Cogeco Communications Inc. Announces Voting Results on the Election of Directors Held During its Annual Shareholders' Meeting


MONTRÉAL, QUÉBEC--(Marketwired - Jan. 13, 2017) - Cogeco Communications Inc. ("Cogeco Communications") (TSX:CCA) is pleased to announce that each of the nominees as directors for Cogeco Communications listed in the Corporation's information circular dated November 18, 2016 was elected as director of Cogeco Communications during its annual shareholders' meeting held on January 12, 2017 in Montréal, Québec (the "Meeting").

Detailed voting results on the election of directors are as follows team:

Nominee Results For % For Withhold % Withhold
Louis Audet Elected 174,359,230 99.63 646,475 0.37
Patricia Curadeau-Grou Elected 175,001,944 99.99 3,761 0.01
Joanne Ferstman Elected 174,269,467 99.58 736,238 0.42
L. G. Serge Gadbois Elected 174,475,369 99.70 530,336 0.30
Claude A. Garcia Elected 174,300,829 99.60 704,876 0.40
Lib Gibson Elected 174,996,711 99.99 8,994 0.01
David McAusland Elected 172,890,781 98.79 2,114,924 1.21
Jan Peeters Elected 173,459,597 99.12 1,546,108 0.88
Carole J. Salomon Elected 174,833,274 99.90 172,431 0.10

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 COMMUNICATIONS INC.

Cogeco Communications Inc. is a communications corporation. It is the 8th largest cable operator in North America, operating in Canada under the Cogeco Connexion name in Québec and Ontario, and in the United States under the Atlantic Broadband name in western Pennsylvania, south Florida, Maryland/Delaware, South Carolina and eastern Connecticut. Cogeco Communications Inc. provides its residential and business customers with video, Internet and telephony services through its two-way broadband fibre networks. Through its subsidiary Cogeco Peer 1, Cogeco Communications Inc. provides its business customers with a suite of information technology services (colocation, network connectivity, hosting, cloud and managed services), through its 16 data centres, extensive FastFiber Network® and more than 50 points of presence in North America and Europe. Cogeco Communications Inc.'s subordinate voting shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX:CCA).

Contact Information:

SOURCE:
Christian Jolivet
Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs,
Chief Legal Officer and Secretary
Cogeco Communications Inc.
514-764-4700

INFORMATION:
Rene Guimond
Senior Vice President, Public Affairs and Communications
Cogeco Communications Inc.
514-764-4700