Result of AGM

RNS Number : 3059Z

RIT Capital Partners PLC

17 July 2008

 

 

RIT Capital Partners plc

17 July 2008

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The Annual General Meeting of RIT Capital Partners plc was held on Thursday 17 July 2008

Proposed resolution no. 7 relating to the re-election of Mr Andrew Knight was withdrawn following his decision to resign as a director, as announced at the Company's Annual General Meeting and in the RNS announcement released at 10.00 a.m today. All other resolutions as set out in the Notice of Meeting dated 29 May 2008 were passed, and prints of the items of special business will shortly be available for inspection at the UK Listing Authority's Document Viewing Facility, which is situated at:

Financial Services Authority

25 The North Colonnade
Canary Wharf

London   E14 5HS

Tel. No. 020 7676 1000

The proxy votes cast on each resolution were as follows:

	FOR/			VOTES
RESOLUTION		DISCRETIONARY	AGAINST	WITHHELD
ORDINARY BUSINESS:
1.	Approval of the Directors' Report and Accounts
	for the year ended 31 March 2008	58,966,027	52,146	4,733
2.	Approval of the Directors' Remuneration Report
	for the year ended 31 March 2008	57,782,724	969,677	270,504
3.	Approval of final dividend of 4p per ordinary
	share	59,016,052	2,821	4,033
4.	Re-election of Charles Bailey as a Director	56,332,028	1,133,640	1,557,237
5.	Re-election of Mikael Breuer-Weil as a Director	56,819,942	661,152	1,541,811
6.	Re-election of John Cornish as a Director	58,976,074	36,653	10,178
7.	Re-election of Andrew Knight as a Director	RESOLUTION WITHDRAWN
8.	Re-election of James Leigh-Pemberton as a
	Director	58,763,291	245,171	14,443
9.	Re-election of Michael Marks as a Director	58,959,700	51,236	11,970
10	Re-election of Nathaniel Rothschild as a Director	56,829,844	652,719	1,540,342
11.	Re-election of Michael Sofaer as a Director	56,792,271	690,469	1,540,165
12.	Re-appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
	as auditors	58,956,715	51,446	14,744
SPECIAL BUSINESS:
13.	To renew the power to allot equity securities	58,932,642	47,393	42,869
14.	To renew the power to allot equity securities for
	cash outside the pre-emption provisions of the
	Articles of Association	58,943,318	50,225	29,362
15.	To renew the authority to repurchase up to 14.99
	per cent. of the Company's issued share capital	58,974,484	28,619	19,802
16.	To adopt new Articles of Association	58,895,559	65,997	61,349
17.	To renew the Share Appreciation Rights Plan	52,351,445	6,383,831	287,628

Resolutions 1 to 6 and 8 to 12 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 13 to 17 were passed as special resolutions.

 

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