Wed, 9th May 2012 17:04
THE WEIR GROUP PLC
9 May 2012
Voting Results
The Annual General Meeting of The Weir Group PLC was held on Wednesday 9 May
2012 at 2.30 pm. All resolutions were passed on a poll via electronic voting.
Resolutions 1 to 14 being passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 15 to
17 being passed as special resolutions.
No. Resolution Votes for % Votes % VOTES TOTAL Votes % of
the against withheld ISC
resolution the Voted
resolution
1 To approve
and adopt
the
directors
report and
financial
statements
for the 52
weeks ended
30 December
2011 139,362,296 99.92 115,290 0.08 139,477,586 111,163 65.64%
2 To declare a
dividend 139,474,535 100.00 4,150 0.00 139,478,685 110,653 65.64%
3 To approve
the
remuneration
report for
the 52 weeks
ended 30
December
2011 129,832,914 96.23 5,090,099 3.77 134,923,013 4,662,216 63.49%
4 To elect
Alan
Ferguson as
a director 139,138,759 99.77 324,624 0.23 139,463,383 125,848 65.63%
5 To elect
Melanie Gee
as a
director 139,073,164 96.74 366,165 0.26 139,439,329 127,109 65.62%
6 To re-elect
Lord Smith
as a
director 131,773,285 95.93 5,588,933 4.07 137,362,218 2,211,219 64.64%
7 To re-elect
Keith
Cochrane as
a director 132,558,900 95.05 6,906,394 4.95 139,465,294 118,144 65.63%
8 To re-elect
Richard
Menell as a
director 139,115,024 99.75 344,036 0.25 139,459,060 124,271 65.63%
9 To re-elect
John Mogford
as a
director 139,113,176 99.75 353,180 0.25 139,466,356 119,557 65.63%
10 To re-elect
Lord
Robertson as
a director 136,759,742 99.56 604,563 0.44 137,364,305 2,225,132 64.64%
11 To re-elect
Jon Stanton
as a
director 139,048,579 99.70 421,624 0.30 139,470,203 119,235 65.63%
12 To re-
appoint
Ernst &
Young LLP as
auditors 132,215,474 94.81 7,234,942 5.19 139,450,416 120,772 65.62%
13 To authorise
the
directors to
fix the
remuneration
of the
auditors 132,335,157 94.89 7,127,532 5.11 139,462,682 120,749 65.63%
14 To renew the
directors'
general
authority to
allot
relevant
securities 118,473,374 86.18 18,997,709 13.82 137,471,083 2,111,355 64.69%
15 To disapply,
within
certain
limits, the
statutory
pre-emption
rights
arising on
the
allotment of
shares 137,144,338 99.89 149,873 0.11 137,294,211 2,278,177 64.61%
16 To renew the
Company's
power to
purchase its
own shares 136,977,673 99.72 382,042 0.28 137,359,715 2,222,722 64.64%
17 To reduce
the notice
period for
general
meetings 129,987,743 93.21 9,471,697 6.79 139,459,440 128,998 65.63%
a. Any proxy appointments which give discretion to the Chairman have been
included in the "for" total.
b. At close of business on 8 May 2012 there were 212,503,081 relevant shares in
issue (excluding treasury shares).
A copy of the Resolutions passed has been submitted and will shortly be
available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism which is located at
www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do
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