27 Apr 2017 11:53
Cobham plc
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Annual General Meeting held on 27 April 2017
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Cobham plc is pleased to announce that at the AGM held today Thursday 27 April 2017, at 10am, each resolution was passed on a poll.
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The votes cast were as follows:
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Resolution | Total Votes FOR | % Â | Total Votes AGAINST | % | Total Votes Cast | Votes WITHHELD | |
1 | Report & Accounts | 34,295,300 | 99.99 | 2,402 | 0.01 | 34,297,702 | 221,952 |
2 | Remuneration Policy | 32,316,198 | 93.62 | 2,200,906 | 6.38 | 34,517,104 | 2,542 |
3 | Remuneration Report | 34,099,321 | 98.79 | 417,666 | 1.21 | 34,516,987 | 2,661 |
4 | Appointment - David Lockwood | 34,471,138 | 99.86 | 47,926 | 0.14 | 34,519,064 | 588 |
5 | Appointment - David Mellors | 34,432,606 | 99.75 | 86,257 | 0.25 | 34,518,863 | 790 |
6 | Re-election of Jonathan Flint | 34,474,225 | 99.87 | 44,430 | 0.13 | 34,518,655 | 997 |
7 | Re-election of Mike Hagee | 34,353,549 | 99.65 | 121,655 | 0.35 | 34,475,204 | 44,447 |
8 | Re-election of Birgit Nørgaard | 30,206,819 | 96.63 | 1,052,917 | 3.37 | 31,259,736 | 3,259,911 |
9 | Re-election of Alan Semple | 34,439,687 | 99.78 | 77,257 | 0.22 | 34,516,944 | 2,707 |
10 | Re-election of Mike Wareing | 34,461,795 | 99.84 | 56,746 | 0.16 | 34,518,541 | 1,160 |
11 | Re-election of Alison Wood | 34,433,543 | 99.76 | 83,492 | 0.24 | 34,517,035 | 2,613 |
12 | Re-appointment of Auditors | 33,271,963 | 96.40 | 1,241,486 | 3.60 | 34,513,449 | 6,198 |
13 | Remuneration of Auditors | 34,414,889 | 99.70 | 103,646 | 0.30 | 34,518,535 | 1,116 |
14 | Approval of the Cobham LTIP | 32,123,866 | 93.07 | 2,391,875 | 6.93 | 34,515,741 | 3,904 |
15 | Approval of the Cobham Deferred Bonus Share Plan | 34,463,970 | 99.85 | 50,366 | 0.15 | 34,514,336 | 5,313 |
16 | Authority to purchase own shares | 33,411,130 | 97.06 | 1,013,725 | 2.94 | 34,424,855 | 94,793 |
17 | Authority to allot shares | 31,344,716 | 90.81 | 3,172,530 | 9.19 | 34,517,246 | 2,403 |
18 | Authority to allot equity securities for cash | 33,206,791 | 96.21 | 1,308,961 | 3.79 | 34,515,752 | 3,896 |
19 | Authority to allot equity securities for cash re acquisitions | 30,537,372 | 88.48 | 3,977,605 | 11.52 | 34,514,977 | 4,669 |
20 | Authority to call general meetings on 14 days' notice | 33,046,999 | 96.11 | 1,336,894 | 3.89 | 34,383,893 | 135,749 |
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Notes:
(1) Where shareholders appointed the chairman of the meeting as their proxy with discretion as to voting, these votes have been cast in favour of all resolutions.
(2) A vote 'WITHHELD' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes 'FOR' or 'AGAINST' a resolution.
(3) Resolutions 16, 18 and 20 are Special Resolutions requiring a 75% majority.
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The following table provides further relevant information:
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Cobham plc's One Hundred and Twenty-Seventh AGM (2017) | Cobham plc's One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth AGM (2016) | |
Issued share capital (excluding Treasury Shares) | 1,707,863,851 | 1,138,575,901 |
Total number of possible votes | 42,716,296 | 28,484,098 |
Proxy appointments lodged | 34,515,859 | 23,759,786 |
Representing % of possible vote | 80.8 | 83.41 |
Number of AGM attendees | 11 | 10 |
Total vote % on the poll | 80.8 | 83.41 |
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A copy of a document setting out the resolutions passed dealing with special business at the meeting has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.
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The Voting results will be placed on our website (www.cobhaminvestors.com).
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Mrs Lyn Colloff
Company Secretary
Cobham plc
27 April 2017
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Name of contact and telephone number for queries:
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Julian Wais
Director of Investor Relations
Tel: 01202 857998