Result of AGM

RNS Number : 2730F
Volex PLC
26 July 2016
 

26 July 2016

 

VOLEX PLC

 

Voting Results of 2016 Annual General Meeting ("AGM")

 

Volex plc (the "Company"), one of the world's largest power cord and harness assemblers, announces the results of its AGM held today. All resolutions were duly passed on a poll.

 

The proxy votes were cast as follows:

 

Resolution

Votes For

Votes Against

Votes Withheld*

 

Resolution 1 - To receive the Reports of the Directors and the Auditors and the Accounts for the year ended 3 April 2016.

 

61,134,942

18,816

700

Resolution 2  - To approve the Directors'

Remuneration Report.

 

55,587,021

93,599

5,473,838

 

Resolution 3 - To elect Nat Rothschild as a Director.

 

55,152,763

5,506,259

495,436

 

Resolution 4 - To elect Adrian Chamberlain as a Director.

 

57,487,151

39,266

3,628,041

 

Resolution 5 - To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the auditors of the Company.

 

59,227,192

86,317

1,840,949

 

Resolution 6 - To authorise the Directors of the Company to determine the auditors' remuneration.

 

61,077,052

77,406

0

 

Resolution 7 - To authorise the Directors to allot shares in the Company pursuant to section 551 of the Companies Act 2006.

 

55,402,536

3,906,542

1,845,380

 

Resolution 8 - To authorise the Directors to allot equity securities pursuant to sections 560, 561(1) and 570 of the Companies Act 2006.

 

55,371,433

5,771,573

11,452

 

Resolution 9 - To approve the purchase of ordinary shares pursuant to section 701 of the Companies Act 2006.

 

55,594,527

5,556,214

3,717

 

Resolution 10 - To permit general meetings (other than the Annual General Meeting) to be called on 14 clear days' notice.

 

61,120,401

25,436

8,621

 

* A vote withheld is not treated as a vote in law and would not be counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes cast for or against a resolution.

 

In accordance with UK Listing Rule 9.6.2R copies of the resolutions passed at the AGM have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do.

 

A copy of this announcement setting out the poll results for the AGM is also available on the Company's website at www.volex.com.

 

The full text of each of the resolutions is set out in the notice of AGM, copies of which are available on the Volex website (www.volex.com).

 

Neither the content of the Company's website nor the content of any website accessible from hyperlinks on the Company's website (or any other website) is incorporated into, or forms part of, this announcement nor, unless previously published by means of a recognised information service, should any such content be relied upon in reaching a decision as to whether or not to acquire, continue to hold, or dispose of, securities in the Company.

 

 

Daren Morris

Group Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary

 

Volex plc

 


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