Result of Annual General Meeting

Equals Group PLC

21 May 2024

 

For immediate release

21 May 2024

Equals Group plc

('Equals' or the 'Company')

Result of Annual General Meeting

Equals (AIM:EQLS), the fintech payments group focused on the Enterprise and SME marketplace, announces that at the Company's Annual General Meeting held earlier today, all resolutions put to shareholders were duly passed. The number of votes cast for and against each of the resolutions proposed, and the number of votes withheld were as follows:

Resolution	Votes for	%	Votes against	%	Votes withheld
Resolution 1 (Ordinary) To receive and adopt the statement of accounts for the year ended 31 December 2023 together with the reports of the Directors and the auditors thereon.	94,136,723	100	0	0	15,091
Resolution 2 (Ordinary) To declare a final dividend of 1p per ordinary share.	94,136,723	100	0	0	15,091
Resolution 3 (Ordinary) To re-elect Christopher John Bones as a director of the Company.	94,041,179	99.90	89,544	0.10	21,091
Resolution 4 (Ordinary) To re-elect Ian Alexander Irving Strafford Taylor as a director of the Company.	94,041,688	99.97	29,035	0.03	81,091
Resolution 5 (Ordinary) To re-elect Sian Herbert as a director of the Company.	94,039,688	99.91	89,035	0.09	23,091
Resolution 6 (Ordinary) To reappoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditor to the Company.	94,115,687	99.98	15,036	0.02	21,091
Resolution 7 (Ordinary) To authorise the Directors to set the auditor's remuneration.	94,116,487	99.98	14,236	0.02	21,091
Resolution 8 (Ordinary) To authorise the Directors to allot relevant securities.	89,042,323	94.62	5,059,350	5.38	50,141
Resolution 9 (Special) To empower the Directors to allot equity securities for cash otherwise than on a pre-emptive basis.	88,978,389	94.56	5,123,284	5.44	50,141
Resolution 10 (Special) To empower the Directors to allot equity securities for cash otherwise than on a pre-emptive basis for an acquisition or other capital investment.	88,978,389	94.56	5,123,284	5.44	50,141
Resolution 11 (Special) To empower the Directors to make market purchases of the Company's shares.	94,115,073	99.99	11,600	0.01	25,141

Notes:

As at the time of the Meeting, there were 187,627,898 ordinary shares in issue. Shareholders are entitled to one vote per share. Votes withheld are not votes in law and so have not been included in the calculation of the proportion of votes for and against a resolution.

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For more information, please contact:

Equals Group PLC
Ian Strafford-Taylor, CEO Richard Cooper,	Tel: [phone] www.equalsplc.com
Canaccord Genuity (Nominated Advisor / Broker)
Max Hartley / Harry Rees	Tel: [phone]
Buchanan (Financial Communications)
Henry Harrison- Topham / Steph Whitmore / Toto Berger [e-mail]	Tel: [phone] www.buchanancomms.co.uk

Notes to Editors:

Equals Group is a technology-led international payments group augmented by highly personalised service for the payment needs of SME's whether these be FX, card payments or via Faster Payments. Founded in 2007, the Group listed on AIM in 2014.  For more information, please visit www.equalsplc.com.

 

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