Result of AGM

Speedy Hire PLC

07 September 2023

 

Speedy Hire Plc

7 September 2023

Speedy Hire Plc ("Company")

Resolutions passed at Annual General Meeting - 7 September 2023

At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 7 September 2023 at the offices of Addleshaw Goddard LLP at Milton Gate, 60 Chiswell Street, London EC1Y 4AG, all resolutions set out in the Notice of Meeting were voted on a poll and passed by the requisite majorities.

Resolutions 1 to 15 and resolution 20 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 16 to 19 were passed as special resolutions. The results of the poll are set out below:

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 2023 together with the reports of the Directors and auditors (ordinary).	334,034,160	98.79%	4,092,120	1.21%	382,458
2	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the financial year ended 31 March 2023 (ordinary).	334,750,118	98.92%	3,658,028	1.08%	100,592
3	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy.	328,333,433	97.02%	10,084,023	2.98%	91,282
4	To declare a final dividend of 1.80 pence per share in respect of the year ended 31 March 2023 (ordinary).	338,410,672	99.99%	42,663	0.01%	55,403
5	To elect Dan Evans as a Director of the Company (ordinary).	338,181,503	99.96%	122,072	0.04%	205,163
6	To elect Paul Rayner as a Director of the Company (ordinary).	338,257,171	99.97%	111,404	0.03%	140,163
7	To re-elect David Shearer as a Director of the Company (ordinary).	301,328,552	89.66%	34,754,193	10.34%	2,425,993
8	To re-elect David Garman as a Director of the Company (ordinary).	335,168,528	99.06%	3,187,890	0.94%	152,320
9	To re-elect Rob Barclay as a Director of the Company (ordinary).	338,159,041	99.95%	175,567	0.05%	174,130
10	To re-elect Rhian Bartlett as a Director of the Company (ordinary).	335,208,034	99.07%	3,139,392	0.93%	161,312
11	To re-elect Shatish Dasani as a Director of the Company (ordinary).	334,697,764	98.95%	3,541,154	1.05%	269,820
12	To re-elect Carol Kavanagh as a Director of the Company (ordinary).	338,198,558	99.95%	172,860	0.05%	137,320
13	To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Auditors (ordinary).	336,212,606	99.35%	2,205,924	0.65%	87,208
14	To authorise the Directors to determine the remuneration of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (ordinary).	338,342,295	99.97%	113,224	0.03%	53,219
15	To authorise the Directors to allot shares (ordinary).	311,290,311	91.99%	27,118,928	8.01%	99,499
16	To authorise the Directors to allot securities free from pre-emption rights, subject to certain specified limitations (special).	309,433,862	91.42%	29,036,764	8.58%	38,112
17	To disapply statutory pre-emption rights in relation to acquisitions or other capital investments (special).	309,236,620	91.40%	29,086,841	8.60%	185,277
18	To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own shares (special).	328,781,611	97.16%	9,614,705	2.84%	112,422
19	To authorise the calling of general meetings on not less than 14 days' notice (special).	337,948,712	99.86%	489,617	0.14%	70,409
20	To permit the Company to make political donations (ordinary).	333,557,753	98.56%	4,857,311	1.44%	93,674

N.B. Percentage figures are rounded to 2 decimal places.

*     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.

As at 7 September 2023, the number of issued shares of the Company was 516,983,637, of which 55,146,281 were held in treasury. Therefore, the total voting rights in the Company as at that date was 461,837,356.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of all the resolutions passed as special business at the Annual General Meeting will shortly be available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism which can be accessed at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

Neil Hunt

Company Secretary

 

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