26 June 2020
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 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 2019
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19,769,703 |
89.26% |
2,379,757 |
10.74% |
0 |
Resolution 2 - To re-elect Richard Hickinbotham as a Director
|
19,769,703 |
100.00% |
0 |
0.00% |
2,379,757 |
Resolution 3 - To re-elect Giulio Cesareo as a Director
|
22,149,460 |
100.00% |
0 |
0.00% |
0 |
Resolution 4 - To re-appoint BDO LLP as Auditors of the Company
|
22,144,010 |
99.98% |
5,450 |
0.02% |
0 |
Resolution 5 - To authorise the Audit Committee to fix the remuneration of the Auditors
|
22,149,460 |
100.00% |
0 |
0.00% |
0 |
Resolution 6* - To authorise the Directors to purchase the Company's own shares
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22,142,306 |
99.97% |
7,154 |
0.03% |
0 |
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 |
+39 02 36714458 |
Giulio Cesareo, CEO |
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Marco Ferrari, CFO |
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Cantor Fitzgerald Europe (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker) |
+44 20 7894 7000 |
Rick Thompson, Philip Davies Will Goode(Corporate Finance) |
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N+1 Singer (Joint Broker) |
+44 20 7496 3069 |
Mark Taylore |
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Tavistock (Financial PR and IR) |
+44 20 7920 3150 |
Simon Hudson, Edward Lee |
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About Directa Plus
Our focus is principally on the two sectors in which we have strong commercial advantage through developed and launched products and a technological lead: environmental (based on our Grafysorber® product) and textiles (based on our G+ products). In addition, we will continue to pursue opportunities in elastomers and composites (including tyres and asphalt), also using our G+ products. All our products are hypoallergenic, non-toxic and sustainably produced.
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