Amendment - AGM and Separate Class Meetings Statement
The following announcement replaces the previous AGM and Separate Class Meetings Statement issued on 27 September 2013.
AGM
The Board of Foresight 4 VCT plc announces that at the AGM held on 26 September 2013 all of the resolutions were duly passed.
The proxy voting was as follows:
Resolution | Votes For | Votes Against |
1 - To Receive the Report and Accounts | 5,934,451 (98.58%) | 85,287 (1.42%) |
2 - Approval of the Directors' Remuneration Report | 4,858,234 (82.43%) | 1,035,264 (17.57%) |
3 - To re-elect Philip Stephens as director | 5,287,328 (85.18%) | 920,199 (14.82%) |
4 - To re-elect Peter Dicks as director | 5,555,518 (89.40%) | 658,862 (10.60%) |
5 - To re-elect Raymond Abbott as director | 5,560,248 (89.44%) | 656,429 (10.56%) |
6 - To re-appoint KPMG LLP (replacing KPMG Audit plc) as auditor and to authorise the directors' remuneration | 5,740,084 (95.47%) | 272,440 (4.53%) |
7 - Authority to Allot Shares | 5,725,021 (91.03%) | 563,546 (8.97%) |
8 - Allotment of Equity Securities | 5,376,385 (85.88%) | 883,945 (14.12%) |
9 - Market Purchases of Own Shares | 5,764,191 (91.52%) | 533,951 (8.48%) |
Separate Class Meetings
AGM resolutions 7 and 9 were subject to the approval of resolutions to be held at the Separate Class Meetings on 26 September 2013. Neither of these meetings were quorate under the Company's s articles of association and were adjourned until 27 September 2013.
Ordinary Share Class
The resolution was duly passed at the adjourned Ordinary Shares Class Meeting held on 27 September 2013:
Resolution | Votes For | Votes Against |
To approve resolutions 7&9 from the Annual General Meeting | 3,758,799 (90.99%) | 372,341 (9.01%) |
C Share Class
The adjourned C Shares Class Meeting to be held on 27 September 2013 remained non quorate. Resolutions 7&9 have not become unconditional and details of a new meeting will be sent out to Shareholders in due course.
For further information please contact:
Gary Fraser, Foresight Group: 01732 471800