Results of Annual General Meeting

RNS Number : 9288C

HSS Hire Group PLC

20 June 2019

 

20 June 2019

HSS Hire Group plc

Results of Annual General Meeting ("AGM")

At the AGM of HSS Hire Group plc held today at 11.00 am at Hilton Garden Inn Heathrow, Pavilion Centre, Eastern Perimeter Road, Hatton Cross, Heathrow, TW6 2SQ, all resolutions set out in the Notice of Meeting were voted on a poll and were passed by the requisite majorities.

Resolutions 1 to 14 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 15 to 18 were passed as special resolutions. The results of the poll are set out below.

Ordinary resolutions	Votes for	% Votes for 1	Votes against	% Votes against 1	Total votes validly cast	% of Issued share capital voted 1,2,3	Votes withheld 2
Resolution 1: Receive annual report and accounts	132,955,061	100.00	476	0.00	132,955,537	78.11%	476
Resolution 2: Approve remuneration report	132,930,615	99.98	21,900	0.02	132,952,515	78.11%	3,498
Resolution 3: Approve remuneration policy	132,930,615	99.98	21,900	0.02	132,952,515	78.11%	3,498
Resolution 4: Approve amendments to the Long Term Incentive Plan and Deferred Bonus Plan	132,928,165	99.98	23,039	0.02	132,951,204	78.11%	4,809
Resolution 5: Re-election of Alan Peterson	132,949,204	100.00	5,178	0.00	132,954,382	78.11%	952
Resolution 6: Re-election of Amanda Burton	132,948,163	100.00	5,489	0.00	132,953,652	78.11%	1,682
Resolution 7: Re-election of Douglas Robertson	132,948,490	100.00	5,892	0.00	132,954,382	78.11%	952
Resolution 8: Re-election of Thomas Sweet-Escott	132,947,449	99.99	6,933	0.01	132,954,382	78.11%	952
Resolution 9: Re-election of Steve Ashmore	132,949,204	100.00	5,178	0.00	132,954,382	78.11%	952
Resolution 10: Re-election of Paul Quested	132,949,204	100.00	5,178	0.00	132,954,382	78.11%	952
Resolution 11: Re-appoint BDO LLP as auditors	132,952,884	100.00	1,631	0.00	132,954,515	78.11%	1,498
Resolution 12: Authorise directors to agree auditors' remuneration	132,953,563	100.00	952	0.00	132,954,515	78.11%	1,498
Resolution 13: Renew authority to allot new shares	132,938,268	99.99	16,793	0.01	132,955,061	78.11%	952
Resolution 14: Political donations	132,919,792	99.97	34,079	0.03	132,953,871	78.11%	2,142

VOTES OF INDEPENDENT SHAREHOLDERS ON THE RESOLUTIONS CONCERNING THE RE-ELECTION OF THE INDEPENDENT NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS
Ordinary resolutions	Votes for	% Votes for 1	Votes against	% Votes against 1	Total votes validly cast	% of Issued share capital voted 1,2,4	Votes withheld 2
Resolution 6: Re-election of Amanda Burton	47,266,455	99.99	5,489	0.01	47,271,944	55.93%	1,682
Resolution 7: Re-election of Douglas Robertson	47,266,782	99.99	5,892	0.01	47,272,674	55.93%	952

Special resolutions	Votes for	% Votes for 1	Votes against	% Votes against 1	Total votes validly cast	% of Issued share capital voted 1,2,3	Votes withheld 2
Resolution 15: Disapplication of pre-emption rights to allotment of equity securities	132,929,331	99.98	24,266	0.02	132,953,597	78.11%	2,416
Resolution 16: Disapplication of pre-emption rights for financing or capital investment	132,932,354	99.98	21,243	0.02	132,953,597	78.11%	2,416
Resolution 17: Authority to purchase own shares	132,936,775	99.99	18,762	0.01	132,955,537	78.11%	476
Resolution 18: Notice of general meetings	132,938,980	99.99	16,246	0.01	132,955,226	78.11%	787

Notes:

1.     The percentages above are rounded to two decimal places.

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

3.     The number of ordinary shares in issue on 20 June 2019 was 170,207,142. Shareholders are entitled to one vote per share.

4.     The number of ordinary shares in issue on 20 June 2019 controlled by Independent Shareholders as defined in the explanatory notes to the Notice of the Annual General Meeting circulated on 10 May 2019.

Copies of resolutions 15 to 18, being resolutions other than resolutions concerning ordinary business passed by the Company at the above AGM, have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

 

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