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microgen
www.microgen.com
23 April 2018
Result of AGM
The board of directors of Microgen plc (the "Company") announces that, at the Company's 2018 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 60,890,228 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 2017 together with the reports of the Directors and auditors. | 45,938,965 | 99.99 | 0 | 0.00 | 10,423 |
2 | Approve Part B of the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December 2017. | 45,945,466 | 99.98 | 3,922 | 0.01 | 0 |
3 | Declare a final dividend of 4.25 pence per ordinary shares. | 45,949,388 | 99.99 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 |
4 | Re-elect Philip Wood as a director of the Company. | 45,898,708 | 99.88 | 50,680 | 0.11 | 0 |
5 | Re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors of the Company. | 45,074,249 | 98.09 | 875,139 | 1.90 | 0 |
6 | Authorise the Audit Committee to agree the auditors' remuneration. | 45,939,046 | 99.97 | 10,342 | 0.02 | 0 |
7 | Authorise the Directors to allot securities pursuant to section 551 of the Companies Act 2006 (the "Act"). | 45,949,388 | 99.99 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 |
8 | Special Resolution: Disapply pre-emption rights under section 561 of the Act within the stated limits. | 45,934,548 | 99.95 | 716 | 0.01 | 0 |
9 | Special Resolution: Disapply pre-emption rights under section 561 of the Act in additional limited circumstances.
| 45,934,548 | 99.95 | 716 | 0.01 | 0 |
10 | Special Resolution: Authorise the Company to make purchases of its own shares pursuant to section 701 of the Act. | 45,936,723 | 99.97 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 |
11 | Special Resolution: Authorise the holding of a general meeting (other than an AGM) on not less than 14 clear days' notice. | 45,907,839 | 99.90 | 27,425 | 0.06 | 0 |
*Excludes votes withheld
Contacts
Mark Heather, Company Secretary 020-7496-8100
Philip Wood, Chief Financial Officer