Results of AGM

RNS Number : 0349W

GlobalData PLC

20 April 2021

 

GlobalData Plc

("GlobalData" or the "Company")

Results of AGM

The Company is pleased to announce that all of the resolutions put to Shareholders at the Annual General Meeting which took place earlier today were duly passed.

A summary of the votes lodged by proxy at the Annual General Meeting is set out below:

Resolution		In Favour		Against		Number of votes withheld	Total votes cast
		Number of votes	%	Number of votes	%
1	To receive the directors' report and accounts for the financial year ended 31 December 2020 and the auditors' report on the accounts.	72,808,386	80.77	17,336,121	19.23	1,822,215	91,966,722
2	To declare a final dividend of 11.6 pence per ordinary share in respect of the year ended 31 December 2020, payable on 23 April 2021 to ordinary shareholders whose names appear in the register of members at close of business on 26 March 2021.	91,966,722	100	0	0.00	0	91,966,722
3	To re-appoint Michael Danson as a director of the Company	91,966,722	100	0	0.00	0	91,966,722
4	To re-appoint Graham Lilley as a director of the Company	91,966,722	100	0	0.00	0	91,966,722
5	To re-appoint Annette Barnes as a director of the Company	91,966,722	100	0	0.00	0	91,966,722
6	To re-appoint Andrew Day as a director of the Company	91,806,885	99.83	159,837	0.17	0	91,966,722
7	To re-appoint Peter Harkness as a director of the Company	78,978,348	87.61	11,166,159	12.39	1,822,215	91,966,722
8	To re-appoint Murray Legg as a director of the Company	91,806,885	99.83	159,837	0.17	0	91,966,722
9	To appoint Catherine Birkett as a director of the Company	91,966,722	100	0	0.00	0	91,966,722
10	To appoint Elizabeth Pritchard as a director of the Company	91,806,885	99.83	159,837	0.17	0	91,966,722
11	To appoint Deloitte LLP as auditors of the Company	91,806,885	99.83	159,837	0.17	0	91,966,722
12	To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the remuneration of the auditors	91,966,722	100	0	0.00	0	91,966,722
13	To authorise the directors pursuant to section 551 of the Companies Act 2006 (the "Act") to allot shares in the Company	91,806,885	99.83	159,837	0.17	0	91,966,722
14	Subject to the passing of Resolution 13, to generally  and unconditionally authorise the directors pursuant to section 570 of the Act to allot equity securities (within the meaning of section 560 of the Act) for cash pursuant to the authority granted by resolution 12 above as if section 561 of the Act did not apply to any such allotment.	91,966,722	100	0	0.00	0	91,966,722
15	To unconditionally and generally authorise the directors for the purposes of section 701 of the Act to make market purchases (within the meaning of section 693(4) of the Act) of its ordinary shares	91,806,885	99.83	159,837	0.17	0	91,966,722
16	To provide directors of the Company with the requisite authority to allot deferred shares in the Company by way of a capitalisation issue	91,966,722	100	0	0.00	0	91,966,722
17	Subject to the passing of Resolution 16, to provide directors of the Company with the requisite authority to reduce the share capital of the Company by the cancellation of the deferred shares	91,966,553	99.99	169	0.01	0	91,966,722
18	To release the directors, shareholders and GlobalData EBT Trustees Limited from claims by the Company in respect of the distributions made by the Company	91,966,722	100	0	0.00	0	91,966,722

ENQUIRIES:

GlobalData Plc

Mike Danson, Chief Executive Officer                                                                                0207 936 6400

Graham Lilley, Chief Financial Officer

Brokers

Bill Hutchings/ Mose Adigun - J.P. Morgan Cazenove (Nomad and Joint Broker)   0207 742 4000

Sam Barnett - HSBC (Joint broker)                                                                                    0207 991 8888

Erik Anderson/ Alina Vaskina - Panmure Gordon (Joint Broker)                                        020 7886 2500

Hudson Sandler

Nick Lyon                                                                                                                            0207 796 4133

 

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