JANUS HENDERSON FUND MANAGEMENT UK
LIMITED
HENDERSON EUROPEAN TRUST
PLC
LEGAL ENTITY IDENTIFIER:
213800GS89AL1DK3IN50
29 January 2025
HENDERSON EUROPEAN TRUST
PLC
Annual General Meeting of the
Company
held on Wednesday, 29 January
2025
Henderson European Trust plc (the
'Company') announces that at the Annual General Meeting held
earlier today all resolutions proposed were duly passed on a poll.
This included:
As an ordinary
resolution:
§ Resolution
11: To authorise the directors to allot new ordinary shares
up to 10% of the issued ordinary share
capital;
As special resolutions:
§ Resolution
12: to authorise the directors to allot or sell from treasury up to
10% of the issued ordinary share capital without first offering
them to existing shareholders in accordance with statutory
pre-emption rights;
§ Resolution
13: to authorise the Company to make market purchases of up to
14.99% of the Company's issued ordinary share capital;
§ Resolution
14: to hold general meetings other than an annual general meeting
on not less than 14 clear days' notice;
§ Resolution
15: to cancel the share premium account, subject to High Court
approval.
The full text of the resolutions can
be found in the Notice of Annual General Meeting dated
11 December 2024 in the Annual Report for the year ended
30 September 2024 which can be viewed on the Company's website
at: www.hendersoneuropean.com.
The poll results were as
follows:
|
Resolution
|
Number of votes
FOR
|
% of votes
FOR
|
Number of votes
AGAINST
|
% of votes
AGAINST
|
Total votes
cast
|
% Issued Share
Capital
|
Votes
withheld
|
|
Ordinary
|
|
|
1.
|
To receive the Annual Report and the
audited financial statements for the year ended 30 September
2024
|
144,748,291
|
99.84
|
239,016
|
0.16
|
144,987,307
|
45.44%
|
98,471
|
|
2.
|
To approve the Directors'
Remuneration Report for the year ended 30 September 2024
|
144,204,896
|
99.59
|
597,577
|
0.41
|
144,802,473
|
45.38%
|
283,305
|
|
3.
|
To approve a final dividend of 1.30p
per ordinary share
|
144,656,177
|
99.84
|
234,276
|
0.16
|
144,890,453
|
45.41%
|
195,325
|
|
4.
|
To elect Stephen King as a director
of the Company
|
144,589,930
|
99.79
|
301,184
|
0.21
|
144,891,114
|
45.41%
|
194,664
|
|
5.
|
To elect Rutger Koopmans as a
director of the Company
|
144,573,657
|
99.78
|
317,457
|
0.22
|
144,891,114
|
45.41%
|
194,664
|
|
6.
|
To re-elect Victoria (Vicky)
Hastings as a director of the Company
|
144,384,120
|
99.67
|
473,298
|
0.33
|
144,857,418
|
45.40%
|
228,360
|
|
7.
|
To re-elect Marco Maria Bianconi as
a director of the Company
|
144,149,338
|
99.48
|
751,476
|
0.52
|
144,900,814
|
45.41%
|
184,964
|
|
8.
|
To re-elect Melanie Blake as a
director of the Company
|
144,429,193
|
99.67
|
471,621
|
0.33
|
144,900,814
|
45.41%
|
184,964
|
|
9.
|
To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP
as the statutory auditor of the Company
|
144,416,291
|
99.72
|
406,605
|
0.28
|
144,822,896
|
45.39%
|
262,882
|
|
10.
|
To authorise the Audit and Risk
Committee to determine the statutory auditor's
remuneration
|
144,552,218
|
99.81
|
281,344
|
0.19
|
144,833,562
|
45.39%
|
252,216
|
|
11.
|
To authorise the directors to allot
new ordinary shares or sell existing shares from
treasury
|
144,623,836
|
99.77
|
335,251
|
0.23
|
144,959,087
|
45.43%
|
126,691
|
|
Special
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
12.
|
To disapply pre-emption rights on
the allotment or sale of ordinary shares
|
144,165,532
|
99.56
|
631,391
|
0.44
|
144,796,923
|
45.38%
|
288,855
|
|
13.
|
To authorise the Company to make
market purchases of its own ordinary shares
|
143,277,424
|
98.84
|
1,683,649
|
1.16
|
144,961,073
|
45.43%
|
124,705
|
|
14.
|
To authorise general meetings (other
than AGMs) to be held on 14 clear days' notice
|
144,420,522
|
99.68
|
469,282
|
0.32
|
144,889,804
|
45.41%
|
195,974
|
|
15.
|
To cancel the share premium account,
subject to High Court approval
|
144,490,304
|
99.74
|
374,277
|
0.26
|
144,864,581
|
45.40%
|
221,197
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
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 27 January 2025
(318,516,837), 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 at the date of this announcement is 367,390,497. On a poll
the voting rights are one vote for every one share held. The
number of voting rights is therefore 318,373,363 (49,017,134 shares
being held in Treasury).
The poll results will shortly be
available on the Company's website
at: www.hendersoneuropean.com.
The special business resolutions
will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism ("NSM") and
will shortly be available for inspection at:
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.
The Company also announces that from
the conclusion of today's Annual General Meeting,
Robin Archibald retired from the Board. Melanie Blake succeeds
Robin as Audit and Risk Committee Chair.
For further information please
contact:
|
Dan Howe
Head of Investment Trusts
Janus Henderson Investors
Tel: 020 7818 1818
|
Harriet Hall
PR Director, Investment
Trusts
Janus Henderson Investors
Tel: 020 7818 2919
|
|
Janus Henderson Secretarial Services
UK Limited
Corporate Secretary
Telephone: 020 7818 1818
|
|
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