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06 June 2025 18:16:44
- Source: Sharecast
CANAL+ SA
Results of Combined Shareholders' General Meeting
Issy-les-Moulineaux, 6 June 2025
CANAL+ SA (LSE: CAN, the "Company"), the global media and entertainment company, announces that at its Combined Shareholders' General Meeting, held today on 6 June 2025 at L'Olympia, 28 boulevard des Capucines, 75009 Paris, France, ordinary resolution numbers 1-4, 7 and 8 set out in the Convening Brochure of the Combined Shareholders' General Meeting (the "Convening Brochure") and the Addendum to the Convening Brochure (the "Addendum") published on 21 May 2025, were duly passed by shareholders by means of a poll vote. Extraordinary resolution numbers 5 and 6 were also passed by shareholders by means of a poll vote.
The votes cast on the resolutions were as follows:
|
No. |
Description |
Votes For |
% Votes cast |
Votes Against |
% Votes cast |
% of issued share capital voted (excl. Votes Withheld) |
Votes Withheld |
|
1 |
Approval of the annual financial statements for financial year ended 31 December 2024 |
560,242,020 |
99.80%
|
1,121,884
|
0.20%
|
56.59%
|
395,831
|
|
2 |
Approval of the consolidated financial statements for the financial year ended 31 December 2024 |
560,240,196
|
99.80%
|
1,124,812
|
0.20%
|
56.59%
|
395,214
|
|
3 |
Allocation of the result for the financial year ended 31 December 2024 and dividend's distribution |
560,253,579
|
99.74%
|
1,479,215
|
0.26%
|
56.63%
|
28,286
|
|
4 |
Approval of the special report of the statutory auditors on related-party agreements |
561,282,607
|
99.99%
|
79,950
|
0.01%
|
56.59%
|
398,694
|
|
5 |
Authorization to the Management Board to award existing or newly issued free shares to employees and corporate officers of the Group, or some of them |
557,882,486
|
99.40%
|
3,345,024
|
0.60%
|
56.58%
|
533,734
|
|
6 |
Authorization to the Management Board to reduce the Company's share capital by cancelling the shares acquired by the Company pursuant to the provisions of article L. 225-208 of the French Commercial Code |
561,621,591
|
99.98%
|
108,862
|
0.02%
|
56.63%
|
29,548
|
|
7 |
Authorization to the Management Board for the repurchase by the Company of its own shares in accordance with article L. 225-209-2 of the French Commercial Code |
561,271,017
|
99.98%
|
108,614
|
0.02%
|
56.59%
|
381,910
|
|
8 |
Power to carry out formalities |
561,641,015 |
99.99%
|
72,849
|
0.01%
|
56.63%
|
29,900
|
Number of shares in issue: 991,959,494
The full text of the resolutions is set out in the Report of the Management Board on the Proposed Resolutions as contained in the Convening Brochure and in the Addendum as published on 21 May 2025, which are available for inspection on the National Storage Mechanism at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism and on the Company's website https://www.canalplusgroup.com/en/general-meeting.
In accordance with UK Listing Rule 6.4.2R, copies of the resolutions passed at the Combined Shareholders' General Meeting will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for viewing in due course at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism. Copies of these will also be made available for viewing in due course on the Company's website https://www.canalplusgroup.com/en/general-meeting.
For further enquiries please contact:
|
Alima Levy Elvire Charbonnel Olivia Abehassera |
ir@canal-plus.com elvire.charbonnel@canal-plus.com olivia.abehassera@canal-plus.com |
About CANAL+
Founded as a French subscription-TV channel 40 years ago, CANAL+ is now a global media and entertainment company. The group has 26.9 million subscribers worldwide, over 400 million monthly active users on its OTT and video streaming platforms, and a total of more than 9,000 employees. It generates revenues in 195 countries and operates directly in 52 countries, with leading positions in Pay-TV in 20 of them. CANAL+ operates across the entire audio-visual value chain, including production, broadcast, distribution and aggregation.
It is home to STUDIOCANAL, a leading film and television studio with worldwide production and distribution capabilities; Dailymotion, major international video platform powered by cutting-edge proprietary technology for video delivery, advertising, and monetization; Thema, a production and distribution company specialising in creating and distributing diverse content and channels; and telecommunication services, through GVA in Africa and CANAL+ Telecom in the French overseas jurisdictions and territories. It also operates the iconic performance venues L'Olympia and Théâtre de l'Œuvre in France and CanalOlympia in Africa.
CANAL+ has also significant equity stakes across Africa, Europe and Asia, namely in MultiChoice (the Pay-TV leader in English and Portuguese-speaking Africa), Viaplay (the Pay-TV leader in Scandinavia) and Viu (a leading OTT platform in Southern-Asia).
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