Result of AGM

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Unite Group PLC (The)
07 May 2020
 

 

7 May 2020

 

THE UNITE GROUP PLC (the "Company")

 

RESULTS OF THE 2020 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

 

The Unite Group plc announces that all resolutions put to the Annual General Meeting held today, 7 May 2020, were passed on a poll.  The results for each resolution are as follows:



For

Against



Resolution

Votes1

% Votes Cast

Votes

% Votes Cast

Votes Withheld 2

Ordinary Resolutions

1

Receive Annual Reports and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2019 

323,817,025

99.99

32,545

0.01

304,362

2

Directors' Remuneration Report set out on pages 119 to 147 (inclusive) in the Annual Report and Accounts

297,901,750

93.04

22,290,928

6.96

3,961,254

3

[Declare 2019 final dividend]3

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

4

Re-elect Phil White 

296,559,561

98.01

6,031,295

1.99

21,563,076

5

Re-elect Richard Smith 

323,802,521

99.89

344,371

0.11

7,041

6

Re-elect Joseph Lister 

322,854,901

99.60

1,291,991

0.40

7,041

7

Re-elect Elizabeth McMeikan

320,040,800

98.73

4,106,091

1.27

7,041

8

Re-elect Ross Paterson

319,008,020

98.41

5,138,594

1.59

7,191

9

Re-elect Richard Akers

319,162,868

98.46

4,983,874

1.54

7,191

10

Re-elect Ilaria del Beato

319,250,849

98.49

4,896,043

1.51

7,041

11

Elect Dame Shirley Peace

323,823,052

99.90

323,840

0.10

7,041

12

Elect Thomas Jackson

316,317,334

97.58

7,829,558

2.42

7,041

13

Elect Professor Sir Steve Smith

323,379,081

99.76

767,811

0.24

7,041

14

Re-appoint Deloitte LLP as Auditor 

316,100,325

97.71

7,398,960

2.29

654,647

15

Auditor's Remuneration 

303,358,912

93.59

20,787,979

6.41

7,041

16

Authority to Allot Shares

286,495,949

88.38

37,650,943

11.62

7,041

17

Renew the Savings-Related Share Option Scheme ("SAYE")

322,440,682

99.47

1,703,958

0.53

9,293

Special Resolutions

18

Dis-apply Pre-emption Rights (General)

322,290,993

99.97

88,474

0.03

1,774,466

19

Dis-apply Pre-emption Rights (Acquisition or Specified Capital Investment)

321,578,681

99.75

801,285

0.25

1,773,966

20

Allow General Meeting on 14 days' notice

292,879,917

90.35

31,267,223

9.65

6,793

 

 

1 Includes those votes giving the Chairman discretion.

2 A "Vote Withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of "For" and "Against" a resolution.

3 As announced on 25 March 2020, the Board decided to cancel the 2019 final dividend and this resolution 3 was not included.

 

Maximum number of shares represented by proxy: 323,920,527 shares

 

Number of ordinary shares in issue as at the date of the AGM (no shares held in treasury): 363,631,363 

Resolutions 1, 2 and 4 to 17 were passed as ordinary resolutions and Resolutions 18 to 20 were passed as special resolutions.

 

Pursuant to UK Listing Rule 9.6.2R, copies of all resolutions, other than those concerning ordinary business, adopted at the AGM will be shortly submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection at:   https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism .  

 

The full text of the resolutions passed at the AGM can be found in the Notice of AGM, which is available alongside the AGM results on the Company's website at http://www.unite-group.co.uk/.

 

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For further information, please contact:

Unite Students

Christopher Szpojnarowicz, Company Secretary

 

 

Tel: +44 117 302 7120 



 


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