CC Japan Income & Growth Trust plc
Result of AGM and Notification of Board Changes
LEI: 549300FZANMYIORK1K98
Result of AGM
CC Japan Income & Growth Trust plc (the "Company") announces that all resolutions put forward at its Annual General Meeting held earlier today were passed.
The text of all the resolutions is contained in the notice of meeting in the Company's Annual Report for the year ended 31 October 2023.
The votes received were as follows:
| Resolution |
| In Favour | % | Against | % | Withheld |
| 1 | To receive and adopt the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 October 2023 | 65,350,586 | 99.98 | 14,917 | 0.02 | 5,100 |
| 2 | To approve the Directors' Remuneration Implementation Report | 65,335,252 | 99.97 | 17,017 | 0.03 | 18,334 |
| 3 | To re-elect June Aitken as a Director of the Company | 65,306,887 | 99.93 | 44,917 | 0.07 | 18,799 |
| 4 | To re-elect Kate Cornish-Bowden as a Director of the Company | 65,306,887 | 99.93 | 44,917 | 0.07 | 18,799 |
| 5 | To re-elect Craig Cleland as a Director of the Company | 65,305,586 | 99.93 | 44,917 | 0.07 | 20,100 |
| 6 | To elect John Charlton-Jones as a Director of the Company | 65,304,887 | 99.93 | 44,917 | 0.07 | 20,799 |
| 7 | To Authorise Directors to declare and pay dividends on a semi-annual basis | 65,348,304 | 99.99 | 3,500 | 0.01 | 18,799 |
| 8 | To re-appoint Johnston Carmichael LLP as Auditor to the Company | 65,347,003 | 99.99 | 3,500 | 0.01 | 20,100 |
| 9 | To authorise the Directors to fix the remuneration of the Auditors until the next AGM | 65,359,524 | 99.99 | 3,500 | 0.01 | 7,579 |
| 10 | To authorise to allot new shares. | 65,321,095 | 99.95 | 34,801 | 0.05 | 14,707 |
| 11 | Authority to allot new shares free from pre-emption rights. | 65,320,396 | 99.95 | 34,801 | 0.05 | 15,406 |
| 12 | Authority for the Company to purchase its own shares. | 65,358,702 | 99.99 | 4,801 | 0.01 | 7,100 |
| 13 | To authorise calling general meetings (other than AGMs) on 14 clear days' notice | 65,205,366 | 99.76 | 160,136 | 0.24 | 5,101 |
At the time of the above meeting, the Company's issued share capital was 134,730,610 Ordinary Shares and this is the total number of Ordinary Shares with voting rights in the Company.
In accordance with LR 9.6.2 and LR 9.6.3, copies of the resolutions passed as special business will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism website and will be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism shortly.
Notification of Board Changes
Pursuant to the Annual General Meeting, the Company announces that Mr Harry Wells, an independent Non-Executive Director and Chairman of the Company since November 2015, has today retired from the Board.
Ms June Aitken, who joined the Board in February 2022, has been appointed as Chair of the Company with immediate effect. Mr Craig Cleland, who joined the Board on 1 February 2022 has been appointed to succeed Ms Aitken as Senior Independent Director of the Company.
Enquiries:
| Apex Listed Companies Services (UK) Limited | 020 3327 9720 |
| Company Secretary | |
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