Annual General Meeting 2018 Results

RNS Number : 2392P

Ibstock PLC

24 May 2018

 

Ibstock plc

Annual General Meeting 2018 Results

The 2018 Annual General Meeting of Ibstock plc (the "Company") was held at Citigate Dewe Rogerson, 3 London Wall Buildings, London Wall, London, EC2M 5SY on Thursday,          24 May 2018 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 406,424,495 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 2017.	340,894,467	99.93%	223,593	0.07%	341,118,060	2,779,433
2	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December 2017.	342,325,324	99.58%	1,451,100	0.42%	343,776,424	121,070
3	To declare a final dividend of 6.5 pence per ordinary share for the year ended       31 December 2017.	331,809,028	96.48%	12,088,466	3.52%	343,897,494	0
4	To re-elect Jonathan Nicholls as a Director.	339,008,637	98.58%	4,887,655	1.42%	343,896,292	1,201
5	To re-elect Tracey Graham as a Director.	342,411,701	99.57%	1,485,592	0.43%	343,897,293	201
6	To elect Joe Hudson as a Director.	342,336,216	99.55%	1,560,077	0.45%	343,896,293	1,201
7	To re-elect Justin Read as a Director.	342,425,105	99.57%	1,471,188	0.43%	343,896,293	1,201
8	To re-elect Kevin Sims as a Director.	341,845,518	99.40%	2,050,775	0.60%	343,896,293	1,201
9	To re-appoint Deloitte LLP as the Company's auditor.	343,891,824	100.00%	0	0.00%	343,891,824	5,670
10	To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the remuneration of the auditor.	343,895,994	100.00%	0	0.00%	343,895,994	1,500
Special Business
11	To authorise the Company to make political donations.	334,905,375	97.39%	8,978,248	2.61%	343,883,623	13,871
12	To authorise the Directors to allot shares.	339,470,512	98.72%	4,413,588	1.28%	343,884,100	13,394
13	General authority to disapply pre-emption rights.**	343,874,974	99.99%	18,520	0.01%	343,893,494	4,000
14	Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights (acquisitions/capital investments)**	341,247,553	99.23%	2,645,940	0.77%	343,893,493	4,000
15	To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own shares.**	340,566,390	99.09%	3,114,789	0.91%	343,681,179	216,314
16	That a general meeting (other than an Annual General Meeting) may be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice.**	334,196,613	97.18%	9,700,881	2.82%	343,897,494	0

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2 copies of the resolutions, other than those relating to ordinary business, 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 2018, Mr Jamie Pike stepped down from the Board. Jonathan Nicholls (currently Senior Independent Director and Chair of the Audit Committee) was appointed Chairman of the Board. He also stepped down from the Audit Committee and was appointed as Chairman of the Nomination Committee. Tracey Graham was appointed as the Senior Independent Director. Justin Read was appointed Chair of the Audit Committee.

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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