15 Jul 2015 15:36
BTG plc
15 July 2015
BTG plc: Results of 2015 Annual General Meeting
London, UK: BTG plc (LSE:BTG), the specialty pharmaceuticals company announces that all resolutions proposed at the Annual General Meeting held earlier today were duly passed by the required majority by means of a poll vote.
The results of the poll votes on the resolutions are shown in the table below and will be posted on the Company's website www.btgplc.com:
Resolution | Votes for* | % of vote | Votes against | % of vote | Total Votes | % of Issued Share Capital Voted | Votes Withheld | |
1. | Receive and adopt the report and accounts | 319,268,113 | 99.95 | 171,956 | 0.05 | 319,440,069 | 83.45 | 722,917 |
2. | Approve the directors' remuneration report | 317,812,565 | 99.47 | 1,706,341 | 0.53 | 319,518,906 | 83.47 | 644,080 |
3. | Elect Susan Foden as a director | 319,274,538 | 99.92 | 267,568 | 0.08 | 319,542,106 | 83.47 | 620,880 |
4. | Re-elect Garry Watts as a director | 317,054,394 | 99.28 | 2,303,207 | 0.72 | 319,357,601 | 83.43 | 805,385 |
5. | Re-elect Louise Makin as a director | 319,127,783 | 99.88 | 395,718 | 0.12 | 319,523,501 | 83.47 | 639,485 |
6. | Re-elect Rolf Soderstrom as a director | 319,158,887 | 99.89 | 359,080 | 0.11 | 319,517,967 | 83.47 | 645,019 |
7. | Re-elect Giles Kerr as a director | 319,027,214 | 99.83 | 533,604 | 0.17 | 319,560,818 | 83.48 | 602,168 |
8. | Re-elect Ian Much as a director | 319,197,051 | 99.89 | 360,424 | 0.11 | 319,557,475 | 83.48 | 605,511 |
9. | Re-elect James O'Shea as a director | 319,320,857 | 99.93 | 236,150 | 0.07 | 319,557,007 | 83.48 | 605,979 |
10. | Re-elect Richard Wohanka as a director | 319,195,599 | 99.89 | 366,706 | 0.11 | 319,562,305 | 83.48 | 600,681 |
11. | Re-appoint KPMG Audit plc as Auditors | 297,070,353 | 98.32 | 5,070,476 | 1.68 | 302,140,829 | 78.93 | 18,022,157 |
12. | Authorise Directors to fix Auditor remuneration | 316,650,539 | 99.09 | 2,912,205 | 0.91 | 319,562,744 | 83.48 | 600,242 |
13. | Authorise the Company to make Political Donations | 318,369,718 | 99.63 | 1,182,243 | 0.37 | 319,551,961 | 83.48 | 611,025 |
14. | Authority to allot shares | 315,433,772 | 98.72 | 4,082,251 | 1.28 | 319,516,023 | 83.47 | 646,963 |
15. | Disapplication of pre-emption rights | 289,806,925 | 98.65 | 3,966,567 | 1.35 | 293,773,492 | 76.74 | 26,389,494 |
16. | Call a general meeting on not less than 14 days' notice | 312,452,034 | 97.78 | 7,081,085 | 2.22 | 319,533,119 | 83.47 | 629,867 |
*where shareholders appointed the Chairman as their proxy with discretion as to voting, their votes were cast in favour of the resolutions and their shares have been included in the "votes for" column
As at 10:30 a.m. on 13 July 2015 (being the time at which shareholders who wanted to attend and vote at the meeting were required to have their details entered in the register of members) there were 382,804,758 shares of 10p each in issue.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of the resolutions passed as special business at the Annual General Meeting have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM
For Further information contact:
BTG
Andy Burrows, Vice President, Corporate and Investor Relations
+44 (0)20 7575 1741; mobile: +44 (0)7990 530605