Connect Group PLC - Result of AGM

RNS Number : 2359V

Connect Group PLC

26 January 2017

 

26 January 2017

Connect Group PLC

Result of 2017 Annual General Meeting

Connect Group PLC is pleased to announce that at its AGM held at 11.30am today, all resolutions put to the meeting were duly passed. All resolutions were voted on by way of a poll and the results of the poll for each resolution are shown below:

Resolution		For		Against		Withheld
		No. of votes	%	No. of votes	%	No. of votes
1	To receive the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 August 2016	177,987,483	99.99%	17,612	0.01%	19,178
2	To approve the directors' remuneration report for the year ended 31 August 2016	168,302,228	96.30%	6,462,878	3.70%	3,259,167
3	To approve the directors' remuneration policy	165,987,901	94.21%	10,203,503	5.79%	1,832,869
4	To declare a final dividend of 6.5p per share	178,022,197	100.00%	1,308	0.00%	768
5	To elect David Bauernfeind	176,154,740	99.28%	1,273,736	0.72%	595,797
6	To re-elect Gary Kennedy	174,833,621	99.93%	119,137	0.07%	3,071,515
7	To re-elect Mark Cashmore	174,597,574	98.40%	2,833,159	1.60%	593,540
8	To re-elect Jonathan Bunting	176,155,411	99.28%	1,274,556	0.72%	594,306
9	To re-elect Andrew Brent	177,319,220	99.94%	109,785	0.06%	595,268
10	To re-elect Colin Child	175,841,748	99.11%	1,587,725	0.89%	594,800
11	To re-elect Denis Collis	175,845,285	99.11%	1,584,776	0.89%	594,212
12	To re-appoint the auditor	177,740,341	99.84%	281,389	0.16%	2,543
13	To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the auditor's remuneration	177,974,245	99.98%	33,397	0.02%	16,631
14	Authority to make political donations	175,160,079	98.57%	2,545,818	1.43%	318,376
15	Authority to allot shares	151,542,441	85.14%	26,443,356	14.86%	38,476
16	Authority to partially disapply pre-emption rights*	151,535,061	85.14%	26,444,607	14.86%	44,605
17	Authority to make market purchases of ordinary shares*	177,666,029	99.82%	325,956	0.18%	32,288
18	Authority to call general meetings (other than the AGM) on 14 clear days' notice*	173,595,539	97.54%	4,381,890	2.46%	46,844

* Special resolution

Notes:

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

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

3.   The total number of shares in issue at 6pm on 24 January 2017 was 247,576,954. Votes were cast in respect of 71.9% of the issued share capital.

In accordance with the UK Listing Authority's Listing Rule 9.6.2, a copy of the special business passed at the AGM, being resolutions 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18, has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

Alison Painter

Interim Deputy Company Secretary 

 

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