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Results of General Meeting and Court Meeting
Results of General Meeting and Court Meeting.
About this update from Mj Gleeson Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 0792Y Gleeson(M J)Group PLC 26 November 2014 \n \n\nTHIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS AN ADVERTISEMENT AND NOT A PROSPECTUS AND INVESTORS SHOULD NOT SUBSCRIBE FOR OR PURCHASE ANY SECURITIES REFERRED TO IN THIS ANNOUNCEMENT EXCEPT ON THE BASIS OF INFORMATION CONTAINED AND/OR INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE IN THE PROSPECTUS PUBLISHED BY MJ GLEESON PLC IN CONNECTION WITH THE PROPOSED SCHEME REFERRED TO BELOW. THE PROSPECTUS IS AVAILABLE ON MJ GLEESON GROUP PLC'S WEBSITE AND HAS BEEN SUBMITTED TO THE NATIONAL STORAGE MECHANISM AND IS AVAILABLE FOR INSPECTION AT www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do.\n \nM J Gleeson Group Public Limited Company \nResult of Court Meeting and General Meeting\n \n26 November 2014\nOn 4 November 2014, M J Gleeson Group Public Limited Company (the \"Company\", \"MJ Gleeson\" or \"Old MJ Gleeson\") announced that it had posted a circular to shareholders (the \"Circular\") setting out proposals to change its corporate structure by introducing a new parent company, MJ Gleeson PLC as the new holding company of the Company, by means of a scheme of arrangement under Part 26 of the Companies Act 2006 (the \"Scheme\"), and to implement a restructuring of the Company and its subsidiary undertakings (together with the Scheme, the \"Proposals\"). The Proposals are subject, inter alia, to approval by Scheme Shareholders at the Court Meeting and approval by Old MJ Gleeson Shareholders at the General Meeting, as set out in the Circular published on 4 November 2014. \nThe Company is pleased to announce that at the Court Meeting and General Meeting, held earlier today, all of the resolutions contained in the notices of the Meetings in the Circular were duly passed by the requisite majority.\nResults of the Court Meeting\nVoting at the Court Meeting to approve the Scheme was conducted by poll and the results were as follows (53,697,481 Old MJ Gleeson Shares were eligible to vote at the Court Meeting):\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNumber of Shareholders who voted\n\n\n% of Shareholders who voted \n\n\nNumber of Old MJ Gleeson Shares voted\n\n\n% of Old MJ Gleeson Shares voted\n\n\nNumber of Old MJ Gleeson Shares voted as a % of total Old MJ Gleeson Shares \n\n\n\n\nFor\n\n\n148\n\n\n94.27%\n\n\n40,788,933\n\n\n99.92%\n\n\n75.96%\n\n\n\n\nAgainst\n\n\n9\n\n\n5.73%\n\n\n31,578\n\n\n0.08%\n\n\n0.06%\n\n\n\n\nTotal\n\n\n157\n\n\n100.00%\n...