Result of AGM

RNS Number : 4701W

Close Brothers Group PLC

18 November 2010

 



Results of Annual General Meeting

Close Brothers Group plc advises that all the resolutions proposed at its Annual General Meeting held today Thursday 18 November 2010 were duly passed on a show of hands; resolutions 1 to 14 as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 15 to 17 as special resolutions and so are reported in accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.18.

The following proxy votes were cast in respect of the AGM resolutions:-

	Ordinary Resolutions	In Favour		Chairman's Discretion		Against		Votes Withheld
		Votes cast	%	Votes cast	%	Votes cast	%
1.	To receive the 2010 Annual Report and Accounts	113,674,614	99.05	19,556	0.02	1,071,512	0.93	60,307
2.	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the financial year ended 31 July 2010	105,252,393	95.90	19,843	0.02	4,473,859	4.08	5,079,893
3.	To authorise the payment of a final dividend on the ordinary shares of 25.5p per share for the year ended 31 July 2010	114,593,936	99.97	20,442	0.02	1,727	0.01	209,885
4.	To re-elect Strone Macpherson as a director	113,862,358	99.22	19,456	0.02	873,643	0.76	70,533
5.	To re-elect Preben Prebensen as a director	113,803,334	99.16	19,943	0.02	940,915	0.82	61,798
6.	To re-elect Stephen Hodges as a director	113,802,005	99.16	19,943	0.02	941,715	0.82	62,327
7.	To re-elect Jonathan Howell as a director	113,790,845	99.16	20,743	0.02	940,915	0.82	73,487
8.	To re-elect Bruce Carnegie-Brown as a director	113,914,833	99.26	19,156	0.02	827,040	0.72	64,961
9.	To re-elect Jamie Cayzer-Colvin as a director	110,052,280	99.96	22,043	0.02	4,612,960	4.02	138,705
10.	To re-elect Ray Greenshields as a director	113,918,880	99.27	27,269	0.02	817,272	0.71	62,569
11.	To re-elect Douglas Paterson as a director	113,912,023	99.26	26,182	0.02	825,216	0.72	62,569
12.	To reappoint Deloitte LLP as auditors	113,856,530	99.91	24,160	0.02	82,053	0.07	863,246
13.	To authorise the directors to determine the remuneration of the auditors	114,572,708	99.83	25,160	0.02	166,975	0.15	61,147
14.	To authorise the Board to allot shares and to grant rights to subscribe for or convert any security into shares (within prescribed limits)	114,003,185	98.48	22,616	0.02	576,069	0.50	224,120
	Special Resolutions
15.	That, if resolution 14 is passed, pre-emption rights are disapplied in relation to allotments of equity securities (within prescribed limits)	114,696,576	99.95	22,141	0.02	39,035	0.03	68,238
16.	That the Company be generally and unconditionally authorised to make market purchases of its own shares (within prescribed limits)	114,715,275	99.96	24,046	0.02	24,108	0.02	62,561
17.	That a general meeting except an AGM may be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice	112,402,387	97.94	24,616	0.02	2,335,447	2.04	63,540

NOTES:
1.	The 'vote withheld' option was provided to enable shareholders to refrain from voting on any particular resolution.  A "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and has not been counted in the calculation of the proportion of the vote 'For' and 'Against' a resolution.
2.	At the date of the AGM the issued share capital of the Company is 144,890,251 ordinary shares (excluding 4,777,072 treasury shares).

The Company announces that in accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of resolutions 15, 16 and 17 have been submitted to the UK Listing Authority and will shortly be available for inspection on the National Storage Mechanism at:

www.hemscott.com/nsm.do

Tel [phone]

John Hudspith

Assistant Company Secretary

18 November 2010

020 7655 3100

 

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