Entertainment One Ltd Results of Annual General and Special Meeting (7916A)

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RNS Number : 7916A

Entertainment One Ltd

14 September 2018

   Date:                           14 September 2018 
   On behalf of:               Entertainment One Ltd. ('the Company') 
   Embargoed until:         Immediate Release 

Entertainment One Ltd.

RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL AND SPECIAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS

The Company confirms that all of the resolutions proposed at the Annual General and Special Meeting of shareholders held on 13 September 2018 were approved. Proxies were validly received in respect of 349,115,854 common shares, representing approximately 75.4% of the outstanding common shares in the Company.

The Company would like to highlight that following a year in which shareholders saw their eOne shares appreciate in value over 51%, shareholders voted unequivocally to re-elect to the board Darren Throop, eOne's Chief Executive Officer, with 99.95% approval.

As noted in the 2018 Notice of Annual General and Special Meeting, the Company has been undertaking an engagement programme with a number of significant shareholders to seek their feedback. As part of this programme, the Company contacted all shareholders with a greater than 2% holding at the end of 2017 who voted at the 2017 Annual General Meeting, as well as new significant shareholders with a greater than 2% holding who were not on the share register at the time of the 2017 Annual General Meeting, representing almost 60% of the Company's total shareholders.

This engagement programme was led by Mark Opzoomer in his capacity as the Company's Senior Independent Director and specifically targeted shareholders' stewardship teams, providing an additional touchpoint to the Company's usual investment contacts.

The programme is now completed and the Board is considering the valuable feedback received from shareholders, together with the additional feedback provided through the voting response at the 2018 Annual General and Special Meeting.

The results of the proxy voting on each resolution were as follows:

 
 Resolution   For           % of     Discretion   % of     Against       % of     Withheld 
                             votes                 votes                  votes 
                             cast                  cast                   cast 
 1            346,898,791   99.95    0            0.00     169,000       0.05     188,861 
             ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ------------  -------  ---------- 
 2            212,767,205   61.30    0            0.00     134,333,367   38.70    2,015,282 
             ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ------------  -------  ---------- 
 3            319,209,324   91.93    0            0.00     28,017,390    8.07     29,938 
             ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ------------  -------  ---------- 
 4            345,299,727   99.44    0            0.00     1,956,925     0.56     0 
             ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ------------  -------  ---------- 
 5            346,599,250   99.81    0            0.00     657,402       0.19     0 
             ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ------------  -------  ---------- 
 6            291,779,580   84.03    0            0.00     55,462,870    15.97    14,202 
             ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ------------  -------  ---------- 
 7            220,278,348   63.67    0            0.00     125,712,530   36.33    3,124,976 
             ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ------------  -------  ---------- 
 8            339,177,737   97.67    0            0.00     8,078,915     2.33     0 
             ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ------------  -------  ---------- 
 9            298,342,011   85.91    0            0.00     48,914,641    14.09    0 
             ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ------------  -------  ---------- 
 10           345,300,922   99.44    0            0.00     1,955,730     0.56     0 
             ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ------------  -------  ---------- 
 11           339,949,629   97.90    0            0.00     7,307,023     2.10     0 
             ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ------------  -------  ---------- 
 12           345,040,623   99.80    0            0.00     684,610       0.20     1,531,419 
             ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ------------  -------  ---------- 
 13           346,600,848   99.81    0            0.00     655,595       0.19     209 
             ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ------------  -------  ---------- 
 14           292,298,163   84.18    35,000       0.01     54,916,780    15.81    6,709 
             ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ------------  -------  ---------- 
 15           338,669,367   98.07    35,000       0.01     6,625,395     1.92     1,926,890 
             ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ------------  -------  ---------- 
 16           318,773,864   92.31    0            0.00     26,555,898    7.69     1,926,890 
             ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ------------  -------  ---------- 
 17           345,889,543   99.61    0            0.00     1,366,900     0.39     209 
             ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ------------  -------  ---------- 
 

A vote "Withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the votes "For" and "Against" a resolution.

Resolutions 1 to 14 were ordinary resolutions and resolutions 15 to 17 were special resolutions.

A copy of the resolutions has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism.

 
 Enquiries: 
 Alma PR              Rebecca Sanders-Hewett    [phone] 
 Entertainment One 
  Ltd.                Patrick Yau               [phone] 
 

Notes to Editors:

ABOUT ENTERTAINMENT ONE

Entertainment One Ltd. (LSE: ETO) is a global independent studio that specialises in the development, acquisition, production, financing, distribution and sales of entertainment content. The Company's diversified expertise spans across film, television and music production and sales; family programming, merchandising and licensing; digital content; and live entertainment. Through its global reach and expansive scale, powered by deep local market knowledge, the Company delivers the best content to the world.

Entertainment One's robust network includes Makeready with Brad Weston; content creation venture Amblin Partners with Steven Spielberg, DreamWorks Studios, Participant Media, and Reliance Entertainment; unscripted television production companies Whizz Kid Entertainment and Renegade 83; live entertainment leaders Round Room Entertainment; world-class music labels Dualtone Music Group and Last Gang; and award-winning emerging content and technology studio Secret Location.

The Company's rights library, valued at US$1.7 billion (as at 31 March 2017), is exploited across all media formats and includes more than 80,000 hours of film and television content and approximately 40,000 music tracks.

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