5 Feb 2016 14:41
5 February 2016
Brewin Dolphin Holdings PLC
Result of 2016 Annual General Meeting
At the Brewin Dolphin Holdings PLC Annual General Meeting held on 5 February 2016, the following resolutions were passed by shareholders on a show of hands.
Shareholders holding an aggregate 282,971,106 shares were eligible to vote at the meeting. Valid proxies were received by the Company from shareholders prior to the meeting as follows:
Resolution | Proxy votes for the resolution | Proxy votes against the resolution | Total number of shares for which proxy appointments validly made | Proxy votes withheld | ||
No. of Votes | % | No of Votes | % | No. of Votes | ||
Resolution 1 | ||||||
To receive the Accounts and the Report of the Directors and Auditors. | 197,340,033 | 99.93% | 144,619 | 0.07% | 197,484,652 | 24,377 |
Resolution 2 | ||||||
To approve the Annual Report on Remuneration for the year ended 30 September 2015. | 196,905,498 | 99.71% | 579,037 | 0.29% | 197,484,535 | 24,494 |
Resolution 3 | ||||||
To re-elect Simon Miller as a Non-Executive Chairman. | 197,219,499 | 99.88% | 234,148 | 0.12% | 197,453,647 | 55,382 |
Resolution 4* | ||||||
To re-elect Stephen Ford as a Director.
| 179,739,630 | 98.40% | 2,923,614 | 1.60% | 182,663,244 | 14,845,785 |
Resolution 5 | ||||||
To re-elect David Nicol as a Director. | 197,226,603 | 99.87% | 248,508 | 0.13% | 197,475,111 | 33,918 |
Resolution 6 | ||||||
To re-elect Andrew Westenberger as a Director. | 197,228,151 | 99.88% | 244,828 | 0.12% | 197,472,979 | 36,050 |
Resolution 7 | ||||||
To re-elect Angela Knight as Senior- Independent Director. | 197,204,810 | 99.87% | 253,166 | 0.13% | 197,457,976 | 51,053 |
Resolution 8 | ||||||
To re-elect Kathleen Cates as a Non-Executive Director. | 197,215,229 | 99.88% | 238,279 | 0.12% | 197,453,508 | 55,251 |
Resolution 9 | ||||||
To re-elect Ian Dewar as a Non-Executive Director. | 197,215,885 | 99.88% | 236,762 | 0.12% | 197,452,647 | 56,382 |
Resolution 10 | ||||||
To re-elect Caroline Taylor as a Non-Executive Director. | 197,010,027 | 99.81% | 375,798 | 0.19% | 197,385,825 | 123,204 |
Resolution 11 | ||||||
To re-elect Paul Wilson as a Non-Executive Director. | 197,205,384 | 99.88% | 243,222 | 0.12% | 197,448,606 | 60,423 |
Resolution 12 | ||||||
To re-appoint Deloitte LLP as Auditor. | 197,246,928 | 99.97% | 57,278 | 0.03% | 197,304,206 | 204,823 |
Resolution 13 | ||||||
To authorise the Directors to determine the remuneration of the Auditors. | 197,475,665 | 100.00% | 5,846 | 0.00% | 197,481,511 | 27,518 |
Resolution 14 | ||||||
To approve the payment by the Company of a final dividend of 8.25 pence per ordinary share in respect of the year ended 30 September 2015. | 197,487,603 | 100.00% | 8,552 | 0.00% | 197,496,155 | 12,874 |
Resolution 15 | ||||||
To authorise the Directors to allot relevant shares. | 196,200,881 | 99.34% | 1,295,235 | 0.66% | 197,496,116 | 12,913 |
Resolution 16 | ||||||
To disapply pre-emption rights. | 195,527,769 | 99.03% | 1,911,347 | 0.97% | 197,439,116 | 69,913 |
Resolution 17 | ||||||
To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares in the market. | 197,444,028 | 99.98% | 47,158 | 0.02% | 197,491,186 | 17,843 |
Resolution 18 | ||||||
To call a general meeting on 14 days' notice. | 185,018,263 | 93.69% | 12,463,861 | 6.31% | 197,482,124 | 26,905 |
Resolution 19 | ||||||
To authorise political donations and expenditure | 192,874,157 | 98.83% | 2,285,094 | 1.17% | 195,159,251 | 2,349,778 |
* Please note that Resolution 4 was not proposed to the meeting.
Notes:
1. The above is a summary of the resolutions passed; full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of the meeting which can be found on the company's website www.brewin.co.uk
2. Resolutions 1 to 15 and 19 were passed as Ordinary Resolutions and Resolutions 16 to 18 were passed as Special Resolutions.
3. Any proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Chairman have been included in the "for" total.
4. It should be noted that the appointment of a proxy is not an unequivocally precise indicator of the way that the shareholder would have voted on a poll, it merely reflects their intention at the time the instruction was given. Voting instructions can be changed at any time prior to a poll being demanded and a shareholder, having lodged a proxy, is still entitled to attend the Meeting and having heard/participated in the debate vote their shares themselves as they see it.
5. The "vote withheld" totals indicate those members who have abstained on a particular resolution. "Vote withheld" is not a vote in law and has not been counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes "for" and "against" a resolution.
6. In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2 copies of the special resolutions passed by the Company at its Annual General Meeting have been submitted to FCA's National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do
For further information contact:
Louise Meads
Company Secretary
Brewin Dolphin Holdings PLC
020 7248 4400