Result of AGM

RNS Number : 8571E

Shires Smaller Companies PLC

13 April 2011

 



Shires Smaller Companies plc

Results of the Annual General Meeting held on 13 April 2011

At today's Annual General Meeting all resolutions were passed by shareholders.

The proxy votes received in respect of the Annual General Meeting are shown in the following table:

	For (including discretionary)	Against	Withheld
1  Approve the annual report	7,671,847	17,974	32,096
2  Approval of remuneration report	7,593,678	85,770	42,469
3  Re-election of D A Nichols	7,632,715	42,311	46,891
4  Election of B M Rose	7,638,903	24,407	58,607
5  Reappointment of KPMG Audit plc	7,657,188	23,629	41,100
6  Amendment of Articles	7,551,490	94.084	76,343
7  Section 551 allotment	7,562,293	77,918	81,706
8 Disapplication of pre-emption rights	7,550,592	97,656	73,669
9 Share buyback authority	7,602,109	82,411	37,397

 

The total vote was 7,721,917 including those withheld votes as identified above.  Resolutions 1 - 7 inclusive were ordinary resolutions and Resolutions 8 and 9 were special resolutions.

The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of the Meeting set out in the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2010, copies of which are available on the Company's website, www.shiressmallercompanies.co.uk *. Copies of the special resolutions will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and shall shortly be available for inspection at: www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do*

*Neither the NSM website nor the Company's website nor the content of any website accessible from hyperlinks on those websites (or any other website) is (or is deemed to be) incorporated into, or forms (or is deemed to form) part of this announcement.

For Shires Smaller Companies plc

Aberdeen Asset Management PLC, Secretary

13 April 2011

 

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