Result of AGM

RNS Number : 0573A

Coats Group PLC

23 May 2019

 

23 May 2019

Coats Group plc

('Coats' or the 'Company')

Results of the Annual General Meeting ("AGM")

Coats announces that at its AGM, held in London, United Kingdom on 23 May 2019, all the resolutions put to the meeting were duly passed.

The results of the poll held at the AGM are as follows:

Resolution		Total Votes For		Total Votes Against		Total Votes cast as % of Issued Share Capital	Votes Withheld
			%*		%*	%*
1	Receipt of Annual Report 2018	1,151,671,757	99.999	7,615	0.001	79.857	1,015,207
2	Approval of Remuneration Report	1,144,133,854	99.262	8,503,589	0.738	79.923	57,136
3	Approval of Dividend	1,152,693,108	100.000	945	0.000	79.927	526
4	Re-election of Simon Boddie	1,152,474,097	99.981	215,666	0.019	79.927	4,816
5	Re-election of Nicholas Bull	1,152,673,587	99.999	15,503	0.001	79.927	5,489
6	Re-election of Mike Clasper	1,100,943,888	99.546	5,022,415	0.454	76.687	46,728,276
7	Re-election of Anne Fahy	1,103,101,435	95.698	49,590,695	4.302	79.927	1,504
8	Re-election of David Gosnell	1,152,258,522	99.963	431,672	0.037	79.927	4,294
9	Re-election of Hongyan Echo Lu	1,152,645,316	99.998	20,258	0.002	79.925	28,914
10	Re-election of Fran Philip	1,152,651,109	99.997	36,994	0.003	79.926	6,476
11	Re-election of Alan Rosling	1,152,654,446	99.998	22,619	0.002	79.926	17,514
12	Re-election of Rajiv Sharma	1,125,022,896	97.600	27,666,349	2.400	79.927	5,334
13	Reappointment of Auditor	1,044,614,852	98.536	15,517,830	1.464	73.509	92,561,897
14	Approval of Auditor remuneration	1,137,880,259	98.715	14,811,264	1.285	79.927	3,056
15	Authority to allot relevant securities	1,152,240,101	99.961	444,669	0.039	79.926	9,809
16	Authority to disapply pre-emption rights	1,152,030,745	99.948	603,170	0.052	79.923	60,664
17	Authority to disapply pre-emption rights in connection with acquisitions and specified capital investments	1,102,661,083	95.665	49,970,158	4.335	79.923	63,338
18	Authority to purchase own Shares	1,152,545,892	99.994	68,087	0.006	79.921	80,600
19	Authority to call general meetings on clear 14 days' notice	1,126,901,247	97.762	25,792,922	2.238	79.927	410

Notes:

·      *All percentages are rounded to three decimal places.

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

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

·      The issued share capital used to calculate the total votes cast as a percentage of issued share capital voted is 1,442,185,334.

·      A copy of the resolutions other than those resolutions comprising ordinary business passed at the AGM has been uploaded to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM

Total Voting Rights

The total number of the Company's ordinary shares in issue and therefore the total number of voting rights as at the close of business on 23 May 2019 was 1,442,185,334.

Stuart Morgan

Company Secretary

23 May 2019

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