Connect Group PLC - Result of AGM

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Connect Group PLC
26 January 2017
 

26 January 2017

Connect Group PLC

Result of 2017 Annual General Meeting

Connect Group PLC is pleased to announce that at its AGM held at 11.30am today, all resolutions put to the meeting were duly passed. All resolutions were voted on by way of a poll and the results of the poll for each resolution are shown below:

 

Resolution

For

Against

Withheld

No. of votes

%

No. of votes

%

No. of votes

1

To receive the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 August 2016

177,987,483

99.99%

17,612

0.01%

19,178

2

To approve the directors' remuneration report for the year ended 31 August 2016

168,302,228

96.30%

6,462,878

3.70%

3,259,167

3

To approve the directors' remuneration policy

165,987,901

94.21%

10,203,503

5.79%

1,832,869

4

To declare a final dividend of 6.5p per share

178,022,197

100.00%

1,308

0.00%

768

5

To elect David Bauernfeind

176,154,740

99.28%

1,273,736

0.72%

595,797

6

To re-elect Gary Kennedy

174,833,621

99.93%

119,137

0.07%

3,071,515

7

To re-elect Mark Cashmore

174,597,574

98.40%

2,833,159

1.60%

593,540

8

To re-elect Jonathan Bunting

176,155,411

99.28%

1,274,556

0.72%

594,306

9

To re-elect Andrew Brent

177,319,220

99.94%

109,785

0.06%

595,268

10

To re-elect Colin Child

175,841,748

99.11%

1,587,725

0.89%

594,800

11

To re-elect Denis Collis

175,845,285

99.11%

1,584,776

0.89%

594,212

12

To re-appoint the auditor

177,740,341

99.84%

281,389

0.16%

2,543

13

To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the auditor's remuneration

177,974,245

99.98%

33,397

0.02%

16,631

14

Authority to make political donations

175,160,079

98.57%

2,545,818

1.43%

318,376

15

Authority to allot shares

151,542,441

85.14%

26,443,356

14.86%

38,476

16

Authority to partially disapply pre-emption rights*

151,535,061

85.14%

26,444,607

14.86%

44,605

17

Authority to make market purchases of ordinary shares*

177,666,029

99.82%

325,956

0.18%

32,288

18

Authority to call general meetings (other than the AGM) on 14 clear days' notice*

173,595,539

97.54%

4,381,890

2.46%

46,844

* Special resolution

 

Notes:

1.   Where shareholders appointed the Chairman as their proxy with discretion as to voting, their votes were cast in favour of the resolutions and have been included in the "For" total.

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

3.   The total number of shares in issue at 6pm on 24 January 2017 was 247,576,954. Votes were cast in respect of 71.9% of the issued share capital.

 

In accordance with the UK Listing Authority's Listing Rule 9.6.2, a copy of the special business passed at the AGM, being resolutions 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18, has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

 

 

Alison Painter

Interim Deputy Company Secretary 

 


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