Result of AGM

RNS Number : 1867L

Aptitude Software Group PLC

28 April 2020

 

  28 April 2020

APTITUDE SOFTWARE GROUP plc ('Company')

Result of AGM

The Board of Directors of Aptitude Software Group plc (the "Company") announces that, at the Company's 2020 Annual General Meeting held earlier today, all resolutions were duly passed on a show of hands.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2(R), a copy of the resolutions passed at the Annual General Meeting will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism  

As at 24 April 2020, being the proxy voting deadline, there were 56,349,318 ordinary shares with voting rights in issue (the number of ordinary shares with voting rights in issue as at today's date is 56,377,962). The following proxies were received by the Company from shareholders prior to the meeting:

RESOLUTION		FOR		AGAINST		WITHHELD
		VOTES	% OF VOTES CAST*	VOTES	% OF VOTES CAST*	VOTES
1	Receive and adopt the Company's Annual Report & Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2019 together with the reports of the Directors and auditors.	39,377,640	99.99	5,463	0.01	1,000
2	Approve Part B of the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December 2019.	35,921,015	91.22	3,456,006	8.78	7,081
3	Approve and adopt the Directors' Remuneration Policy.	36,118,282	93.98	2,313,377	6.02	952,444
4	Declare a final dividend of 3.60 pence per ordinary share.	39,383,969	99.99	135	0.01	0
5	Re-elect Ivan Martin a Director of the Company	38,100,429	99.14	331,983	0.86	951,691
6	Re-elect Barbara Moorhouse a Director of the Company	39,383,765	99.99	339	0.01	0
7	Re-elect Peter Whiting a Director of the Company	37,350,305	97.18	1,082,107	2.82	951,691
8	Re-elect Philip Wood a Director of the Company	39,350,036	99.92	33,068	0.08	1,000
9	Elect Jeremy Suddards as a Director of the Company	39,384,104	100	0	0	0
10	Appoint Grant Thornton LLP as auditors of the Company.	39,383,969	100	0	0	135
11	Authorise the Audit Committee to agree the auditors' remuneration.	39,383,969	100	0	0	135
12	Authorise the Directors to allot securities pursuant to section 551 of the Companies Act 2006 (the "Act").	39,309,217	99.81	73,269	0.19	1,618
13	Special Resolution: Disapply pre-emption rights under section 561 of the Act within the stated limits.	39,379,751	99.99	2,735	0.01	1,618
14	Special Resolution: Disapply pre-emption rights under section 561 of the Act in additional limited circumstances.	39,374,287	99.98	8,198	0.02	1,618
15	Special Resolution: Authorise the Company to make purchases of its own shares pursuant to section 701 of the Act.	39,376,949	99.99	5,536	0.01	1,618
16	Special Resolution: Authorise the holding of a general meeting (other than an AGM) on not less than 14 clear days' notice.	39,126,110	99.34	257,994	0.66	0
17	To approve amendments to the Performance Share Plan 2016 and authorise the Directors to give effect to them.	37,948,691	98.75	481,968	1.25	953,444
18	To adopt the Deferred Bonus Plan and authorise the Directors to give effect to this.	37,838,604	96.08	1,542,746	3.92	2,753

*Excludes votes withheld

Contact:

Georgina Sharley, Company Secretary

07912 894439

 

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