Result of AGM

RNS Number : 4943A

Safestore Holdings plc

20 March 2013

 



20 March 2013

Safestore Holdings plc

("Safestore" or "the Company")

 

Result of Annual General Meeting

The Directors of Safestore, the largest self storage retailer in the UK and Paris, are pleased to report that at the Annual General Meeting, held on 20 March 2013, all resolutions in the Notice of Meeting were put to the meeting and were duly passed on a show of hands. The total number of proxy votes received for each resolution 48 hours prior to the meeting is set out below.

The current issued capital of Safestore Holdings plc is 188,135,088 shares. 83.87% of voting capital was instructed.

The votes were cast as follows:

	In Favour		Discretion		Against		Withheld	Total
Resolution	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	Votes
1	156,601,967	99.99	1,000	0.01	-	-	1,186,845	157,789,812
2	156,600,967	99.98	1,000	0.01	1,000	0.01	1,186,845	157,789,812
3	157,537,955	99.83	1,000	0.01	250,857	0.16	-	157,789,812
4	157,788,812	99.99	1,000	0.01	-	-	-	157,789,812
5	151,452,333	95.97	1,000	0.01	6,336,479	4.02	-	157,789,812
6	151,406,933	99.69	1,000	0.01	454,300	0.30	5,927,579	157,789,812
7	155,832,552	98.75	1,000	0.01	1,956,260	1.24	-	157,789,812
8	126,579,557	80.21	1,000	0.01	31,208,805	19.78	450	157,789,812
9	156,597,217	99.98	1,000	0.01	4,750	0.01	1,186,845	157,789,812
10	133,730,417	85.04	1,000	0.01	23,507,945	14.95	550,450	157,789,812
11	145,028,256	99.98	1,000	0.01	492	0.01	12,760,064	157,789,812
12	157,235,370	99.98	1,000	0.01	3,442	0.01	550,000	157,789,812
13	125,340,714	79.43	1,000	0.01	32,448,098	20.56	-	157,789,812

Note: A 'vote withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes "For" or "Against" a resolution.

Resolution 1 - To receive the Annual Report and Accounts

Resolution 2 - To reappoint the Company's auditors

Resolution 3 - To authorise the directors to determine the remuneration of the auditors

Resolution 4 - To declare a final dividend

Resolution 5 - To re-appoint Richard Grainger as a director

Resolution 6 - To re-appoint Keith Edelman as a director

Resolution 7 - To re-appoint Peter Gowers as a director

Resolution 8 - To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report

Resolution 9 - To authorise the Company to make political donations and incur political expenditure

Resolution 10 - To authorise the directors to allot relevant securities

Resolution 11 - To authorise the dis-application of pre-emption rights

Resolution 12 - To authorise market purchases of ordinary shares

Resolution 13 - To authorise general meetings other than annual general meetings to be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice

A copy of the resolutions passed at the AGM, other than ordinary business, will shortly be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do.

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For further information, please contact:

College Hill                                                                                       T: 020 7457 2020

Matthew Smallwood

Justine Warren

Mark Reed

Notes to editors:

·	Safestore is the UK's largest self storage group with 135 stores. They include 98 wholly owned stores in the UK and 25 wholly owned stores in the Paris region together with 12 stores under management in the UK.
·	The Company provides storage to around 44,200 personal and business customers.
·	Safestore (excluding Space Maker) has a maximum lettable area ("MLA") of 5.24 million sq ft (including the expansion pipeline stores) of which 3.18 million sq ft is currently occupied.
·	A strong balance sheet and operational cash flow allow Safestore to invest in continual improvements in the operational performance of its stores, in new store development and acquisitions where appropriate.
·	Safestore employs around 550 people.

 

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