AGM Results

RNS Number : 2598L

RIT Capital Partners PLC

28 July 2011

 



RIT Capital Partners plc

28 July 2011

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The Annual General Meeting of RIT Capital Partners plc was held on Thursday 28 July 2011.

All resolutions as set out in the Notice of Meeting dated 2 June 2011 were passed, and prints of the items of special resolutions passed will shortly be available for inspection on the National Storage Mechanism.

The proxy votes cast on each resolution were as follows:

		FOR/		VOTES
RESOLUTION		DISCRETIONARY	AGAINST	WITHHELD
ORDINARY BUSINESS:
1.	Approval of the Directors' Report and Accounts
	for the year ended 31 March 2011	55,530,171	4,624,465	35,858
2.	Approval of the Directors' Remuneration Report
	for the year ended 31 March 2011	54,098,522	1,596,328	4,495,644
3.	Re-election of Lord Rothschild as a Director	55,138,028	862,693	4,189,771
4.	Re-election of Mikael Breuer-Weil as a Director	60,139,390	9,823	41,280
5.	Re-election of Duncan Budge as a Director	60,141,462	7,538	41,494
6.	Re-election of John Cornish as a Director	60,127,984	20,166	42,344
7.	Re-election of Lord Douro as a Director	59,930,064	149,460	110,970
8.	Re-election of James Leigh-Pemberton as a
	Director	60,105,011	37,025	48,458
9.	Re-election of Michael Marks as a Director	60,103,538	41,288	45,668
10.	Election of Lord Myners as a Director	60,044,486	99,448	46,561
11.	Re-election of Sandra Robertson as a Director	60,110,472	35,542	44,480
12.	Election of Rick Sopher as a Director	58,770,534	1,367,741	52,220
13.	Re-appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
	as auditors	59,954,326	192,483	43,409
14.	To authorise the Directors to fix the remuneration
	of the auditors	59,971,709	179,430	39,078
SPECIAL BUSINESS:
15.	To renew the power to allot equity securities	60,052,563	49,699	87,956
16.	To approve amendments to the Share Appreciation
	Rights Plan	55,495,733	320,764	4,373,721
17.	To authorise the Directors to allot equity securities
	for cash.	59,961,328	174,750	54,040
18.	To renew the authority to repurchase up to 14.99
	per cent. of the Company's issued share capital	60,100,092	43,394	46,533
19.	To change the notice period for general meetings
	other than annual general meetings to 14 days	59,775,756	371,852	42,110

Resolutions 1 to 16 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 17 to 19 were passed as special resolutions.

 

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