RNS Number : 0797T

Safestore Holdings plc

23 March 2016

23 March 2016

Safestore Holdings plc

("Safestore" or "the Company")

Result of Annual General Meeting

The Directors of Safestore are pleased to report that at the Annual General Meeting, held on 23 March 2016, all resolutions in the Notice of Meeting were put to the meeting and were duly passed on a show of hands. The total number of proxy votes lodged for each resolution in advance of the meeting is set out below.

Resolution
Votes
For
%
Votes
Against
%
Votes
Total
% of ISC
Voted
Votes Withheld
1
154,769,870
99.94
90,000
0.06
154,859,870
74.56%
392,777
2
141,900,265
97.28
3,964,713
2.72
145,864,978
70.23%
9,387,669
3
153,356,884
98.86
1,769,266
1.14
155,126,150
74.69%
126,497
4
154,916,833
99.87
209,317
0.13
155,126,150
74.69%
126,497
5
154,920,801
100.00
-
-
154,920,801
74.59%
331,846
6
147,304,981
98.03
2,950,317
1.96
150,255,118
72.35%
4,997,529
7
143,159,390
95.28
7,087,728
4.72
150,247,118
72.34%
5,005,529
8
149,145,435
99.26
1,109,683
0.74
150,255,118
72.35%
4,997,529
9
148,958,788
99.14
1,296,330
0.86
150,255,118
72.35%
4,997,529
10
148,410,527
98.77
1,844,591
1.23
150,255,118
72.35%
4,997,529
11
149,971,484
99.81
283,142
0.19
150,254,626
72.35%
4,998,021
12
154,701,314
99.72
426,804
0.28
155,128,118
74.69%
124,529
13
149,096,395
96.11
6,033,723
3.89
155,130,118
74.69%
122,529
14
155,123,650
99.92
128,997
0.08
155,252,647
74.75%
-
15
155,126,914
99.99
1,204
0.01
155,128,118
74.69%
124,529
16
144,464,753
93.13
10,663,365
6.87
155,128,118
74.69%
124,529

*ISC = Issued Share Capital of the Company

Resolutions 1 to 13 were passed as ordinary resolutions. Resolutions 14 to 16 were passed as special resolutions.

Where shareholders appointed the Chairman as their proxy with discretion as to voting, their votes were cast in favour of the resolutions and their shares have been included in the "votes for column.

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

The current issued capital of Safestore Holdings plc is 207,685,949 shares.

Resolution 1 - To receive the Annual Report and Accounts

Resolution 2 - To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report

Resolution 3 - To appoint Deloitte LLP as auditors

Resolution 4 - To authorise the Directors to determine the auditors' remuneration

Resolution 5 - To declare a final dividend of 6.65 pence per ordinary share

Resolution 6 - To re-elect Alan Lewis as a Director

Resolution 7 - To re-elect Keith Edelman as a Director

Resolution 8 - To re-elect Frederic Vecchioli as a Director

Resolution 9 - To re-elect Andy Jones as a Director

Resolution 10 - To re-elect Ian Krieger as a Director

Resolution 11 - To re-elect Joanne Kenrick as a Director

Resolution 12 - To authorise political donations and political expenditure

Resolution 13 - To authorise the directors to allot relevant securities

Resolution 14** - To authorise the dis-application of pre-emption rights

Resolution 15** - To authorise market purchases of ordinary shares

Resolution 16** - To authorise general meetings other than annual general meetings to be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice

** Special Resolutions requiring a 75% majority

In accordance with LR 9.6.2, copies of the resolutions passed as special business have been forwarded to the FCA for publication through the Document Viewing Facility and will be accessible via the National Storage Mechanism website athttp://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM

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For further information, please contact:

Sam Ahmed - Company Secretary
020 8732 1500

About Safestore:

·
Safestore is the UK's largest self-storage group with 119 stores, comprising 95 wholly owned stores in the UK (including 56 in London and the South East with the remainder in key metropolitan areas such as Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Liverpool and Bristol) and 24 wholly owned stores in the Paris region. In addition, Safestore has 12 Space Maker stores under management in the UK.
·
Safestore operates more self-storage sites inside the M25 and in central Paris than any competitor providing more proximity to customers in the wealthiest and densest UK and French markets.
·
Safestore was founded in the UK in 1998. It acquired the French business "Une Pièce en Plus" ("UPP") in 2004 which was founded in 1998 by the current Safestore Group CEO Frederic Vecchioli.
·
Safestore has been listed on the London Stock Exchange since 2007. It entered the FTSE 250 index in October 2015.
·
The Group provides storage to around 49,000 personal and business customers.
·
Safestore (excluding Space Maker) has a maximum lettable area ("MLA") of 4.925 million sq ft (excluding the expansion pipeline stores) of which 3.435 million sq ft was occupied at 31 January 2016.
·
Safestore employs around 525 people in the UK and France.

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