Result of AGM

Samarkand Group PLC

26 September 2024

 

26 September 2024

Samarkand Group plc

("Samarkand", the "Company" or together with its subsidiaries the "Group")

Result of Annual General Meeting

Samarkand Group plc, (AQSE: SMK), the cross-border eCommerce technology solution provider, announces that at the Company's annual general meeting ("AGM" or the "Meeting"), held earlier today, all resolutions were duly passed.

Proxy votes received in relation to each resolution proposed at the AGM were as follows:

Resolution number	Resolution	Votes for		Votes against		Votes withheld	Total proxy votes
		No. of votes	% of votes cast*	No. of votes	% of votes cast*	No. of votes
ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS
1	To receive the Company's audited financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2024.	43,487,849	99.60	174,800	0.40	49,000	43,662,649
2	To re-appoint Tanith Dodge as a Director.	41,819,180	97.91	893,471	2.09	998,998	42,712,651
3	To re-appoint Simon Smiley as a Director.	43,422,197	99.45	240,452	0.55	49,000	43,662,649
4	To re-appoint Jeanette Hern as a Director.	36,207,420	82.83	7,455,229	17.07	49,000	43,662,649
5	To re-appoint Gravita as Auditor of the Company.	41,819,180	95.78	1,843,469	4.22	49,000	43,662,649
6	To authorise the directors to allot securities.	34,631,573	79.23	9,080,076	20.77	-	43,711,649
SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS
7	To give the directors authority to disapply pre-emption provisions to enable the directors in certain circumstances to allot new shares for cash other than on a pre-emptive basis.	34,596,373	79.21	9,080,076	20.79	35,200	43,676,449

* Excludes withheld votes

As at the date of the AGM, the issued share capital of the Company comprised 58,358,201ordinary shares. Accordingly, the total number of ordinary shares entitling the holders to attend and vote for or against all resolutions was 58,358,201. In accordance with the Company's Articles of Association, on a poll every member has one vote for every share held. Votes withheld are not votes in law. There were no discretionary votes cast.

For more information, please contact:

Samarkand Group plc	http://samarkand.global/
David Hampstead, Chief Executive Officer Eva Hang, Chief Financial Officer	[e-mail]
Guild Financial Advisory Limited
Ross Andrews Tomas Klaassen	[phone] [phone]

Notes to Editors 

Samarkand is a consumer brand owner and distributor operating a scale up platform for niche, premium, multichannel, health and healing brands. Core owned brands include Napiers the Herbalists, Scotland's oldest natural herbal apothecary and Zita West, a leading specialist supplement line for fertility and reproductive health. Platform services include marketing, sales and channel development with a focus on social commerce, China market entry, international expansion and manufacturing.  In addition, the group works as the exclusive China market partner for a select portfolio of niche luxury skin care brands and connects these brands to the Chinese consumer via cross border eCommerce.

Founded in 2016, Samarkand is headquartered in Tonbridge, UK with offices in Shanghai.

For further information please visit https://www.samarkand.global/

 

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