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Helical plc (Company)
Annual General Meeting - 12 July 2018
At the ninety eighth Annual General Meeting of Helical plc held on Thursday 12 July 2018, all resolutions set out in the Notice of Meeting dated 12 June 2018 were passed by Shareholders on a show of hands. Proxies were received by the Company from Shareholders in advance of the Annual General Meeting as follows:
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| Proxy Votes Received | |||||
| Resolution | For the Resolution[i] | % For | Against the Resolution | % Against | Total Votes Validly Cast | Votes Withheld [ii] |
1 | To receive and consider the accounts and reports of the Directors and Grant Thornton UK LLP for the year ended 31 March 2018 | 92,667,512 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 92,667,512 | 0 |
2 | To declare a final dividend of 7.0 pence per ordinary share. | 92,667,512 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 92,667,512 | 0 |
3 | To re-elect M. E. Slade as a Director | 87,264,653 | 94.17 | 5,402,858 | 5.83 | 92,667,511 | 0 |
4 | To re-elect R. J. Grant as a Director | 92,296,521 | 99.60 | 370,990 | 0.40 | 92,667,511 | 0 |
5 | To re-elect G. A. Kaye as a Director | 90,397,816 | 97.55 | 2,269,696 | 2.45 | 92,667,512 | 0 |
6 | To re-elect T. J. Murphy as a Director | 90,326,353 | 97.47 | 2,341,159 | 2.53 | 92,667,512 | 0 |
7 | To re-elect M. C. Bonning-Snook as a Director | 90,397,816 | 97.55 | 2,269,696 | 2.45 | 92,667,512 | 0 |
8 | To re-elect S. V. Clayton as a Director | 91,946,462 | 99.22 | 721,050 | 0.78 | 92,667,512 | 0 |
9 | To re-elect R. R. Cotton as a Director | 92,495,443 | 99.82 | 170,069 | 0.18 | 92,667,512 | 2,000 |
10 | To re-elect M. K. O'Donnell as a Director | 91,249,585 | 98.47 | 1,417,927 | 1.53 | 92,667,512 | 0 |
11 | To appoint Deloitte LLP as auditor of the Company | 92,657,512 | 99.99 | 10,000 | 0.01 | 92,667,512 | 0 |
12 | To authorise the Directors to set the remuneration of the auditors | 92,644,340 | 99.97 | 23,172 | 0.03 | 92,667,512 | 0 |
13 | To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report (other than the section containing the Directors' Remuneration Policy) for the year ended 31 March 2018 | 77,566,882 | 85.56 | 13,088,693 | 14.44 | 90,655,575 | 2,011,935 |
14 | To approve the Director's Remuneration Policy | 89,918,397 | 97.05 | 2,736,254 | 2.95 | 92,654,651 | 12,860 |
15 | To authorise the operation of the Helical Annual Bonus Scheme 2018 | 91,055,513 | 98.26 | 1,611,998 | 1.74 | 92,667,511 | 0 |
16 | To authorise the Directors to allot shares pursuant to section 551 of the Companies Act 2006 | 84,887,264 | 91.60 | 7,780,248 | 8.40 | 92,667,512 | 0 |
17 | To authorise the Directors to dis-apply pre-emption rights pursuant to sections 570 and 573 of the Companies Act 2006[iii] | 92,665,512 | 99.99 | 2,000 | 0.01 | 92,667,512 | 0 |
18 | To authorise the Directors to dis-apply pre-emption rights pursuant to sections 570 and 573 of the Companies Act 2006 in addition to resolution 17[iii] | 83,718,567 | 90.34 | 8,948,944 | 9.66 | 92,667,511 | 0 |
19 | To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its Ordinary Shares pursuant to section 701 of the Companies Act 2006[iii] | 91,183,116 | 98.41 | 1,471,223 | 1.59 | 92,654,339 | 13,172 |
20 | To approve general meetings (other than annual general meetings) to be held on not less than 14 clear days' notice[iii] | 90,990,221 | 98.19 | 1,677,291 | 1.81 | 92,667,512 | 0 |
Notes to the Disclosure:As at the date of the meeting there were 118,610,741 ordinary shares of 1p each in issue.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of resolutions other than those concerning ordinary business passed at the Annual General Meeting have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and can be viewed at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm.
[i] Includes discretionary votes
[ii] A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes for or against a resolution
[iii] Special Resolution requires at least 75% of votes in favour
For further information please contact:
James MossCompany Secretary020 7629 0113