Annual General Meeting 2016 Voting Results

RNS Number : 1058E

Speedy Hire PLC

13 July 2016

 

Speedy Hire Plc

13 July 2016

Speedy Hire Plc ("Company")

Annual General Meeting 2016

Voting Results

At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 13 July 2016 at Instinctif Partners, 65 Gresham Street, London, EC2V 7NQ at 11.00am, all resolutions were passed on a show of hands.

The following is a summary of the Forms of Proxy received up to 48 hours before the time of the Annual General Meeting by the Registrars, appointing the Chairman of the Annual General Meeting as proxy:

No	Resolution	For*		Against		Withheld**
		No. of Votes	% of Vote	No. of Votes	% of Vote	No. of Votes
1	To receive and adopt the annual accounts for the financial year ended 31 March 2016 together with the Directors' and the Auditors' reports (ordinary)	426,033,741	100.00%	7,902	0.00%	14,696
2	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the financial year ended 31 March 2016 (ordinary)	421,123,905	98.86%	4,867,552	1.14%	64,882
3	To declare a final dividend of 0.40 pence per share in respect of the year ended 31 March 2016 (ordinary)	426,015,038	99.99%	27,611	0.01%	13,690
4	To elect Chris Morgan as a Director of the Company (ordinary)	409,112,460	96.05%	16,842,942	3.95%	100,937
5	To elect Bob Contreras as a Director of the Company (ordinary)	268,401,925	63.02%	157,512,880	36.98%***	141,534
6	To elect Rob Barclay as a Director of the Company (ordinary)	268,419,977	63.02%	157,494,828	36.98%***	141,534
7	To appoint KPMG LLP as Auditors (ordinary)	418,782,404	98.30%	7,249,756	1.70%	24,179
8	To authorise the Directors to determine the remuneration of KPMG LLP (ordinary)	425,969,373	99.99%	57,561	0.01%	29,405
9	To authorise the Directors to allot shares (ordinary)	423,349,420	99.80%	865,465	0.20%	1,841,454
10	To disapply the statutory pre-emption rights (special)	425,712,160	99.95%	205,647	0.05%	138,532
11	To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own shares (special)	424,162,196	99.57%	1,831,875	0.43%	62,268
12	To authorise the calling of general meetings on not less than 14 days' notice (special)	417,905,700	98.10%	8,107,778	1.90%	42,861
13	To permit the Company to make political donations (ordinary)	389,846,904	91.52%	36,107,846	8.48%	101,589

* The votes of any proxy giving the Chairman discretion how to vote have been included in the votes For a resolution.

** A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of percentages of votes cast For and Against a resolution.

*** The Board regularly engages in dialogue with shareholders and will continue to do so in order to understand their views and address any concerns.

NB Percentage figures are rounded to 2 decimal places.

James Blair

Company Secretary

 

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