Result of AGM

RNS Number : 1339D

Microgen PLC

24 April 2017

microgen

www.microgen.com

24 April 2017

Result of AGM

The board of directors of Microgen plc (the "Company") announces that, at the Company's 2017 annual general meeting held earlier today, all resolutions were duly passed on a show of hands.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2(R), a copy of the resolutions passed at the Annual General Meeting will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

As at the date of the meeting, there were 60,771,938 ordinary shares with voting rights in issue. The following proxies were received by the Company from shareholders prior to the meeting:

RESOLUTION		FOR		AGAINST		WITHHELD
RESOLUTION		VOTES	% OF VOTES CAST*	VOTES	% OF VOTES CAST*	VOTES
1	Receive and adopt the Company's Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2016 together with the reports of the Directors and Auditors.	44,559,802	99.53	0	0.00	0
2	Approve the rules of the Microgen plc Save As You Earn Scheme 2016 and the Microgen plc International Sharesave Plan.	44,548,136	99.53	0	0.00	11,666
3	Approve the rules of the Microgen plc Performance Share Plan 2016.	42,043,504	93.93	2,504,399	5.60	11,899
4	Approve the Microgen plc Employee Benefit Trust.	44,548,136	99.53	0	0.00	11,666
5	Approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy.	42,630,950	95.25	1,914,484	4.28	13,516
6	Approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December 2016.	44,545,665	99.52	621	0.01	13,516
7	Declare a final dividend of 3.5 pence per ordinary share.	44,559,569	99.53	0	0.00	233
8	Re-elect Barbara Moorhouse as a director of the Company.	44,547,903	99.50	11,666	0.03	233
9	Re-elect Peter Whiting as a director of the Company.	42,645,939	95.26	1,913,863	4.27	0
10	Re-appoint PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors of the Company.	40,897,090	91.35	3,662,479	8.18	233
11	Authorise the Audit Committee to agree the auditors' remuneration.	40,545,821	90.56	4,013,981	8.97	0
12	Authorise the Directors to allot securities pursuant to section 551 of the Companies Act 2016 (the "Act").	44,545,303	99.50	0	0.00	233
13	Special Resolution: Disapply pre-emption rights under section 561 of the Act within the stated limits.	44,547,903	99.50	11,666	0.03	233
14	Special Resolution: Disapply pre-emption rights under section 561 of the Act in additional limited circumstances.	44,547,903	99.50	11,666	0.03	233
15	Special Resolution: Authorise the Company to make purchases of its own shares pursuant to section 701 of the Act.	44,561,028	99.53	0	0.00	233
16	Special Resolution: Authorise the holding of a general meeting (other than an AGM) on not less than 14 clear days' notice.	44,539,168	99.48	20,634	0.05	0