7 Jun 2012 15:04
7 June 2012
bwin.party digital entertainment plc
(the 'Company')
2012 Annual General Meeting ("AGM") Poll Results
At the Company's AGM held in Gibraltar today, the ordinary resolutions (resolutions 1 to 19) and special resolutions (resolutions 20 and 21) set out in the Company's notice of AGM dated 20 April 2012, were passed on a poll by shareholders.
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 2011
| 524,291,759 | 523,425,743 | 99.83 | 866,016 | 0.17 | 5,704,150 |
2. To approve the 2011 Directors' Remuneration Report
| 510,685,191 | 471,643,879 | 92.36 | 39,041,312 | 7.64 | 19,310,718 |
3. To re-appoint the joint auditors | 524,292,731 | 520,804,093 | 99.33 | 3,488,638 | 0.67 | 5,703,178 |
4. To authorise the Board to determine the joint auditors' remuneration
| 524,291,631 | 524,227,645 | 99.99 | 63,986 | 0.01 | 5,704,278 |
5. To declare a final dividend | 524,295,809 | 524,295,502 | 99.99 | 307 | 0.01 | 5,700,100 |
6. To re-appoint Per Afrell as a Director
| 522,854,617 | 517,293,710 | 98.94 | 5,560,907 | 1.06 | 7,141,142 |
7. To re-appoint Joachim Baca as a Director
| 524,285,308 | 522,705,975 | 99.70 | 1,579,333 | 0.30 | 5,710,451 |
8. To re-appoint Manfred Bodner as a Director
| 523,436,343 | 515,010,526 | 98.39 | 8,425,817 | 1.61 | 6,559,416 |
9. To re-appoint Tim Bristow as a Director
| 524,284,388 | 523,721,274 | 99.89 | 563,114 | 0.11 | 5,711,371 |
10. To re-appoint Simon Duffy as a Director
| 520,247,918 | 497,983,446 | 95.72 | 22,264,472 | 4.28 | 9,747,841 |
11. To re-appoint Helmut Kern as a Director
| 522,853,447 | 517,451,991 | 98.97 | 5,401,456 | 1.03 | 7,142,312 |
12. To re-appoint Lewis Moonie as a Director
| 524,284,388 | 506,375,267 | 96.58 | 17,909,121 | 3.42 | 5,711,371 |
13. To re-appoint Rod Perry as a Director
| 524,285,238 | 523,563,422 | 99.86 | 721,816 | 0.14 | 5,710,521 |
14. To re-appoint Georg Riedl as a Director
| 529,164,408 | 376,126,061 | 71.08 | 153,038,347 | 28.92 | 831,351 |
15. To re-appoint Jim Ryan as a Director
| 524,285,288 | 523,136,600 | 99.78 | 1,148,688 | 0.22 | 5,710,471 |
16. To re-appoint Norbert Teufelberger as a Director
| 524,285,388 | 523,131,527 | 99.78 | 1,153,861 | 0.22 | 5,710,371 |
17. To re-appoint Martin Weigold as a Director
| 524,285,388 | 523,137,140 | 99.78 | 1,148,248 | 0.22 | 5,710,371 |
18. To re-appoint Geoff Baldwin as a Director
| 523,465,608 | 518,560,533 | 99.06 | 4,905,075 | 0.94 | 6,530,151 |
19. To approve an update to the share allotment authority
| 524,290,613 | 522,056,097 | 99.57 | 2,234,516 | 0.43 | 5,705,296 |
Special Resolutions | ||||||
20. To approve the disapplication of pre-emption rights
| 524,289,704 | 524,202,969 | 99.98 | 86,735 | 0.02 | 5,706,205 |
21. To renew the Company's share buy-back authority | 524,291,515 | 524,212,872 | 99.99 | 78,643 | 0.01 | 5,704,394 |
Note: 816,877,565 ordinary shares of 0.015 pence per share in issue as at 7 June 2012, of which 6,031,576 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 810,845,989 as at 7 June 2012.
The Company will submit copies of the special resolutions (resolutions 20 and 21) to the Financial Services Authority and they will shortly be available for inspection at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do
Enquiries:
Robert Hoskin, Company Secretary +350 200 78700
bwin.party digital entertainment plc
Contacts:
bwin.party digital entertainment plc
Investors
Peter Reynolds +44 (0) 20 7337 0177
Media
John Shepherd +44 (0) 20 7337 0141