Result of AGM and Directorate Change

Tern PLC
29 June 2023
 

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29 June 2023

 

Tern Plc

 

("Tern" or the "Company")

Result of AGM

Directorate Change

Tern Plc (AIM:TERN), the investment company specialising in supporting high growth, early-stage, disruptive Internet of Things ("IoT") technology businesses, announces that at the Company's Annual General Meeting ("AGM") held earlier today resolutions 1, 2, 4 and 7 were passed on a poll.  Resolutions 3, 5 and 6 were not passed.

 

As resolution 3, seeking the re-appointment of Albert Sisto as a director of the Company was not passed, Mr Sisto ceased to be a director at the conclusion of the AGM.  Mr Sisto remains an employee of the Company.  Due to this change the Board is considering the future management structure of the Company and further announcements may be made in due course, as appropriate.  Following resolutions 5 and 6 not being passed, the Directors do not currently have the authority to issue new ordinary shares for cash or generally.

 

The Board is committed to continuing an open dialogue with the Company's shareholders. Following the voting at the AGM, where it is able to, the Board will continue to seek to engage with those shareholders who are understood to have voted against certain of the resolutions to understand their views and/or any specific concerns.



 

 

Details of the poll voting on each resolution are set out below:

 

Resolution

Votes For*

Votes Against

Votes Withheld**

Total Votes Cast (excluding Withheld)**

No. of ordinary shares

% of ordinary shares voted**

No. of ordinary shares

% of ordinary shares voted**

No. of ordinary shares

 

ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS

1.   To receive and adopt the accounts for the financial year ended 31 December 2022

122,441,663

90.12

13,417,358

9.88

11,929,443

135,859,021

2.   To re-appoint Evelyn Partners as auditors of the Company and to authorise the Directors to determine their remuneration.

114,225,642

88.11

15,407,025

11.89

18,155,797

129,632,667

3.   To re-appoint Mr Albert Sisto as a Director of the Company

58,842,897

41.12

84,263,426

58.88

4,682,141

143,106,323

4.   To re-appoint Mr Matthew Scherba as a Director of the Company

79,479,356

56.81

60,428,750

43.19

7,880,358

139,908,106

5.   To authorise the Directors to allot securities

54,770,740

38.40

87,866,032

61.60

5,151,692

142,636,772

 

SPECIAL RESOLUTION

6.   To disapply statutory pre-emption rights

45,702,008

33.21

91,895,015

66.79

10,191,441

137,597,023

7.   To allow the Company to make market purchases of its Ordinary Shares

110,338,688

76.37

34,141,766

23.63

3,308,010

144,480,454

 

* Votes 'For' include votes giving the Chairman discretion.

** A 'Vote Withheld' is not a vote in law and has not been counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes 'For' and 'Against' a resolution.

 

The resolutions are set out in full in the Company's Notice of 2023 Annual General Meeting dated 30 May 2023.  The votes received represented approximately 38 per cent. of the Company's issued share capital.

 

Enquiries

 

Tern Plc

Ian Ritchie (Chairman)

via IFC Advisory

 

Allenby Capital Limited

(Nominated Adviser and Broker)

Alex Brearley / Dan Dearden-Williams (Corporate Finance)

Matt Butlin / Kelly Gardiner (Sales and Corporate Broking)

 

Tel: 0203 328 5656

 

IFC Advisory

(Financial PR and IR)

Tim Metcalfe

Graham Herring

Florence Chandler

 

Tel: 0203 934 6630

tern@investor-focus.co.uk

 

 

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