Result of AGM

RNS Number : 6492C

Directa Plus PLC

18 June 2019

 

18 June 2019

Directa Plus plc

("Directa Plus" or the "Company")

Results of Annual General Meeting

The Company is pleased to announce that at its Annual General Meeting held earlier today (the "Meeting") all the resolutions set out in the Notice of the Meeting, save for resolution 7, were passed by the requisite majority.

Each of the resolutions put to the Meeting were voted on by way of a poll. The results of the poll for each resolution were as follows:

Resolution  (* indicates special resolution)	Votes For	%	Votes Against	%	Shares Marked As Votes Withheld / Abstentions
Resolution 1 - To receive the Company's annual report and accounts for the period ended 31 December 2018	28,018,391	100.00	0	0	0
Resolution 2 - To re-elect Sir Peter Middleton as a Director	28,018,391	100.00	0	0	0
Resolution 3 - To re-elect Marco Ferrari as a Director	28,018,391	100.00	0	0	0
Resolution 4 - To re-appoint BDO LLP as Auditors of the Company	28,013,120	99.98	5,271	0.02	0
Resolution 5 - To authorise the Audit Committee to fix the remuneration of the Auditors	28,017,456	100.00	935	0.00	0
Resolution 6 - To authorise the Directors to allot Ordinary Shares under section 551 of the Companies Act 2006	23,975,456	85.57	4,042,935	14.43	0
Resolution 7* - To authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights	12,133,682	44.56	15,095,395	55.44	789,314
Resolution 8* - To authorise the Directors to purchase the Company's own shares	23,102,348	84.84	4,126,729	15.16	789,314

The Board acknowledges the majority vote against resolution 7 in relation to authorising the Directors to allot Ordinary Shares on a non pre-emptive basis. 

In the lead up to the AGM, we engaged with shareholders on this issue and have reviewed the feedback. We appreciate the time given and comments offered which have provided us with a clearer understanding of shareholder views.

As part of our approach to stakeholder engagement, we believe that it is in the best interests of the Company to listen and continue to engage with shareholders, to help formulate our approach to such engagement going forward, and explain why the Board considers the resolution to be in the best interests of the Company and our shareholders.

NOTES:

1.	Proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Chairman of the Meeting have been included in the "For" total for the appropriate resolution.
2.	Votes "For" and "Against" any resolution are expressed as a percentage (rounded to two decimal places) of votes validly cast for that resolution.
3.	A "Vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the percentage of shares voted "For" or "Against" any resolution.
4.	The full text of the resolutions passed at the Meeting can be found in the Notice of Meeting which is available on the Company's website at: http://www.directa-plus.com/
5.	These poll results will be available shortly on the Company's website at: http://www.directa-plus.com/

For further information please visit http://www.directa-plus.com/ or contact:

Directa Plus plc	[phone]
Giulio Cesareo, CEO
Marco Ferrari, CFO
Cantor Fitzgerald Europe (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker)	[phone]
Rick Thompson, Philip Davies Will Goode(Corporate Finance)
Caspar Shand Kydd (Sales)
N+1 Singer (Joint Broker)	[phone]
Mark Taylor, Lauren Kettle
Tavistock (Financial PR and IR)	[phone]
Simon Hudson, Barney Hayward, Edward Lee

 

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