JD Sports Fashion Plc Result of General Meeting (8379S)

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RNS Number : 8379S

JD Sports Fashion Plc

05 October 2017

JD Sports Fashion plc

Result of General Meeting

JD Sports Fashion plc (the "Company") announces that at its General Meeting held earlier today, the resolution was duly passed.

The result of the resolution is set out below:

 
 Resolution         Number        % of     Number      % of       Number       % of 
  Name               of Votes      Votes    of Votes    Votes      of Votes     Votes 
                     For           For      Against     Against    Withheld     Withheld 
-----------------  ------------  -------  ----------  ---------  -----------  ---------- 
 Approval 
  of Acquisition 
  of Shares 
  in JD 
  Sprinter 
  Holdings 
  2010 
  S.L.              864,872,826   99.48%   4,496,046    0.52%     22,126,689     2.48% 
-----------------  ------------  -------  ----------  ---------  -----------  ---------- 
 

As set out in the circular posted to shareholders on 14 September 2017 ("Shareholder Circular"), the above share acquisition (the "Share Acquisition") is part of a wider transaction which the Company has conditionally entered into to combine its existing business in Iberia with the Sport Zone business ("Sport Zone"), which is a subsidiary of Sonae - SGPS, SA (the "Sport Zone Transaction"). As further detailed in the Shareholder Circular, there are a number of other conditions still to be satisfied before the Share Acquisition and the Sport Zone Transaction can be completed, including inter alia, the approval of the Sport Zone Transaction by the relevant competition authority.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2R, a copy of the resolution passed at the General Meeting has also been submitted to the UKLA via the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

Enquiries:

JD Sports Fashion plc Tel: [phone]

Siobhan Mawdsley

Company Secretary

MHP Communications Tel: [phone]

Andrew Jaques

Barnaby Fry

Gina Bell

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October 05, 2017 07:27 ET (11:27 GMT)