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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 4601I Provident Financial PLC 21 March 2018 \n\n \n \n21 March 2018\n \nProvident Financial plc - Results of General Meeting\n \nTHIS ANNOUNCEMENT AND THE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS RESTRICTED AND IS NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION IN WHOLE OR IN PART, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN, INTO OR FROM THE UNITED STATES, CANADA, JAPAN, SOUTH AFRICA, THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION, THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA OR ANY OTHER JURISDICTION IN WHICH THE SAME WOULD BE UNLAWFUL. PLEASE SEE THE IMPORTANT NOTICE AT THE END OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT.\nFurther to the announcement made by Provident Financial plc (the \"Company\" or \"Provident Financial\") on 27 February 2018 and the circular dated 27 February 2018 (the \"Circular\") containing the Notice of General Meeting, the General Meeting was held on 21 March 2018 at 11.00 a.m. at the offices of Clifford Chance LLP, 10 Upper Bank Street, London E14 5JJ. The ordinary resolution to authorise the Board to allot shares in connection with the Rights Issue (the \"Resolution\") and as set out in the Notice of General Meeting was duly passed on a show of hands.\nA summary of the proxies cast in respect of the Resolution is set out in the table below. \n\n\n\n\nRESOLUTION\n\n\nIN FAVOUR\n\n\nAT PROXY'S DISCRETION\n\n\nAGAINST\n\n\nWITHHELD\n\n\n\n\nNumber of Shares\n\n\nNumber of Holders\n\n\n%\nvoting shares\n\n\nNumber of Shares\n\n\nNumber of Holders\n\n\n%\nvoting shares\n\n\nNumber of Shares\n\n\nNumber of Holders\n\n\n%\nvoting shares\n\n\nNumber of Shares\n\n\nNumber of Holders\n\n\n% total shares voted and withheld\n\n\n\n\nTo authorise the directors to allot shares\n\n\n116,980,465\n\n\n472\n\n\n99.93\n\n\n53,491\n\n\n42\n\n\n0.05\n\n\n25,282\n\n\n17\n\n\n0.02\n\n\n908\n\n\n4\n\n\n0.0008\n\n\n\n\n \nNotes:\n1. Percentage of voting shares is the percentage of shares voted and excludes shares on which votes were withheld\n2. Total number of shares voted = 117,060,146\n3. Total number of valid proxies returned = 535\n4. Total number of shares in issue = 148,233,748\nA copy of the Resolution will shortly be available for inspection on the National Storage Mechanism at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM. The Prospectus and the Circular are available on the Company's website: www.providentfinancial.com.\nThe Record Date for entitlement under the Rights...