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21 May 2019
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 2019 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 61,703,009 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 & Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2018 together with the reports of the Directors and auditors. | 48,189,577 | 100.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 3,000 | |
2 | Approve Part B of the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December 2018. | 47,293,925 | 98.18% | 876,116 | 1.82% | 22,536 | |
3 | Declare a final dividend of 4.40 pence per ordinary shares. | 48,192,577 | 100.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | |
4 | Re-elect Ivan Martin a Director the Company | 48,189,577 | 99.99% | 3,000 | 0.01% | 0 | |
5 | Re-elect Tom Crawford a Director the Company | 48,146,575 | 99.90% | 46,002 | 0.10% | 0 | |
6 | Re-elect Barbara Moorhouse a Director the Company | 48,189,189 | 100.00% | 388 | 0.01% | 3,000 | |
7 | Re-elect Peter Whiting a Director the Company | 44,525,420 | 92.39% | 3,667,157 | 7.61% | 0 | |
8 | Re-elect Philip Wood a Director the Company | 48,146,575 | 99.90% | 46,002 | 0.10% | 0 | |
9 | Re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors of the Company. | 45,623,478 | 94.67% | 2,566,098 | 5.33% | 3,000 | |
10 | Authorise the Audit Committee to agree the auditors' remuneration. | 47,332,292 | 98.22% | 857,285 | 1.78% | 3,000 | |
11 | Authorise the Directors to allot securities pursuant to section 551 of the Companies Act 2006 (the "Act"). | 48,189,577 | 100.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 3,000 | |
12 | Special Resolution: | 48,189,577 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00% | 3,000 | |
Disapply pre-emption rights under section 561 of the Act within the stated limits. | |||||||
13 | Special Resolution: | 48,189,577 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00% | 3,000 | |
Disapply pre-emption rights under section 561 of the Act in additional limited circumstances. | |||||||
14 | Special Resolution: | 48,192,577 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | |
Authorise the Company to make purchases of its own shares pursuant to section 701 of the Act. | |||||||
15 | Special Resolution: | 47,969,722 | 99.54 | 222,855 | 0.46% | 0 | |
Authorise the holding of a general meeting (other than an AGM) on not less than 14 clear days' notice. | |||||||
*Excludes votes withheld
Contact:
Georgina Sharley, Company Secretary | 020-3880-7100 |