Result of AGM

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Coats Group PLC
16 May 2018
 

16 May 2018

Coats Group plc

('Coats' or the 'Company')

 

Results of the Annual General Meeting ("AGM")

 

Coats announces that at its AGM, held in London, United Kingdom on 16 May 2018, all the resolutions put to the meeting were duly passed.

The table below shows the votes received for and against the Resolutions.

 

Resolution

Total Votes

For

Total Votes

Against

Total Votes cast as % of Issued Share Capital

Votes Withheld




%*


%*

%*


1

Receipt of Annual Report 2017

1,153,036,277

99.938

716,269

0.062

80.917

6,046,765

2

Approval of Remuneration Report

1,083,012,988

99.316

7,462,036

0.684

76.479

69,324,286

3

Approval of Dividend

1,159,785,229

99.999

7,736

0.001

81.341

243

4

Re-election of Mike Allen

1,159,779,473

99.999

15,098

0.001

81.341

4,740

5

Election of Simon Boddie

1,159,721,213

99.995

52,510

0.005

81.339

25,588

6

Re-election of Nicholas Bull

1,159,757,755

99.999

16,026

0.001

81.339

25,530

7

Re-election of Mike Clasper

1,083,584,979

99.369

6,875,523

0.631

76.478

69,338,808

8

Re-election of David Gosnell

1,090,497,299

99.999

15,815

0.001

76.482

69,286,197

9

Re-election of Alan Rosling

1,159,751,349

99.998

19,435

0.002

81.339

28,527

10

Re-election of Fran Philip

1,159,772,515

99.998

17,652

0.002

81.340

9,144

11

Re-election of Rajiv Sharma

1,157,895,565

99.839

1,868,915

0.161

81.339

34,831

12

Election of Anne Fahy

1,157,263,893

99.782

2,525,109

0.218

81.340

10,309

13

Election of Hongyan Echo Lu

1,159,739,606

99.996

50,331

0.004

81.340

9,374

14

Reappointment of Auditor

1,152,754,347

99.395

7,011,064

0.605

81.339

33,899

15

Approval of Auditor remuneration

1,159,786,775

99.999

8,514

0.001

81.341

4,022

16

Authority to allot relevant securities

1,159,711,170

99.993

79,200

0.007

81.340

8,941

17

Authority to disapply pre-emption rights

1,159,635,436

99.990

121,075

0.010

81.338

42,800

18

Authority to purchase own Shares

1,159,054,822

99.938

716,034

0.062

81.339

28,454

19

Authority to call general meetings on clear 14 days' notice

1,066,837,100

91.988

92,917,839

8.012

81.338

26,042

 

 

Notes:

 

·      * All percentages are rounded to three decimal places.

·      Any proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Chairman have been included in the "for" column.

·      A vote "withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the "total votes for" or "total votes against" the resolution.

·      The issued share capital figure used to calculate the total votes cast as a percentage of issued share capital voted is 1,425,847,522.

·      A copy of the resolutions other than those resolutions comprising ordinary business passed at the AGM have been uploaded to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at http://www.hemscott.com/nsm.do

 

Total Voting Rights

The total number of the Company's ordinary shares in issue and therefore the total number of voting rights as at the close of business (UK time) on 16 May 2018 was 1,425,847,522.

 

Stuart Morgan

Company Secretary

16 May 2018

 

                                                                                                                                               

 

Enquiry details

Coats Group plc Investor Relations          Rob Mann         +44 20 8210 5175

                                                                                                                                               


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