Annual General Meeting 2017 Results

RNS Number : 1425G

Ibstock PLC

24 May 2017

 

Ibstock plc

Annual General Meeting 2017 Results

The 2017 Annual General Meeting of Ibstock plc (the "Company") was held at Citigate Dewe Rogerson, 3 London Wall Buildings, London Wall, London, EC2M 5SY on Wednesday, 24 May 2017 at 2:00pm

All of the resolutions were voted upon by poll and were passed by shareholders. The total number of ordinary shares in issue was 406,319,762 shares.

The full text of each resolution is contained in the notice of Annual General Meeting, which is available on the Company's website www.ibstockplc.com/investors (with each resolution number below corresponding to the resolution number in the notice).

The number of votes for and against each of the resolutions put before the Annual General Meeting and the number of votes withheld were as follows:

Resolution		Votes For		Votes Against		Total Votes cast (excluding Withheld)	Votes Withheld
		No of shares	% of shares voted	No of shares	% of shares voted		No of shares
1	To receive the Annual Report and accounts for the year ended 31 December 2016.	318,010,648	99.94%	200,650	0.06%	318,211,298	99,481
2	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December 2016.	316,378,720	99.39%	1,929,259	0.61%	318,307,979	2,800
3	To declare a final dividend of 5.3 pence per ordinary share for the year ended 31 December 2016.	318,309,179	100.00%	400	0.00%	318,309,579	800
4	To re-elect Jamie Pike as a Director.	315,861,383	99.23%	2,445,346	0.77%	318,306,729	3,650
5	To re-elect Wayne Sheppard as a Director.	316,192,677	99.34%	2,115,652	0.66%	318,308,329	3,100
6	To re-elect Kevin Sims as a Director.	315,543,272	99.13%	2,762,657	0.87%	318,305,929	4,450
7	To re-elect Matthias Boyer Chammard as a Director.	Withdrawn
8	To re-elect Jonathan Nicholls as a Director.	318,140,588	99.97%	84,691	0.03%	318,225,279	84,700
9	To re-elect Michel Plantevin as a Director.	Withdrawn
10	To elect Tracey Graham as a Director.	318,222,438	99.97%	83,641	0.03%	318,306,079	4,300
11	To elect Lynn Minella as a Director.	318,218,492	99.97%	87,437	0.03%	318,305,929	4,450
12	To elect Justin Read as a Director.	318,277,385	99.99%	28,144	0.01%	318,305,529	4,850
13	To appoint Deloitte LLP as the Company's auditor.	318,264,670	99.99%	42,459	0.01%	318,307,129	3,650
14	To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the remuneration of the auditor.	318,053,686	99.92%	252,047	0.08%	318,305,733	5,046
15	To authorise the Company to make political donations.	317,702,291	99.81%	601,350	0.19%	318,303,641	7,538
16	To authorise the Directors to allot shares.	314,647,409	98.85%	3,660,870	1.15%	318,308,279	2,900
17	To disapply pre-emption rights.**	317,734,529	99.82%	571,150	0.18%	318,305,679	5,500
18	Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights (acquisitions/capital investments)**	314,473,565	98.97%	3,282,664	1.03%	317,756,229	554,950
19	That a general meeting (other than an Annual General Meeting) may be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice.**	306,121,397	96.17%	12,188,082	3.83%	318,309,479	2,100

Copies of special resolutions 17, 18 and 19 will shortly be available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism, which is located at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm.

The Company also announces that with effect from the close of the AGM on 24 May 2017, Michel Plantevin and Matthias Boyer Chammard retired as Non-Executive Directors.

Notes:

*Votes 'withheld' are not votes under English law and so have not been included in the calculation of  whether a resolution is carried. Percentages have been rounded to two decimal places.

** Special resolution.

For further information contact:
Ibstock plc
Robert Douglas, Company Secretary	+ 44 (0)1530 257 211
Citigate Dewe Rogerson	+ 44 (0)20 7638 9571
Simon Rigby
Kevin Smith
Nick Hayns

 

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