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microgen
www.microgen.com
24 April 2017
Result of AGM
The board of directors of Microgen plc (the "Company") announces that, at the Company's 2017 annual general meeting held earlier today, all resolutions were duly passed on a show of hands.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2(R), a copy of the resolutions passed at the Annual General Meeting will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.
As at the date of the meeting, there were 60,771,938 ordinary shares with voting rights in issue. The following proxies were received by the Company from shareholders prior to the meeting:
RESOLUTION | FOR | AGAINST | WITHHELD
| |||
VOTES | % OF VOTES CAST*
| VOTES | % OF VOTES CAST* | VOTES | ||
1 | Receive and adopt the Company's Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2016 together with the reports of the Directors and Auditors. | 44,559,802 | 99.53 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 |
2 | Approve the rules of the Microgen plc Save As You Earn Scheme 2016 and the Microgen plc International Sharesave Plan. | 44,548,136 | 99.53 | 0 | 0.00 | 11,666 |
3 | Approve the rules of the Microgen plc Performance Share Plan 2016. | 42,043,504 | 93.93 | 2,504,399 | 5.60 | 11,899 |
4 | Approve the Microgen plc Employee Benefit Trust. | 44,548,136 | 99.53 | 0 | 0.00 | 11,666 |
5 | Approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy. | 42,630,950 | 95.25 | 1,914,484 | 4.28 | 13,516 |
6 | Approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December 2016. | 44,545,665 | 99.52 | 621 | 0.01 | 13,516 |
7 | Declare a final dividend of 3.5 pence per ordinary share. | 44,559,569 | 99.53 | 0 | 0.00 | 233 |
8 | Re-elect Barbara Moorhouse as a director of the Company. | 44,547,903 | 99.50 | 11,666 | 0.03 | 233 |
9 | Re-elect Peter Whiting as a director of the Company. | 42,645,939 | 95.26 | 1,913,863 | 4.27 | 0 |
10 | Re-appoint PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors of the Company. | 40,897,090 | 91.35 | 3,662,479 | 8.18 | 233 |
11 | Authorise the Audit Committee to agree the auditors' remuneration. | 40,545,821 | 90.56 | 4,013,981 | 8.97 | 0 |
12 | Authorise the Directors to allot securities pursuant to section 551 of the Companies Act 2016 (the "Act"). | 44,545,303 | 99.50 | 0 | 0.00 | 233 |
13 | Special Resolution: Disapply pre-emption rights under section 561 of the Act within the stated limits. | 44,547,903 | 99.50 | 11,666 | 0.03 | 233 |
14 | Special Resolution: Disapply pre-emption rights under section 561 of the Act in additional limited circumstances. | 44,547,903 | 99.50 | 11,666 | 0.03 | 233 |
15 | Special Resolution: Authorise the Company to make purchases of its own shares pursuant to section 701 of the Act. | 44,561,028 | 99.53 | 0 | 0.00 | 233 |
16 | Special Resolution: Authorise the holding of a general meeting (other than an AGM) on not less than 14 clear days' notice. | 44,539,168 | 99.48 | 20,634 | 0.05 | 0 |
*Excludes votes withheld
Contacts
Mark Heather, Company Secretary 020-7496-8100
Philip Wood, Chief Financial Officer
Darius Alexander, FTI Consulting 020-3727-1063