Result of AGM

Rotork PLC

30 April 2024

 

30 April 2024

Rotork Plc

('the Company' or 'Rotork') 

2024 Annual General Meeting - Poll Results

The Company's 2024 Annual General Meeting ('AGM') was held today in the Brunel Suite at the Bailbrook House Hotel, Eveleigh Avenue, London Road West, Bath, BA1 7JD.  All resolutions, as set out in the Notice of AGM dated 26 March 2024 and put to the meeting, were decided by a poll and were passed.

Resolutions 1 to 14 were each passed as an ordinary resolution and resolutions 15 to 19 were each passed as a special resolution.

The following table summarises the final poll result for each resolution:

Resolution		For 2		Against2		No. of Votes withheld3	Total Capital Instructed
		No. of Shares	%	No. of Shares	%
1.	To receive the 2023 Annual Report and audited accounts	686,561,919	99.99	4,474	0.01	970,952	686,566,393
2.	To declare a final dividend of 4.65p per ordinary share	687,522,080	99.99	6,615	0.01	8,650	687,528,695
3.	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report	678,625,474	98.73	8,729,791	1.27	182,080	687,355,265
4.	To re-elect TR Cobbold as a director	686,321,809	99.86	988,291	0.14	227,245	687,310,100
5.	To elect AJ Heath as a director	687,164,354	99.98	147,342	0.02	225,649	687,311,696
6.	To re-elect KT Huynh as a director	687,262,538	99.99	54,800	0.01	220,007	687,317,338
7.	To re-elect KFS Meurk-Harvey as a director	686,330,724	99.86	971,490	0.14	232,893	687,302,214
8.	To elect B Peacock as a director	685,630,773	99.76	1,680,923	0.24	225,649	687,311,696
9.	To re-elect JE Stipp as a director	645,714,287	93.95	41,596,165	6.05	226,893	687,310,452
10.	To re-elect DC Thompson as a director	680,652,557	99.03	6,662,139	0.97	222,649	687,314,696
11.	To appoint KPMG LLP as auditor of the Company	687,121,009	99.95	364,036	0.05	50,461	687,485,045
12.	To authorise the Audit Committee to determine auditor's remuneration	687,475,221	99.99	13,712	0.01	48,412	687,488,933
13.	Authority to make political donations	685,658,116	99.79	1,459,304	0.21	419,925	687,117,420
14.	Authority for the directors to allot shares	667,978,250	97.17	19,487,121	2.83	71,974	687,465,371
15.	General authority to dis-apply pre-emption rights*	670,028,200	97.47	17,382,874	2.53	126,271	687,411,074
16.	Authority to dis-apply pre-emption rights for acquisitions / capital investments*	647,499,033	94.19	39,914,445	5.81	123,867	687,413,478
17.	Authority to purchase own ordinary shares*	684,243,736	99.53	3,206,665	0.47	86,944	687,450,401
18.	Authority to purchase own preference shares*	684,476,726	99.57	2,972,325	0.43	88,294	687,449,051
19.	Notice period for general meetings*	636,195,480	92.54	51,301,796	7.46	40,069	687,497,276

*Passed as a special resolution

The Board of Rotork plc is pleased to note that all resolutions were passed at today's AGM and we welcome the substantial support of the Company's shareholders for all the resolutions proposed.

The Company confirms that Ann Christin Andersen and Jonathan Davis both stepped down from the Board as directors at the conclusion of today's AGM. These changes were previously announced on 29 June 2023 (RNS Number 3848E) and 12 September 2023 (RNS Number 0785M) respectively.

Notes: 

1.    The total votes cast in favour of each resolution include those giving the Chair discretion.

2.   Votes "For" and "Against" are expressed as a percentage of votes received with percentages rounded to two decimal places.

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

4.    The total number of ordinary 0.5p shares in issue on 30 April 2024 was 859,132,400 with no shares being held in treasury. The total number of voting rights in respect of these ordinary shares was 859,132,400 with each ordinary share having one vote.

5.  In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, a copy of all resolutions passed by the Company, other than those resolutions concerning ordinary business, will be submitted to the UK Listing Authority and made available for inspection from the National Storage Mechanism at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

6.    A copy of this announcement has been posted on the Company's website at www.rotork.com/investors/index/agm.

7.    Legal Entity Identifier: 213800AH5RZIHGWRJ718

Enquiries:
Rotork plc	Tel:  [phone]
Stuart Pain, Group General Counsel & Company Secretary Andrew Carter, Investor Relations Director
FTI Consulting
Nick Hasell/Susanne Yule	Tel:  + 44 (0)20 3727 1340

 

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