4 Feb 2016 16:21
4 February 2016
Connect Group PLC
Result of 2016 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 2015 | 175,514,718 | 99.99%
| 18,272
| 0.01%
| 811,787
|
2 | To approve the directors' remuneration report | 172,516,695 | 98.56%
| 2,514,453
| 1.44%
| 1,313,629
|
3 | To declare a final dividend of 6.3p per share | 175,532,223 | 100.00%
| 1,528
| 0.00%
| 811,026
|
4 | To elect Gary Kennedy | 174,781,859 | 99.59% | 725,271 | 0.41% | 837,647 |
5 | To elect Colin Child | 175,476,814 | 99.98% | 38,841 | 0.02% | 829,122 |
6 | To elect Denise Collis | 175,463,739 | 99.97% | 48,569 | 0.03% | 832,469 |
7 | To re-elect Mark Cashmore | 174,342,443 | 99.33% | 1,182,320 | 0.67% | 820,014 |
8 | To re-elect Jonathan Bunting | 174,340,153
| 99.33%
| 1,184,379
| 0.67%
| 820,245
|
9 | To re-elect Nick Gresham | 151,200,007 | 99.23% | 1,179,880 | 0.77% | 23,964,890 |
10 | To re-elect Andrew Brent | 175,489,673 | 99.98% | 33,164 | 0.02% | 821,940 |
11 | To re-appoint the auditor | 175,235,195 | 99.83% | 296,506 | 0.17% | 813,076 |
12 | To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the auditor's remuneration | 174,800,909
| 99.58%
| 728,986
| 0.42%
| 814,882
|
13 | Authority to make political donations | 174,785,828
| 99.73%
| 477,875
| 0.27%
| 1,094,789
|
14 | Authority to allot shares | 149,372,358 | 85.11% | 26,135,957 | 14.89% | 836,462 |
15 | To approve the Connect Group Long Term Incentive Plan | 173,163,827
| 98.94%
| 1,851,400
| 1.06%
| 1,329,550
|
16 | To approve the Connect Group Executive Share Option Scheme | 173,884,091
| 99.36%
| 1,123,698
| 0.64%
| 1,336,988
|
17 | To approve the Connect Group Sharesave Scheme | 175,391,309
| 99.98%
| 41,472
| 0.02%
| 911,996
|
18 | Authority to partially disapply pre-emption rights* | 149,946,551
| 85.05%
| 26,347,303
| 14.95%
| 50,923
|
19 | Authority to make market purchases of ordinary shares* | 175,457,703
| 99.96%
| 63,584
| 0.04%
| 823,490
|
20 | Authority to call general meetings (other than the AGM) on 14 clear days' notice* | 168,982,034
| 96.27%
| 6,547,735
| 3.73%
| 815,008
|
* 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 2 February 2016 = 246,611,392. Votes were cast in respect of 71.4% 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 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20, has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.
Adele Duff
Assistant Company Secretary