Result of Annual General Meeting

Equals Group PLC
21 May 2024
 

For immediate release

21 May 2024

 

Equals Group plc

('Equals' or the 'Company')

 

Result of Annual General Meeting

 

Equals (AIM:EQLS), the fintech payments group focused on the Enterprise and SME marketplace, announces that at the Company's Annual General Meeting held earlier today, all resolutions put to shareholders were duly passed. The number of votes cast for and against each of the resolutions proposed, and the number of votes withheld were as follows:

 

 Resolution

Votes for

%

Votes against

%

Votes withheld

Resolution 1 (Ordinary)

To receive and adopt the statement of accounts for the year ended 31 December 2023 together with the reports of the Directors and the auditors thereon.

94,136,723

100

0

0

15,091

Resolution 2 (Ordinary)

To declare a final dividend of 1p per ordinary share.

94,136,723

100

0

0

15,091

Resolution 3 (Ordinary)

To re-elect Christopher John Bones as a director of the Company.

94,041,179

99.90

89,544

0.10

21,091

Resolution 4 (Ordinary)

To re-elect Ian Alexander Irving Strafford Taylor as a director of the Company.

94,041,688

99.97

29,035

0.03

81,091

Resolution 5 (Ordinary)

To re-elect Sian Herbert as a director of the Company.

94,039,688

99.91

89,035

0.09

23,091

Resolution 6 (Ordinary)

To reappoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditor to the Company.

94,115,687

99.98

15,036

0.02

21,091

Resolution 7 (Ordinary)

To authorise the Directors to set the auditor's remuneration.

94,116,487

99.98

14,236

0.02

21,091

Resolution 8 (Ordinary)

To authorise the Directors to allot relevant securities.

89,042,323

94.62

5,059,350

5.38

50,141

Resolution 9 (Special)

To empower the Directors to allot equity securities for cash otherwise than on a pre-emptive basis.

88,978,389

94.56

5,123,284

5.44

50,141

Resolution 10 (Special)

To empower the Directors to allot equity securities for cash otherwise than on a pre-emptive basis for an acquisition or other capital investment.

88,978,389

94.56

5,123,284

5.44

50,141

Resolution 11 (Special)

To empower the Directors to make market purchases of the Company's shares.

94,115,073

99.99

11,600

0.01

25,141

 

Notes:

 

As at the time of the Meeting, there were 187,627,898 ordinary shares in issue. Shareholders are entitled to one vote per share. Votes withheld are not votes in law and so have not been included in the calculation of the proportion of votes for and against a resolution.

 

- Ends -

 

For more information, please contact:

 

Equals Group PLC


Ian Strafford-Taylor, CEO

Richard Cooper,

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7778 9308

www.equalsplc.com

 

Canaccord Genuity (Nominated Advisor / Broker)


Max Hartley / Harry Rees

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7523 8150

 

Buchanan (Financial Communications)


Henry Harrison- Topham / Steph Whitmore / Toto Berger

equals@buchanan.uk.com

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7466 5000

www.buchanancomms.co.uk

 

Notes to Editors:

 

Equals Group is a technology-led international payments group augmented by highly personalised service for the payment needs of SME's whether these be FX, card payments or via Faster Payments. Founded in 2007, the Group listed on AIM in 2014.  For more information, please visit www.equalsplc.com.

 

 

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