Last checked at 25 Apr 2023 15:34
25 April 2023
GlobalData Plc
(AIM: DATA, GlobalData, the Company)
Results of Annual General Meeting ("AGM")
GlobalData Plc, a leading provider of industry intelligence, announces that at the Company's Annual General Meeting held earlier today (25 April 2023) all resolutions were duly passed.
A description on the subject matter of the poll and details on the votes are set out below.
Resolution | In Favour | Against | Totalvotes validlycast | % of issued share capital | Number of votes withheld | |||
Number of votes | % | Number of votes | % | |||||
Ordinary resolutions | ||||||||
1 | To receive the directors' report and accounts for the financial year ended 31 December 2022 and the auditors' report on the accounts. | 102,038,280 | 100.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 102,038,280 | 86.25% | 0 |
2 | To declare a final dividend of 18.3 pence per ordinary share in respect of the year ended 31 December 2022, payable on 28 April 2023 to ordinary shareholders whose names appear in the register of members at close of business on 31 March 2023. | 102,038,280 | 100.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 102,038,280 | 86.25% | 0 |
3 | To re-appoint Michael Danson as a director of the Company. | 100,622,576 | 99.99% | 6,362 | 0.01% | 100,628,938 | 85.06% | 1,409,342 |
4 | To re-appoint Murray Legg as a director of the Company. | 99,635,710 | 98.42% | 1,599,494 | 1.58% | 101,235,204 | 85.57% | 803,076 |
5 | To re-appoint Graham Lilley as a director of the Company. | 102,038,280 | 100.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 102,038,280 | 86.25% | 0 |
6 | To re-appoint Annette Barnes as a director of the Company. | 100,082,210 | 98.08% | 1,956,070 | 1.92% | 102,038,280 | 86.25% | 0 |
7 | To re-appoint Andrew Day as a director of the Company. | 100,470,643 | 98.46% | 1,567,637 | 1.54% | 102,038,280 | 86.25% | 0 |
8 | To re-appoint Peter Harkness as a director of the Company. | 102,038,280 | 100.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 102,038,280 | 86.25% | 0 |
9 | To re-appoint Catherine Birkett as a director of the Company. | 102,038,280 | 100.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 102,038,280 | 86.25% | 0 |
10 | To re-appoint Julien Decot as a director of the Company. | 100,470,643 | 98.46% | 1,567,637 | 1.54% | 102,038,280 | 86.25% | 0 |
11 | To re-appoint Deloitte LLP as the auditors of the Company. | 102,038,140 | 100.00% | 140 | 0.00% | 102,038,280 | 86.25% | 0 |
12 | To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the remuneration of the auditors. | 102,038,140 | 100.00% | 140 | 0.00% | 102,038,280 | 86.25% | 0 |
13 | To receive and approve the Directors' remuneration report (excluding the Directors' remuneration policy) contained on pages 59 to 69 of the Company's report and accounts for the year ended 31 December 2022. | 86,314,120 | 85.73% | 14,364,160 | 14.27% | 100,678,280 | 85.10% | 1,360,000 |
14 | To authorise the directors to allot ordinary shares in the Company. | 102,037,740 | 100.00% | 540 | 0.00% | 102,038,280 | 86.25% | 0 |
Special resolutions | ||||||||
15 | To renew the directors' power to allot shares or grant rights to subscribe for, or convert securities into, shares or sell treasury shares where they propose to do so for cash (other than pursuant to an employee share scheme) otherwise than to existing shareholders pro rata to their holdings (i.e. non pre-emptively), as permitted by the Articles. | 100,677,740 | 98.67% | 1,360,540 | 1.33% | 102,038,280 | 86.25% | 0 |
16 | To give the directors power to make non-pre-emptive issues of ordinary shares in connection with acquisitions and other capital investments as contemplated by the Pre-emption Principles. | 100,672,386 | 98.66% | 1,365,894 | 1.34% | 102,038,280 | 86.25% | 0 |
17 | To renew the Company's authority to make market purchases of up to 11,830,386 ordinary shares (being 10% of the Company's total issued ordinary share capital as at the date of this notice), either for cancellation or for placing into treasury at the determination of the directors. | 102,013,140 | 100.00% | 140 | 0.00% | 102,013,280 | 86.23% | 25,000 |
Notes:
1. A 'vote withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation proportion of the votes "for" or "against" a resolution.
2. A copy of the AGM results will be available on the Company's website at www.globaldata.com.
3. Issued share capital as at 25 April 2023 is 118,303,869 ordinary shares of 1/14 pence each in the capital of the Company.
ENQUIRIES
GlobalData Plc | |
Mike Danson, Chief Executive Officer | 0207 936 6400 |
Graham Lilley, Chief Financial Officer | |
J.P. Morgan Cazenove (Nomad and Joint Broker) | 0203 493 8000 |
Bill Hutchings | |
Mose Adigun | |
Panmure Gordon (Joint Broker) | 0207 886 2500 |
Rupert Dearden | |
Dougie McLeod | |
Numis Securities (Joint Broker) Nick Westlake Iqra Amin
| 0207 260 1000 |
FTI Consulting (Financial PR) | 0203 727 1000 |
Edward Bridges | |
Dwight Burden | |
Emma Hall |