Result of AGM

RNS Number : 1907G

Smurfit Kappa Group PLC

02 May 2014

 



Smurfit Kappa Group plc

Results of Annual General Meeting

Resolutions passed at the Annual General Meeting

Smurfit Kappa Group plc ("SKG" or "the Company") announces that all resolutions put to the shareholders at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 2 May 2014 were passed.  These resolutions are as set out the Notice of the Annual General Meeting which was posted to shareholders on 1 April 2014 and which is available on SKG's website www.smurfitkappa.com.  

[Details of proxies lodged in respect of the Resolutions are also available on the Company's website.]

SKG confirms that the following resolutions (Resolutions 9, 10 and 11 in the Notice of AGM), which constitute special business, were passed:

·     Renewal of the dis-application of statutory pre-emption rights in respect of the allotment of shares for cash up to an aggregate nominal value equal to 5% of SKG's total issued ordinary share capital;

·     Renewal of the authority to make market purchases of the Company's own shares up to a maximum of 10% of the number of SKG's total issued ordinary shares;

·     Renewal of the authority to convene an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders of SKG on not less than 14 clear days' notice, where the purpose of the meeting is to consider an ordinary resolution.

The Company also advises that copies of the above resolutions have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

Copies of the resolutions have also been submitted to the Irish Stock Exchange and are available for inspection at:

Companies Announcements Office

The Irish Stock Exchange

28 Anglesea Street

Dublin 2

2 May 2014

CONTACT:

Michael O'Riordan

Group Secretary

[phone]

 

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