Result of AGM

GlobalData PLC

25 April 2023

 

25 April 2023

GlobalData Plc

(AIM: DATA, GlobalData, the Company)

Results of Annual General Meeting ("AGM")

GlobalData Plc, a leading provider of industry intelligence, announces that at the Company's Annual General Meeting held earlier today (25 April 2023) all resolutions were duly passed.

A description on the subject matter of the poll and details on the votes are set out below.

Resolution		In Favour		Against		Total votes validly cast	% of issued share capital	Number of votes withheld
		Number of votes	%	Number of votes	%
Ordinary resolutions
1	To receive the directors' report and accounts for the financial year ended 31 December 2022 and the auditors' report on the accounts.	102,038,280	100.00%	0	0.00%	102,038,280	86.25%	0
2	To declare a final dividend of 18.3 pence per ordinary share in respect of the year ended 31 December 2022, payable on 28 April 2023 to ordinary shareholders whose names appear in the register of members at close of business on 31 March 2023.	102,038,280	100.00%	0	0.00%	102,038,280	86.25%	0
3	To re-appoint Michael Danson as a director of the Company.	100,622,576	99.99%	6,362	0.01%	100,628,938	85.06%	1,409,342
4	To re-appoint Murray Legg as a director of the Company.	99,635,710	98.42%	1,599,494	1.58%	101,235,204	85.57%	803,076
5	To re-appoint Graham Lilley as a director of the Company.	102,038,280	100.00%	0	0.00%	102,038,280	86.25%	0
6	To re-appoint Annette Barnes as a director of the Company.	100,082,210	98.08%	1,956,070	1.92%	102,038,280	86.25%	0
7	To re-appoint Andrew Day as a director of the Company.	100,470,643	98.46%	1,567,637	1.54%	102,038,280	86.25%	0
8	To re-appoint Peter Harkness as a director of the Company.	102,038,280	100.00%	0	0.00%	102,038,280	86.25%	0
9	To re-appoint Catherine Birkett as a director of the Company.	102,038,280	100.00%	0	0.00%	102,038,280	86.25%	0
10	To re-appoint Julien Decot as a director of the Company.	100,470,643	98.46%	1,567,637	1.54%	102,038,280	86.25%	0
11	To re-appoint Deloitte LLP as the auditors of the Company.	102,038,140	100.00%	140	0.00%	102,038,280	86.25%	0
12	To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the remuneration of the auditors.	102,038,140	100.00%	140	0.00%	102,038,280	86.25%	0
13	To receive and approve the Directors' remuneration report (excluding the Directors' remuneration policy) contained on pages 59 to 69 of the Company's report and accounts for the year ended 31 December 2022.	86,314,120	85.73%	14,364,160	14.27%	100,678,280	85.10%	1,360,000
14	To authorise the directors to allot ordinary shares in the Company.	102,037,740	100.00%	540	0.00%	102,038,280	86.25%	0
Special resolutions
15	To renew the directors' power to allot shares or grant rights to subscribe for, or convert securities into, shares or sell treasury shares where they propose to do so for cash (other than pursuant to an employee share scheme) otherwise than to existing shareholders pro rata to their holdings (i.e. non pre-emptively), as permitted by the Articles.	100,677,740	98.67%	1,360,540	1.33%	102,038,280	86.25%	0
16	To give the directors power to make non-pre-emptive issues of ordinary shares in connection with acquisitions and other capital investments as contemplated by the Pre-emption Principles.	100,672,386	98.66%	1,365,894	1.34%	102,038,280	86.25%	0
17	To renew the Company's authority to make market purchases of up to 11,830,386 ordinary shares (being 10% of the Company's total issued ordinary share capital as at the date of this notice), either for cancellation or for placing into treasury at the determination of the directors.	102,013,140	100.00%	140	0.00%	102,013,280	86.23%	25,000

Notes:

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

2.     A copy of the AGM results will be available on the Company's website at www.globaldata.com.

3.     Issued share capital as at 25 April 2023 is 118,303,869 ordinary shares of 1/14 pence each in the capital of the Company.

ENQUIRIES

GlobalData Plc
Mike Danson, Chief Executive Officer	0207 936 6400
Graham Lilley, Chief Financial Officer
J.P. Morgan Cazenove (Nomad and Joint Broker)	0203 493 8000
Bill Hutchings
Mose Adigun
Panmure Gordon (Joint Broker)	0207 886 2500
Rupert Dearden
Dougie McLeod
Numis Securities (Joint Broker) Nick Westlake Iqra Amin	0207 260 1000
FTI Consulting (Financial PR)	0203 727 1000
Edward Bridges
Dwight Burden
Emma Hall

 

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