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European Smaller Companies Tst PLC
27 November 2023
JANUS HENDERSON FUND MANAGEMENT UK LIMITED
THE EUROPEAN SMALLER COMPANIES TRUST PLC
LEGAL ENTITY IDENTIFIER: 213800N1B1HCQG2W4V90
27 November 2023
THE EUROPEAN SMALLER COMPANIES TRUST PLC (the 'Company')
Annual General Meeting held on 27 November 2023
The Company announces that at the 33(rd) Annual General Meeting
held earlier today all resolutions proposed were duly passed on a
poll. This included three special resolutions:
- Resolution 13: to authorise the directors to allot up to 10%
of the issued ordinary share capital without first offering them to
existing shareholders in accordance with statutory pre-emption
procedures;
- Resolution 14: to authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own ordinary shares;
- Resolution 15: to hold general meetings other than an annual
general meeting on not less than 14 clear days' notice.
The full text of the resolutions can be found in the circular to
shareholders dated 16 October 2023 which can be viewed on the
Company's website at: www.europeansmallercompaniestrust.com .
The poll results were as follows:
Votes Total votes Votes
Resolution Votes for % against % cast % withheld
1. Receive the
annual report
and financial
statements for
the year ended
30 June 2023 173,468,466 99.95 79,563 0.05 173,548,029 43.35 397,760
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2. Approve the
Company's
Remuneration
Policy 172,446,850 99.63 648,741 0.37 173,095,591 43.24 850,198
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3. Approve the
Directors'
Remuneration
Report 172,418,694 99.61 679,905 0.39 173,098,599 43.24 847,190
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4. Approve the
final dividend 173,419,408 99.95 80,035 0.05 173,499,443 43.34 446,346
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5. Election of
James Williams
as a director 173,059,668 99.86 247,107 0.14 173,306,775 43.29 639,014
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6. Re-election
of Christopher
Casey as a
director 151,574,698 98.33 2,569,359 1.67 154,144,057 38.51 19,801,732
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7. Re-election
of Daniel
Burgess
as a director 170,767,909 98.52 2,568,982 1.48 173,336,891 43.30 608,898
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8. Re-election
of Ann
Grevelius
as a director 170,525,772 98.33 2,888,584 1.67 173,414,356 43.32 531,433
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9. Re-election
of Simona
Heidempergher
as a director 148,387,790 96.19 5,871,849 3.81 154,259,639 38.53 19,686,150
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10.
Re-appointment
of Ernst &
Young LLP as
auditor 172,907,746 99.82 303,197 0.18 173,210,943 43.27 734,846
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11. Audit
Committee to
determine
the auditor's
remuneration 173,242,765 99.93 112,941 0.07 173,355,706 43.30 590,083
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12. Authority
to allot
ordinary
shares 173,221,398 99.88 216,680 0.12 173,438,078 43.32 507,711
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13. Authority
to disapply
pre-emption
rights on
allotment of
ordinary
shares* 172,658,017 99.71 498,243 0.29 173,156,260 43.25 789,529
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14. Authority
to make market
purchases of
own shares* 171,108,363 98.64 2,364,172 1.36 173,472,535 43.33 473,254
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15. Authority
to call a
general
meeting on 14
clear days'
notice* 172,402,418 99.35 1,134,947 0.65 173,537,365 43.35 408,424
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* Special resolution.
For the purposes of section 341 of the Companies Act 2006, the
votes validly cast are expressed in the table above as a percentage
of the Company's total voting rights as at the close of business on
23 November 2023 being the time at which a shareholder had to be
registered in the register of members in order to vote at the
annual general meeting. A vote 'withheld' is not a vote in law and
has not been counted as a vote 'for' or 'against' a resolution.
The number of ordinary shares in issue and total voting rights
at the date of this announcement is 400,321,188. Each share carries
the entitlement to one vote per share.
A copy of the special business resolutions will be submitted to
the National Storage Mechanism ('NSM') and will shortly be
available for inspection on the NSM's website at:
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism .
For further information please contact:
Colleen Sutcliffe
Janus Henderson Secretarial Services
UK Limited
Corporate Secretary
Telephone: 020 7818 5919
Harriet Hall
PR Manager, Investment Trusts
Janus Henderson Investors
Telephone: 020 7818 2919
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