Result of AGM

RNS Number : 0402T

Ricardo PLC

14 November 2013

 



RNS Number :

Ricardo plc

14 November 2013

RICARDO PLC

RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Ricardo plc announces that all resolutions proposed at its Annual General Meeting held earlier today were duly passed on a show of hands.

Details of the proxy voting instructions, lodged prior to the meeting, are set out below:

	Resolution	For	%	Discretion	%	Against	%	Withheld
1	To receive and adopt the 2013 Report and Accounts	37,616,721	97.72	10,188	0.03	866,414	2.25	419,442
2	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report	38,846,119	99.84	10,188	0.03	52,365	0.13	4,093
3	To declare a final dividend	38,902,577	99.97	10,188	0.03	0	0	0
4	To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors	38,442,458	99.91	6,908	0.02	26,258	0.07	437,141
5	To authorise the Audit Committee to fix the auditors' remuneration	38,858,974	99.86	6,908	0.02	46,515	0.12	368
6	To elect Ian Gibson as a director	38,877,487	99.91	10,188	0.03	22,026	0.06	3,064
7	To re-elect Michael Harper as a director	38,890,468	99.95	10,188	0.03	9,045	0.02	3,064
8	To re-elect Ian Lee as a director	38,890,272	99.95	10,188	0.03	9,336	0.02	2,969
9	To re-elect David Hall as a director	38,890,017	99.95	10,188	0.03	9,591	0.02	2,969
10	To re-elect Hans Joachim Schὅpf as a director	38,880,017	99.92	10,188	0.03	17,738	0.05	4,822
11	To re-elect Dave Shemmans as a director	37,803,777	97.15	10,188	0.03	1,096,331	2.82	2,469
12	To re-elect Peter Gilchrist as a director	38,889,742	99.94	10,188	0.03	9,866	0.03	2,969
13	To re-elect Mark Garrett as a director	38,873,876	99.91	11,188	0.03	24,637	0.06	3,064
14	To authorise the Company and its subsidiaries to make political donations	37,525,909	97.52	11,988	0.03	940,947	2.45	433,921
15	To authorise the directors to allot shares	38,879,878	99.94	12,138	0.03	11,460	0.03	9,289
16	To disapply pre-emption rights	38,862,127	99.89	10,188	0.03	32,325	0.08	8,125
17	To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares	38,865,700	99.94	10,188	0.03	10,740	0.03	26,137
18	To call general meetings on not less than 14 clear days' notice	38,082,007	97.87	10,188	0.03	815,182	2.10	5,387

An abstention is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of proportion of votes "For" or "Against" a resolution.

The total number of ordinary shares in issue as at 12 November 2013 was 52,266,500 of these 38,912,415 including abstentions (74.5%) were voted.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2R, a copy of the resolutions, other than those concerning ordinary business, passed by the Company at the AGM held on 14 November 2013, has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

For further information contact:

The Company Secretary, Patricia Ryan                     01273 794776

 

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