ITM Power PLC Result of General Meeting and TVR (0896X)

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RNS Number : 0896X

ITM Power PLC

16 February 2017

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16 February 2017

ITM Power plc

("ITM Power" or "the Company")

Result of General Meeting

and

Total Voting Rights

ITM Power (AIM: ITM), the energy storage and clean fuel company, is pleased to announce that at the General Meeting held earlier today to approve, inter alia, the Firm Placing to raise GBP5.7 million, announced on 26 January 2017, all resolutions were duly passed. As a result, the Firm Placing has successfully completed.

Application has been made for the 33,720,203 Firm Placing shares described in the circular dated 27 January 2017 ("Firm Placed Shares") to be admitted to trading on AIM at 8.00 a.m. on 17 February 2017 ("Admission").

Directors' Interests

The interests (all of which are beneficial unless stated otherwise) of the Directors and their immediate families and of persons connected with them in the Existing Issued Share Capital and the existence of which is known to, or could with reasonable due diligence be ascertained by, any Director as at the Latest Practicable Date and as they are expected to be upon Admission are as follows:

 
                            At the Latest 
                           Practicable Date                On Admission 
Director                               Percentage                    Percentage 
                           Number     of Existing        Number     of Enlarged 
                      of Ordinary          Issued   of Ordinary   Share Capital 
                           Shares   Share Capital        Shares 
Professor Roger 
 Putnam                    27,129            0.01        27,129            0.01 
Dr Graham Cooley          811,256            0.37       987,726            0.39 
Dr Simon Bourne           326,830            0.15       326,830            0.13 
Dr Rachel Smith            80,886            0.04        80,886            0.03 
Lord Roger Freeman          5,000           0.002         5,000           0.002 
Peter Hargreaves       22,908,643           10.56    22,908,643            9.14 
Sir Roger Bone             67,000            0.03        67,000            0.03 
Robert Pendlebury*     19,217,929            8.86    30,982,634           12.36 
 

*At the Latest Practicable Date, Robert Pendlebury held 12,269 Ordinary Shares. Robert Pendlebury represents J.C.B. Research (who at the Latest Practicable Date held 19,205,660 Existing Ordinary Shares) on the Board. On Admission, Robert Pendlebury will hold 12,269 Ordinary Shares. J.C.B. Research, on Admission, will hold 30,970,365 Ordinary Shares.

Total Voting Rights

Following Admission, the total number of ordinary shares and voting rights in the Company will be 250,613,176. The Company does not hold any shares in treasury.

The above figure may be used by shareholders in the Company as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Capitalised terms used and not defined in this announcement have the meanings given to them in the Circular relating to the Firm Placing dated 27 January 2017.

For further information please visit www.itm-power.com or contact:

 
ITM Power plc                    [phone] 
 Graham Cooley, CEO               5111 
Zeus Capital 
 Andrew Jones / Jonathan Sharp   [phone] 
 / Hugh Kingsmill Moore           5000 
Tavistock                        [phone] 
 Simon Hudson / James Collins     3150 
 

About ITM Power plc:

ITM Power manufactures integrated hydrogen energy solutions which are rapid response and high pressure that meet the requirements for grid balancing and energy storage services, and for the production of clean fuel for transport, renewable heat and chemicals. ITM Power was admitted to the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange in 2004. The Group currently has GBP16.78m of projects under contract and a further GBP1.36m in the later stages of negotiation (GBP18.14m in total).

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