Result of AGM

RNS Number : 3572W

MITIE Group PLC

31 July 2018

 

31 July 2018

Mitie Group plc

LEI number: 213800MTCLTKEHWZMJ03

Result of AGM

At the Annual General Meeting ("AGM") of Mitie Group plc ("Mitie"), held on 31 July 2018, all the resolutions put to the meeting were passed.  The details of the votes cast are shown in a table below.  The full text of each of the resolutions is shown in the Notice of the AGM, which is available on our website at www.mitie.com.  The total number of votes cast was 277,670,232 representing 74.31% of Mitie's issued share capital.

Mitie acknowledges that, whilst the resolution for the election of Mary Reilly as an Independent Non-Executive Director was passed, a 23.74% vote against was received.

A process of shareholder consultation has commenced and Mitie will continue to engage with those shareholders who either withheld their vote, or voted against this resolution, to allay any such concerns for the future.

Copies of all special resolutions have been submitted to the UK Listing Authority and will shortly be made available for inspection on the National Storage Mechanism at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do. 

AGM - Poll results

	Resolution	Votes in favour (as % of votes cast)		Votes against (as % of votes cast)		Votes cast	Votes withheld
1	Annual report & accounts	277,219,182	99.90%	266,049	0.10%	277,485,231	198,236
2	Remuneration report	245,779,649	88.81%	30,982,345	11.19%	276,761,994	921,473
3	Remuneration policy	276,805,990	99.73%	754,611	0.27%	277,560,601	122,865
4	Re-election of Derek Mapp	258,234,121	99.81%	489,383	0.19%	258,723,504	18,959,960
5	Re-election of Phil Bentley	277,146,563	99.81%	523,669	0.19%	277,670,232	13,235
6	Election of Paul Woolf	277,093,030	99.80%	561,616	0.20%	277,654,646	28,821
7	Re-election of Nivedita Krishnamurthy Bhagat	277,224,338	99.89%	307,359	0.11%	277,531,697	151,770
8	Re-election of Jack Boyer OBE	269,410,958	97.04%	8,222,890	2.96%	277,633,848	49,617
9	Election of Philippa Couttie	277,262,736	99.90%	272,540	0.10%	277,535,276	148,191
10	Election of Jennifer Duvalier	277,374,836	99.91%	259,014	0.09%	277,633,850	49,617
11	Election of Mary Reilly	211,626,849	76.26%	65,897,801	23.74%	277,524,650	158,817
12	Election of Roger Yates	277,379,079	99.95%	146,615	0.05%	277,525,694	157,773
13	Appointment of auditors	277,261,306	99.86%	391,695	0.14%	277,653,001	30,466
14	Auditors remuneration authority	277,175,996	99.85%	429,812	0.15%	277,605,808	77,659
15	Political donations	275,893,193	99.40%	1,667,437	0.60%	277,560,630	122,837
16	Authority to allot shares	277,483,265	99.95%	129,155	0.05%	277,612,420	71,047
17	Disapplication of pre-emption rights (General)	277,342,188	99.92%	231,068	0.08%	277,573,256	110,211
18	Disapply pre-emption rights (Additional)	251,154,058	90.48%	26,419,831	9.52%	277,573,889	109,577
19	Market purchase of own shares	277,038,424	99.82%	503,398	0.18%	277,541,822	141,644
20	Short notice of meetings	248,152,477	89.37%	29,512,211	10.63%	277,664,658	18,809

Note:

The total number of ordinary shares in issue as at today's date is 373,685,164 of which 7,748,108 are held in treasury. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company is currently 365,937,056.

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For further information, contact:

Tori Cowley

Group Director of Corporate Affairs & Investor Relations

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Peter Dickinson

General Counsel and Company Secretary

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Notes for editors

About Mitie Group

Founded in 1987, Mitie is the UK's leading facilities management and professional services company. We offer a range of specialist services including engineering services, security, energy and property consultancy within Professional Services, catering, cleaning, pest control, landscaping, custody support services, and property maintenance.

Mitie employs 49,000 people across the UK, looking after a large, diverse blue-chip customer base, from banks and retailers, to hospitals, schools and government departments. We take care of our customers' people and buildings, by delivering the basics brilliantly and by deploying advanced technology. We are pioneers in the Connected Workspace, using smart analytics to provide valuable insight and deliver efficiencies to create outstanding work environments for our customers.

Find out more at www.mitie.com

 

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