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27 April 2017
FDM Group (Holdings) plc
Result of AGM
The board of directors of FDM Group (Holdings) plc (the "Company" or "FDM") announces that, at the Company's 2017 annual general meeting held earlier today, all resolutions were duly passed on a show of hands.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2(R), a copy of the resolutions passed at the Annual General Meeting will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.
As at the date of the meeting, there were 107,517,506 ordinary shares with voting rights in issue. The following proxies were received by the Company from shareholders prior to the meeting:
RESOLUTION | FOR | AGAINST | WITHHELD
| |||
VOTES | % OF VOTES CAST*
| VOTES | % OF VOTES CAST* | VOTES | ||
1 | Receive the Company's Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2016 together with the reports of the directors and shareholders.
| 93,087,893 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 28,862 |
2 | Approve the Directors' Remuneration Report (other than the part containing the Directors' Remuneration Policy) for the year ended 31 December 2016.
| 91,753,254 | 98.54 | 1,363,501 | 1.46 | 0 |
3 | Declare a final ordinary dividend for the year ended 31 December 2016 of 10.3 pence for each ordinary share in the capital of the Company.
| 93,116,755 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 |
4 | Re-elect Ivan Martin as a director of the Company
| 93,108,155 | 99.99 | 8,600 | 0.01 | 0 |
5 | Re-elect Andrew Brown as a director of the Company
| 93,116,755 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 |
6 | Re-elect Sheila Flavell as a director of the Company
| 93,116,755 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 |
7 | Re-elect Michael McLaren as a director of the Company
| 93,116,755 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 |
8 | Re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company's auditors
| 93,082,469 | 99.96 | 34,286 | 0.04 | 0 |
9 | Authorise the directors to agree the remuneration of the auditors
| 93,116,755 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 |
10 | Authorise the directors to allot securities pursuant to section 551 of the Companies Act 2006 (the "Act")
| 92,391,770 | 99.22 | 724,985 | 0.78 | 0 |
11 | Special Resolution: Disapply pre-emption rights pursuant to section 570 of the Act
| 93,114,800 | 99.99 | 1,955 | 0.01 | 0 |
12 | Special Resolution: Disapply pre-emption rights pursuant to section 570 of the Act in connection with financing an acquisition or specified capital investment
| 91,891,035 | 98.68 | 1,225,720 | 1.32 | 0 |
13 | Special Resolution: Authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own shares pursuant to section 701 of the Act
| 93,080,514 | 99.96 | 36,241 | 0.04 | 0 |
14 | Special Resolution: That a general meeting (other than an AGM) may be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice
| 91,837,462 | 98.63 | 1,279,293 | 1.37 | 0 |
*Excludes votes withheld
ends
For further information please contact:
FDM Group (Holdings) plc | Rod Flavell - CEO Mike McLaren - CFO | 020 7067 0000 (today) 0203 056 8240 (thereafter) |
Weber Shandwick (financial PR) | Nick Oborne / Tom Jenkins | 020 7067 0000 |
About FDM
FDM is an international professional services provider with a focus on IT. Operating from offices in Europe, North America and Asia, FDM specialises in recruiting, training and deploying its own permanent IT Consultants ("Mounties") across a number of service areas including: development, testing, project management, data analysis, application support, infrastructure, business analysis and compliance.
With a large number of blue chip clients across its operational territories, FDM meets the demands of its customers through the provision of highly-trained and geographically flexible Mounties that are employed by FDM. FDM offers a high-value, low risk proposition to both trainees and clients and looks principally to recruit:
• Graduates local to each of the territories in which it operates, typically but not exclusively training them in-territory and then placing them onto client sites within the same territory; and
• Ex-military personnel local to each of the territories in which it operates, training them as IT or business Consultants in that territory and placing them on client sites in the same territory.
• Individuals who have a background in IT and/or finance who, having taken a career break, are keen to return to their career.
FDM strongly supports the recruitment of women into the IT industry and actively encourages their advancement through their global 'Women in IT' initiative.