Result of AGM
For Immediate Release: 20 May 2008
CLS Holdings plc
("the Company" or "CLS")
Result of AGM
Result of AGM
At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held at 10.00am today, all the
resolutions set out in the Tender Offer document and notice of AGM dated 24
April 2008 were duly passed unanimously by a show of hands except that, further
to the announcement of 2nd May 2008, Resolution 3, the re-election of Per
Sjöberg as a Director, and Resolution 8, the re-election of Anders Böös as a
Director, were both withdrawn from the meeting. The votes lodged by proxy were
as follows:
Resolution For* Against Votes Withheld
**
Receive and adopt the Annual Report & 57,721,256 175,624 2,443
Accounts
Approve the Directors' Remuneration 53,600,077 2,786,157 1,513,089
Report
Re-elect James Dean as a Director 56,564,423 211,527 1,123,373
Re-elect Thomas Lundqvist as a 46,077,595 8,996,534 2,825,194
Director
Re-elect Bengt Mörtstedt as a 53,393,799 776,560 3,728,964
Director
Re-elect Tom Thomson as a Director 56,584,632 191,318 1,123,373
Re-elect Malcolm Cooper as a Director 57,874,677 24,080 566
Re-appoint Deloitte & Touche LLP as 57,898,110 1,213 0
auditors
Authorise the directors to determine 57,897,610 1,000 713
the auditors' remuneration
Authorise the directors to allot 57,875,082 24,241 0
relevant securities
Authorise the directors to offer a 57,313,198 586,125 0
scrip dividend option
Authorise the directors to make non 57,893,449 5,520 354
pre-emptive share allotments
Authorise the directors to make 57,332,373 566,596 354
market purchases of shares
* Includes those votes giving the Chairman discretion.
** These votes are not counted towards the votes cast at the Annual General
Meeting.
A copy of the resolutions passed under special business at the Annual General
Meeting will be submitted to the UK Listing Authority and will shortly be
available for inspection at:
Document Viewing Facility
Financial Services Authority
25 The North Colonnade
Canary Wharf
London E14 5HS
Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7066 1000
Enquiries:
CLS Holdings plc
Sten Mortstedt, Executive Chairman +44 (0) 20 7582 7766
Tom Thomson, Vice Chairman +44 (0) 20 7582 7766