Results of Annual General Meeting of Shareholders

RNS Number : 3644H

Centamin PLC

16 May 2014

 



For immediate release

16 May 2014

Centamin plc ("Centamin" or "the Company")

(LSE:CEY, TSX:CEE)

Results of Annual General Meeting of Shareholders

Centamin wishes to advise that the outcomes of each resolution put to the Company's members at the Annual General Meeting held at The Royal Yacht Hotel, St Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands on Friday 16^th May 2014 at 11.00am (Jersey time), are as set out below:

	VOTES FOR	%	VOTES AGAINST	%	VOTES WITHHELD (1)
Ordinary Resolution 1 Annual Accounts, Director's Report and Auditor's Report	644,025,499	99.13	5,661,925	0.87	18,127,910
Ordinary Resolution 2 Adoption of the Remuneration Report	392,308,097	74.02	137,672,263	25.98	137,834,974
Ordinary Resolution 3.1 Re-Election of Mr Josef El-Raghy	534,355,558	89.51	62,649,401	10.49	70,810,375
Ordinary Resolution 3.2 Re-Election of Mr Trevor Schultz	597,824,967	89.54	69,813,772	10.46	176,595
Ordinary Resolution 3.3 Re-Election of Mr Edward Haslam	657,610,438	98.59	9,410,341	1.41	794,555
Ordinary Resolution 3.4 Re-Election of Prof. G. Robert Bowker	659,792,088	98.83	7,787,822	1.17	235,424
Ordinary Resolution 3.5 Re-Election of Mr Mark Arnesen	666,496,590	99.83	1,135,349	0.17	183,395
Ordinary Resolution 3.6 Re-Election of Mr Mark Bankes	667,049,979	99.92	518,561	0.08	246,794
Ordinary Resolution 3.7 Re-Election of Mr Kevin Tomlinson	659,790,539	99.00	6,632,774	1.00	1,392,021
Ordinary Resolution 4.1 Re-Appointment of Deloitte LLP as the Company Auditors until the conclusion of the audit tender process	672,200,258	99.22	5,282,946	0.78	721,390
Ordinary Resolution 4.2 Authorising the Directors to agree the Auditor's Remuneration	675,634,105	99.92	542,839	0.08	2,027,649
Ordinary Resolution 5 Authorise Directors to Allot Relevant Securities	640,333,165	95.92	27,231,844	4.08	250,325
Special Resolution 6 Disapplication of Pre-Emptive Rights	640,247,066	95.91	27,285,196	4.09	283,072
Special Resolution 7 Market Purchase of Ordinary Shares	676,216,598	99.95	325,713	0.05	1,662,281

⁽¹⁾ A "Vote Withheld" is not a 'vote' in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes 'For' and 'Against' the resolution.

The total number of ordinary shares of no par value eligible to be voted at the Annual General Meeting was 1,152,107,984.  The scrutineers of the poll were Computershare Investor Services PLC.

A copy of the resolutions passed at the AGM has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for viewing shortly at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

The full text of each of the resolutions is set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting, copies of which are available on the Centamin website at www.centamin.com.

For more information please contact:

Centamin plc Josef El-Raghy, Chairman Andy Davidson, Head of Business Development and Investor Relations ([e-mail]) [phone]

Buchanan Bobby Morse Gordon Poole Gabriella Clinkard + 44 (0) 20 7466 5000

 

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