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EUROCELL PLC AGM Information 2025

May 19, 2025

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At the Annual General Meeting of Eurocell plc, held at Eurocell Head Office and Distribution Centre, High View Road, Alfreton, Derbyshire DE55 2DT, at 1.00pm on Thursday 15 May 2025, the following resolutions were passed by a poll. Resolution 18 was passed as an Ordinary Resolution (and is included for reference only) and resolutions, 19, 20, 21 and 22 were passed as Special Resolutions.

Directors’ authority to allot shares

  1. That, the Board be and it is hereby generally and unconditionally authorised pursuant to section 551 of the Companies Act 2006 (in substitution for any existing authority to allot shares):
  2. subject to and in accordance with Article 15 of the Articles of Association of the Company, to allot shares in the Company and to grant rights to subscribe for or to convert any security into shares in the Company up to an aggregate nominal amount of £33,932; and further
  3. to exercise all powers of the Company to allot equity securities (within the meaning of section 560 of the said Act) in connection with a fully pre-emptive offer in favour of ordinary shareholders where the equity securities respectively attributable to the interests of all ordinary shareholders are proportionate (as nearly as may be) to the respective numbers of ordinary shares held by them up to an aggregate nominal amount of £33,932,

provided that such authority shall expire at the end of the next annual general meeting of the Company after the passing of this resolution (or, if earlier, at the close of business on the date falling 15 months after the passing of this resolution), save that the Company may before such expiry make an offer or agreement which would or might require such shares to be allotted or rights to subscribe for or convert securities into shares to be granted after such expiry, and the Board may allot shares and grant rights to subscribe or convert securities into shares in pursuance of such offer or agreement as if the authority conferred by this resolution had not expired.

General authority to disapply pre-emption rights

  1. That, if resolution 18 as set out in the notice of this meeting is passed, and in accordance with Article 16 of the Articles of Association of the Company, the Board be authorised pursuant to section 570 of the Companies Act 2006 to allot equity securities (as defined in section 560 of the said Act) for cash under the general authority conferred by resolution 18 as set out in the notice of this meeting and/or empowered pursuant to section 573 of the said Act to sell ordinary shares (as defined in section 560 of the said Act) held by the Company as treasury shares (as defined in section 724 of the said Act) for cash, as if section 561(1) of the said Act did not apply to such allotment or sale, such authority to be limited:
  2. to the allotment of equity securities or sale of treasury shares in connection with or pursuant to an offer by way of rights, open offer or other pre-emptive offer to the holders of shares in the Company and other persons entitled to participate therein in proportion (as nearly as practicable) to their respective holdings, subject to such exclusions or other arrangements as the Directors may consider necessary or expedient to deal with fractional entitlements or legal or practical problems under the laws of any territory or the regulations or requirements of any regulatory authority or any stock exchange in any territory; and
  3. to the allotment of equity securities or sale of treasury shares otherwise than under paragraph (i) above, up to a nominal amount of £10,179; and
  4. to the allotment of equity securities or sale of treasury shares (otherwise than under paragraphs (i) or (ii)) above up to a nominal amount equal to 20 per cent of any allotment of equity securities or sale of treasury shares from time to time under paragraph (ii) above, such authority to be used only for the purposes of making a follow-on offer which the Board of the Company determines to be of a kind contemplated by paragraph 3 of Section 2B of the Statement of Principles on Disapplying Pre-Emption Rights most recently published by the Pre-Emption Group prior to the date of this notice,

such authority to expire at the end of the next annual general meeting of the Company after the passing of this resolution (or, if earlier, at the close of business on the date falling 15 months after the passing of this resolution), but in each case prior to its expiry, the Company may make offers or enter into agreements, which would or might require equity securities to be allotted (and treasury shares to be sold) after the authority expires, and the Board may allot equity securities (and sell treasury shares) under any such offer or agreement as if the authority had not expired

Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights for the purpose of acquisitions or capital investments

  1. That, if resolution 18 as set out in the notice of this meeting is passed, and in accordance with Article 16 of the Articles of Association of the Company, the Board be authorised pursuant to section 570 of the Companies Act 2006, in addition to any authority granted under resolution 16 as set out in the notice of this meeting, to allot equity securities (as defined in section 560 of said Act) for cash under the authority given by that resolution and/or to sell ordinary shares held by the Company as treasury shares for cash as if section 561(1) of the said Act did not apply to any such allotment or sale, such authority to be limited:
  2. to the allotment of equity securities or sale of treasury shares up to a nominal amount of £10,179, such authority to be used only for the purposes of financing (or refinancing, if the authority is to be used within 12 months after the original transaction) a transaction which the Board of the Company determines to be either an acquisition or a specified capital investment of a kind contemplated by the Statement of Principles on Disapplying Pre-Emption Rights most recently published by the Pre-Emption Group prior to the date of this notice; and
  3. to the allotment of equity securities or sale of treasury shares (otherwise than under paragraph (i) above) up to a nominal amount equal to 20 per cent of any allotment of equity securities or sale of shares from time to time under paragraph (i) above, such authority to be used only for the purposes of making a follow-on offer which the Board of the Company determines to be of a kind contemplated by paragraph 3 of Section 2B of the Statement of Principles on Disapplying Pre-Emption Rights most recently published by the Pre-Emption Group prior to the date of this notice,

such authority to expire at the end of the next annual general meeting of the Company after the passing of this resolution (or, if earlier, at the close of business on the date falling 15 months after the passing of this resolution) but in each case, prior to its expiry the Company may make offers, and enter into agreements, which would, or might, require equity securities to be allotted (and treasury shares to be sold) under any such offer or agreement as if the authority had not expired.

Authority to purchase own shares

  1. That, the Company be generally and unconditionally authorised, pursuant to Article 9 of the Articles of Association of the Company and pursuant to section 701 of the Companies Act 2006, to make market purchases (as defined in section 693(4) of the Companies Act 2006) of up to 10,179,823 ordinary shares of 0.1p each in the capital of the Company (being approximately 10 per cent of the current issued ordinary share capital of the Company, excluding treasury shares) on such terms and in such manner as the Directors of the Company may from time to time determine, provided that:
  2. the amount paid for each share (exclusive of expenses) shall not be more than the higher of:
  3. 105 per cent of the average market value of an ordinary share in the Company taken from the Daily Official List of London Stock Exchange plc for the five business days immediately preceding the day on which such share is contracted to be purchased; and
  4. an amount equal to the higher of the price of the last independent trade of an ordinary share in the Company and the highest current independent bid for an ordinary share in the Company as derived from the Daily Official List of London Stock Exchange plc;
  5. the minimum price which may be paid for each ordinary share is 0.1p per share; and
  6. the authority herein contained shall expire at the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company or, if earlier, at the close of business on the date falling 15 months after the passing of this resolution, provided that the Company may, before such expiry, make a contract to purchase its own shares which would or might be executed wholly or partly after such expiry, and the Company may make a purchase of its own shares in pursuance of such contract as if the authority hereby conferred had not expired.

Notice of general meetings

  1. That, as permitted by section 307A of the Companies Act 2006 any general meeting of the Company (other than the annual general meeting of the Company) shall be called by notice of at least 14 clear days in accordance with the provisions of the Articles of Association of the Company provided that the authority of this resolution shall expire at the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company.

Vicky Williams

Group Company Secretary