22 May 2014 13:41
22 May 2014
bwin.party digital entertainment plc
('bwin.party', the 'Company')
2014 Annual General Meeting ('AGM') Poll Results
At the Company's AGM held in Gibraltar today, resolutions 1 to 18 as set out in the Company's notice of AGM dated 10 April 2014, were approved. As announced earlier today, resolutions 19 to 22 requisitioned by SpringOwl Gibraltar Partners B Limited and set out in the revised notice of AGM dated 25 April 2014, were withdrawn.
The full results of the poll votes were as follows:
Ordinary Resolutions | Total | For | Against | Abstain | ||
Number | Votes Cast | Number | % of shares voted | Number | % of shares voted | Number |
1. To receive the Company's Annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 December 2013
| 635,918,136 | 625,384,246 | 99.99 | 74,372 | 0.01 | 10,459,518 |
2. To approve the 2013 Directors' Remuneration Report
| 635,918,125 | 533,562,100 | 86.51 | 83,201,017 | 13.49 | 19,155,008 |
3. To approve the remuneration policy | 635,911,906 | 511,642,377 | 83.20 | 103,287,886 | 16.80 | 20,981,643 |
4. To re-appoint the joint auditors | 635,918,126 | 622,599,622 | 99.99 | 76,876 | 0.01 | 13,241,628 |
5. To authorise the Directors to determine the joint auditors' remuneration
| 635,918,126 | 622,204,128 | 99.92 | 468,555 | 0.08 | 13,245,443 |
6. To declare a final dividend | 635,918,136 | 627,084,903 | 99.99 | 27,670 | 0.01 | 8,805,563 |
7. To re-appoint Per Afrell as a Director
| 635,918,126 | 589,248,009 | 98.13 | 11,221,221 | 1.87 | 35,448,896 |
8. To re-appoint Manfred Bodner as a Director
| 635,918,126 | 555,565,262 | 91.13 | 54,082,236 | 8.87 | 26,270,628 |
9. To re-appoint Sylvia Coleman as a Director
| 635,918,126 | 617,311,199 | 98.44 | 9,797,928 | 1.56 | 8,808,999 |
10. To re-appoint Helmut Kern as a Director
| 635,918,126 | 551,339,082 | 91.82 | 49,129,184 | 8.18 | 35,449,860 |
11. To re-appoint Rod Perry as a Director
| 635,918,126 | 616,720,802 | 97.02 | 18,949,822 | 2.98 | 247,502 |
12. To re-appoint Georg Riedl as a Director
| 635,918,129 | 598,678,828 | 98.08 | 11,748,130 | 1.92 | 25,491,171 |
13. To re-appoint Norbert Teufelberger as a Director
| 635,918,126 | 629,439,453 | 98.98 | 6,468,487 | 1.02 | 10,186 |
14. To re-appoint Martin Weigold as a Director
| 635,918,126 | 626,119,747 | 98.46 | 9,783,693 | 1.54 | 14,686 |
15. To re-appoint Philip Yea as a Director | 635,918,126 | 626,899,780 | 98.58 | 9,008,460 | 1.42 | 9,886 |
16. To approve an update to the share allotment authority
| 635,918,126 | 619,365,459 | 99.21 | 4,934,708 | 0.79 | 11,617,959 |
Special Resolutions | ||||||
17. To approve the disapplication of pre-emption rights
| 635,918,126 | 622,366,219 | 99.69 | 1,936,003 | 0.31 | 11,615,904 |
18. To renew the Company's share buy-back authority
| 635,918,126 | 626,462,703 | 99.96 | 248,598 | 0.04 | 9,206,825 |
Note:820,386,614 ordinary shares of 0.015 pence per share in issue as at 22 May 2014, of which 1,506,224 shares are held in the bwin.party Shares Trust (the 'Trust') and the trustee of the Trust has waived all voting rights in respect of these shares. Therefore the total number of shares with voting rights was 818,880,390 as at 22 May 2014.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2 copies of resolutions 16,17 and 18 will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do.
At the conclusion of the AGM, Simon Duffy stepped down as Chairman of the Board and as a Director. He is succeeded by Philip Yea who becomes Chairman of the Board with immediate effect. In addition, in accordance with the Company's statement on 16 May 2014, Manfred Bodner resigned as a Director today after the conclusion of the AGM.
Enquiries:
Robert Hoskin, Company Secretary +350 200 78700
bwin.party digital entertainment plc
Contacts:
Investors
Peter Reynolds +44 (0) 20 7337 0177
Media
John Shepherd +44 (0) 20 7337 0141