Result of AGM

RNS Number : 1442O
Connect Group PLC
04 February 2016
 

4 February 2016

Connect Group PLC

Result of 2016 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 2015

175,514,718

99.99%

 

18,272

 

0.01%

 

811,787

 

2

To approve the directors' remuneration report

172,516,695

98.56%

 

2,514,453

 

1.44%

 

1,313,629

 

3

To declare a final dividend of 6.3p per share

175,532,223

100.00%

 

1,528

 

0.00%

 

811,026

 

4

To elect Gary Kennedy

174,781,859

99.59%

725,271

0.41%

837,647

5

To elect Colin Child

175,476,814

99.98%

38,841

0.02%

829,122

6

To elect Denise Collis

175,463,739

99.97%

48,569

0.03%

832,469

7

To re-elect Mark Cashmore

174,342,443

99.33%

1,182,320

0.67%

820,014

8

To re-elect Jonathan Bunting

174,340,153

 

99.33%

 

1,184,379

 

0.67%

 

820,245

 

9

To re-elect Nick Gresham

151,200,007

99.23%

1,179,880

0.77%

23,964,890

10

To re-elect Andrew Brent

175,489,673

99.98%

33,164

0.02%

821,940

11

To re-appoint the auditor

175,235,195

99.83%

296,506

0.17%

813,076

12

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

174,800,909

 

99.58%

 

728,986

 

0.42%

 

814,882

 

13

Authority to make political donations

174,785,828

 

99.73%

 

477,875

 

0.27%

 

1,094,789

 

14

Authority to allot shares

149,372,358

85.11%

26,135,957

14.89%

836,462

15

To approve the Connect Group Long Term Incentive Plan

173,163,827

 

98.94%

 

1,851,400

 

1.06%

 

1,329,550

 

16

To approve the Connect Group Executive Share Option Scheme

173,884,091

 

99.36%

 

1,123,698

 

0.64%

 

1,336,988

 

17

To approve the Connect Group Sharesave Scheme

175,391,309

 

99.98%

 

41,472

 

0.02%

 

911,996

 

18

Authority to partially disapply pre-emption rights*

149,946,551

 

85.05%

 

26,347,303

 

14.95%

 

50,923

 

19

Authority to make market purchases of ordinary shares*

175,457,703

 

99.96%

 

63,584

 

0.04%

 

823,490

 

20

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

168,982,034

 

96.27%

 

6,547,735

 

3.73%

 

 

815,008

 

 

* 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 2016 = 246,611,392. Votes were cast in respect of 71.4% 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 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20, has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

 

Adele Duff

Assistant Company Secretary


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