Last checked at 19 May 2022 10:33
19 May 2022
Headlam Group plc
('Headlam' or the 'Company')
2022 Annual General Meeting ('AGM') Poll Results
The Board of Headlam announces that all the resolutions put to its shareholders at the AGM held earlier today were duly passed by the requisite majorities on a poll.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of the special business resolutions (11 to 14) passed at the AGM will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.
The results of the poll for each resolution are shown below:
| Resolution | Votes For (including discretionary votes) | Votes Against | Votes Withheld | Total Votes Cast (excluding votes Withheld) | |||
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| No. of Votes | % of votes cast | No. of Votes | % of votes cast | No. of Shares | No. of Votes | % of Issued Share Capital** |
1. | Receive the Annual Report and Accounts | 63,162,762 | 99.99 | 4,180 | 0.01 | 155,901 | 63,166,942 | 74.56 |
2. | Approve the Remuneration Report | 60,828,936 | 96.06 | 2,492,469 | 3.94 | 1,438 | 63,321,405 | 74.75 |
3. | Declare a final ordinary dividend | 63,318,663 | 99.99 | 4,180 | 0.01 | 0 | 63,322,843 | 74.75 |
4. | Elect Stephen Bird | 63,312,325 | 99.98 | 10,254 | 0.02 | 264 | 63,322,579 | 74.75 |
5. | Elect Simon King | 63,009,093 | 99.50 | 313,486 | 0.50 | 264 | 63,322,579 | 74.75 |
6. | Re-elect Chris Payne | 63,294,966 | 99.96 | 27,613 | 0.04 | 264 | 63,322,579 | 74.75 |
7. | Re-elect Amanda Aldridge | 62,936,989 | 99.39 | 385,853 | 0.61 | 1 | 63,322,842 | 74.75 |
8. | Re-elect Keith Edelman | 62,792,650 | 99.16 | 529,928 | 0.84 | 265 | 63,322,578 | 74.75 |
9. | Re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Auditor | 63,167,473 | 99.75 | 155,370 | 0.25 | 0 | 63,322,843 | 74.75 |
10. | Authorise the Directors to determine Auditor's remuneration | 63,314,180 | 99.99 | 8,663 | 0.01 | 0 | 63,322,843 | 74.75 |
11. | Authorise allotment of shares | 63,309,889 | 99.98 | 12,954 | 0.02 | 0 | 63,322,843 | 74.75 |
12. | Disapply pre-emption rights* | 63,309,876 | 99.98 | 12,967 | 0.02 | 0 | 63,322,843 | 74.75 |
13. | Authorise purchase of own shares* | 63,152,052 | 99.73 | 168,637 | 0.27 | 2,154 | 63,320,689 | 74.75 |
14. | Call general meetings on 14 days' notice* | 57,765,811 | 91.21 | 5,557,032 | 8.78 | 0 | 63,322,843 | 74.75 |
* Indicates a special resolution requiring a 75% majority of votes cast
** Excludes treasury shares
Notes:
1 A vote 'Withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes 'For' or 'Against' a resolution, the total votes validly cast or the calculation of the proportion of issued share capital voted.
2 As at the voting record date (17 May 2022), Headlam had 85,639,209 ordinary shares in issue, of which 84,715,416 held voting rights.
3 To calculate the proxy votes as a percentage of shares in issue, treasury shares were excluded.
Enquiries:
Headlam Group plc | Tel: 01675 433 000 |
Chris Payne, Chief Executive | Email: headlamgroup@headlam.com |
Catherine Miles, Director of IR and ESG | |
Panmure Gordon (UK) Limited (Corporate Broker) | Tel: 020 7886 2500 |
Erik Anderson / Edward Walsh / Ailsa MacMaster | |
Peel Hunt LLP (Corporate Broker) | Tel: 020 7418 8900 |
George Sellar / John Welch / Andrew Clark | |
Alma PR (Financial PR) | Tel: 020 3405 0205 |
Susie Hudson / Rebecca Sanders-Hewett / Lily Soares Smith | Email: headlam@almapr.co.uk |