News Announcements
("Yellowcake" or the "Company")
Notice of Annual General Meeting
7 January 2009
The Board of the Company announces that the Company's Annual General Meeting ("AGM") will be held at 1 Carthusian Street, London EC1M 6DZ, on Friday 30th January 2009 at 11.30am.
Notice of the AGM has been sent to shareholders of the Company.
Notice of Annual General Meeting for the year ended 30 June 2008
Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of Yellowcake Plc ("the Company") will be held at its registered office situated at 1 Carthusian Street, London EC1M 6DZ on Friday 30 January 2009 at 11.30 am to transact the following business:
ORDINARY BUSINESS
To consider and, if thought fit, to pass the following resolutions which will be proposed as ordinary resolutions:
1. To receive and adopt the reports of the directors and auditors and the audited accounts of the Company for the year ended 30 June 2008.
2. To re-elect Albert Collins as a director of the Company, who retires by rotation under Article 88 of the Articles of Association of the Company.
3. To re-appoint Saffery Champness as auditors of the Company to hold office from the conclusion of this meeting until the conclusion of the next general meeting at which financial statements are laid before the Company and to authorise the directors to determine their remuneration.
4. That, in substitution for all existing authorities the directors be and they are hereby generally and unconditionally authorised to exercise all powers of the Company to allot relevant securities (within the meaning of Section 80 of the Companies Act 1985) up to a maximum amount equal to the nominal amount of the authorised but unissued share capital for the time being provided that this authority shall expire at the next Annual General Meeting of the Company after the passing of this resolution or, if earlier, 15 months from the date of this resolution save that the Company may before such expiry make an offer or agreement which would or might require relevant securities to be allotted after such expiry and the board may allot relevant securities in pursuance of such an offer or agreement as if the authority conferred hereby had not expired.
To consider, and if thought fit, to pass the following resolution which will be proposed as a special resolution:
5. That subject to the passing of the previous resolution the directors be and are hereby empowered pursuant to section 95 of the Companies Act 1985 to allot securities (within the meaning of section 94 of the said Act) for cash pursuant to the authority conferred by the previous resolution as if sub-section (1) of section 89 of the said Act did not apply to any such allotment provided that this power shall expire on the date of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company after the passing of this resolution, or if earlier, 15 months from the date of this resolution save that the Company may before such expiry make an offer or agreement which would or might require equity securities to be allotted after such expiry and the directors may allot equity securities in pursuance of such an offer or agreement as if the power conferred hereby had not expired.
By order of the board, Albert Collins, Company Secretary
Registered Office: 1 Carthusian Street, London EC1M 6D
6 January 2009
Notes:
1. Any member of the Company entitled to attend and vote at the Annual General
Meeting convened by the above notice may appoint one or more proxies to
attend and, on a poll, to vote instead of him. A proxy need not be a member
of the Company. Appointment of a proxy will not preclude a member from attending
and voting at the meeting in person instead of by proxy.
2. A Form of Proxy is enclosed. To be effective, it must reach the Company's
registrars, Share Registrars Limited, Craven House, West Street, Farnham,
Surrey GU9 7EN by 11.30 am 28 January 2009 so as to be received not later
than 48 hours before the time and date appointed for holding the Annual General
Meeting.
3. Copies of all the directors' service contracts and the register of directors
interests in the shares of the Company will be made available for inspection
at the registered office of the Company during usual business hours on any
weekday (Saturdays and public holidays excluded) from the date of this notice
until the date of the Annual General Meeting and will be available for inspection
at the place of the Annual General Meeting for at least 15 minutes prior to
and during the meeting.
4. None of the executive directors has a service contract for more than one
year's duration. Non-executive directors are appointed for a period of three
years or less.
5. The Company, pursuant to Regulation 41(1) of the Uncertificated Securities
Regulations 2001, specifies that only those shareholders entered on the register
of members of the Company at 11.30 am on Wednesday 28 January 2009 shall be
entitled to vote at the meeting in respect of shares registered in their names
at that time. Changes to entries on the relevant register of members after
11.30 am on Wednesday 28 January 2009 shall be disregarded in determining
the rights of any person to attend or vote at the meeting. If the meeting
is adjourned, shareholders entered on the Company's register of members not
later than 48 hours before the time and date fixed for the adjourned meeting
shall be entitled to attend and vote at the meeting.
The Directors of the issuer accept responsibility for this announcement.
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ENQUIRIES:
Yellowcake Plc
Mark Watson-Mitchell
mark@yellowcake.com
Tel: 020 7638 8750
St Helen's Capital Plc
Duncan Vasey
duncan.vasey@sthelenscapital.com
Tel: 020 7628 5582