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10 December 2019
Gattaca plc
Result of Annual General Meeting
Gattaca plc ("Gattaca" or the "Group"), the specialist Engineering and Technology (IT & Telecoms) recruitment solutions business, announces that at its Annual General Meeting held today, 10 December 2019, all the resolutions put to shareholders were passed. Resolutions 1 to 11 were passed as ordinary resolutions and Resolutions 12 and 13 were passed as special resolutions.
Resolution 1, and Resolutions 3 to 13 inclusive were passed on a show of hands. Resolution 2 was passed on a poll.
The final proxy voting position is shown below (inclusive of proxy votes cast at the Meeting). Any proxy votes which are at the discretion of the Chairman have been included in the "For" total.
No. | Resolutions (Please refer to Notice of Meeting for full text) | For | Against | Vote Withheld | % Vote Cast For[1] |
Ordinary Resolutions | |||||
1. | To receive and adopt the Annual Report and Accounts for the financial year ended 31 July 2019, together with the reports of the Directors and auditors | 2,011,993 | 0 | 556 | 100% |
2. | To approve, on an advisory basis, for three years from the date of the Meeting the Directors' Remuneration Policy, the full text of which available on our website | 34,941 | 1,977,052 | 556 | 1.74% |
3. | To re-elect Patrick Shanley as a Director of the Company | 2,008,393 | 0 | 4,156 | 100% |
4. | To re-elect Kevin Freeguard as a Director of the Company | 2,008,393 | 0 | 4,156 | 100% |
5. | To re-elect Salar Farzad as a Director of the Company | 2,008,393 | 0 | 4,156 | 100% |
6. | To re-elect Richard Bradford as a Director of the Company | 2,008,393 | 0 | 4,156 | 100% |
7. | To re-elect David Lawther as a Director of the Company | 2,008,393 | 0 | 4,156 | 100% |
8. | To re-elect George Materna as a Director of the Company | 1,977,037 | 31,356 | 4,156 | 98.44% |
9. | To re-appoint PwC LLP as auditors of the Company | 2,011,993 | 0 | 556 | 100% |
10. | To authorise the Directors to determine the auditors' remuneration | 2,011,993 | 0 | 556 | 100% |
11. | To authorise the Directors to allot shares generally | 2,010,136 | 1,857 | 556 | 99.91% |
Special Resolutions | |||||
12. | To empower the Directors to allot shares for cash (other than pro-rata to existing shareholders) | 2,010,136 | 0 | 2,413 | 100% |
13. | To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own ordinary shares | 2,010,066 | 1,927 | 556 | 99.90% |
The final voting position on Resolution 2 (inclusive of poll votes cast at the Meeting) was as follows:
For | Against | Vote Withheld | % Vote Cast For |
7,522,912 | 1,977,052 | 556 | 79.19% |
For further information please contact:
Gattaca plc |
+44 (0) 1489 898989 |
Kevin Freeguard, Chief Executive Officer Salar Farzad, Chief Financial Officer
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Citigate Dewe Rogerson | +44 (0) 20 7638 9571 |
Nick Hayns / Louise Mason-Rutherford / Lucy Eyles / Claire Dansie
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Liberum Capital Limited (Nominated Advisor & Broker) | +44 (0) 20 3100 2000 |
Bidhi Bhoma / Robert Morton / Euan Brown
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[1] Discounting votes withheld