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23 May 2019
Coats Group plc
('Coats' or the 'Company')
Results of the Annual General Meeting ("AGM")
Coats announces that at its AGM, held in London, United Kingdom on 23 May 2019, all the resolutions put to the meeting were duly passed.
The results of the poll held at the AGM are as follows:
Resolution | Total Votes For | Total Votes Against | Total Votes cast as % of Issued Share Capital | Votes Withheld | |||
%* | %* | %* | |||||
1 | Receipt of Annual Report 2018 | 1,151,671,757 | 99.999 | 7,615 | 0.001 | 79.857 | 1,015,207 |
2 | Approval of Remuneration Report | 1,144,133,854 | 99.262 | 8,503,589 | 0.738 | 79.923 | 57,136 |
3 | Approval of Dividend | 1,152,693,108 | 100.000 | 945 | 0.000 | 79.927 | 526 |
4 | Re-election of Simon Boddie | 1,152,474,097 | 99.981 | 215,666 | 0.019 | 79.927 | 4,816 |
5 | Re-election of Nicholas Bull | 1,152,673,587 | 99.999 | 15,503 | 0.001 | 79.927 | 5,489 |
6 | Re-election of Mike Clasper | 1,100,943,888 | 99.546 | 5,022,415 | 0.454 | 76.687 | 46,728,276 |
7 | Re-election of Anne Fahy | 1,103,101,435 | 95.698 | 49,590,695 | 4.302 | 79.927 | 1,504 |
8 | Re-election of David Gosnell | 1,152,258,522 | 99.963 | 431,672 | 0.037 | 79.927 | 4,294 |
9 | Re-election of Hongyan Echo Lu | 1,152,645,316 | 99.998 | 20,258 | 0.002 | 79.925 | 28,914 |
10 | Re-election of Fran Philip | 1,152,651,109 | 99.997 | 36,994 | 0.003 | 79.926 | 6,476 |
11 | Re-election of Alan Rosling | 1,152,654,446 | 99.998 | 22,619 | 0.002 | 79.926 | 17,514 |
12 | Re-election of Rajiv Sharma | 1,125,022,896 | 97.600 | 27,666,349 | 2.400 | 79.927 | 5,334 |
13 | Reappointment of Auditor | 1,044,614,852 | 98.536 | 15,517,830 | 1.464 | 73.509 | 92,561,897 |
14 | Approval of Auditor remuneration | 1,137,880,259 | 98.715 | 14,811,264 | 1.285 | 79.927 | 3,056 |
15 | Authority to allot relevant securities | 1,152,240,101 | 99.961 | 444,669 | 0.039 | 79.926 | 9,809 |
16 | Authority to disapply pre-emption rights | 1,152,030,745 | 99.948 | 603,170 | 0.052 | 79.923 | 60,664 |
17 | Authority to disapply pre-emption rights in connection with acquisitions and specified capital investments | 1,102,661,083 | 95.665 | 49,970,158 | 4.335 | 79.923 | 63,338 |
18 | Authority to purchase own Shares | 1,152,545,892 | 99.994 | 68,087 | 0.006 | 79.921 | 80,600 |
19 | Authority to call general meetings on clear 14 days' notice | 1,126,901,247 | 97.762 | 25,792,922 | 2.238 | 79.927 | 410 |
Notes:
· *All percentages are rounded to three decimal places.
· Any proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Chairman have been included in the "for" column.
· A vote "withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the "votes for" or "against" the resolution.
· The issued share capital used to calculate the total votes cast as a percentage of issued share capital voted is 1,442,185,334.
· A copy of the resolutions other than those resolutions comprising ordinary business passed at the AGM has been uploaded to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM
Total Voting Rights
The total number of the Company's ordinary shares in issue and therefore the total number of voting rights as at the close of business on 23 May 2019 was 1,442,185,334.
Stuart Morgan
Company Secretary
23 May 2019
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