Result of AGM

RNS Number : 3046B

Warehouse REIT PLC

19 September 2018

 

19 September 2018

 

Warehouse REIT plc

(the 'Company' or 'Warehouse REIT')

Result of Annual General Meeting

The Company is pleased to announce that, at the Annual General Meeting held on 19 September 2018, resolutions 1 to 13, 15 and 16 were passed on a show of hands, including the following resolutions:

Resolution 12 (ordinary resolution): To authorise the Directors to allot shares pursuant to Section 551 of the Companies Act 2006.

Resolution 13 (special resolution): To authorise the Directors to disapply statutory pre-emption rights in relation to the issue of ordinary shares.

Resolution 15 (special resolution): To authorise the Directors to make market purchases of the Company's own shares.

Resolution 16 (special resolution): To hold general meetings (other than annual general meetings) on 14 clear days' notice.

A poll was called on Resolution 14 (special resolution): To authorise the Directors to disapply statutory pre-emption rights in relation to the issue of ordinary shares for the purposes of financing a transaction. The results of the poll were as follows:

	Votes For		Votes Against		Votes Withheld
	Votes	% Votes Cast	Votes	% Votes Cast
Resolution 14	54,522,440	76.96%	16,318,299	23.04%	850,278

Accordingly, Resolution 14 was carried.

The proxy votes received in relation to each of the resolutions were as follows:

Resolutions	Votes For	Votes Against	Votes at Chairman's Discretion	Votes Withheld
Resolution 1	62,033,283	183,700	167,226	0
Resolution 2	62,022,086	184,700	167,226	10,197
Resolution 3	62,012,251	184,700	167,226	20,032
Resolution 4	62,020,586	183,700	167,226	12,697
Resolution 5	54,335,756	7,868,530	167,226	12,697
Resolution 6	57,560,005	4,644,281	167,226	12,697
Resolution 7	62,020,586	183,700	167,226	12,697
Resolution 8	62,020,586	183,700	167,226	12,697
Resolution 9	58,366,586	3,834,700	167,226	15,697
Resolution 10	62,020,586	184,700	167,226	11,697
Resolution 11	62,036,983	180,000	167,226	0
Resolution 12	62,015,086	183,700	167,226	18,197
Resolution 13	61,978,759	218,527	167,226	19,697
Resolution 14	45,068,406	16,318,299	167,226	830,278
Resolution 15	58,375,656	3,839,827	167,226	1,500
Resolution 16	61,268,815	948,168	167,226	0

The Directors note the substantially higher proportion of proxy votes received against Resolution 14 as compared with each of the other Resolutions. The Board believes that these votes against were based on recently updated guidance released by various voting bodies including PIRC and ISS. However, the Company will engage with shareholders to discuss the reasons for the votes against this resolution.

 Enquiries:

Warehouse REIT plc                                                                                                                       via FTI Consulting

Tilstone Partners Limited Andrew Bird, Paul Makin	[phone]
G10 Capital Limited (part of the Lawson Conner Group), acting as AIFM Agnese Soldane, Gerhard Grueter	[phone]
Peel Hunt (Financial Adviser, Nominated Adviser and Broker) Capel Irwin, Carl Gough, Harry Nicholas	[phone]
FTI Consulting (Financial PR & IR Adviser to the Company) Dido Laurimore, Ellie Sweeney, Richard Gotla	[phone]

 

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