Result of AGM

RNS Number : 3828P

Camellia PLC

05 June 2015

 

Camellia Plc

Results of Annual General Meeting - 4 June 2015

Camellia Plc held its 2015 Annual General Meeting (the "AGM") on 4 June 2015.  All resolutions put to the shareholders were passed on a show of hands.  The proxy votes received from shareholders on each resolution are set out below.

Resolution		Total Votes* For	Total Votes* Discretionary	Total Votes* Against	Votes* Withheld
1.	To receive the Company's annual accounts and the Directors' and Auditors' reports	1,598,863 (91.20%)	154,366 (8.80%)	0 (0%)	40
2.	To approve the Directors' remuneration report	1,597,556 (91.16%)	154,375 (8.81%)	590 (0.03%)	748
3.	To declare a final dividend of 92 pence per ordinary share	1,598,863 (91.20%)	154,366 (8.80%)	0 (0%)	40
4.	To re-elect Mr M C Perkins as a Director	1,588,450 (90.86%)	154,373 (8.83)	5,460 (0.31%)	4,986
5.	To re-elect Mr C J Ames as a Director	1,535,713 (87.85%)	154,373 (8.83%)	58,096 (3.32%)	5,087
6.	To re-elect Mr P J Field as a Director	1,535,831 (87.85%)	154,373 (8.83%)	57,978 (3.32%)	5,087
7.	To re-elect Mr C J Relleen as a Director	1,598,647 (91.18%)	154,373 (8.81%)	162 (0.01%)	87
8.	To re-elect Mr F Vuilleumier as a Director	1,598,802 (91.18%)	154,373 (8.81%)	7 (0.01%)	87
9.	To elect Mr T K Franks as a Director	1,535,746 (87.85%)	154,373 (8.83%)	58,103 (3.32%)	5,047
10.	To elect Mr G H Mclean as a Director	1,593,772 (91.16%)	154,373 (8.83%)	37 (0.01%)	5,087
11.	To elect Mrs S A Walker as a Director	1,535,831 (87.85%)	154,373 (8.83%)	57,978 (3.32%)	5,087
12.	To elect Mr W K Gibson as a Director	1,598,802 (91.18%)	154,373 (8.81%)	7 (0.01%)	87
13.	To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors to the Company	1,597,882 (91.15%)	155,032 (8.84%)	132 (0.01%)	223
14.	To authorise the Directors to determine the auditors' remuneration	1,598,197 (91.16%)	155,032 (8.84%)	0 (0%)	40
15.	To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own ordinary shares	1,598,841 (91.20%)	154,366 (8.80%)	0 (0%)	62

*Total number of proxy votes received.

A "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes against the resolution.

The total voting rights in the company are 2,762,000.

A copy of the special resolution passed at the AGM will shortly be available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism which is located at www.hemscott.com/nsm.co  

Camellia Plc                                                    01622 746655

Malcolm Perkins, Chairman

Tom Franks, Deputy Chief Executive

Julia Morton, Company Secretary

Charles Stanley Securities                              020 7149 6000

Nominated Adviser & Broker

Russell Cook

James Greenwood

Company description:

Camellia Plc (CAM.L) is a global agriculture and horticulture group, whose activities also extend to engineering, food storage and distribution, banking and financial services. The Group employs approximately 75,000 people globally.

The agriculture and horticulture division is engaged in the growing and production of tea, edible nuts (macadamias, pistachios and almonds), citrus fruits, avocados, rubber, forestry, viticulture, cattle, other horticultural produce and general farming (maize and soya). The Group is one of the largest private tea producers world-wide with a total of 65 tea estates and 60 tea factories. The Group's main operations are in India, Bangladesh, Malawi and Kenya, where the tea is grown and produced. It also has notable agricultural operations, other than tea, in Brazil, California, Kenya, South Africa and Malawi.

The engineering division is engaged in precision engineering, cutting and grinding, heat treatment, galvanising, powder coating, and metal finishing, etch inspection, the manufacture of stables, and the development of catalysts. These businesses are predominantly UK based and serve customers in a number of sectors including the offshore oil and gas and aerospace sectors.

The food storage and distribution division is involved in frozen, chilled and ambient temperature food supply chain management providing cold storage, refrigerated transport and production support to several leading UK food manufacturers. It also specialises in frozen imports and distributes seafood products in Europe and supplies food service customers in the Netherlands with fish products.

The banking and financial services division comprises Duncan Lawrie, which provides an integrated suite of banking services, financial planning, investment management and trust and estate advice.

 

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