2019 Final dividend6 May 2020 11:31
Oxo: email I sent to Douglas Radcliffe - Director Investor Relations.
Sir,
As a shareholder since 2014 I was pleased with the final dividend for 2019 being recommended to shareholders at 2.25p (full year results announcement 20th February ).
On the basis of this I have purchased more shares as funds became available up to your announcement on 1st April when you acceded to a request from the PRA to cancel it.
However by this time I had already received voting forms from my broker with resolution 17 asking shareholders to vote for or against the BOD recommendation of 2.25p.
I subsequently had a second form stating resolution 17 had been withdrawn.
This was followed by a third form stating that resolution 17 has been reinstated.
To the best of my knowledge there have been no announcements either by RNS or through the media regarding the reinstatement. On the contrary it appears that cancellation of the dividend has been reiterated on several occasions in the media.
Is resolution 17 being put to the shareholders to vote at the AGM ?
If it is why has this not been made public ?
If the shareholder vote is in favour of payment
a) Can the BOD ignore the outcome and not pay it ?
b ) If a) is no will it still be paid out in May ?
I purchased shares on the basis of a dividend being announced by the BOD and confirmed in the Notice of AGM
. On this basis I believe you have a moral, if not legal ,obligation to pay the dividend. Subject to shareholder approval of course.
Respectfully yours
I wait to see if he is any more responsive than the ShareholderQuestions site