Results of AGM, Board Changes

Speedy Hire PLC

10 September 2026

 

Speedy Hire Plc

10 September 2026

Speedy Hire Plc ("Company")

Results of AGM, Board Changes

At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 10 September 2026 at the offices of Addleshaw Goddard LLP at 41 Lothbury, London EC2R 7HG, all resolutions set out in the Notice of Meeting were voted on a poll.

Resolutions 1 to 14 and resolution 19 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 15 to 18 were passed as special resolutions. The results of the poll are set out below:

No	Resolution	For *		Against		Withheld **
		No. of Votes	% of Vote	No. of Votes	% of Vote	No. of Votes
1	To receive and adopt the annual accounts of the Company for the financial year ended 31 March 2026 together with the reports of the Directors and auditors (ordinary).	269,769,309	99.87	347,068	0.13	5,336,710
2	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the financial year ended 31 March 2026 (ordinary).	269,283,299	99.44	1,504,552	0.56	4,665,236
3	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy (ordinary).	263,946,157	97.47	6,841,650	2.53	4,665,280
4	To declare a final dividend of 0.70 pence per ordinary share in respect of the financial year ended 31 March 2026 (ordinary).	270,557,884	99.90	263,382	0.10	4,631,821
5	To elect Judith Cottrell as a Director of the Company (ordinary).	269,985,455	99.78	607,226	0.22	4,860,406
6	To elect Andrew McNaughton as a Director of the Company (ordinary).	269,512,149	99.61	1,064,362	0.39	4,876,576
7	To re-elect Dan Evans as a Director of the Company (ordinary).	269,684,796	99.65	938,629	0.35	4,829,662
8	To re-elect David Shearer as a Director of the Company (ordinary).	266,113,978	98.33	4,509,218	1.67	4,829,891
9	To re-elect Rhian Bartlett as a Director of the Company (ordinary).	266,415,877	98.45	4,187,418	1.55	4,849,792
10	To re-elect Shatish Dasani as a Director of the Company (ordinary).	266,197,906	98.36	4,425,290	1.64	4,829,891
11	To re-elect Carol Kavanagh as a Director of the Company (ordinary).	269,906,309	99.73	718,490	0.27	4,828,288
12	To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Auditors (ordinary).	269,273,808	99.63	1,008,992	0.37	5,170,287
13	To authorise the Directors to determine the remuneration of the Auditors (ordinary).	270,063,673	99.81	511,056	0.19	4,878,358
14	To authorise the Directors to allot shares (ordinary).	269,476,009	99.56	1,196,972	0.44	4,780,106
15	To authorise the Directors to allot securities free from pre-emption rights, subject to certain specified limitations (special).	268,356,007	99.18	2,220,016	0.82	4,877,064
16	To disapply statutory pre-emption rights in relation to acquisitions or other capital investments (special).	268,405,731	99.20	2,177,955	0.80	4,869,401
17	To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own shares (special).	270,296,574	99.84	420,327	0.16	4,736,186
18	To authorise the calling of general meetings (other than Annual General Meetings) on not less than 14 days' notice (special).	269,800,699	99.67	884,335	0.33	4,768,053
19	To permit the Company to make political donations (ordinary).	262,780,897	97.08	7,898,868	2.92	4,773,322

N.B. Percentage figures are rounded to 2 decimal places.

*     The votes of any proxy giving the Chairman discretion how to vote have been included in the votes For a resolution.

**   A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of percentages of votes cast For and Against a resolution.

As at 10 September 2026, the number of issued shares of the Company was 516,983,637, of which 55,141,657 were held in treasury. Therefore, the total voting rights in the Company as at that date was 461,841,980.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of all the resolutions passed as special business at the Annual General Meeting will shortly be available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism which can be accessed at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

In keeping with the Company's announcement on 17 June 2026, David Garman stepped down from the Board at the end of the AGM. The Board has today approved the following appointments to the Board Committees with immediate effect:

•     Carol Kavanagh to the Audit & Risk and Nomination Committees;

•     Rhian Bartlett to the Remuneration Committee;

•     Shatish Dasani and Andrew McNaughton to the Sustainability Committee.

Neil Hunt

Company Secretary

 

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