(HTH.L) Hartest Hldgs Buy/Sell

Immediate Release: Friday, 4 September 2009

("Hartest", or "the Company" or "the Group")
Results of Annual General Meeting

Hartest Holdings Plc, the supplier of specialist instrumentation and medical equipment, announces that, at its Annual General Meeting held at 10.00 am today, all of the resolutions proposed were duly passed.

As announced previously, the Company remains in an Offer Period, and further announcements will be made about this situation as soon as possible.

The Company also recently announced that the new financial year has started well, and trading by all Group companies is in line with, or ahead of, the Board's expectations. Gross margins are improving, and overheads are under close control. The relocation of our two subsidiary companies, Hartest Precision Instruments and Agar Scientific, has also been completed successfully.

The Board is encouraged by recent trading results, and has formed the view that if this performance is sustained through the autumn, then the Board will resume dividend payments at the time of the Interim Announcement in December.

For Further Information:

Geoff Spink Hartest Holdings Plc 01252 749 530

Executive Chairman
Vikki Krause Hansard Group 020 7245 1100

Account Director
William Vandyk Astaire Securities 020 7448 4400

Director

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