Results of Annual General Meeting

RNS Number : 7848J

Hunting PLC

15 April 2020

 

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For immediate release

15 April 2020

Hunting PLC

("Hunting" or "the Company")

Results of Annual General Meeting

Hunting PLC (LSE:HTG) announces the results of voting on the resolutions at its Annual General Meeting ("AGM") held on Wednesday, 15 April 2020, as set out in the Notice of  AGM. Voting at the AGM was completed by way of a poll. As noted in the Company's announcement dated 3 April 2020, resolution three was withdrawn prior to the AGM.

All resolutions, with the exception of resolution three, were passed by the required majority, resolutions 1 to 12, as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 13 to 16 as special resolutions. The result of the poll is outlined in the table below:

	Resolution	For	%	Against	%	Votes Withheld
1.	To receive the 2019 Annual Report.	133,818,836	99.99	13,622	0.01	429,282
2.	To approve the Annual Report on Remuneration.	125,480,115	93.69	8,449,794	6.31	331,831
3.	To declare a final dividend of 6.0 cents per share.	WITHDRAWN
4.	To appoint Bruce Ferguson as a Director	131,477,371	97.93	2,781,372	2.07	2,998
5.	To re-elect Annell Bay as a Director.	133,919,831	99.75	340,601	0.25	1,309
6.	To re-elect Carol Chesney as a Director	133,778,850	99.64	477,155	0.36	5,736
7.	To re-elect Jay Glick as a Director.	124,565,577	96.81	4,102,461	3.19	5,593,702
8.	To re-elect Richard Hunting as a Director.	131,547,530	97.98	2,712,902	2.02	1,309
9.	To re-elect Jim Johnson as a Director.	131,243,287	97.99	2,691,923	2.01	326,531
10.	To re-elect Keith Lough as a Director.	133,593,064	99.51	661,441	0.49	7,236
11.	To re-appoint Deloitte LLP as auditors and authorise the Audit Committee to determine their remuneration.	134,254,716	99.99	6,037	0.01	988
12.	To authorise the Directors to allot shares.	132,119,621	98.41	2,139,916	1.59	2,204
13.	To generally authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights.	134,229,324	99.98	30,213	0.02	2,204
14.	To authorise the Directors to disapply additional pre-emption rights.	133,886,724	99.72	371,012	0.28	4,004
15.	To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own shares.	133,873,456	99.73	364,738	0.27	23,546
16.	To authorise 14 clear days' notice periods for General Meetings (other than an AGM).	117,311,473	87.38	16,949,415	12.62	853

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

As at the date of the AGM, the number of issued shares of the Company was 164,940,082 Ordinary shares of 25p each.

The total number of votes cast by poll, including 'Votes Withheld', was 134,261,740; % of votes cast by poll was 81.4% of the total issued share capital.

In accordance with Listing Rules 9.6.2 copies of all the resolutions passed, other than ordinary business, will be submitted to the UK Listing Authority ("UKLA"), via the National Storage Mechanism, which can be accessed at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism .

For further information please contact:

Hunting PLC Jim Johnson, Chief Executive Bruce Ferguson, Finance Director Tarryn Riley, Investor Relations	Tel: [phone]
Buchanan Ben Romney Chris Judd	Tel: [phone]

Notes to Editors:

About Hunting PLC

Hunting PLC is an international energy services provider to the world's leading upstream oil and gas companies. Established in 1874, it is a premium listed public company traded on the London Stock Exchange. The Company maintains a corporate office in Houston and is headquartered in London. As well as the United Kingdom, the Company has operations in Canada, China, Indonesia, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, United Arab Emirates and the United States of America.

Hunting PLC's Legal Entity Identifier is 2138008S5FL78ITZRN66.

 

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