Results of AGM

RNS Number : 8484W

GlobalData PLC

23 April 2019

 

GlobalData plc

("GlobalData" or the "Company")

Results of AGM

The Company is pleased to announce that all of the resolutions put to Shareholders at the Annual General Meeting which took place earlier today were duly passed.

A summary of the votes lodged by proxy at the Annual General Meeting is set out below:

Resolution		In Favour		Against		Number of votes withheld	Total votes cast
		Number of votes	%	Number of votes	%
1	To receive the directors' report and accounts for the financial year ended 31 December 2018 and the auditors' report on the accounts.	101,437,874	99.99	4,620	0.01	169	101,442,494
2	To declare a final dividend of 7.5 pence per ordinary share in respect of the year ended 31 December 2018, payable on 26 April 2019 to ordinary shareholders whose names appear in the register of members at close of business on 22 March 2019.	101,442,663	100	0	0	0	101,442,663
3	To re-appoint Bernard Cragg as a director of the Company	101,438,043	99.99	4,620	0.01	0	101,442,663
4	To re-appoint Michael Danson as a director of the Company	101,442,663	100	0	0	0	101,442,663
5	To re-appoint Graham Lilley as a director of the Company	101,438,043	99.99	4,620	0.01	0	101,442,663
6	To re-appoint Annette Barnes as a director of the Company	101,438,043	99.99	4,620	0.01	0	101,442,663
7	To re-appoint Andrew Day as a director of the Company	101,438,043	99.99	4,620	0.01	0	101,442,663
8	To reappoint Peter Harkness as a director of the Company	85,479,818	84.76	15,373,885	15.24	588,960	100,853,703
9	To re-appoint Murray Legg as a director of the Company	101,438,043	99.99	4,620	0.01	0	101,442,663
10	To re-appoint Grant Thornton as auditors of the Company	101,438,043	99.99	4,620	0.01	0	101,442,663
11	To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the remuneration of the auditors	101,438,043	99.99	4,620	0.01	0	101,442,663
12	To authorise the directors pursuant to section 551 of the Companies Act 2006 (the "Act") to allot shares in the Company	101,256,593	99.82	185,832	0.18	238	101,442,425
13	Subject to the passing of Resolution 12, to generally and unconditionally authorise the directors pursuant to section 570 of the Act to allot equity securities (within the meaning of section 560 of the Act) for cash pursuant to the authority granted by resolution 12 above as if section 561 of the Act did not apply to any such allotment.	101,437,903	99.99	4,760	0.01	0	101,442,663
14	To unconditionally and generally authorise the directors for the purposes of section 701 of the Act to make market purchases (within the meaning of section 693(4) of the Act) of its ordinary shares	101,261,591	99.82	181,072	0.18	0	101,442,663

Enquiries:

GlobalData Plc Graham Lilley, Chief Financial Officer	020 7936 6400
N+1 Singer James Maxwell James White	020 7496 3000
Hudson Sandler Nick Lyon	020 7796 4133

 

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