MONTREAL, QUEBEC -- (Marketwired) -- 01/14/16 -- Cogeco Inc. ("Cogeco") (TSX: CGO) is pleased to announce that each of the nominees as directors for Cogeco listed in the Corporation's information circular dated November 13, 2015 was elected as director of Cogeco during its annual shareholders' meeting held on January 13, 2016 in Montreal, Quebec (the "Meeting").
Detailed voting results on the election of directors are as follows:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nominee Results For % For Abstention % Abstention ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Louis Audet Elected 43,430,959 99.65 152,578 0.35 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mary-Ann Bell Elected 43,570,584 99.97 12,953 0.03 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Elisabetta Bigsby Elected 43,440,385 99.67 143,152 0.33 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- James C. Cherry Elected 43,508,198 99.83 75,339 0.17 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pierre L. Comtois Elected 43,415,844 99.62 167,693 0.38 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Claude A. Garcia Elected 43,437,560 99.67 145,977 0.33 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Normand Legault Elected 43,443,725 99.68 139,812 0.32 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- David McAusland Elected 43,414,592 99.61 168,945 0.39 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan Peeters Elected 43,328,959 99.42 254,578 0.58 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Results on all matters voted at the Meeting are available on SEDAR's website (www.sedar.com.) including, for information purposes, the voting results for the subordinate voting shares only.
ABOUT COGECO CABLE CANADA
Cogeco Inc. is a diversified holding corporation which operates in the communications and media sectors. Through its Cogeco Communications Inc. subsidiary, Cogeco provides its residential and business customers with video, Internet and telephony services through its two-way broadband fibre networks. Cogeco Communications Inc. operates in Canada under the Cogeco Connexion name in Quebec and Ontario, and in the United States under the Atlantic Broadband name in western Pennsylvania, south Florida, Maryland / Delaware, South Carolina and eastern Connecticut. Through Cogeco Peer 1, Cogeco Communications Inc. provides its business customers with a suite of information technology services (colocation, network connectivity, managed hosting, cloud services and managed IT services), through its 21 data centres, extensive FastFiber Network™ and more than 50 points-of-presence in North America and Europe. Through its subsidiary Cogeco Media, Cogeco owns and operates 13 radio stations across most of Quebec with complementary radio formats serving a wide range of audiences as well as Cogeco News, its news agency. Cogeco's subordinate voting shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: CGO). The subordinate voting shares of Cogeco Communications Inc. are also listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: CCA).
Contacts:
SOURCE:
Christian Jolivet
Senior Vice President,
Corporate Affairs, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary
Cogeco Inc.
514-764-4700
INFORMATION:
Rene Guimond
Senior Vice President, Public Affairs and Communications
Cogeco Inc.
514-764-4700
