9th May 2006 16:01
St. James's Place Capital PLC09 May 2006 St. James's Place Capital plc ("SJPC") Result of AGM At SJPC's Annual General Meeting held on 9 May 2006, all the resolutions wereduly passed. In accordance with paragraph 9.6.2 of the Listing Rules, SJPC hassubmitted two copies of the resolutions passed at the meeting (other thanresolutions concerning ordinary business) to the UK Listing Authority. A further announcement will be released relating to the effective date of changeof Company name once confirmation has been given by the Registrar of Companies. These documents will shortly be available for inspection at the UK ListingAuthority's Document Viewing Facility, which is situated at: Financial Services Authority25 The North ColonnadeCanary WharfLondonE14 5HS Tel. No. (0)20 7676 1000 All resolutions proposed at the AGM were carried on a show of hands. Theaudited proxy position at the AGM is set out below. Resolution Description For and Against Abstain discretionary1 Report and Accounts 369,711,210 172,194 1,4762 Dividend 369,884,880 0 03 Elect John Edwards 369,593,390 185,527 105,9634 Elect Mike Power 369,717,404 141,961 25,5155 Elect Roger Walsom 369,713,210 144,155 27,5156 Re-elect Ian Gascoigne 369,425,742 434,223 24,9157 Re-elect Derek Netherton 368,762,326 596,215 526,3398 Directors' Remuneration Report 368,824,228 285,872 774,7809 Re-appoint auditors 369,560,013 288,728 16,13910 Authority to allot shares 369,829,615 37,220 18,04511 Disapplication of pre-emption rights 369,792,869 60,716 31,29512 Renewal of scrip dividend 369,867,361 11,798 5,72113 Authority to purchase own shares 369,794,110 61,275 7,09514 Change of Company name 369,560,442 114,495 187,54315 Change of articles 369,618,645 36,401 207,434 Scrip dividend SJPC also announces that pursuant to the scrip dividend mandate scheme, whichwas renewed at the Annual General Meeting held on 9 May 2006, the scrip dividendalternative in respect of the final dividend for the year ended 31 December 2005was accepted in respect of 342,791,242 shares, representing approximately 76.1%of SJPC's issued share capital on the dividend record date of 10 March 2006.Application will shortly be made to the UK Listing Authority and the LondonStock Exchange for 2,071,983 additional ordinary shares of 15p each to beadmitted to the Official List and to trading. It is expected that such listingwill become effective and that dealings in the additional shares will commenceon 17 May 2006. The above shares will rank pari passu in all respects withthe existing issued ordinary shares in SJPC. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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