16 Jun 2015 16:00
Huntsworth plc ("the Company")
Result of AGM
The Board of Huntsworth plc is pleased to announce that at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held today, all resolutions were passed. A poll was conducted on each resolution proposed at the meeting and the number of votes for and against each of the resolutions and the number of votes withheld were as follows:
For & Discretionary | Against | Total votes cast | Votes withheld | |||||
No. of shares | % Votes cast | No. of shares | % Votes cast | |||||
1 | To receive Annual Report and Accounts | 257,907,763 | 100.00 | 10,570 | 0.00 | 257,918,333 | 875,419 | |
2 | To approve the Remuneration Report | 251,950,758 | 97.37 | 6,814,534 | 2.63 | 258,765,292 | 27,712 | |
3 | To reappoint Derek Mapp | 258,772,412 | 99.99 | 21,190 | 0.01 | 258,793,602 | 150 | |
4 | To reappoint Paul Taaffe | 258,746,342 | 99.99 | 22,260 | 0.01 | 258,768,602 | 25,150 | |
5 | To reappoint Andy Boland | 258,767,804 | 99.99 | 24,102 | 0.01 | 258,791,906 | 1,846 | |
6 | To reappoint Nicky Dulieu | 258,744,420 | 99.99 | 24,182 | 0.01 | 258,768,602 | 25,150 | |
7 | To reappoint Farah Ramzan Golant CBE | 258,741,508 | 99.99 | 27,094 | 0.01 | 258,768,602 | 25,150 | |
8 | To reappoint Tim Ryan | 258,745,547 | 99.99 | 23,055 | 0.01 | 258,768,602 | 25,150 | |
9 | To reappoint Ernst & Young as auditor | 257,895,073 | 99.66 | 883,697 | 0.34 | 258,778,770 | 14,982 | |
10 | To authorise the directors to determine the auditor's remuneration | 258,766,879 | 99.99 | 14,391 | 0.01 | 258,781,270 | 12,482 | |
11 | To authorise the scrip dividend scheme* | 258,768,546 | 99.99 | 18,329 | 0.01 | 258,786,875 | 6,877 | |
12 | To declare a final dividend | 258,789,607 | 100.00 | 4,120 | 0.00 | 258,793,727 | 25 | |
13 | To authorise the Company to make political donations | 258,558,906 | 99.91 | 224,233 | 0.09 | 258,783,139 | 10,613 | |
14 | To renew the directors' authority to allot shares* | 254,788,941 | 98.46 | 3,995,555 | 1.54 | 258,784,496 | 9,256 | |
15 | To renew disapplication of pre-emption rights* | 253,434,517 | 99.94 | 155,124 | 0.06 | 253,589,641 | 5,204,111 | |
16 | To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares* | 258,768,858 | 99.99 | 19,628 | 0.01 | 258,788,486 | 5,266 | |
17 | To authorise the Company to call general meetings on 14 days' notice* | 255,487,106 | 98.72 | 3,304,814 | 1.28 | 258,791,920 | 1,831 | |
*Special Resolution | ||||||||
NOTES: 1. A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes 'For' and 'Against' a resolution. 2. Total number of ordinary shares in issue as at today's date is 327,229,622 of which 2,136,681 are held in treasury. | ||||||||
The full text of the resolutions is shown in the Notice of Annual General Meeting which is available on the Company's website www.huntsworth.com.
In compliance with the LR9.6.2R, a copy of resolutions 11 and 14 to 17 will be submitted to the UK Listing Authority for publication through the National Storage Mechanism. A copy of this document will be available for viewing at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.
For further information contact:
Martin Morrow | 020 7282 2926 |
Company Secretary | |
16 June 2015 |