Last checked at 28 Apr 2020 12:45
28 April 2020
APTITUDE SOFTWARE GROUP plc ('Company')
Result of AGM
The Board of Directors of Aptitude Software Group plc (the "Company") announces that, at the Company's 2020 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 https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
As at 24 April 2020, being the proxy voting deadline, there were 56,349,318 ordinary shares with voting rights in issue (the number of ordinary shares with voting rights in issue as at today's date is 56,377,962). 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 & Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2019 together with the reports of the Directors and auditors. | 39,377,640 | 99.99 | 5,463 | 0.01 | 1,000 | |
2 | Approve Part B of the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December 2019. | 35,921,015 | 91.22 | 3,456,006 | 8.78 | 7,081 | |
3 | Approve and adopt the Directors' Remuneration Policy. | 36,118,282 | 93.98 | 2,313,377 | 6.02 | 952,444 | |
4 | Declare a final dividend of 3.60 pence per ordinary share. | 39,383,969 | 99.99 | 135 | 0.01 | 0 | |
5 | Re-elect Ivan Martin a Director of the Company | 38,100,429 | 99.14 | 331,983 | 0.86 | 951,691 | |
6 | Re-elect Barbara Moorhouse a Director of the Company | 39,383,765 | 99.99 | 339 | 0.01 | 0 | |
7 | Re-elect Peter Whiting a Director of the Company | 37,350,305 | 97.18 | 1,082,107 | 2.82 | 951,691 | |
8 | Re-elect Philip Wood a Director of the Company | 39,350,036 | 99.92 | 33,068 | 0.08 | 1,000 | |
9 | Elect Jeremy Suddards as a Director of the Company | 39,384,104 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
10 | Appoint Grant Thornton LLP as auditors of the Company. | 39,383,969 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 135 | |
11 | Authorise the Audit Committee to agree the auditors' remuneration. | 39,383,969 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 135 | |
12 | Authorise the Directors to allot securities pursuant to section 551 of the Companies Act 2006 (the "Act"). | 39,309,217 | 99.81 | 73,269 | 0.19 | 1,618 | |
13 | Special Resolution: Disapply pre-emption rights under section 561 of the Act within the stated limits. | 39,379,751 | 99.99 | 2,735 | 0.01 | 1,618 | |
14 | Special Resolution: Disapply pre-emption rights under section 561 of the Act in additional limited circumstances. | 39,374,287 | 99.98 | 8,198 | 0.02 | 1,618 | |
15 | Special Resolution: Authorise the Company to make purchases of its own shares pursuant to section 701 of the Act. | 39,376,949 | 99.99 | 5,536 | 0.01 | 1,618 | |
16 | Special Resolution: Authorise the holding of a general meeting (other than an AGM) on not less than 14 clear days' notice. | 39,126,110 | 99.34 | 257,994 | 0.66 | 0 | |
17 | To approve amendments to the Performance Share Plan 2016 and authorise the Directors to give effect to them. | 37,948,691 | 98.75 | 481,968 | 1.25 | 953,444 | |
18 | To adopt the Deferred Bonus Plan and authorise the Directors to give effect to this. | 37,838,604 | 96.08 | 1,542,746 | 3.92 | 2,753 | |
*Excludes votes withheld
Contact:
Georgina Sharley, Company Secretary | 07912 894439 |