25 Nov 2019 15:05
25 November 2019
LEI: 213800JLR6YIRMSCUS98
Air Partner plc
('Air Partner' or the 'Company')
Results of voting at a General Meeting held on 25 November 2019
Air Partner plc, the global aviation services group, announces that the resolutions put to the General Meeting held at 11:00am today at the Company's registered office at 2 City Place, Beehive Ring Road, Gatwick, West Sussex RH6 0PA were duly passed. All resolutions were voted on by way of a poll and the results of the poll for the resolutions are shown below:
Resolution | For 1 | % of votes cast | Against | % of votes cast | Withheld 2 |
Ordinary resolutions | |||||
1. That the Air Partner plc Save as you Earn plan (the SAYE), be and is hereby approved and the Directors be authorised to adopt the SAYE into effect (see Notice) | 16700245 | 99.50 | 84447 | 0.50 | 7698 |
2. To authorise the Board to exercise all the powers of the Company to allot shares in the Company and to convert any security into shares (see Notice) | 16746190 | 99.84 | 26267 | 0.16 | 19933 |
Special resolutions | |||||
3. That the board be authorised to allot equity securities for cash under the authority given by resolution 2 and to sell ordinary shares held by the Company (see Notice) | 16655898 | 99.21 | 132794 | 0.79 | 3698 |
4. That the Board be authorised to allot equity securities for cash or to sell ordinary shares held by the Company as treasury shares for cash (see Notice) | 16708918 | 99.60 | 66687 | 0.40 | 16785 |
Notes:
1. Any proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Chairman of the Meeting have been included in the "For" total.
2. A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes "For" or "Against" a resolution.
As at 25 November 2019, there were 52,862,895 Air Partner plc ordinary shares of 1 pence each in issue. Ordinary shareholders are entitled to one vote per ordinary share held.
The total votes cast, both by proxy and poll, including votes withheld, amount to 32% of the issued share capital.
Resolutions 1 and 2 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 3 and 4 were passed as special resolutions.
In accordance with UK Listing Rule 9.6.2 a copies of all the resolutions passed (other than resolutions concerning ordinary business) have been submitted to the UK Listing Authority via the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.
A copy of the poll result for the General Meeting will also be available on the Air Partner plc website at http://www.airpartner.com/investors/ shortly.
The full text of the resolution is set out in the Notice of General Meeting which is available on the Air Partner plc website at http://www.airpartner.com/investors/.
Enquiries: Air Partner |
01293 844788 |
Mark Briffa, CEO |
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Joanne Estell, CFO |
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TB Cardew (Financial PR advisor) | 020 7930 0777 |
Tom Allison | 07789 998 020 |
Alycia MacAskill | 07876 222 703 |
Joe McGregor | 07766 231 520 |
About Air Partner:
Founded in 1961, Air Partner is a global aviation services group providing aircraft charter, aviation safety consulting & training solutions and aviation managed services to industry, commerce, governments and private individuals, across civil and defence organisations. The Group has two divisions: Air Partner Charter, comprising Group Charter (formerly Commercial Jets), Private Jets, Freight and Remarketing; and Baines Simmons, which comprises Consulting & Training and Aviation Managed Services.
Group Charter charters large airliners to move groups of any size. Private Jets offers the Company's unique pre-paid JetCard scheme and on-demand charter for up to 19 people. Freight charters aircraft of every size to fly almost any cargo anywhere, at any time. Air Partner Remarketing provides comprehensive remarketing programmes for all types of commercial and corporate aircraft to a wide range of international customers.
Baines Simmons' Consulting & Training department offers Aviation Safety Management and Fatigue Risk Management, while its Aviation Managed Services offering comprises Air Traffic Services, Wildlife Hazard Management, Aircraft Registry Services and Air Evacuation, which plans, executes and manages air support and air evacuations worldwide.
Air Partner has 15 offices across three continents, with its headquarters located alongside Gatwick airport in the UK. The group employs around 350 aviation professionals globally and operates 24/7. Air Partner is listed on the London Stock Exchange (AIR) and is the only publicly listed air charter broker and safety consultancy. It is ISO 9001:2015 compliant for commercial airline and private jet solutions worldwide.
More information is available on the company's website (www.airpartner.com).