RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

RNS Number : 0464A

Soco International PLC

23 May 2019

 

23 May 2019

SOCO International plc

('SOCO' or 'the Company')

RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The Company announces that at its Annual General Meeting ("AGM") held today at the offices of Clifford Chance LLP, 10 Upper Bank Street, London E14 5JJ, all resolutions put before the meeting were duly passed.

In accordance with LR 9.6.2, copies of resolutions concerning items other than ordinary business are being submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

On the date of the meeting, SOCO's issued share capital consisted of 406,637,952 ordinary shares of £0.05 each with voting rights; 9,122,268 shares were in Treasury and therefore, the total number of voting rights was 397,515,684.

Voting was conducted on a poll, the results of which are shown in the table below and will shortly be available on the Company's website, www.socointernational.com.

Resolution	Votes in Favour (Including Discretionary)	%	Votes Against	%	Total Votes (excluding votes withheld)	Votes Withheld
1.     To receive and adopt the Annual Report and Accounts for the financial year ended 31 December 2018.	186,140,132	99.99%	5,000	0.001%	186,145,132	133,490
2.     To declare a final dividend of 5.5p per share.	186,278,622	100.00%	0	0.00%	186,278,622	0
3.     To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report included in the Annual Report and Accounts for the financial year ended 31 December 2018.	152,698,218	82.01%	33,496,869	17.99%	186,195,087	83,535
4.     To reappoint Rui C de Sousa, who is Chair of the Nominations Committee, as a Director.	178,508,655	95.86%	7,703,603	4.14%	186,212,258	66,364
5.     To reappoint Edward T Story, who is a member of the Nominations Committee, as a Director.	185,067,352	99.39%	1,140,106	0.61%	186,207,458	71,164
6.     To reappoint Janice M Brown as a Director.	184,964,666	99.33%	1,242,792	0.67%	186,207,458	71,164
7.     To reappoint Dr Michael J Watts as a Director.	185,311,433	99.53%	884,046	0.47%	186,195,479	83,143
8.     To reappoint Robert G Gray, who is a member of the Audit and Risk, Remuneration and Nominations Committees, as a Director.	171,702,144	92.20%	14,533,280	7.80%	186,235,424	43,198
9.     To reappoint Ettore P M Contini as a Director.	181,370,899	97.40%	4,841,359	2.60%	186,212,258	66,364
10.  To reappoint John Martin, who is Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee and a member of the Remuneration and Nominations Committees, as a Director.	181,013,098	97.20%	5,218,326	2.80%	186,231,424	47,198
11.  To reappoint Marianne Daryabegui, who is a member of the Audit and Risk, Remuneration and Nominations Committees, as a Director.	176,987,399	95.04%	9,243,225	4.96%	186,230,624	47,998
12.  To reappoint Deloitte LLP as Auditors to hold office until the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting at which accounts are laid before the Company.	179,896,931	97.31%	4,965,503	2.69%	184,862,434	1,416,188
13.  To authorise the Audit and Risk Committee, for and on behalf of the Directors, to agree the Auditors' remuneration.	157,596,114	84.61%	28,666,029	15.39%	186,262,143	16,479
14.  To authorise the Directors to allot securities (s.551 of the Companies Act 2006).	185,739,389	99.72%	514,567	0.28%	186,253,956	24,666
15.  To disapply pre-emption rights (s.570 and s.573 of the Companies Act 2006)	182,779,101	98.15%	3,450,603	1.85%	186,229,704	48,918
16.  To disapply pre-emption rights (s.570 and s.573 of the Companies Act 2006) up to a further 5% for acquisitions or specified capital investments.	185,897,724	99.82%	331,480	0.18%	186,229,204	49,418
17.  To authorise the Company to repurchase its own Shares (s.701 of the Companies Act 2006).	186,139,436	99.95%	97,945	0.05%	186,237,381	41,241
18.  To authorise the Directors to call general meetings of the Company (other than an annual general meeting) on not less than 14 clear days' notice.	183,924,791	98.75%	2,330,665	1.25%	186,255,456	23,166

 

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