Result of AGM

RNS Number : 0720E

Connect Group PLC

04 February 2015

 



4 February 2015

Connect Group PLC

Result of 2015 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 2014	175,548,101	99.99%	12,487	0.01%	6,218
2	To approve the directors' remuneration report	168,688,733	98.31%	2,908,409	1.69%	3,969,664
3	To approve the directors' remuneration policy	169,133,401	96.62%	5,909,368	3.38%	524,037
4	To declare a final dividend of 6.0p per share	175,564,962	99.99%	211	0.00%	1,633
5	To re-elect Dennis Millard	171,964,693	99.93%	119,595	0.07%	3,482,518
6	To re-elect Mark Cashmore	174,368,523	99.33%	1,178,573	0.67%	19,710
7	To re-elect Jonathan Bunting	174,368,020	99.33%	1,178,777	0.67%	20,009
8	To re-elect Nick Gresham	174,362,869	99.32%	1,189,841	0.68%	14,096
9	To re-elect Andrew Brent	175,401,832	99.92%	144,760	0.08%	20,214
10	To re-elect Anthony Cann	173,568,891	98.88%	1,974,172	1.12%	23,743
11	To re-elect John Worby	175,423,378	99.93%	117,977	0.07%	25,451
12	To re-appoint the auditor	174,778,008	99.56%	770,460	0.44%	18,338
13	To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the auditor's remuneration	174,918,606	99.64%	638,019	0.36%	10,181
14	Authority to make political donations	174,778,135	99.72%	488,377	0.28%	300,294
15	Authority to allot shares	149,645,381	85.25%	25,883,855	14.75%	37,570
16	Authority to disapply pre-emption rights*	150,153,301	85.55%	25,367,741	14.45%	45,764
17	Authority to make market purchases of ordinary shares*	175,500,715	99.97%	44,942	0.03%	21,149
18	Authority to call general meetings (other than the AGM) on 14 clear days' notice*	166,704,250	94.96%	8,853,552	5.04%	9,004

* 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 2 February 2015 = 243,702,001. Votes were cast in respect of 72.04% of the issued share capital.

In accordance with the UK Listing Authority's Listing Rule 9.6.2, a copy of the resolutions passed as special business 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.

Colin White

Deputy Company Secretary

 

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