10 May 2016 14:46
Interserve Plc
Result of Annual General Meeting
Interserve Plc (the "Company") announces that at the Annual General Meeting of the Company, duly convened and held today at the offices of Ashurst LLP, Broadwalk House, 5 Appold Street, London EC2A 2HA, all resolutions as set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting dated 24 March 2016, with the exception of Resolution 5 (as explained below), were passed on a poll.
The number of votes for and against each of the resolutions, and the number of votes withheld, are set out below:
Resolution | For/Discretionary | Against | Total Shares Voted | Votes Withheld* | ||
Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
1. Annual Report and Accounts 2015 | 96,407,110 | 99.88 | 115,865 | 0.12 | 96,522,975 | 1,298,298 |
2. Dividend | 97,819,445 | 99.99 | 2,137 | 0.01 | 97,821,582 | 0 |
3. Annual Report on Remuneration | 95,719,243 | 99.11 | 861,490 | 0.89 | 96,580,733 | 1,237,848 |
4. Elect Mr G A Barker | 94,030,096 | 96.13 | 3,785,272 | 3.87 | 97,815,368 | 6,213 |
5. Resolution withdrawn | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
6. Re-elect Miss A K Fahy | 97,379,184 | 99.55 | 438,685 | 0.45 | 97,817,869 | 3,713 |
7. Re-elect Mr T P Haywood | 96,631,219 | 98.79 | 1,186,777 | 1.21 | 97,817,996 | 3,586 |
8. Re-elect Mr R J King | 86,847,584 | 94.05 | 5,493,151 | 5.95 | 92,340,735 | 5,480,846 |
9. Re-elect Mr K L Ludeman | 97,381,436 | 99.55 | 436,560 | 0.45 | 97,817,996 | 3,586 |
10. Re-elect Mr B A Melizan | 96,622,608 | 98.78 | 1,194,360 | 1.22 | 97,816,968 | 4,614 |
11. Re-elect Mr A M Ringrose | 88,698,735 | 90.68 | 9,119,261 | 9.32 | 97,817,996 | 3,586 |
12. Re-elect Mr N R Salmon | 97,378,730 | 99.55 | 439,266 | 0.45 | 97,817,996 | 3,586 |
13. Re-elect Mr D I Sutherland | 96,623,848 | 98.78 | 1,194,148 | 1.22 | 97,817,996 | 3,586 |
14. Re-appoint Grant Thornton UK LLP | 97,799,794 | 99.98 | 17,698 | 0.02 | 97,817,492 | 4,090 |
15. Auditors' remuneration | 97,798,601 | 99.98 | 17,623 | 0.02 | 97,816,224 | 5,358 |
16. Political donations | 96,156,365 | 98.31 | 1,657,903 | 1.69 | 97,814,268 | 7,314 |
17. Allot shares | 96,720,531 | 98.88 | 1,097,906 | 1.12 | 97,818,437 | 3,145 |
18. Pre-emption rights** | 86,499,644 | 88.43 | 11,317,169 | 11.57 | 97,816,813 | 4,768 |
19. Purchase of own shares** | 96,453,397 | 98.63 | 1,338,584 | 1.37 | 97,791,981 | 29,600 |
20. Notice of general meetings** | 90,929,894 | 92.96 | 6,891,470 | 7.04 | 97,821,364 | 218 |
* A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes 'For' or 'Against' a resolution.
**Special Resolution
Further to the announcement made on 5 May 2016, Resolution 5 relating to the re-election of Mr S L Dance was not proposed to shareholders following Mr Dance's decision to stand down from the Board on 4 May 2016.
The total number of votes cast excludes votes withheld. The issued share capital of the Company as at the date of the AGM was 145,714,120 ordinary shares of 10p each.
A copy of the above results will shortly be available in the Investor Centre section of the Company's website at www.interserve.com.
Copies of the resolutions passed as Special Business have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do.
Trevor Bradbury
Group Secretary
10 May 2016