Result of AGM

RNS Number : 9908G

Evraz Plc

13 June 2013

 



EVRAZ plc (the "Company")

Results of the Annual General Meeting

The Annual General Meeting (the "Meeting") of the Company was held on Thursday 13 June 2013 at 11.00 a.m. (London time). At the Meeting, the ordinary and special resolutions set out in the Notice of the Annual General Meeting dated 30 April 2013 (the "Notice of AGM"), were proposed and passed by way of a poll. Resolutions 1 to 15 were passed as ordinary resolutions. Resolutions 16 to 18 were passed as special resolutions.

The poll voting figures are shown below.

No.	Resolution	Votes for	%	Votes against	%	Votes withheld	Total votes as % of issued share capital
1	To receive the report of the Directors and the accounts for the Company for the year ended 31 December 2012	1,069,842,412	99.91%	937,243	0.09%	0	72.71%
2	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December 2012	1,058,394,986	98.86%	12,190,735	1.14%	193,934	72.70%
3	To re-elect Alexander Abramov as a Director	1,061,749,064	99.16%	9,033,091	0.84%	0	72.71%
4	To re-elect Duncan Antony Hilder Baxter as a Director	1,069,040,502	99.85%	1,650,482	0.15%	91,171	72.71%
5	To re-elect Alexander Frolov as a Director	1,069,383,338	99.87%	1,398,817	0.13%	0	72.71%
6	To re-elect Karl Gruber as a Director	1,069,066,993	99.88%	1,326,354	0.12%	388,808	72.69%
7	To re-elect Alexander Izosimov as a Director	1,069,533,408	99.88%	1,248,747	0.12%	0	72.71%
8	To re-elect Sir Michael Peat as a Director	1,069,076,615	99.85%	1,602,412	0.15%	103,128	72.71%
9	To re-elect Olga Pokrovskaya as a Director	1,034,602,179	96.69%	35,452,872	3.31%	727,104	72.67%
10	To re-elect Terry John Robinson as a Director	1,069,119,109	99.85%	1,571,875	0.15%	91,171	72.71%
11	To re-elect Eugene Shvidler as a Director	1,068,513,071	99.79%	2,269,084	0.21%	0	72.71%
12	To re-elect Eugene Tenenbaum as a Director	1,069,019,109	99.84%	1,671,875	0.16%	91,171	72.71%
13	To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP as auditors of the Company	1,070,676,527	100.00%	2,500	0.00%	103,128	72.71%
14	To authorise the Directors to fix the remuneration of the auditors	1,070,782,155	100.00%	0	0.00%	0	72.71%
15	To authorise the Directors to allot shares as provided in resolution 15 of the Notice of AGM	1,069,396,126	99.90%	1,093,388	0.10%	292,641	72.69%
16	To disapply pre-emption rights	1,070,675,838	99.99%	106,300	0.01%	17	72.71%
17	To authorise the Company to make market purchases of shares in the capital of the Company	1,070,775,138	100.00%	7,000	0.00%	17	72.71%
18	To authorise the Company to hold general meetings on not less than 14 clear days' notice	1,060,831,580	99.07%	9,950,558	0.93%	17	72.71%

Notes:

1.   Any proxy arrangement which gave discretion to the Chairman has been included in the "for" totals.

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

3.   The issued share capital of EVRAZ plc as at 13 June 2013 is 1,472,582,366 ordinary shares.

4.   The scrutineer of the polls was Computershare Investor Services PLC.

5.   All percentages are rounded to two decimal points.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of resolutions passed at the Meeting concerning items other than ordinary business will shortly be available for inspection on the National Storage Mechanism which can be accessed at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do

Details of the poll votes received will shortly also be available for viewing on the Company's website http://www.evraz.com/

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For further information:

Investor Relations:
Sergey Belyakov
Director, Investor Relations
London	[phone]
Moscow	[phone]
E-mail	[e-mail]
Company Secretary:
TMF Corporate Administration Services Limited
London	[phone]
E-mail	[e-mail]

EVRAZ is a vertically integrated steel, mining and vanadium business with operations in the Russian Federation, Ukraine, USA, Canada, Czech Republic, Italy and South Africa. EVRAZ is among 20 top steel producers in the world based on crude steel production of 15.9 million tonnes in 2012. In 2012 EVRAZ sold 15.3 million tonnes of steel products. A significant portion of the company's internal consumption of iron ore and coking coal is covered by its mining operations. The company's consolidated revenues for the year ended 31 December 2012 were US$14,726 million, and consolidated EBITDA amounted to US$2,012 million.

 

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