Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust plc
Legal Entity Identifier: 213800JUA8RKIDDLH380
18 December 2024
Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust plc (the Company) is pleased to announce that at a general meeting of the Company held earlier today shareholders approved the following resolutions:
Ordinary resolution
1 THAT the proposed investment objective and new investment policy set out in Part 3 of the circular to Shareholders of the Company dated 20 November 2024, a copy of which has been produced to the meeting and signed by the Chair for the purposes of identification, be and are hereby adopted as the investment objective and investment policy of the Company to the exclusion of all previous investment objectives and policies of the Company
Special resolution
2 THAT, subject to the confirmation of the Court of Session (the Court) and subject also to any undertaking required by the Court: (i) the share capital of the Company be reduced by cancelling the entire amount standing to the credit of the Company's share premium account as at the date of the final hearing before the Court at which the confirmation of the said cancellation is sought; and (ii) the credit thereby arising in the Company's books of account from the cancellation of the Company's share premium account be applied in crediting a distributable reserve (to be designated the Distributable Capital Reserve) to be established in the Company's books of account which shall be able to be applied in any manner in which the Company's profits available for (as determined in accordance with the Companies Act 2006) are able to be applied.
| Resolution | Votes for (including votes at the discretion of the Chairman) | % | Votes Against | % | Votes withheld |
| Ordinary resolution | |||||
| 1 | 48,049,664 | 99.43 | 275,467 | 0.57 | 143,319 |
| Special resolution | |||||
| 2 | 48,009,613 | 99.37 | 306,718 | 0.63 | 152,119 |
A copy of the resolutions passed have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be shortly be available for inspection at: https:data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.
For further information please contact:
Investors:
Deutsche Numis
David Benda
Tel: +442072601275
Media
Garfield Advisory
Andrew Garfield
Tel: 07974982337
Jason Nisse
Tel: 07769 688518
Naomi Cherry
Baillie Gifford & Co
Tel 0131 275 2000
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