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EVRAZ plc (the "Company")
Results of the Annual General Meeting
The Annual General Meeting (the "Meeting") of the Company was held on Thursday 13 June 2013 at 11.00 a.m. (London time). At the Meeting, the ordinary and special resolutions set out in the Notice of the Annual General Meeting dated 30 April 2013 (the "Notice of AGM"), were proposed and passed by way of a poll. Resolutions 1 to 15 were passed as ordinary resolutions. Resolutions 16 to 18 were passed as special resolutions.
The poll voting figures are shown below.
No.
| Resolution | Votes for | % | Votes against | % | Votes withheld | Total votes as % of issued share capital |
1 | To receive the report of the Directors and the accounts for the Company for the year ended 31 December 2012 | 1,069,842,412 | 99.91% | 937,243 | 0.09% | 0 | 72.71% |
2 | To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December 2012 | 1,058,394,986 | 98.86% | 12,190,735 | 1.14% | 193,934 | 72.70% |
3 | To re-elect Alexander Abramov as a Director | 1,061,749,064 | 99.16% | 9,033,091 | 0.84% | 0 | 72.71% |
4 | To re-elect Duncan Antony Hilder Baxter as a Director | 1,069,040,502 | 99.85% | 1,650,482 | 0.15% | 91,171 | 72.71% |
5 | To re-elect Alexander Frolov as a Director | 1,069,383,338 | 99.87% | 1,398,817 | 0.13% | 0 | 72.71% |
6 | To re-elect Karl Gruber as a Director | 1,069,066,993 | 99.88% | 1,326,354 | 0.12% | 388,808 | 72.69% |
7 | To re-elect Alexander Izosimov as a Director | 1,069,533,408 | 99.88% | 1,248,747 | 0.12% | 0 | 72.71% |
8 | To re-elect Sir Michael Peat as a Director | 1,069,076,615 | 99.85% | 1,602,412 | 0.15% | 103,128 | 72.71% |
9 | To re-elect Olga Pokrovskaya as a Director | 1,034,602,179 | 96.69% | 35,452,872 | 3.31% | 727,104 | 72.67% |
10 | To re-elect Terry John Robinson as a Director | 1,069,119,109 | 99.85% | 1,571,875 | 0.15% | 91,171 | 72.71% |
11 | To re-elect Eugene Shvidler as a Director | 1,068,513,071 | 99.79% | 2,269,084 | 0.21% | 0 | 72.71% |
12 | To re-elect Eugene Tenenbaum as a Director | 1,069,019,109 | 99.84% | 1,671,875 | 0.16% | 91,171 | 72.71% |
13 | To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP as auditors of the Company | 1,070,676,527 | 100.00% | 2,500 | 0.00% | 103,128 | 72.71% |
14 | To authorise the Directors to fix the remuneration of the auditors | 1,070,782,155 | 100.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 72.71% |
15 | To authorise the Directors to allot shares as provided in resolution 15 of the Notice of AGM | 1,069,396,126 | 99.90% | 1,093,388 | 0.10% | 292,641 | 72.69% |
16 | To disapply pre-emption rights | 1,070,675,838 | 99.99% | 106,300 | 0.01% | 17 | 72.71% |
17 | To authorise the Company to make market purchases of shares in the capital of the Company | 1,070,775,138 | 100.00% | 7,000 | 0.00% | 17 | 72.71% |
18 | To authorise the Company to hold general meetings on not less than 14 clear days' notice | 1,060,831,580 | 99.07% | 9,950,558 | 0.93% | 17 | 72.71% |
Notes:
1. Any proxy arrangement which gave discretion to the Chairman has been included in the "for" totals.
2. A "vote withheld" is not a vote under English law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes "for" or "against" a resolution.
3. The issued share capital of EVRAZ plc as at 13 June 2013 is 1,472,582,366 ordinary shares.
4. The scrutineer of the polls was Computershare Investor Services PLC.
5. All percentages are rounded to two decimal points.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of resolutions passed at the Meeting concerning items other than ordinary business will shortly be available for inspection on the National Storage Mechanism which can be accessed at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do
Details of the poll votes received will shortly also be available for viewing on the Company's website http://www.evraz.com/
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For further information:
Investor Relations: | |
Sergey Belyakov | |
Director, Investor Relations | |
London | +44 207 832 8990 |
Moscow | +7 495 232 1370 |
ir@evraz.com | |
Company Secretary: | |
TMF Corporate Administration Services Limited | |
London | +44 207 832 8922 |
evrazcosec@tmf-group.com |
EVRAZ is a vertically integrated steel, mining and vanadium business with operations in the Russian Federation, Ukraine, USA, Canada, Czech Republic, Italy and South Africa. EVRAZ is among 20 top steel producers in the world based on crude steel production of 15.9 million tonnes in 2012. In 2012 EVRAZ sold 15.3 million tonnes of steel products. A significant portion of the company's internal consumption of iron ore and coking coal is covered by its mining operations. The company's consolidated revenues for the year ended 31 December 2012 were US$14,726 million, and consolidated EBITDA amounted to US$2,012 million.