Result of AGM

RNS Number : 1442O

Connect Group PLC

04 February 2016

 

4 February 2016

Connect Group PLC

Result of 2016 Annual General Meeting

Connect Group PLC is pleased to announce that at its AGM held at 11.30am today, all resolutions put to the meeting were duly passed. All resolutions were voted on by way of a poll and the results of the poll for each resolution are shown below:

Resolution		For		Against		Withheld
		No. of votes	%	No. of votes	%	No. of votes
1	To receive the Annual Report and Accounts 2015	175,514,718	99.99%	18,272	0.01%	811,787
2	To approve the directors' remuneration report	172,516,695	98.56%	2,514,453	1.44%	1,313,629
3	To declare a final dividend of 6.3p per share	175,532,223	100.00%	1,528	0.00%	811,026
4	To elect Gary Kennedy	174,781,859	99.59%	725,271	0.41%	837,647
5	To elect Colin Child	175,476,814	99.98%	38,841	0.02%	829,122
6	To elect Denise Collis	175,463,739	99.97%	48,569	0.03%	832,469
7	To re-elect Mark Cashmore	174,342,443	99.33%	1,182,320	0.67%	820,014
8	To re-elect Jonathan Bunting	174,340,153	99.33%	1,184,379	0.67%	820,245
9	To re-elect Nick Gresham	151,200,007	99.23%	1,179,880	0.77%	23,964,890
10	To re-elect Andrew Brent	175,489,673	99.98%	33,164	0.02%	821,940
11	To re-appoint the auditor	175,235,195	99.83%	296,506	0.17%	813,076
12	To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the auditor's remuneration	174,800,909	99.58%	728,986	0.42%	814,882
13	Authority to make political donations	174,785,828	99.73%	477,875	0.27%	1,094,789
14	Authority to allot shares	149,372,358	85.11%	26,135,957	14.89%	836,462
15	To approve the Connect Group Long Term Incentive Plan	173,163,827	98.94%	1,851,400	1.06%	1,329,550
16	To approve the Connect Group Executive Share Option Scheme	173,884,091	99.36%	1,123,698	0.64%	1,336,988
17	To approve the Connect Group Sharesave Scheme	175,391,309	99.98%	41,472	0.02%	911,996
18	Authority to partially disapply pre-emption rights*	149,946,551	85.05%	26,347,303	14.95%	50,923
19	Authority to make market purchases of ordinary shares*	175,457,703	99.96%	63,584	0.04%	823,490
20	Authority to call general meetings (other than the AGM) on 14 clear days' notice*	168,982,034	96.27%	6,547,735	3.73%	815,008

* Special resolution

Notes:

1.   Where shareholders appointed the Chairman as their proxy with discretion as to voting, their votes were cast in favour of the resolutions and have been included in the "For" total.

2.   A "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the percentages of the votes cast for and against a resolution.

3.   The total number of shares in issue at 6pm on 2 February 2016 = 246,611,392. Votes were cast in respect of 71.4% of the issued share capital.

In accordance with the UK Listing Authority's Listing Rule 9.6.2, a copy of the special business passed at the AGM, being resolutions 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20, has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

Adele Duff

Assistant Company Secretary

 

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