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Ibstock plc
Annual General Meeting 2017 Results
The 2017 Annual General Meeting of Ibstock plc (the "Company") was held at Citigate Dewe Rogerson, 3 London Wall Buildings, London Wall, London, EC2M 5SY on Wednesday, 24 May 2017 at 2:00pm
All of the resolutions were voted upon by poll and were passed by shareholders. The total number of ordinary shares in issue was 406,319,762 shares.
The full text of each resolution is contained in the notice of Annual General Meeting, which is available on the Company's website www.ibstockplc.com/investors (with each resolution number below corresponding to the resolution number in the notice).
The number of votes for and against each of the resolutions put before the Annual General Meeting and the number of votes withheld were as follows:
Resolution | Votes For | Votes Against | Total Votes cast (excluding Withheld) | Votes Withheld | |||
No of shares | % of shares voted | No of shares | % of shares voted | No of shares | |||
1 | To receive the Annual Report and accounts for the year ended 31 December 2016. | 318,010,648 | 99.94% | 200,650 | 0.06% | 318,211,298 | 99,481 |
2 | To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December 2016. | 316,378,720 | 99.39% | 1,929,259 | 0.61% | 318,307,979 | 2,800 |
3 | To declare a final dividend of 5.3 pence per ordinary share for the year ended 31 December 2016. | 318,309,179 | 100.00% | 400 | 0.00% | 318,309,579 | 800 |
4 | To re-elect Jamie Pike as a Director. | 315,861,383 | 99.23% | 2,445,346 | 0.77% | 318,306,729 | 3,650 |
5 | To re-elect Wayne Sheppard as a Director. | 316,192,677 | 99.34% | 2,115,652 | 0.66% | 318,308,329 | 3,100 |
6 | To re-elect Kevin Sims as a Director. | 315,543,272 | 99.13% | 2,762,657 | 0.87% | 318,305,929 | 4,450 |
7 | To re-elect Matthias Boyer Chammard as a Director. | Withdrawn | |||||
8 | To re-elect Jonathan Nicholls as a Director. | 318,140,588 | 99.97% | 84,691 | 0.03% | 318,225,279 | 84,700 |
9 | To re-elect Michel Plantevin as a Director. | Withdrawn | |||||
10 | To elect Tracey Graham as a Director. | 318,222,438 | 99.97% | 83,641 | 0.03% | 318,306,079 | 4,300 |
11 | To elect Lynn Minella as a Director. | 318,218,492 | 99.97% | 87,437 | 0.03% | 318,305,929 | 4,450 |
12 | To elect Justin Read as a Director. | 318,277,385 | 99.99% | 28,144 | 0.01% | 318,305,529 | 4,850 |
13 | To appoint Deloitte LLP as the Company's auditor. | 318,264,670 | 99.99% | 42,459 | 0.01% | 318,307,129 | 3,650 |
14 | To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the remuneration of the auditor. | 318,053,686 | 99.92% | 252,047 | 0.08% | 318,305,733 | 5,046 |
15 | To authorise the Company to make political donations. | 317,702,291 | 99.81% | 601,350 | 0.19% | 318,303,641 | 7,538 |
16 | To authorise the Directors to allot shares. | 314,647,409 | 98.85% | 3,660,870 | 1.15% | 318,308,279 | 2,900 |
17 | To disapply pre-emption rights.** | 317,734,529 | 99.82% | 571,150 | 0.18% | 318,305,679 | 5,500 |
18 | Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights (acquisitions/capital investments)** | 314,473,565 | 98.97% | 3,282,664 | 1.03% | 317,756,229 | 554,950 |
19 | That a general meeting (other than an Annual General Meeting) may be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice.** | 306,121,397 | 96.17% | 12,188,082 | 3.83% | 318,309,479 | 2,100 |
Copies of special resolutions 17, 18 and 19 will shortly be available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism, which is located at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm.
The Company also announces that with effect from the close of the AGM on 24 May 2017, Michel Plantevin and Matthias Boyer Chammard retired as Non-Executive Directors.
Notes:
*Votes 'withheld' are not votes under English law and so have not been included in the calculation of whether a resolution is carried. Percentages have been rounded to two decimal places.
** Special resolution.
For further information contact: | |
Ibstock plc | |
Robert Douglas, Company Secretary | + 44 (0)1530 257 211 |
Citigate Dewe Rogerson | + 44 (0)20 7638 9571 |
Simon Rigby | |
Kevin Smith | |
Nick Hayns | |