Gladstone plc

("Gladstone" or the "Company")

Result of EXTRAORDINARY general meeting

The Board of Gladstone announces that at the Extraordinary General Meeting ("EGM") of the Company held today at 11:00 a.m., shareholders have duly passed the special resolution to cancel the Company's share premium account.

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Gladstone plc's innovative software products and services, currently targeted at the global health and leisure and education markets, are used daily by thousands of front line staff, managers, end users and students.

Gladstone is a market leader in the provision of member relationship management solutions for diverse health and leisure organisations including trusts, leisure centres, and major private leisure chains and is established as the de facto standard for UK local authorities.  The Company enables all its clients in both public and private sectors, including organisations such as Sportscotland and Trinity College Dublin, to utilise central database facilities for central and cross-site on-line bookings, CRM and membership management, centralisation of administration, marketing and reporting. 

The Company also provides a wide range of integrated systems and software-based solutions for the rapidly expanding Education Facilities Management Systems (EFMS) market across the entire spectrum of educational establishments and is a key supplier to the UK Government's Building Schools for the Future (BSF) initiative.

Gladstone is focused on extending its solutions capabilities, which enable its clients to maximise resource usage, retain customers and improve operational performance, thereby making cost efficiencies, into new vertical and geographic markets aligned with its growth strategy.

The Company's current solutions include the comprehensive Gladstone Plus2^TM product suite which incorporates advanced functionality including web-based remote booking, advanced analysis and the use of kiosks, as well as Gladstone OnRecord^TM which serves the education industry with e-registration, biometric and smart card recognition, cashless payment systems, extensive information portals, libraries usage and access control.