Result of Annual General Meeting
The Company announces that at the Annual General Meeting ("AGM") held yesterday all resolutions set out in the Notice of AGM were passed by the requisite majority. Each of the resolutions put to the AGM were voted on by way of a poll.
The results of the poll for each resolution were as follows:
Resolution (No. as noted on proxy form) |
Shares For |
% |
Shares Against |
% |
Shares Marked as votes withheld / abstentions |
Resolution 1 - To receive and accept the financial statements for the year ended 31 January 2020 |
29,199,613 |
99.99 |
2,000 |
0.01 |
3,973 |
Resolution 2 - To declare a final dividend of 4.60p per ordinary share. |
29,205,586 |
100 |
0 |
0.00 |
0 |
Resolution 3 - To receive and approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 January 2020. |
29,140,507 |
99.85 |
44,178 |
0.15 |
20,901 |
Resolution 4 - To receive and approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy for the year ended 31 January 2020. |
28,964,673 |
99.89 |
31,354 |
0.11 |
209,559 |
Resolution 5 - To re-elect Susan Platts- Martin as a Director of the Company. |
29,157,421 |
99.88 |
33,769 |
0.12 |
14,396 |
Resolution 6 - To re-elect Dermot McMeekin as a Director of the Company. |
29,169,877 |
99.92 |
21,960 |
0.08 |
13,748 |
Resolution 7 - To re-Chris Ralph as a Director of the Company. |
29,178,806 |
99.96 |
13,032 |
0.04 |
13,748 |
Resolution 8 - To re-elect Andrew Robson as a Director of the Company. |
29,182,779 |
99.98 |
5,967 |
0.02 |
16,840 |
Resolution 9 - To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP as Auditor of the Company. |
29,153,222 |
99.85 |
42,664 |
0.15 |
9,700 |
Resolution 10 - To authorise the Directors to determine remuneration of the Auditor of the Company. |
29,189,324 |
99.98 |
5,967 |
0.02 |
10,295 |
Resolution 11 - Authority to allot ordinary shares of the Company. |
29,048,003 |
99.57 |
126,275 |
0.43 |
31,308 |
Resolution 12 - Authority to disapply statutory pre-emption rights. |
29,101,340 |
99.75 |
73,735 |
0.25 |
30,511 |
Resolution 13 - Authority to make market purchases of the Company's Ordinary shares |
29,149,490 |
99.82 |
52,371 |
0.18 |
3,724 |
Resolution 14 - General Meeting Notice |
28,837,883 |
98.74 |
367,703 |
1.26 |
0 |
A copy of the full text of resolutions 11 to 14 will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism .
These resolutions will also be available on the Company's website at www. witanpacific.com
Link Company Matters Limited
Company Secretary
30 June 2020
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