15th Oct 2010 12:24
15 October 2010
ELECTRONIC DATA PROCESSING PLC ("EDP")
Result of General Meeting
Disposal of Freehold Property
The Board of EDP is pleased to announce that the resolution in relation to the disposal of its head office, Beauchief Hall, was duly passed on a show of hands at the Company's General Meeting held earlier today. The proxy votes cast 'for', 'against', 'discretion' and 'withheld' were as follows:
For 6,219,927 Against 13,600 Discretion 10,126 Withheld 0
The number of shares in issue at today's date is 12,530,976.
Completion of the disposal is expected to take place no later than 29 October 2010.
A copy of the resolution passed at the General meeting will be submitted to the Financial Services Authority and will shortly be available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism, which is located at:
http://www.hemscott.com/nsm.do
Enquiries
For further information please contact:
Julian Wassell
Chief Executive
0114 2622007
John Stephan
BDO LLP (Sponsor to the Company)
Tel: 0121 352 6200
Toby Mountford/Michael Berryman
Citigate Dewe Rogerson
020 7638 9571
07710 356611
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