The
issuer advises that the following replaces the Transaction in Own
Shares announcement released on 2 April 2024 at 12:28 PM under RNS
number 9832I.
The
number of ordinary shares to be used in the calculation of voting
rights was omitted from the previous announcement. It has now been
added to the below. All other details remain unchanged. The full
amended text appears below.
JANUS HENDERSON FUND MANAGEMENT UK
LIMITED
THE CITY OF LONDON INVESTMENT TRUST
PLC
LEGAL ENTITY IDENTIFIER:
213800F3NOTF47H6AO55
2 April 2024
THE CITY OF LONDON INVESTMENT
TRUST PLC
Market purchase by the Company
of its own shares
Notification is given that, pursuant
to the authority granted at the Annual General Meeting of the
Company held on 31 October 2023 to make market purchases of
the Company's own shares of 25p, a market purchase of 191,316
ordinary shares in the capital of the Company was made on Thursday,
28 March 2024, at a price of 404.53p per share. The shares
will be held in Treasury.
Following the above purchase, the
Company's issued ordinary share capital will continue to be
502,664,868 ordinary shares of 25p each, of which 2,519,523 are
held in Treasury and have no voting rights. The
number of ordinary shares to be used in the calculation of voting
rights is now 500,145,345.
The number of voting rights in the
Company is now:
a) 33,343,023
in respect of the ordinary shares (one vote for every 15 shares
held);
b) 30,198 in
respect of the First Preference Stock (one vote for every £10 of
stock held); and
c) 29,484 in
respect of the Preferred Ordinary Stock (one vote for every £20 of
stock held).
Therefore, the total number of voting
rights in the Company is 33,402,705.
The above figure (33,402,705) may be
used by shareholders 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 City of London
Investment Trust plc under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and
Transparency Rules.
For further information, please
contact:
Job Curtis
Fund Manager
The City of London Investment Trust
plc
Telephone: 020 7818 4367
Dan Howe
Head of Investment Trusts
Janus Henderson Investors
Telephone: 020 7818 4458
Harriet Hall
PR Director, Investment
Trusts
Janus Henderson Investors
Tel: 020 7818 2919
