Result of AGM

RNS Number : 6406Y
Paddy Power Betfair plc
18 May 2016
 

Paddy Power Betfair plc (the "Company")

Results of Annual General Meeting 2016

 

The Company announces that the following resolutions were approved at its Annual General Meeting held on Wednesday 18 May 2016. All Board Directors were in attendance.

 

All resolutions as set out in the Notice of Meeting were duly passed on a poll. The number of votes for and against each of the resolutions put before the Meeting and the number of votes withheld were as follows:

 

Resolutions

Votes For1

Votes Against

Total votes

Votes Withheld2


No. of shares

%

No. of shares

%

No. of shares

No. of shares

1.  Receipt of the financial statements for the financial year ended 31 December 2015 and the reports of the Directors and the Auditors thereon and to review the Company's affairs

65,101,133

99.51

318,994

0.49

65,420,127

6,105

2. Approval of the Directors' Remuneration Report

39,082,152

68.22

18,205,170

31.78

57,287,322

8,138,910

3(a). Election of Zillah Byng-Thorne as a Director

65,316,170

99.84

104,981

0.16

65,421,151

5,081

3(b). Election of Breon Corcoran as a Director

65,240,771

99.72

180,650

0.28

65,421,421

4,811

3(c). Election of Ian Dyson as a Director

63,169,959

98.91

696,469

1.09

63,866,428

1,559,804

3(d). Election of Alex Gersh as a Director

65,235,179

99.72

185,972

0.28

65,421,151

5,081

3(e). Election of Peter Jackson as a Director

65,356,701

99.90

64,450

0.10

65,421,151

5,081

3(f). Election of Peter Rigby as a Director

65,333,114

99.87

86,687

0.13

65,419,801

6,431

4(a). Re-election of Gary McGann as a Director

63,498,766

99.42

369,012

0.58

63,867,778

1,558,454

4(b). Re-election of Michael Cawley as a Director

65,194,250

99.65

226,901

0.35

65,421,151

5,081

4(c). Re-election of Danuta Gray as a Director

65,240,335

99.72

180,816

0.28

65,421,151

5,081

4(d). Re-election of Stewart Kenny as a Director

62,769,624

95.95

2,651,527

4.05

65,421,151

5,081

4(e). Re-election of Pádraig Ó Ríordáin as a Director

54,387,268

96.88

1,754,117

3.12

56,141,385

9,284,847

5. Authority to the Directors to set the Auditors' remuneration

65,026,308

99.40

394,785

0.60

65,421,093

5,139

6. Authority to call extraordinary general meetings on fourteen clear days' notice *

61,986,316

94.75

3,437,297

5.25

65,423,613

2,619

7.Authority  to allot shares

57,122,538

87.51

8,155,629

12.49

65,278,167

148,065

8. Dis-application of Pre-emption Rights*

56,134,465

87.89

7,735,717

12.11

63,870,182

1,556,050

9. Authority to Purchase Own Shares*

64,393,476

98.43

1,025,196

1.57

65,418,672

7,560

10. Authority to re-issue Treasury Shares*

65,371,866

99.93

49,047

0.07

65,420,913

5,319

* Denotes Special Resolutions

 

NOTES:

1 Votes "For" and "Against" are expressed as a percentage of votes received. The "For" votes include those giving the Chairman discretion.

2 A vote "Withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes "For" or "Against" the resolution.

3 The total number of ordinary shares in issue, excluding Treasury Shares, on Monday 16 May was 83,763,336.

 

The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual General Meeting, which is available for inspection at the UK's National Storage Mechanism http://www.hemscott.com/nsm.do and also on the Company's website at www.paddypowerbetfair.com  

 

A copy of the resolutions passed under special business (as defined by the listing rules of the UK Listing Authority) will shortly be submitted to the UK's National Storage Mechanism for inspection at http://www.hemscott.com/nsm.do and forwarded to the Irish Stock Exchange.

 

 

Edward Traynor

Company Secretary

Paddy Power Betfair plc

 

18 May 2016


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