Results of Annual General Meeting

RNS Number : 2130W

Hunting PLC

21 April 2021

 

For immediate release

21 April 2021

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 as a closed meeting on Wednesday, 21 April 2021, as set out in the Notice of  AGM. Voting at the AGM was completed by way of a poll.

The shareholders (or their proxies) were not permitted to attend the meeting physically. The attendance at the meeting was limited to a quorum of two shareholders, who comprised a Director and the Company Secretary.

The Directors made available to shareholders the ability to submit questions ahead of the AGM. These questions were answered in the form of a presentation delivered via webcast at the start of the meeting. A recording of the meeting will shortly be available on the Company's website.

All resolutions, were passed by the required majority, resolutions 1 to 13, as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 14 to 17 as special resolutions. The result of the poll is outlined in the table below:

	Resolution	For	%	Against	%	Votes Withheld
1.	To receive the 2020 Annual Report.	132,620,197	99.99%	15,582	0.01%	510,457
2.	To approve Directors' Remuneration Policy.	122,544,114	92.04%	10,600,216	7.96%	1,906
3.	To approve the Annual Report on Remuneration.	107,960,247	81.28%	24,857,711	18.72%	328,278
4.	To declare a Final Dividend of 4.0 cents per share.	128,999,312	96.89%	4,146,624	3.11%	300
5.	To re-elect Annell Bay as a Director.	126,797,795	95.63%	5,796,431	4.37%	552,010
6.	To re-elect Carol Chesney as a Director.	131,804,286	99.41%	786,763	0.59%	555,187
7.	To re-elect Bruce Ferguson as a Director.	132,118,657	99.64%	475,319	0.36%	552,260
8.	To re-elect Jay Glick as a Director.	126,312,814	98.63%	1,757,051	1.37%	5,076,371
9.	To re-elect Richard Hunting as a Director.	131,210,953	98.96%	1,384,523	1.04%	550,760
10.	To re-elect Jim Johnson as a Director.	131,800,138	99.65%	468,616	0.35%	877,482
11.	To re-elect Keith Lough as a Director.	132,325,711	99.80%	265,338	0.20%	555,187
12.	To re-appoint Deloitte LLP as auditors and authorise the Audit Committee to determine their remuneration.	133,076,481	99.96%	55,005	0.04%	14,750
13.	To authorise the Directors to allot shares.	132,292,337	99.36%	850,135	0.64%	3,764
14.	To generally authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights.	132,468,571	99.55%	596,037	0.45%	81,628
15.	To authorise the Directors to disapply additional pre-emption rights.	121,678,589	91.44%	11,384,114	8.56%	83,533
16.	To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own shares.	132,679,454	99.72%	367,687	0.28%	99,095
17.	To authorise 14 clear days' notice periods for General Meetings (other than an AGM).	131,784,069	98.98%	1,360,667	1.02%	1,500

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 133,146,236, being 80.72% 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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