AGM Results

RNS Number : 4066F

Guinness Peat Group PLC

23 May 2013

 



GUINNESS PEAT GROUP PLC

("GPG" or the "Company")

Announcement

Results of Annual General Meeting ("AGM")

GPG announces that at the AGM which was held in Auckland, New Zealand on 23 May 2013, all of the resolutions put to the meeting were duly passed on a poll by the requisite majority.

The following table shows the votes cast on each resolution:

Resolution		Total Votes		Total Votes		Total Votes cast	Votes
		For		Against		as % of Issued	Withheld
						Share Capital
			%		%
1	Receipt of Annual Report 2012	773,221,834	99.09	7,072,323	0.91	55.45%	199,270
2	Approval of Remuneration Report	415,397,796	53.27	364,389,295	46.73	55.42%	778,605
3	Re-election of Rob Campbell	712,204,101	98.57	10,303,724	1.43	51.35%	58,092,712
4	Re-election of Mike Allen	770,055,785	98.70	10,157,311	1.30	55.45%	368,310
5	Election of Waldemar Szlezak	760,482,070	97.50	19,476,048	2.50	55.43%	622,356
6	Re-appointment of Auditor	772,726,925	99.07	7,249,398	0.93	55.43%	578,056
7	Approval of remuneration of Auditor	772,050,816	99.06	7,323,801	0.94	55.39%	1,175,087
8	Authority to allot relevant securities	552,136,988	76.51	169,502,223	23.49	51.28%	56,018,776
9	Authority to disapply pre-emption provisions **	607,082,925	77.84	172,836,024	22.16	55.43%	970,124
10	Authority to purchase own shares**	772,697,659	98.98	7,996,325	1.02	55.48%	198,919
11	Authority to call general meetings on 14 clear days' notice **	725,338,503	92.96	54,919,276	7.04	55.45%	312,310
12	Adopt amended Articles of Association**	774,699,075	99.27	5,660,686	0.73	55.46%	517,432

Notes:

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

**      Copies of the special business resolutions passed at the AGM are being submitted to the UK Listing Authority, and will shortly be available for inspection at the UK National Storage Mechanism which is located at http://www.hemscott.com/nsm.do

Total Voting Rights

The total number of the Company's ordinary shares in issue and therefore the total number of voting rights as at the close of business (UK time) on 21 May 2013 was 1,407,152,123.

Chris Healy

Company Secretary

Guinness Peat Group plc

[phone]

23 May 2013

Enquiry details are:

New Zealand and Australian media:               Geoff Senescall on:              [phone]

UK media:                                                   Kevin Smith on:                    [phone]

 

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