Result of AGM

RNS Number : 3336M

Unite Group PLC (The)

07 May 2020

 

7 May 2020

THE UNITE GROUP PLC (the "Company")

RESULTS OF THE 2020 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The Unite Group plc announces that all resolutions put to the Annual General Meeting held today, 7 May 2020, were passed on a poll.  The results for each resolution are as follows:

		For		Against
	Resolution	Votes1	% Votes Cast	Votes	% Votes Cast	Votes Withheld 2
Ordinary Resolutions
1	Receive Annual Reports and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2019	323,817,025	99.99	32,545	0.01	304,362
2	Directors' Remuneration Report set out on pages 119 to 147 (inclusive) in the Annual Report and Accounts	297,901,750	93.04	22,290,928	6.96	3,961,254
3	[Declare 2019 final dividend]3	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
4	Re-elect Phil White	296,559,561	98.01	6,031,295	1.99	21,563,076
5	Re-elect Richard Smith	323,802,521	99.89	344,371	0.11	7,041
6	Re-elect Joseph Lister	322,854,901	99.60	1,291,991	0.40	7,041
7	Re-elect Elizabeth McMeikan	320,040,800	98.73	4,106,091	1.27	7,041
8	Re-elect Ross Paterson	319,008,020	98.41	5,138,594	1.59	7,191
9	Re-elect Richard Akers	319,162,868	98.46	4,983,874	1.54	7,191
10	Re-elect Ilaria del Beato	319,250,849	98.49	4,896,043	1.51	7,041
11	Elect Dame Shirley Peace	323,823,052	99.90	323,840	0.10	7,041
12	Elect Thomas Jackson	316,317,334	97.58	7,829,558	2.42	7,041
13	Elect Professor Sir Steve Smith	323,379,081	99.76	767,811	0.24	7,041
14	Re-appoint Deloitte LLP as Auditor	316,100,325	97.71	7,398,960	2.29	654,647
15	Auditor's Remuneration	303,358,912	93.59	20,787,979	6.41	7,041
16	Authority to Allot Shares	286,495,949	88.38	37,650,943	11.62	7,041
17	Renew the Savings-Related Share Option Scheme ("SAYE")	322,440,682	99.47	1,703,958	0.53	9,293
Special Resolutions
18	Dis-apply Pre-emption Rights (General)	322,290,993	99.97	88,474	0.03	1,774,466
19	Dis-apply Pre-emption Rights (Acquisition or Specified Capital Investment)	321,578,681	99.75	801,285	0.25	1,773,966
20	Allow General Meeting on 14 days' notice	292,879,917	90.35	31,267,223	9.65	6,793

¹ Includes those votes giving the Chairman discretion.

² A "Vote Withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of "For" and "Against" a resolution.

³ As announced on 25 March 2020, the Board decided to cancel the 2019 final dividend and this resolution 3 was not included.

Maximum number of shares represented by proxy: 323,920,527 shares

Number of ordinary shares in issue as at the date of the AGM (no shares held in treasury): 363,631,363 

Resolutions 1, 2 and 4 to 17 were passed as ordinary resolutions and Resolutions 18 to 20 were passed as special resolutions.

Pursuant to UK Listing Rule 9.6.2R, copies of all resolutions, other than those concerning ordinary business, adopted at the AGM will be shortly submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection at:   https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism .  

The full text of the resolutions passed at the AGM can be found in the Notice of AGM, which is available alongside the AGM results on the Company's website at http://www.unite-group.co.uk/.

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For further information, please contact:

Unite Students Christopher Szpojnarowicz, Company Secretary	Tel: [phone]

 

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