries:

 
 easyHotel plc                           via Hudson Sandler 
 Guy Parsons, Chief Executive Officer 
  Marc Vieilledent, Chief Financial 
  Officer 
 
 Investec Bank plc - Nominated           [phone] 
  Adviser and Sole Broker                 4000 
 Chris Treneman / David Anderson 
  Neil Coleman / William Brown 
 
 Hudson Sandler - PR Adviser to          [phone] 
  easyHotel                               4133 
 Wendy Baker / Emily Dillon 
 

Notes to Editors:

easyHotel is the owner, developer, operator and franchisor of branded hotels. Its strategy is to target the "super budget" segment of the hotel industry by marketing "clean, comfortable and safe" hotel rooms to its customers. Website: www.easyHotel.com

Operating hotels

easyHotel's owned hotels currently comprise 390 rooms, and it has a further 17 franchised hotels with 1,405 rooms.

Owned hotels:

Old Street (London), Glasgow, Croydon.

Franchise locations:

Bulgaria (Sofia), Germany (Berlin, Frankfurt), Hungary (Budapest), The Netherlands (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague), Switzerland (Basel, Zurich), UAE (Dubai), UK (Edinburgh, London Heathrow, Central London, Luton).

Hotel development pipeline

The Company's development pipeline of owned and franchised hotels currently consists of:

Owned hotels:

United Kingdom (Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Ipswich), Spain (Barcelona)

Franchise hotels:

The Netherlands (Amsterdam Arena Boulevard, Amsterdam-Zaandam), Belgium (Brussels), UAE (Dubai), Germany (Bernkastel-Kues), Portugal (Lisbon), Turkey (Istanbul)

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