COHORT PLC

Declaration of Voting Results & Voting Rights Announcements • Sep 7, 2017

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Cohort PLC

07 September 2017

7 September 2017

COHORT PLC ("Cohort")

Result of AGM

Cohort, the AIM listed independent technology group, announces that at its Annual General Meeting held today all the resolutions contained within the Notice of Meeting dated 1 August 2017 were duly passed by shareholders.

A summary of the votes received for each resolution are as follows:

Resolution	For1	% For	Against	% Against	Total	% Total2	Withheld3
Ordinary Resolutions
1: Accounts	20,453,197	88.47	2,665,631	11.53	23,118,828	56.44
2: Dividend	23,118,828	100	0	0	23,118,828	56.44
3: Re-elect Sir Robert Walmsley	20,448,002	88.46	2,667,884	11.54	23,115,886	56.44	2,942
4: Re-appointment of Auditor	23,113,936	99.98	4,892	0.02	23,118,828	56.44
5: Auditor's Remuneration	23,116,189	99.99	2,639	0.01	23,118,828	56.44
6: Allot shares	23,109,945	99.96	8,883	0.04	23,118,828	56.44
Special Resolutions
7: Disapply pre-emption rights	23,081,049	99.84	37,779	0.16	23,118,828	56.44
8: Purchase own shares	23,110,575	99.96	8,253	0.04	23,118,828	56.44
9: General meeting notice	23,117,198	99.99	1,630	0.01	23,118,828	56.44

Notes:

1.        Any proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Chairman have been included in the "for" total.

2.        The total number of shares in issue is 40,959,101.

3.        A "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes "for" and "against" a resolution.

4.        All percentages are shown to two decimal places.

Ends

For further information, please contact:

Cohort plc		0118 909 0390
Andrew Thomis, Chief Executive Simon Walther, Finance Director
Investec Bank plc		020 7597 5970
Keith Anderson / Daniel Adams
MHP Communications Limited		020 3128 8100
Reg Hoare / Ollie Hoare

NOTES TO EDITORS

Cohort plc

Cohort is an independent technology group working primarily for defence (air, land and sea), wider government and industry clients, through five market-facing subsidiary companies:

MASS - a specialist systems house with a focus on electronic warfare operational support, cyber defence and secure information systems. Based in Cambridgeshire, MASS was acquired by Cohort in August 2006;

MCL - an expert in sourcing, design and integration of surveillance and other electronic systems, as well as field support and training for the UK MOD and other government agencies. Based in Surrey, MCL has been part of the Group since July 2014;

SEA - an advanced systems and software business operating in the defence (naval systems, simulation, training and technology research), transport and offshore energy market sectors. Acquired by Cohort in October 2007.

EID - a Portugal based supplier of advanced electronics, communications and command and control products and systems for the global defence market, in which Cohort acquired a majority stake in June 2016.

Cohort was admitted to London's Alternative Investment Market in March 2006. It has its headquarters in Berkshire and employs in total around 800 core staff there and at its other operating company sites in Bristol, Cambridgeshire, Devon, Lincolnshire, Somerset, Surrey, Scotland and Portugal.

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