AGM Results

RNS Number : 7604M

Fresnillo PLC

28 May 2010

 



                                                                                                         Fresnillo Plc

28 Grosvenor Street

London W1K 4QR

United Kingdom

www.fresnilloplc.com

28 May 2010

Fresnillo plc - Result of AGM

The Board is pleased to announce that all of the resolutions put to shareholders  at today's Annual General Meeting were passed by means of a poll, including the ordinary resolutions  (resolutions 1 to 6) and special resolutions (resolutions 7 and 10) set out in  the Company's notice of AGM dated 29 April 2010.

The final voting figures are shown below.

Resolution	Total Votes Cast	For (*)		Against (*)		Withheld
		Number	%	Number	%
1: Presentation of the accounts	686,510,106	686,125,106	99.94	385,000	0.06	62,009
2: To approve the final dividend	686,572,115	686,572,115	100.00	0	0.00	Nil
3: To approve the Remuneration Report	686,537,485	686,501,458	99.99	36,027	0.01	34,630
4:To appoint the auditors	686,542,168	686,128,822	99.94	413,346	0.06	29,947
5: To allow the board to determine the auditors remuneration	686,529,985	686,444,835	99.99	85,150	0.01	42,130
6: To issue shares with pre-emption rights	686,572,115	685,728,464	99.88	843,651	0.12	Nil
7: To disapply pre-emption rights	686,569,615	686,562,865	100.00	6,750	0.00	2,500
8: To authorise Share Repurchase	686,542,368	686,430,068	99.98	112,300	0.02	29,747
9: Notice of general meetings	686,569,732	680,767,132	99.15	5,802,600	0.85	2,383
10: To approve amendments to the Articles of Association of the Company	686,537,485	683,446,977	99.55	3,090,508	0.45	34,630

(*) = Includes discretionary votes

As at the date of the AGM, the number of issued shares and total voting rights of the Company was 717,160,159 shares in issue. The Company's Articles of Association set out that every member who is present in person or by proxy shall have one vote for every share of which he is the holder on a poll. The scrutineer of the poll was Computershare Investor Services PLC.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, two copies of the resolutions dealing with the special business put to shareholders at the AGM today have been submitted to the UK Listing Authority and will shortly be available for inspection at the UK Listing Authority's Document Viewing Facility, which is situated at:

The Financial Services Authority

25 The North Colonnade

Canary Wharf

London E14 5HS

ENDS

For further information, please visit our website, www.fresnilloplc.com or contact:

Fresnillo plc

London Office, Tel: [phone]

Octavio Alvidrez, Head of Investor Relations

Mexico City Office, Tel: [phone]

Gabriela Mayor

JPMorgan Cazenove Tel: [phone]

Ian Hannam

Andrew Wray

Brunswick Tel: [phone]

Carole Cable

David Litterick

About Fresnillo plc

Fresnillo Plc is the world's largest primary silver producer and Mexico's second largest gold producer, listed on the London Stock Exchange under the symbol FRES. 

Fresnillo has four producing mines, all of them in Mexico - Fresnillo, Ciénega, Herradura and Soledad-Dipolos; one development project - Saucito; and three exploration prospects - San Juan, San Julian, Orysivo, as well as a number of other long term exploration prospects and, in total, has mining concessions covering approximately 1.75 million hectares in Mexico.

Fresnillo has a strong and long tradition of mining, a proven track record of mining development and reserves replacement, and a low cost of production, being in the lowest quartile of the cost curve for both silver and gold.

Fresnillo's goal is to maintain the Group's position as the world's largest primary silver company, producing 65 million ounces of silver and over 400,000 ounces of gold by 2018.

 

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