Result of AGM

RNS Number : 9900O

Victrex PLC

12 February 2021

 

Result of Annual General Meeting

Victrex plc is pleased to announce that at the Annual General Meeting held on 12 February 2021 ('the Meeting') all the resolutions considered at the Meeting were passed. 

The following table summarises the final  proxy voting:

Res No.	Resolution	Votes For	%	Votes Against	%	Votes Withheld
01	To receive the financial statements and the auditors' and Directors' reports for the year ended 30 September 2020	71,496,078	99.99%	9,103	0.01%	2,808,156
02	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report	70,431,079	95.64%	3,210,454	4.36%	671,804
03	To declare a final dividend	74,289,552	100.00%	0	0.00%	23,786
04	To re-elect Larry Pentz as a Director	72,860,932	98.08%	1,426,685	1.92%	25,720
05	To re-elect Jane Toogood as a Director	74,202,408	99.89%	85,194	0.11%	25,736
06	To re-elect Janet Ashdown as a Director	74,200,448	99.88%	86,954	0.12%	25,936
07	To re-elect Brendan Connolly as a Director	74,202,090	99.89%	85,312	0.11%	25,936
08	To re-elect David Thomas as a Director	74,199,445	99.88%	87,874	0.12%	26,019
09	To re-elect Jakob Sigurdsson as a Director	73,605,320	99.08%	682,782	0.92%	25,236
10	To re-elect Martin Court as a Director	73,594,034	99.93%	50,109	0.07%	669,194
11	To re-elect Richard Armitage as a Director	72,535,951	98.50%	1,108,241	1.50%	669,146
12	To elect Ros Rivaz as a Director of the Company	68,797,275	92.61%	5,490,344	7.39%	25,719
13	To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditor of the Company	74,284,103	99.99%	4,161	0.01%	25,074
14	To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the auditors' remuneration	74,286,050	100.00%	2,343	0.00%	24,945
15	To authorise political donations under the Companies Act 2006	68,492,457	92.20%	5,794,665	7.80%	26,216
16	To authorise the Directors' to allot shares pursuant to section 551 of the Companies Act 2006	67,976,817	91.50%	6,311,950	8.50%	24,571
17	Special Resolution to partially disapply the statutory rights of pre-emption	74,131,263	99.79%	156,700	0.21%	25,375
18	Special Resolution to authorise the Directors to  disapply the statutory rights of pre-emption to a further 5%	62,926,314	84.71%	11,361,681	15.29%	25,342
19	Special Resolution to authorise the Company to purchase its own shares pursuant to section 701 of the Companies Act 2006	68,119,830	91.73%	6,141,945	8.27%	51,562
20	Hold general meetings (other than annual general meetings) upon 14 clear days' notice	72,918,921	98.16%	1,370,436	1.84%	23,981
21	Articles of Association	74,283,870	100.00%	1,826	0.00%	27,642

Any discretionary proxy votes have been aggregated within the 'For' total above. Any votes withheld are not a vote in law and have not been included in the above calculations. The issued share capital at the date of the meeting was 86,756,920 ordinary shares.  

A copy of the resolutions passed at the meeting which were not ordinary business has been forwarded today to the National Storage Mechanism in accordance with LR 9.6.2 of the Financial Conduct Authority's UKLA Listing Rules.

The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual General Meeting contained in the Annual Report and Accounts which is available for viewing at the National Storage Mechanism which can be located at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM and from the Company's website www.victrexplc.com .

 

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