Results of Annual General Meeting

GlobalData PLC

23 April 2024

 

23 April 2024

GlobalData Plc

(AIM: DATA, GlobalData, the Company)

Results of Annual General Meeting ("AGM")

GlobalData Plc, a leading provider of industry intelligence, announces that at the Company's Annual General Meeting held earlier today (23 April 2024) all resolutions were duly passed.

A description on the subject matter of the poll and details on the votes are set out below.

Resolution		In Favour		Against		Total votes validly cast	% of issued share capital	Number of votes withheld
		Number of votes	%	Number of votes	%
Ordinary resolutions
1	To receive the financial statements of the Company for the year ended 31 December 2023 together with the Reports of the Directors and Auditors.	671,777,638	100.00%	0	0.00%	671,777,638	79.50%	3,000
2	To declare a final dividend of 3.2 pence per ordinary share in respect of the year ended 31 December 2023, payable on 26 April 2024 to the holders of ordinary shares at close of business on 22 March 2024.	671,777,638	100.00%	0	0.00%	671,777,638	79.50%	3,000
3	To re-elect Murray Legg as a Director of the Company.	653,747,902	99.79%	1,355,988	0.21%	655,103,890	77.52%	16,676,748
4	To re-elect Michael Danson as a Director of the Company.	670,713,134	99.84%	1,064,504	0.16%	671,777,638	79.50%	3,000
5	To re-elect Graham Lilley as a Director of the Company.	671,777,638	100.00%	0	0.00%	671,777,638	79.50%	3,000
6	To re-elect Annette Barnes as a Director of the Company.	662,365,144	98.60%	9,412,494	1.40%	671,777,638	79.50%	3,000
7	To re-elect Andrew Day as a Director of the Company.	670,713,134	99.84%	1,064,504	0.16%	671,777,638	79.50%	3,000
8	To re-elect Peter Harkness as a Director of the Company.	669,677,638	99.69%	2,100,000	0.31%	671,777,638	79.50%	3,000
9	To re-elect Catherine Birkett as a Director of the Company.	671,777,638	100.00%	0	0.00%	671,777,638	79.50%	3,000
10	To re-elect Julien Decot as a Director of the Company.	670,993,134	99.88%	784,504	0.12%	671,777,638	79.50%	3,000
11	To approve the reappointment of Deloitte LLP as Auditors of the Company.	671,777,638	100.00%	0	0.00%	671,777,638	79.50%	3,000
12	To authorise the Audit Committee to fix the remuneration of the Company's Auditors.	671,777,638	100.00%	0	0.00%	671,777,638	79.50%	3,000
13	To receive and approve the Directors' remuneration report contained on pages 72 to 82 of the Company's report and accounts for the year ended 31 December 2023.	658,421,723	98.32%	11,253,915	1.68%	669,675,638	79.25%	2,105,000
14	To authorise the Directors to allot ordinary shares in the Company.	671,777,638	100.00%	0	0.00%	671,777,638	79.50%	3,000
Special resolutions
15	To renew the Directors' power to allot shares or grant rights to subscribe for, or convert securities into, shares or sell treasury shares where they propose to do so for cash (other than pursuant to an employee share scheme) otherwise than to existing shareholders pro rata to their holdings (i.e. non pre-emptively), as permitted by the Articles.	659,528,438	98.18%	12,249,200	1.82%	671,777,638	79.50%	3,000
16	To give the Directors power to make non-pre-emptive issues of ordinary shares in connection with acquisitions and other capital investments as contemplated by the Pre-emption Principles.	658,168,934	97.97%	13,608,704	2.03%	671,777,638	79.50%	3,000
17	To renew the Company's authority to make market purchases of up to 84,502,770 ordinary shares (being 10% of the Company's total issued ordinary share capital as at the date of this notice), either for cancellation or for placing into treasury at the determination of the Directors.	671,775,638	100.00%	2,000	0.00%	671,777,638	79.50%	3,000

Notes:

1.     A 'vote withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation proportion of the votes "for" or "against" a resolution.

2.     A copy of the AGM results will be available on the Company's website at www.globaldata.com.

3.     Issued share capital as at 23 April 2024 is 845,027,700 ordinary shares of 1/100 pence each in the capital of the Company.

ENQUIRIES

GlobalData Plc
Mike Danson, Chief Executive Officer	0207 936 6400
Graham Lilley, Chief Financial Officer
J.P. Morgan Cazenove (Nomad and Joint Broker)	0203 493 8000
Bill Hutchings
Mose Adigun
Panmure Gordon (Joint Broker)	0207 886 2500
Rupert Dearden
Dougie McLeod
Numis Securities (Joint Broker) Nick Westlake Iqra Amin	0207 260 1000
FTI Consulting (Financial PR)	0203 727 1000
Edward Bridges
Dwight Burden
Emma Hall

LEI: 2138005I669UO6PJXM24

A copy of this announcement will be available on the Company's website at https://www.globaldata.com/. Neither the content of the Company's website, nor the content on any website accessible from hyperlinks on its website for any other website, is incorporated into, or forms part of, this announcement nor, unless previously published by means of a recognised information service, should any such content be relied upon in reaching a decision as to whether or not to acquire, continue to hold, or dispose of, securities in the Company.

 

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