Result of AGM

RNS Number : 6853K

Stobart Group Limited

26 June 2014

 



26 June 2014

STOBART GROUP LIMITED

Result of AGM

Stobart, the infrastructure and support services group, announces that at its Annual General Meeting held at 11.30 a.m. today, each of the resolutions submitted to the meeting (as set out in the Notice of Meeting) was proposed and passed by the appropriate majority.

 The votes received were as follows

	Votes in favour		Votes at Chairman's discretion		Votes against		Votes withheld		% in favour incl. Chairman's discretion but excl. withheld votes
To receive the Company's Annual Accounts and the Directors' Report, Directors' Remuneration Report and the Auditors' Report.	225,019,628		264,673		174,919		21,638		99.80
To declare a final dividend of 4p per ordinary share.	225,011,344		259,150		209,808		556		99.80
To re-elect Ben Whawell as a Director.	224,881,480		267,850		306,876		24,652		99.74
To re-elect Andrew Tinkler as a Director.	224,865,699		250,850		336,337		27,972		99.74
To re-elect Iain Ferguson as a Director.	220,625,296		276,196		4,549,599		29,767		97.86
To re-elect Andrew Wood as a Director.	224,797,617		276,196		383,868		23,177		99.71
To approve appointment of John Garbutt as a Director.	225,039,512		282,050		99,686		59,610		99.83
To approve appointment of John Coombs as a Director.	225,049,308		282,050		89,890		59,610		99.83
To approve appointment of Richard Butcher as a Director.	224,820,070		290,050		319,433		51,305		99.73
To re-appoint KPMG LLP as Auditors of the Company.	220,666,794		252,770		4,477,586		83,708		97.90
To authorise the Directors to fix the Auditors' remuneration.	224,817,851		269,770		297,422		95,815		99.75
To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report.	219,252,394		273,647		5,729,941		224,875		97.34
To approve the Director's Remuneration Policy.	211,899,974		273,699		13,206,457		100,727		94.02
To authorise the Directors to issue shares.	224,984,221		280,408		153,788		62,441		99.81
To disapply pre-emption rights on the issue of shares in the Company.	224,439,484		322,008		603,628		115,738		99.59
To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares	224,954,230		324,755		165,789		36,084		99.79

A copy of all the resolutions passed, other than those concerning ordinary business, has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: http://www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do.

ENDS

ENQUIRIES:

Stobart	[phone]
Andrew Tinkler, Chief Executive Officer Ben Whawell, Chief Financial Officer
Lansons
Tony Langham ([e-mail])	[phone] / [phone]
Anna Schirmer ([e-mail])	[phone]
Influence Associates	[phone]
Stuart Dyble/James Andrew

 

END

 

 

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