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GlobalData Plc
("GlobalData" or the "Company")
Results of AGM
The Company is pleased to announce that all of the resolutions put to Shareholders at the Annual General Meeting which took place earlier today were duly passed.
A summary of the votes lodged by proxy at the Annual General Meeting is set out below:
Resolution | In Favour | Against | Number of votes withheld | Total votes cast | |||
Number of votes | % | Number of votes | % | ||||
1 | To receive the directors' report and accounts for the financial year ended 31 December 2020 and the auditors' report on the accounts. | 72,808,386 | 80.77 | 17,336,121 | 19.23 | 1,822,215 | 91,966,722 |
2 | To declare a final dividend of 11.6 pence per ordinary share in respect of the year ended 31 December 2020, payable on 23 April 2021 to ordinary shareholders whose names appear in the register of members at close of business on 26 March 2021. | 91,966,722 | 100 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 91,966,722 |
3 | To re-appoint Michael Danson as a director of the Company | 91,966,722 | 100 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 91,966,722 |
4 | To re-appoint Graham Lilley as a director of the Company | 91,966,722 | 100 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 91,966,722 |
5 | To re-appoint Annette Barnes as a director of the Company | 91,966,722 | 100 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 91,966,722 |
6 | To re-appoint Andrew Day as a director of the Company | 91,806,885 | 99.83 | 159,837 | 0.17 | 0 | 91,966,722 |
7 | To re-appoint Peter Harkness as a director of the Company | 78,978,348 | 87.61 | 11,166,159 | 12.39 | 1,822,215 | 91,966,722 |
8 | To re-appoint Murray Legg as a director of the Company | 91,806,885 | 99.83 | 159,837 | 0.17 | 0 | 91,966,722 |
9 | To appoint Catherine Birkett as a director of the Company | 91,966,722 | 100 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 91,966,722 |
10 | To appoint Elizabeth Pritchard as a director of the Company | 91,806,885 | 99.83 | 159,837 | 0.17 | 0 | 91,966,722 |
11 | To appoint Deloitte LLP as auditors of the Company | 91,806,885 | 99.83 | 159,837 | 0.17 | 0 | 91,966,722 |
12 | To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the remuneration of the auditors | 91,966,722 | 100 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 91,966,722 |
13 | To authorise the directors pursuant to section 551 of the Companies Act 2006 (the "Act") to allot shares in the Company | 91,806,885 | 99.83 | 159,837 | 0.17 | 0 | 91,966,722 |
14 | Subject to the passing of Resolution 13, to generally and unconditionally authorise the directors pursuant to section 570 of the Act to allot equity securities (within the meaning of section 560 of the Act) for cash pursuant to the authority granted by resolution 12 above as if section 561 of the Act did not apply to any such allotment. | 91,966,722 | 100 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 91,966,722 |
15 | To unconditionally and generally authorise the directors for the purposes of section 701 of the Act to make market purchases (within the meaning of section 693(4) of the Act) of its ordinary shares | 91,806,885 | 99.83 | 159,837 | 0.17 | 0 | 91,966,722 |
16 | To provide directors of the Company with the requisite authority to allot deferred shares in the Company by way of a capitalisation issue | 91,966,722 | 100 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 91,966,722 |
17 | Subject to the passing of Resolution 16, to provide directors of the Company with the requisite authority to reduce the share capital of the Company by the cancellation of the deferred shares | 91,966,553 | 99.99 | 169 | 0.01 | 0 | 91,966,722 |
18 | To release the directors, shareholders and GlobalData EBT Trustees Limited from claims by the Company in respect of the distributions made by the Company | 91,966,722 | 100 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 91,966,722 |
ENQUIRIES:
GlobalData Plc
Mike Danson, Chief Executive Officer 0207 936 6400
Graham Lilley, Chief Financial Officer
Brokers
Bill Hutchings/ Mose Adigun - J.P. Morgan Cazenove (Nomad and Joint Broker) 0207 742 4000
Sam Barnett - HSBC (Joint broker) 0207 991 8888
Erik Anderson/ Alina Vaskina - Panmure Gordon (Joint Broker) 020 7886 2500
Hudson Sandler
Nick Lyon 0207 796 4133