Result of AGM

RNS Number : 5873Y

Luceco PLC

13 May 2021

 

Luceco plc

(the "Company")

13 May 2021

Annual General Meeting ("AGM") Results

The Company announces that at its Annual General Meeting held earlier today all the resolutions set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting were passed by the requisite majority. Each of the resolutions put to the AGM was voted on by way of a poll. The results of the poll for each resolution were as follows:

No.	Resolution	For		Against		Votes Withheld	Total issued share capital instructed
		Number of shares	%	Number of shares	%	Number of shares	%
1	To receive the Annual Report and Accounts	130,487,552	99.997	3,500	0.003	425,000	81.15
2	To declare a final dividend of 4.7 pence per ordinary share	130,916,052	100.000	0	0.000	0	81.42
3	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report	129,980,603	99.671	428,500	0.329	506,949	81.10
4	To re-elect Giles B rand as a Director	127,537,228	97.419	3,378,824	2.581	0	81.42
5	To re-elect Caroline Brown as a Director	130,905,452	99.997	3,500	0.003	7,100	81.41
6	To re-elect John Hornby as a Director	130,912,552	99.997	3,500	0.003	0	81.42
7	To re-elect Will Hoy as a Director	130,905,452	99.997	3,500	0.003	7,100	81.41
8	To re-elect Tim Surridge as a Director	130,905,452	99.997	3,500	0.003	7,100	81.41
9	To elect Pim Vervaat as a Director	130,905,452	99.997	3,500	0.003	7,100	81.41
10	To re-elect Matt Webb as a Director	130,693,865	99.836	215,087	0.164	7,100	81.41
11	To re-appoint KPMG LLP as Auditor of the Company	130,487,552	99.673	428,500	0.327	0	81.42
12	To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the Auditor's remuneration	130,912,552	99.997	3,500	0.003	0	81.42
13	To make political donations and incur political expenditure	129,449,605	99.208	1,033,685	0.792	432,762	81.15
14	Authority to allot shares	130,834,625	99.938	81,427	0.062	0	81.42
15*	Authority to disapply pre-emption rights	130,902,273	99.994	7,779	0.006	6,000	81.41
16*	Authority to disapply pre-emption rights in limited circumstances	130,476,365	99.671	430,687	0.329	9,000	81.41
17*	Authority for the Company to purchase its own shares	130,482,865	99.669	433,187	0.331	0	81.42
18*	Authority to call general meetings (other than AGMs) on 14 clear days' notice	130,737,487	99.864	178,565	0.136	0	81.42
* special resolution

For the purposes of the FCA Listing Rules, the Luceco plc Concert Party (being EPIC Investments LLP, Giles Brand and John Hornby) is a controlling shareholder, whose votes accounted for 79,531,291 of votes received (40,064,372 shares, 9,466,919 shares and 30,000,000 shares respectively). Each resolution to re-elect independent non-executive directors (resolutions 5, 7, 8 and 9) have under Listing Rule 9.2.2E been approved by a majority of the votes cast by: (i) the shareholders of the Company as a whole; and (ii) the independent shareholders of the Company, that is, all the shareholders entitled to vote on each resolution excluding the controlling shareholder.

NOTES:
1.	All resolutions were passed.
2.	Proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Chairman of the AGM have been included in the "For" total for the appropriate resolution.
3.	Votes "For" and "Against" any resolution are expressed as a percentage of votes validly cast for that resolution.
4.	A "Vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the percentage of shares voted "For" or "Against" any resolution nor in the calculation of the proportion of "Total issued share capital instructed" for any resolution.
5.	The number of shares in issue at close of business on 11 May 2021 was 160,800,000 (the "Share Capital") and at that time, the Company did not hold any shares in treasury.
6.	The proportion of "Total issued share capital instructed" for any resolution is the total of votes validly cast for that resolution (i.e. the total votes "For" and "Against" that resolution) expressed as a percentage of the Share Capital.
7.	The full text of the resolutions passed at the AGM can be found in the Notice of Annual General Meeting which is available on the Company's website at www.lucecoplc.com
8.	A copy of resolutions 14-18 passed at the AGM will shortly be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.
9.	These poll results will be available shortly on the Company's website at www.lucecoplc.com
For further information please contact:
Luceco plc John Hornby, Chief Executive Officer Matt Webb, Chief Financial Officer		via MHP Communications 020 3128 8572
MHP Communications Tim Rowntree James Bavister		020 3128 8572

 

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