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CSO - Capital Shopping Centres Group Plc - Results of extraordinary general
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CAPITAL SHOPPING CENTRES GROUP PLC
(Registration number UK3685527)
ISIN Code: GB0006834344
JSE Code: CSO
Issuer Code: CSCSCG
CAPITAL SHOPPING CENTRES GROUP PLC ("CSC")
26 January 2011
RESULTS OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING
Capital Shopping Centres Group PLC ("CSC" or the "Company") announces that, at
its adjourned Extraordinary General Meeting held at 4.00 p.m. today at One
Whitehall Place, Westminster, London SW1A 2EJ, the resolution to approve the
acquisition of the Trafford Centre Group and related actions (the "Resolution"),
as set out in the Notice of Adjourned Extraordinary General Meeting dated 14
January 2011, was duly passed by the requisite majority of shareholders on a
show of hands.
Proxy appointments were validly made in respect of 495,805,296 CSC ordinary
shares, representing 71.68% of shares in issue. Details of proxy votes received
in relation to the Resolution are as follows:
Votes for1 % of votes Votes against Votes withheld2
cast
394,696,916 82.39 84,365,407 16,742,973
Notes:
1 Any proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Chairman have been
included in the `for` total.
2 A `vote withheld` is not a vote in law and is not counted in the
calculation of the proportion of the votes for or against a resolution.
Patrick Burgess, Chairman of the Company, commented: "I am delighted by the
overwhelming support from our shareholders for the acquisition of the Trafford
Centre, which is value enhancing for CSC and will strengthen CSC`s position as
the leading operator of pre-eminent UK regional shopping centres. We are glad to
welcome John Whittaker to the Board as Deputy Chairman and look forward to the
contribution of his considerable expertise to the Board."
The Company has applied for admission of 167,316,817 ordinary shares of 50 pence
each (the "Consideration Shares") to the Official List of the Financial Services
Authority and to listing on the London Stock Exchange`s main market for listed
securities. The Company has also applied to the Johannesburg Stock Exchange for
the listing of the Consideration Shares on the Main Board of the Johannesburg
Stock Exchange. Completion of the Trafford Centre acquisition and Admission of
the Consideration Shares on the London Stock Exchange and the Johannesburg Stock
Exchange is expected to take place on 28 January. Please note that these dates
may be adjusted by the Company.
Contacts:
Capital Shopping Centres Group PLC +44 (0)20 7887 4220
Susan Folger Company Secretary
Regulatory Information
This announcement is not a prospectus but an advertisement and investors should
not acquire any new ordinary shares in the Company referred to in this
announcement except on the basis of the information contained in the prospectus
published by the Company on 26 November 2010 and the supplementary prospectus
published on 19 January 2011.
This announcement is for information purposes only and does not constitute an
offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities or
investment advice in any jurisdiction.
The securities to which this announcement relate have not been and are not
required to be registered under the US Securities Act. These securities have not
been approved or disapproved by the US Securities and Exchange Commission, any
state securities commission in the United States or any US regulatory authority,
nor have any of the foregoing authorities passed upon or endorsed the merits of
the offering of these securities or the accuracy or adequacy of this document.
Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offence in the United States.
General
A copy of this announcement is available, free of charge, at www.capital-
shopping-centres.co.uk/investors/shareholder_info/trafford_egm/. You may request
a hard copy of this announcement, free of charge, by contacting the Company at
40 Broadway, London SW1H 0BT (by email: feedback@capshop.co.uk, or by telephone:
+44 (0)20 7960 1236). You may also request that all future documents,
announcements and information to be sent to you in relation to the Trafford
Centre acquisition should be in hard copy form.
A copy of the Resolution has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism
and will shortly be available for inspection at www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do.
Capitalised terms used but not defined in this announcement have the same
meanings as set out in the announcement released by the Company at 7.00 a.m. on
25 November 2010 in connection with the Trafford Centre acquisition.
27 January 2011
Sponsor:
Merrill Lynch SA (Pty) Limited
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