Result of AGM 2014

RNS Number : 5199J

Evraz Plc

12 June 2014

 



EVRAZ plc (the "Company")

Results of the Annual General Meeting

The Annual General Meeting (the "Meeting") of the Company was held on Thursday 12 June 2014 at 11.00 a.m. (London time). At the Meeting, the ordinary and special resolutions set out in the Notice of the Annual General Meeting dated 1 May 2014 (the "Notice of AGM"), were proposed and passed by way of a poll. Resolutions 1 to 17 were passed as ordinary resolutions. Resolutions 18 to 20 were passed as special resolutions.

The poll voting figures are shown below.

No.	Resolution	Votes for	%	Votes against	%	Votes withheld	Total votes as % of issued share capital
1	To receive the report of the Directors and the Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2013	1,030,370,888	99.96	441,909	0.04	11,067,466	68.42%
2	To declare a special dividend of US$0.06 per ordinary share in respect of the year ended 31 December 2013	1,031,641,700	100.00	0	0.00	10,238,563	68.48%
3	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December 2013	1,024,991,904	99.36	6,623,345	0.64	10,265,194	68.48%
4	That the Directors' Remuneration Policy contained in the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December 2013 be approved	1,024,608,770	99.32	6,996,299	0.68	10,265,194	68.48%
5	To re-elect Alexander Abramov as a Director	1,029,791,491	99.82	1,839,959	0.18	10,238,813	68.48%
6	To re-elect Duncan Antony Hilder Baxter as a Director	1,031,149,836	99.95	481,794	0.05	10,238,813	68.48%
7	To re-elect Alexander Frolov as a Director	1,031,265,036	99.96	366,664	0.04	10,238,563	68.48%
8	To re-elect Karl Gruber as a Director	1,031,444,198	99.98	187,252	0.02	10,238,813	68.48%
9	To re-elect Alexander Izosimov as a Director	1,031,380,395	99.98	251,235	0.02	10,238,813	68.48%
10	To re-elect Sir Michael Peat as a Director	1,031,170,455	99.96	460,675	0.04	10,238,563	68.48%
11	To re-elect Olga Pokrovskaya as a Director	1,002,662,741	97.34	27,420,393	2.66	11,787,309	68.37%
12	To re-elect Terry John Robinson as a Director	1,031,005,289	99.94	610,489	0.06	10,254,485	68.48%
13	To re-elect Eugene Shvidler as a Director	1,030,740,741	99.91	891,139	0.09	10,238,563	68.48%
14	To re-elect Eugene Tenenbaum as a Director	1,030,954,186	99.93	677,694	0.07	10,238,563	68.48%
15	To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP as auditors of the Company	1,031,615,523	100.00	0	0.00	10,264,740	68.48%
16	To authorise the Directors to fix the remuneration of the auditors	1,031,617,700	100.00	0	0.00	10,262,563	68.48%
17	To authorise the Directors to allot shares	1,030,772,968	99.92	844,732	0.08	10,262,563	68.48%
18	To disapply pre-emption rights	1,020,642,297	97.98	21,004,866	2.02	233,100	69.14%
19	To authorise the Directors to buy back shares	1,031,628,000	100.00	13,200	0.00	10,239,063	68.48%
20	To authorise the Company to hold general meetings on not less than 14 clear days' notice	1,020,034,589	98.87	11,607,110	1.13	10,238,563	68.48%

Notes:

1.   Any proxy arrangement which gave discretion to the Chairman has been included in the "for" totals.

2.   A "vote withheld" is not a vote under English law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes "for" or "against" a resolution.

3.   The issued share capital of EVRAZ plc as at 12 June 2014 is 1,506,527,294 ordinary shares.

4.   The scrutineer of the polls was Computershare Investor Services PLC.

5.   All percentages are rounded to two decimal points.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of resolutions passed at the Meeting concerning items other than ordinary business will shortly be available for inspection on the National Storage Mechanism which can be accessed at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do

Details of the poll votes received will shortly also be available for viewing on the Company's website http://www.evraz.com/

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For further information:

Investor Relations:
Sergey Belyakov
Director, Investor Relations
London	[phone]
Moscow	[phone]
E-mail	[e-mail]
Company Secretary:
TMF Corporate Administration Services Limited
London	[phone]
E-mail	[e-mail]

EVRAZ is a vertically integrated steel, mining and vanadium business with operations in the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, USA, Canada, Italy and South Africa. EVRAZ is among the top steel producers in the world based on crude steel production of 16.1 million tonnes in 2013. A significant portion of the company's internal consumption of iron ore and coking coal is covered by its mining operations. The company's consolidated revenues for the year ended 31 December 2013 were US$14,411 million, and consolidated EBITDA amounted to US$1,821 million.

 

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