Result of AGM and Notice of Interim Results

RNS Number : 7800Z

Harworth Group PLC

25 May 2021

 

25 May 2021    LEI: 213800R8JSSGK2KPFG21

Harworth Group plc

Results of Annual General Meeting and notice of interim results

Annual General Meeting

Harworth Group plc (the "Company") announces that at its Annual General Meeting held at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday 25 May 2021 all resolutions in the Notice of Annual General Meeting dated 22 April 2021 were passed by the necessary majority on a poll.  

Details of proxy voting instructions received in advance of the Annual General Meeting are shown in the table below and will be posted on the Company's website, www.harworthgroup.com.

The number of ordinary shares in issue on 25 May 2021 was 322,663,136 ordinary shares.  A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of votes for or against a resolution.

Copies of all resolutions passed, other than resolutions concerning ordinary business, have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism.  They will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

Res. No.	Brief Description	Votes for	%	Votes against	%	Total votes (ex. withheld)	Votes withheld
Ordinary resolutions
01	To adopt the Company's Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2020	216,100,386	100%	6,273	0.00%	216,106,659	17,161
02	To declare a final dividend of 1.466 pence per ordinary share in respect of the year ended 31 December 2020	216,116,918	100%	2,693	0.00%	216,119,611	4,209
03	To elect Lisa Scenna as a director of the Company	216,052,091	99.99%	26,387	0.01%	216,078,478	45,342
04	To elect Lynda Shillaw as a director of the Company	216,049,226	99.98%	37,493	0.02%	216,086,719	37,101
05	To elect Patrick O'Donnell Bourke as a director of the Company	216,037,998	99.98%	40,230	0.02%	216,078,228	45,592
06	To re-elect Alastair Lyons as a director of the Company	214,462,851	99.25%	1,627,384	0.75%	216,090,235	33,585
07	To re-elect Katerina Patmore as a director of the Company	216,049,000	99.99%	30,561	0.01%	216,079,561	44,259
08	To re-elect Angela Bromfield as a director of the Company	214,489,408	99.26%	1,595,722	0.74%	216,085,130	38,690
09	To re-elect Ruth Cooke as a director of the Company	216,062,538	99.99%	13,710	0.01%	216,076,248	47,572
10	To re-elect Steven Underwood as a director of the Company	216,029,824	99.98%	46,188	0.02%	216,076,012	47,808
11	To re-elect Martyn Bowes as a director of the Company	216,040,201	99.98%	38,811	0.02%	216,079,012	44,808
12	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December 2020	203,170,802	94.02%	12,913,342	5.98%	216,084,144	39,676
13	To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP as the auditors of the Company	216,043,710	99.97%	60,300	0.03%	216,104,010	19,810
14	To give authority to the Directors to determine the auditors' remuneration	216,067,766	99.98%	34,996	0.02%	216,102,762	21,058
15	To authorise political donations	210,441,824	97.38%	5,667,139	2.62%	216,108,963	14,857
16	Authority to allot shares	213,513,142	98.81%	2,579,449	1.19%	216,092,591	31,229
Special resolutions
17	Authority to dis-apply pre-emption rights	215,966,749	99.94%	126,804	0.06%	216,093,553	30,267
18	To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares	216,020,201	99.96%	94,979	0.04%	216,115,180	8,640
19	To reduce notice of general meetings (other than AGM) to 14 clear days	215,859,608	99.89%	247,678	0.11%	216,107,286	16,534

Notice of interim results

The Company will be publishing its unaudited interim results for the half year ended 30 June 2021 on Tuesday 14 September 2021. 

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         Enquiries

Harworth Group plc
Chris Birch, General Counsel and Company Secretary	Tel: [phone]
Tom Loughran, Head of Investor and Stakeholder Relations

NOTES TO EDITORS

ABOUT HARWORTH GROUP PLC

Listed on the premium segment of the main market, Harworth Group plc (LSE: HWG) is a leading sustainable regenerator of land and property for development and investment which owns, develops and manages a portfolio of approximately 16,000 acres of land on around 100 sites located throughout the North of England and Midlands. The Group specialises in the regeneration of large, complex sites, in particular former industrial sites, into new residential developments and employment areas ( www.harworthgroup.com ).

 

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