Result of AGM and Retirement of Director

RNS Number : 5167D

Avon Rubber PLC

29 January 2015

 

29 January 2015

Avon Rubber p.l.c.

(the 'Company')

Result of AGM and Retirement of Director

Result of AGM

Avon Rubber p.l.c. is pleased to announce that, at its Annual General Meeting held on the 29 January 2015, all the resolutions proposed in the Notice of Meeting were passed on a show of hands.

Full details of the proxy votes received from shareholders prior to the meeting for each resolution are set out below and will also be made available on the Company's website: www.avon-rubber.com

	RESOLUTIONS	FOR	%	AGAINST	%	WITHELD
1	To receive the Report and Accounts	20,853,134	99.99	58	<1%	30,000
2	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report	20,647,892	99.03	200,738	<1%	34,562
3	To declare a final dividend	20,852,460	99.99	674	<1%	30,000
4	To re-appoint Andrew Lewis as a Director	20,847,915	99.97	4,777	<1%	30,500
5	To re-appoint Richard Wood as a Director	20,842,953	99.95	9,739	<1%	30,500
6	To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors of the Company	20,701,029	99.94	12,163	<1%	170,000
7	To authorise the Directors to determine the auditors' remuneration	20,844,469	99.97	4,723	<1%	34,000
8	To authorise the Directors to allot shares	20,831,863	99.91	18,095	<1%	33,234
9	To disapply pre-emption rights*	20,831,072	99.91	18,595	<1%	33,525
10	To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares*	20,823,243	99.85	29,949	<1%	30,000
11	To authorise short notice general meetings*	20,595,810	98.76	256,882	1.24	30,500

Notes

1.    Any proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Chairman have been included in the "for" total.

2.    A "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes "for" and "against" a resolution.

3.    Discretionary proxy votes lodged in favour of a third party have not been included in the 'for', 'against' or 'total' figures. 

4.    At the date of the AGM the issued share capital of the Company is 31,023,292 ordinary shares.

In accordance with paragraph 9.6.2 of the Listing Rules, a copy of the resolutions passed as special business at the AGM have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do.

Retirement of Director

As previously reported in the 2014 Annual Report, Stella Pirie retired as Non-Executive Director of the Company at the conclusion of the AGM.  Richard Wood has replaced Mrs Pirie as the Senior Independent Director.

Miles Ingrey-Counter

Company Secretary

 

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