Result of Annual General Meeting

RNS Number : 0797T

Safestore Holdings plc

23 March 2016

 

23 March 2016

Safestore Holdings plc

("Safestore" or "the Company")

 

Result of Annual General Meeting

The Directors of Safestore are pleased to report that at the Annual General Meeting, held on 23 March 2016, all resolutions in the Notice of Meeting were put to the meeting and were duly passed on a show of hands. The total number of proxy votes lodged for each resolution in advance of the meeting is set out below.

Resolution	Votes  For	%	Votes Against	%	Votes Total	% of ISC Voted	Votes Withheld
1	154,769,870	99.94	90,000	0.06	154,859,870	74.56%	392,777
2	141,900,265	97.28	3,964,713	2.72	145,864,978	70.23%	9,387,669
3	153,356,884	98.86	1,769,266	1.14	155,126,150	74.69%	126,497
4	154,916,833	99.87	209,317	0.13	155,126,150	74.69%	126,497
5	154,920,801	100.00	-	-	154,920,801	74.59%	331,846
6	147,304,981	98.03	2,950,317	1.96	150,255,118	72.35%	4,997,529
7	143,159,390	95.28	7,087,728	4.72	150,247,118	72.34%	5,005,529
8	149,145,435	99.26	1,109,683	0.74	150,255,118	72.35%	4,997,529
9	148,958,788	99.14	1,296,330	0.86	150,255,118	72.35%	4,997,529
10	148,410,527	98.77	1,844,591	1.23	150,255,118	72.35%	4,997,529
11	149,971,484	99.81	283,142	0.19	150,254,626	72.35%	4,998,021
12	154,701,314	99.72	426,804	0.28	155,128,118	74.69%	124,529
13	149,096,395	96.11	6,033,723	3.89	155,130,118	74.69%	122,529
14	155,123,650	99.92	128,997	0.08	155,252,647	74.75%	-
15	155,126,914	99.99	1,204	0.01	155,128,118	74.69%	124,529
16	144,464,753	93.13	10,663,365	6.87	155,128,118	74.69%	124,529

*ISC = Issued Share Capital of the Company

Resolutions 1 to 13 were passed as ordinary resolutions. Resolutions 14 to 16 were passed as special resolutions.

Where shareholders appointed the Chairman as their proxy with discretion as to voting, their votes were cast in favour of the resolutions and their shares have been included in the "votes for column.

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

The current issued capital of Safestore Holdings plc is 207,685,949 shares.

Resolution 1 - To receive the Annual Report and Accounts

Resolution 2 - To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report

Resolution 3 - To appoint Deloitte LLP as auditors

Resolution 4 - To authorise the Directors to determine the auditors' remuneration

Resolution 5 - To declare a final dividend of 6.65 pence per ordinary share

Resolution 6 - To re-elect Alan Lewis as a Director

Resolution 7 - To re-elect Keith Edelman as a Director

Resolution 8 - To re-elect Frederic Vecchioli as a Director

Resolution 9 - To re-elect Andy Jones as a Director

Resolution 10 - To re-elect Ian Krieger as a Director

Resolution 11 - To re-elect Joanne Kenrick as a Director

Resolution 12 - To authorise political donations and political expenditure

Resolution 13 - To authorise the directors to allot relevant securities

Resolution 14** - To authorise the dis-application of pre-emption rights

Resolution 15** - To authorise market purchases of ordinary shares

Resolution 16** - To authorise general meetings other than annual general meetings to be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice

** Special Resolutions requiring a 75% majority

In accordance with LR 9.6.2, copies of the resolutions passed as special business have been forwarded to the FCA for publication through the Document Viewing Facility and will be accessible via the National Storage Mechanism website at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM  

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For further information, please contact:

Sam Ahmed - Company Secretary	020 8732 1500

About Safestore:

·	Safestore is the UK's largest self-storage group with 119 stores, comprising 95 wholly owned stores in the UK (including 56 in London and the South East with the remainder in key metropolitan areas such as Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Liverpool and Bristol) and 24 wholly owned stores in the Paris region. In addition, Safestore has 12 Space Maker stores under management in the UK.
·	Safestore operates more self-storage sites inside the M25 and in central Paris than any competitor providing more proximity to customers in the wealthiest and densest UK and French markets.
·	Safestore was founded in the UK in 1998. It acquired the French business "Une Pièce en Plus" ("UPP") in 2004 which was founded in 1998 by the current Safestore Group CEO Frederic Vecchioli.
·	Safestore has been listed on the London Stock Exchange since 2007. It entered the FTSE 250 index in October 2015.
·	The Group provides storage to around 49,000 personal and business customers.
·	Safestore (excluding Space Maker) has a maximum lettable area ("MLA") of 4.925 million sq ft (excluding the expansion pipeline stores) of which 3.435 million sq ft was occupied at 31 January 2016.
·	Safestore employs around 525 people in the UK and France.

 

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