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Result of General Meeting
Result of General Meeting.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n \nHollywood Bowl Group plc (the \"Company\")\n \nResults of General Meeting\n \nThe Company announces that the special resolution set out in the notice of General Meeting dated 10 March 2025 was duly passed on a poll at the General Meeting held on 26 March 2025.\n \nThe total number of shares on the register at 6.00 p.m. on 24 March 2025, being the record date and time for shares to be eligible to be voted on at the meeting, was 170,945,765.\n \nThe result of the voting on the special resolution was as follows:\n \n\n\n\n\nNo \n\n\nSPECIAL RESOLUTION\n\n\nVOTES\nFOR2\n\n\n%\n\n\nVOTES\nAGAINST\n\n\n%\n\n\nTOTAL VOTES3\n\n\n\n% of ISC VOTED\n\n\nVOTES\nWITHHELD4\n\n\n\n\n1\n\n\nTo authorise the regularisation of certain procedural requirements in connection with the Final Dividend and the Buy-backs and the release of claims against shareholders, directors and the Company's broker.1\n\n\n145,488,675\n\n\n99.99\n\n\n9,586\n\n\n0.01\n\n\n145,498,261\n\n\n85.15\n\n\n1,049\n\n\n\n\n1 For the full text of the resolution, see the notice of general meeting available on the Company's website\n www.hollywoodbowlgroup.com/investors/results-reports-and-presentations/ and on the National Storage Mechanism at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.\n2 The \"For\" votes include those giving the Chairman discretion. \n3 The directors and the former director (and their associates) have not voted on their combined shareholdings representing 5,663,913 ordinary shares.\n4 The \"Vote withheld\" option is provided to enable the shareholder to abstain on the resolution. It is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the percentage of shares voted \"For\" or \"Against\" the resolution.\n \nFollowing the passing of the special resolution, and as described in the circular published by the Company on 10 March 2025, the Company has today entered into:\n \n· a deed of release in respect of its shareholders;\n \n· a deed of release in respect of the directors and the former director of the Company; and\n \n· a buy-back deed between the Company and Investec Bank plc pursuant to which the Company has today purchased 838,263 ordinary shares. These shares will be cancelled.\n \nIn compliance...