26 Jan 2017 14:12
26 January 2017
Connect Group PLC
Result of 2017 Annual General Meeting
Connect Group PLC is pleased to announce that at its AGM held at 11.30am today, all resolutions put to the meeting were duly passed. All resolutions were voted on by way of a poll and the results of the poll for each resolution are shown below:
Resolution | For | Against | Withheld | |||
No. of votes | % | No. of votes | % | No. of votes | ||
1 | To receive the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 August 2016 | 177,987,483 | 99.99% | 17,612 | 0.01% | 19,178 |
2 | To approve the directors' remuneration report for the year ended 31 August 2016 | 168,302,228 | 96.30% | 6,462,878 | 3.70% | 3,259,167 |
3 | To approve the directors' remuneration policy | 165,987,901 | 94.21% | 10,203,503 | 5.79% | 1,832,869 |
4 | To declare a final dividend of 6.5p per share | 178,022,197 | 100.00% | 1,308 | 0.00% | 768 |
5 | To elect David Bauernfeind | 176,154,740 | 99.28% | 1,273,736 | 0.72% | 595,797 |
6 | To re-elect Gary Kennedy | 174,833,621 | 99.93% | 119,137 | 0.07% | 3,071,515 |
7 | To re-elect Mark Cashmore | 174,597,574 | 98.40% | 2,833,159 | 1.60% | 593,540 |
8 | To re-elect Jonathan Bunting | 176,155,411 | 99.28% | 1,274,556 | 0.72% | 594,306 |
9 | To re-elect Andrew Brent | 177,319,220 | 99.94% | 109,785 | 0.06% | 595,268 |
10 | To re-elect Colin Child | 175,841,748 | 99.11% | 1,587,725 | 0.89% | 594,800 |
11 | To re-elect Denis Collis | 175,845,285 | 99.11% | 1,584,776 | 0.89% | 594,212 |
12 | To re-appoint the auditor | 177,740,341 | 99.84% | 281,389 | 0.16% | 2,543 |
13 | To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the auditor's remuneration | 177,974,245 | 99.98% | 33,397 | 0.02% | 16,631 |
14 | Authority to make political donations | 175,160,079 | 98.57% | 2,545,818 | 1.43% | 318,376 |
15 | Authority to allot shares | 151,542,441 | 85.14% | 26,443,356 | 14.86% | 38,476 |
16 | Authority to partially disapply pre-emption rights* | 151,535,061 | 85.14% | 26,444,607 | 14.86% | 44,605 |
17 | Authority to make market purchases of ordinary shares* | 177,666,029 | 99.82% | 325,956 | 0.18% | 32,288 |
18 | Authority to call general meetings (other than the AGM) on 14 clear days' notice* | 173,595,539 | 97.54% | 4,381,890 | 2.46% | 46,844 |
* Special resolution
Notes:
1. Where shareholders appointed the Chairman as their proxy with discretion as to voting, their votes were cast in favour of the resolutions and have been included in the "For" total.
2. A "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the percentages of the votes cast for and against a resolution.
3. The total number of shares in issue at 6pm on 24 January 2017 was 247,576,954. Votes were cast in respect of 71.9% of the issued share capital.
In accordance with the UK Listing Authority's Listing Rule 9.6.2, a copy of the special business passed at the AGM, being resolutions 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18, has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.
Alison Painter
Interim Deputy Company Secretary