AGM Results

RNS Number : 7938Y

Assura Group Limited

09 September 2009

 



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9 September 2009

Assura Group Limited ('Assura' or the 'Company')

AGM Announcement

Assura Group Limited announces that at its Annual General Meeting held earlier today at the Company's offices at 50 Pall Mall, London, each of the resolutions submitted to the meeting (as set out in the Notice of the Meeting dated 29 June 2009) was proposed and passed by the appropriate majority on a show of hands. 

Accordingly, the following matters were approved:

Ordinary Business:

1.    The Annual Report and Accounts of the Company for the period to 31 March 2009 were approved and adopted;

2.    The Remuneration Report for the financial year ended 31 March 2009 was approved;

3.    The auditors, Ernst and Young LLP, were re-appointed and the Directors were authorised to fix their  
       remuneration;

4.    John Curran was re-appointed to the Board;

5.    Graham Chase was re-appointed to the Board; and

6.    Clare Hollingsworth was elected to the Board.

Special Business:

1.    The Directors were granted allotment authorities in respect of 211,640,000 ordinary shares of 10p each and 
       20,000,000 preference shares of 10p each; and

2.    The Company was authorised to make market purchases and/or acquisitions of its own shares and to hold 
       shares in Treasury.

The proxy votes on each resolution were as follows:

Resolution	For	% For	Against	% Against	Total Votes	Votes Withheld
1. Approval of Annual Report and Accounts	250,595,312	99.90	239,000	0.10	250,834,312	1,214,345
2. Approval of Remuneration Report	126,624,635	99.73	344,723	0.27	126,969,358	125,079,298
3. Re-appointment of Auditors	251,808,657	99.90	240,000	0.10	252,048,657	nil
4. Re-election of John Curran	250,159,361	99.90	243,276	0.10	250,402,637	1,646,019
5. Re-election of Graham Chase	252,048,657	100.00	nil	0.00	252,048,657	nil
6. Election of Clare Hollingsworth	252,048,657	100.00	nil	0.00	252,048,657	nil
7. Granting of authority to allot shares	251,367,324	99.73	681,333	0.27	252,048,657	nil
8. Granting authority to purchase own shares and to hold such shares in treasury	252,047,657	100.00	1,000	0.00	252,048,657	nil

Resolutions 1 to 7 were ordinary resolutions. Resolution 8 was a special resolution.

Votes 'For' include votes at the discretion of the Chairman. Votes 'Withheld' are not counted in the count of the total votes or the calculations of the percentages 'For' or 'Against' each resolution. Percentages are rounded to two decimal places. Total shares in issue at the date of the meeting were 317,467,036.

Two copies of the resolutions passed at the meeting concerning special business have been submitted to the UKLA, and will shortly be available for inspection at the UKLA's Document Viewing Facility, which is situated at:

Financial Services Authority

25 The North Colonnade

Canary Wharf

London

E14 5HS

Tel: [phone]

Conor Daly

Group Company Secretary and Head of Legal Services

Assura Group Limited

Tel: [phone]

Head office and UK branch registered address:

3300 Daresbury Business Park

Warrington

Cheshire

WA4 4HS

Registered at Companies House. Company number: FC 28394.

Branch registration number: BR010010

Registered in Guernsey. Registered number: 41230.

Registered Office: Isabelle Chambers, Route Isabelle, St Peter Port, Guernsey

Ends

Enquiries:

Assura Group  Richard Burrell/Louise Bathersby	Tel: [phone]
Financial Dynamics  Ben Atwell	Tel: [phone]

 

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