Johnston Press PLC Result of General Meeting (9290T)

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RNS Number : 9290T

Johnston Press PLC

11 January 2017

Johnston Press plc

Result of General Meeting

A general meeting of Johnston Press plc (the "Company") was held at 10.00 a.m. on 11 January 2017 at the offices of Ashurst LLP, Broadwalk House, 5 Appold Street, London EC2A 2HA.

The ordinary resolution relating to the disposal of the entire issued share capital of Johnston Publishing East Anglia Limited (the "Resolution"), as set out in the notice of general meeting contained in the circular sent to shareholders on 21 December 2016, was duly passed on a poll.

The total number of shares in issue at the record date and time for voting was 105,877,777. Proxy appointments were received from shareholders holding an aggregate of 64,836,957 shares, representing 61.24 per cent. of the issued share capital.

The table below shows the votes received for and against the Resolution.

 
                                                                % of    Total votes      Votes 
                   Votes For(1)   % of votes   Votes Against    votes       cast       withheld(2) 
 The Resolution     64,763,621      99.89         73,336        0.11    64,836,957       18,423 
 

(1) Any proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Chairman have been included in the "For" total.

(2) A "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is therefore not counted towards the proportion of votes "For" and "Against" the Resolution.

The voting figures will also shortly be available to view on the Company's website www.johnstonpress.co.uk. In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.1R, a copy of the Resolution has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

For further information please contact:

 
 Johnston Press 
 Ashley Highfield, Chief Executive Officer        020 7612 2601 
 David King, Chief Financial Officer              020 7612 2602 
 
 Bell Pottinger 
 Dan de Belder                                    020 3772 2561 
 Henry Lerwill                                    020 3772 2570 
 
 Panmure Gordon (Sponsor and Joint Broker) 
 Dominic Morley / Andrew Potts / Alina Vaskina 
  (Corporate Finance) 
  Charles Leigh-Pemberton (Corporate Broking)     020 7886 2500 
 
 Liberum (Joint Broker) 
 Neil Patel                                       020 3100 2000 
 
 Ingenious Corporate Finance (Financial 
  Adviser) 
 Toby Ramsden                                     020 7319 4159 
 Graham Smith                                     020 7319 4162 
 

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