Results of Annual General Meeting

RNS Number : 9288C
HSS Hire Group PLC
20 June 2019
 

20 June 2019

HSS Hire Group plc

Results of Annual General Meeting ("AGM")

At the AGM of HSS Hire Group plc held today at 11.00 am at Hilton Garden Inn Heathrow, Pavilion Centre, Eastern Perimeter Road, Hatton Cross, Heathrow, TW6 2SQ, all resolutions set out in the Notice of Meeting were voted on a poll and were passed by the requisite majorities.

Resolutions 1 to 14 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 15 to 18 were passed as special resolutions. The results of the poll are set out below.

Ordinary resolutions

Votes
for

% Votes for 1

Votes
against

% Votes against 1

Total votes validly cast

% of Issued share capital voted 1,2,3

Votes withheld 2

Resolution 1:

Receive annual report and accounts

132,955,061

100.00

476

0.00

132,955,537

78.11%

476

Resolution 2:

Approve remuneration report

132,930,615

99.98

21,900

0.02

132,952,515

78.11%

3,498

Resolution 3:

Approve remuneration policy

132,930,615

99.98

21,900

0.02

132,952,515

78.11%

3,498

Resolution 4:

Approve amendments to the Long Term Incentive Plan and Deferred Bonus Plan

132,928,165

99.98

23,039

0.02

132,951,204

78.11%

4,809

Resolution 5:

Re-election of Alan Peterson

132,949,204

100.00

5,178

0.00

132,954,382

78.11%

952

Resolution 6:

Re-election of Amanda Burton

132,948,163

100.00

5,489

0.00

132,953,652

78.11%

1,682

Resolution 7:

Re-election of Douglas Robertson

132,948,490

100.00

5,892

0.00

132,954,382

78.11%

952

Resolution 8:

Re-election of Thomas Sweet-Escott

132,947,449

99.99

6,933

0.01

132,954,382

78.11%

952

Resolution 9:

Re-election of Steve Ashmore

132,949,204

100.00

5,178

0.00

132,954,382

78.11%

952

Resolution 10:

Re-election of Paul Quested

132,949,204

100.00

5,178

0.00

132,954,382

78.11%

952

Resolution 11:

Re-appoint BDO LLP as auditors

132,952,884

100.00

1,631

0.00

132,954,515

78.11%

1,498

Resolution 12:

Authorise directors to agree auditors' remuneration

132,953,563

100.00

952

0.00

132,954,515

78.11%

1,498

Resolution 13:

Renew authority to allot new shares

132,938,268

99.99

16,793

0.01

132,955,061

78.11%

952

Resolution 14:

Political donations

132,919,792

99.97

34,079

0.03

132,953,871

78.11%

2,142

 

VOTES OF INDEPENDENT SHAREHOLDERS ON THE RESOLUTIONS CONCERNING THE

RE-ELECTION OF THE INDEPENDENT NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS

Ordinary resolutions

Votes
for

% Votes for 1

Votes
against

% Votes against 1

Total votes validly cast

% of Issued share capital voted 1,2,4

Votes withheld 2

Resolution 6:

Re-election of Amanda Burton

47,266,455

99.99

5,489

0.01

47,271,944

55.93%

1,682

Resolution 7:

Re-election of Douglas Robertson

47,266,782

99.99

5,892

0.01

47,272,674

55.93%

952

 

Special resolutions

Votes for

% Votes for 1

Votes
against

% Votes against 1

Total votes validly cast

% of Issued share capital voted 1,2,3

Votes withheld 2

Resolution 15:

Disapplication of pre-emption rights to allotment of equity securities

132,929,331

99.98

24,266

0.02

132,953,597

78.11%

2,416

Resolution 16:

Disapplication of pre-emption rights for financing or capital investment

132,932,354

99.98

21,243

0.02

132,953,597

78.11%

2,416

Resolution 17:

Authority to purchase own shares

132,936,775

99.99

18,762

0.01

132,955,537

78.11%

476

Resolution 18:

Notice of general meetings

132,938,980

99.99

16,246

0.01

132,955,226

78.11%

787

Notes:

1.     The percentages above are rounded to two decimal places.

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

3.     The number of ordinary shares in issue on 20 June 2019 was 170,207,142. Shareholders are entitled to one vote per share.

4.     The number of ordinary shares in issue on 20 June 2019 controlled by Independent Shareholders as defined in the explanatory notes to the Notice of the Annual General Meeting circulated on 10 May 2019.

Copies of resolutions 15 to 18, being resolutions other than resolutions concerning ordinary business passed by the Company at the above AGM, have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.


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