Result of AGM

RNS Number : 1916Z

Coats Group PLC

19 May 2021

 

19 May 2021

Coats Group plc

('Coats' or the 'Company')

Results of the Annual General Meeting ("AGM")

Coats announces that at the AGM, held at the Company's Registered Office on 19 May 2021, all the resolutions put to the meeting were duly passed by way of a poll vote by the requisite majority.

Proxy votes were received from shareholders in respect of 83% of the issued share capital. The total number of ordinary shares in issue in relation to the AGM is 1,452,570,385.

The following table shows the proxy votes cast on each resolution:

Resolution		Total Votes For		Total Votes Against		Votes Withheld
			%		%
1	Receipt of Annual Report 2020	1,210,162,846	99.99	10,274	0.01	1,116,179
2	Approval of Remuneration Report	1,207,472,012	99.98	281,590	0.02	3,535,697
3	Approval of dividend	1,210,197,106	99.91	1,092,193	0.09	0
4	Re-election of Nicholas Bull	1,203,039,972	99.32	8,217,922	0.68	31,405
5	Re-election of Anne Fahy	1,011,791,193	86.98	151,426,419	13.02	48,071,687
6	Re-election of David Gosnell	1,200,749,119	99.32	8,203,631	0.68	2,336,549
7	Re-election of Hongyan Echo Lu	1,203,024,467	99.32	8,207,262	0.68	57,570
8	Re-election of Fran Philip	1,203,036,704	99.32	8,226,484	0.68	26,111
9	Re-election of Rajiv Sharma	1,163,817,249	96.08	47,451,235	3.92	20,815
10	Election of Jacqueline Callaway	1,210,716,875	99.96	533,901	0.04	38,523
11	Election of Jakob Sigurdsson	1,203,020,861	99.32	8,248,265	0.68	20,173
12	Reappointment of Auditor	1,186,805,517	97.99	24,363,364	2.01	120,418
13	Approval of Auditor remuneration	1,190,626,305	98.29	20,658,460	1.71	4,534
14	Authority to allot relevant securities	1,084,030,404	89.50	127,150,167	10.50	108,728
15	Authority to disapply pre-emption rights	1,211,001,312	99.99	131,644	0.01	155,105
16	Additional disapplication of pre-emption rights	1,124,844,200	92.88	86,288,814	7.12	156,285
17	Authority to purchase own Shares	1,206,894,780	99.68	3,831,331	0.32	563,188
18	Authority to call general meetings on clear 14 days' notice	1,190,061,714	98.25	21,224,480	1.75	3,105
19	Approval and adoption of new Articles of Association	1,211,170,351	99.99	97,040	0.01	21,908

NB: Percentage of Votes cast excludes Withheld votes; rounded to two decimal places. Any proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Chairman have been included in the "for" column. 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   https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism .

Further details of the resolutions (including the text of the resolutions) are given in the Notice of the 2021 Annual General Meeting which is available on the Company's website.

Stuart Morgan

Company Secretary

19 May 2021

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About Coats Group plc

Coats is the world's leading industrial thread company. At home in some 50 countries, Coats has a workforce of 17,000 people across six continents. Revenues in 2020 were US$1.2bn. Coats' pioneering history and innovative culture ensure the company leads the way around the world. It provides complementary and value added products, services and software solutions to the apparel and footwear industries. It applies innovative techniques to develop high technology Performance Materials threads, yarns and fabrics in areas such as Transportation, Telecommunications and Energy, and Personal Protection. Headquartered in the UK, Coats is a FTSE 250 company, a constituent of the FTSE4Good Index Series, a participant in the UN Global Compact and a member of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. It has also committed to developing a long-term target to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, the highest level of ambition on climate under the Science Based Target Initiative.

 

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