Result of AGM

RNS Number : 7592P

Shanks Group PLC

22 July 2010

 



Shanks Group plc 

Result of AGM held on 22 July 2010

At the Annual General Meeting of Shanks Group plc held today each of the fifteen resolutions as set out in the Notice of Meeting dated 14 June 2010, were duly passed by shareholders on a show of hands.

Copies of the Special Resolutions passed at the meeting 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 EC14 5HS.

Based on 396,791,273 shares in issue the proxy votes received by the Company prior to the meeting were as follows:

		In Favour		Discretion		Against		Withheld
	Resolution	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes
1	Annual Report	221,527,137	99.49	346,945	0.16	778,661	0.35	1,100
2	Remuneration Report	195,122,753	97.06	358,514	0.18	5,544,146	2.76	21,623,430
3	To declare a dividend	222,279,810	99.83	346,404	0.16	26,743	0.01	886
4	To re-elect Adrian Auer	218,762,706	98.29	365,446	0.17	3,437,950	1.54	87,741
5	To re-elect Eric van Amerongen	218,082,823	97.99	372,941	0.16	4,108,505	1.85	89,574
6	To re-elect Peter Johnson	219,045,749	98.43	372,941	0.17	3,124,178	1.40	110,975
7	To re-elect Stephen Riley	219,075,990	98.43	374,099	0.17	3,121,830	1.40	81,924
8	To re-appoint the Auditors	220,281,937	98.97	376,612	0.17	1,910,381	0.86	84,913
9	Auditors' remuneration	219,799,049	98.73	355,814	0.16	2,479,473	1.11	19,507
10	Political donations authority	218,909,231	98.46	350,604	0.16	3,069,244	1.38	317,264
11	Directors' authority to allot shares	213,136,586	96.81	347,448	0.16	6,677,162	3.03	2,492,647
12*	To disapply pre-emption rights	221,061,435	99.61	369,609	0.17	498,664	0.22	724,135
13*	Directors' authority to purchase shares	219,570,330	98.63	366,076	0.16	2,684,961	1.21	32,476
14*	To call general meetings on  14 days notice	217,614,288	97.75	363,309	0.16	4,647,260	2.09	28,986
15*	To adopt New Articles	221,390,544	99.77	372,256	0.17	131,455	0.06	759,588

 * Special Resolution  

Percentage of votes cast excludes withheld votes.

Discretionary votes were cast in favour of the resolutions.

Philip Griffin-Smith

Company Secretary

22 July 2010

 

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