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HARWORTH GROUP PLC
RESULTS OF AGM
Harworth Group plc announces that at its AGM held on Tuesday, 26 April 2016 all resolutions in the notice of meeting were passed by the necessary majority.
The results of the voting on the resolutions are shown in the table below and will be posted on the company's website, www.harworthgroup.com.
Res. number | Brief Description | votes for | % | Votes against | % | Total votes | Votes withheld |
01 | To receive and adopt the Annual Report and the audited accounts
| 1,575,909,105 | 100 | 27,322 | 0.00 | 1,575,936,427 | 55,449 |
02 | To declare the final dividend | 1,575,861,818 | 99.99 | 84,906 | 0.01 | 1,575,946,724 | 45,152 |
03b | To elect Andrew Kirkman as a director of the Company | 1,575,768,544 | 100 | 58,042 | 0.00 | 1,575,826,586 | 165,290 |
04a | To re-elect Martyn Bowes as a director of the Company | 1,575,570,648 | 99.98 | 297,157 | 0.02 | 1,575,867,805 | 124,071 |
04b | To re-elect Lisa Clement as a director of the Company | 1,575,814,714 | 100 | 53,091 | 0.00 | 1,575,867,805 | 124,071 |
04c | To re-elect Jonson Cox as a director of the Company | 1,542,934,043 | 99.96 | 570,166 | 0.04 | 1,543,504,209 | 32,487,667 |
04d | To re-elect Anthony Donnelly as a director of the Company | 1,575,571,198 | 99.98 | 263,307 | 0.02 | 1,575,834,505 | 157,371 |
04e | To re-elect Owen Michaelson as a director of the Company | 1,575,749,347 | 99.99 | 85,148 | 0.01 | 1,575,834,505 | 157,371 |
04f | To re-elect Steven Underwood as a director of the Company | 1,575,344,124 | 99.97 | 483,524 | 0.03 | 1,575,827,648 | 164,228 |
05 | To approve the Annual report on remuneration | 1,558,080,183 | 98.88 | 17,668,147 | 1.12 | 1,575,748,330 | 243,546 |
06 | To approve the revised remuneration policy | 1,575,091,080 | 99.96 | 633,272 | 0.04 | 1,575,724,352 | 267,524 |
07 | To Re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers as auditor | 1,575,787,735 | 99.99 | 94,378 | 0.01 | 1,575,882,113 | 109,763 |
08 | Authority to determine the auditor's remuneration | 1,575,535,989 | 99.98 | 355,145 | 0.02 | 1,575,891,134 | 100,742 |
09 | Authority to make political donations to a specified limit | 1,569,734,488 | 99.61 | 6,133,054 | 0.39 | 1,575,867,542 | 124,334 |
10 | Authority to allot shares | 1,575,352,583 | 99.96 | 597,926 | 0.04 | 1,575,950,509 | 41,367 |
11 | Authority to make non pre-emptive share allotments | 1,575,180,394 | 99.96 | 688,785 | 0.04 | 1,575,869,179 | 122,697 |
12 | Authority to purchase own shares | 1,575,510,107 | 99.97 | 394,535 | 0.03 | 1,575,904,642 | 87,234 |
13 | Authority to call a General Meeting on not less than 14 days' notice | 1,575,507,062 | 99.98 | 389,819 | 0.02 | 1,575,896,881 | 94,995 |
14 | Authority for share consolidation | 1,575,614,258 | 99.98 | 267,501 | 0.02 | 1,575,881,759 | 110,117 |
15 | Authority to cancel share premium account | 1,575,743,835 | 99.99 | 91,462 | 0.01 | 1,575,835,297 | 156,579 |
16 | To adopt Long term Incentive Plan | 1,575,202,841 | 99.97 | 452,193 | 0.03 | 1,575,655,034 | 336,842 |
SHARE CONSOLIDATION
Further to the Company's announcement on 1 April 2016 it is expected that the Share Consolidation will become effective on 3 May 2016 (the "Effective Date"). On that date the Official List of the UKLA will be amended and every 10 existing ordinary shares of 1.0 pence each will be exchanged for one new ordinary share of 10.0p ("New Ordinary Shares").
New share certificates in respect of each shareholder's holding of New Ordinary Shares will be sent to the holders of certificated shares as soon as practicable after the Effective Date. Shareholders who hold their shares in uncertificated form will have their CREST accounts credited on the Effective Date.
The New Ordinary Shares have the ISIN code: GB00BYZJ7G42.
All Enquiries
Harworth Group plc
Finance Director, Andrew Kirkman 0114 254 1214
Company Secretary, Geoff Mason 0114 254 1212
Capitalised terms used in this announcement and not otherwise defined have the same meanings given to them in the Company's announcement of 1 April 2016.
About Harworth Group plc
Harworth Group Plc is a leading property and development company which owns and manages a portfolio of some 27,000 acres of land across approximately 200 sites located throughout the Midlands and North of England. The Company specialises in the regeneration of former coalfield sites and other brownfield land into employment areas, new residential properties and low carbon energy projects.