20 May 2020 16:25
20 May 2020
Medica Group Plc
Result of Annual General Meeting
Medica Group Plc (LSE: MGP, "Medica" or the "Company") announces that, at its Annual General Meeting (AGM) held at the office Medica Group PLC, One Priory Square, Hastings, East Sussex at 10.30 a.m. today, all resolutions put to the meeting were duly passed.
Resolutions | For (including discretionary votes) | % of votes | Against | % of votes | Votes total | Withheld votes | |
Ordinary business | |||||||
1 | To receive the annual report and accounts of the Company for the year ended 31 December 2019 | 86,617,641 | 100 | - | - | 86,617,641 | 248,149 |
2 | To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December 2019. | 73,062,937 | 92.76 | 5,701,551 | 7.24 | 78,764,488 | 8,101,302 |
3 | To re-appoint Grant Thornton UK LLP as auditors to the Company | 86,615,641 | 99.71 | 248,149 | 0.29 | 86,863,790 | 2,000 |
4 | To authorise the Directors to determine the remuneration of the auditors of the Company | 86,863,790 | 100 | - | - | 86,863,790 | 2,000 |
5 | To elect Stuart Quin as Director | 86,865,790 | 100 | - | - | 86,865,790 | - |
6 | To re-elect Stephen Davies as Director | 86,865,790 | 100 | - | - | 86,865,790 | - |
7 | To re-elect Roy Davis as Director | 86,612,641 | 100 | - | - | 86,612,641 | 253,149 |
8 | To re-elect Stephen Whittern as Director | 86,860,790 | 100 | - | - | 86,860,790 | 5,000 |
9 | To re-elect Joanne Easton as Director | 86,207,059 | 99.25 | 653,731 | 0.75 | 86,860,790 | 5,000 |
Special business | |||||||
10 | General authority to allot shares pursuant to Section 551 Companies Act 2006 | 85,590,602 | 98.53 | 1,273,188 | 1.47 |
86,863,790 |
2,000 |
11* | General authority to allot equity securities pursuant to Section 570 Companies Act 2006 | 79,840,740 | 91.91 | 7,023,050 | 8.09 | 86,863,790 | 2,000 |
12* | General authority to allot equity securities pursuant to Section 570 Companies Act 2006 | 78,622,314 | 90.51 | 8,241,476 | 9.49 | 86,863,790 | 2,000 |
13* | Authority for on-market purchases of up to 10% of issued share capital | 86,610,641 | 99.71 | 253,149 | 0.29 | 86,863,790 | 2,000 |
14* | Authority to call general meetings at 14 clear days' notice | 86,340,535 | 99.40 | 525,255 | 0.60 | 86,865,790 | - |
* Passed as a special resolution of the Company; all other resolutions were passed as ordinary resolutions of the Company.
N.B. Percentage of Votes cast excludes withheld votes. A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes validly cast.
The Board is pleased to have received shareholder support for all the resolutions proposed at the AGM.
The number of Ordinary Shares in issue on 20 May 2020 at 10.30 a.m. was 111,111,114. Shareholders are entitled to one vote per share.
The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of AGM on the Company's website (www.medicagroup.co.uk).
A copy of this announcement will shortly be available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism document viewing facility at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.
Enquiries:
Medica Group: | +44 (0)33 33 111 222 |
Stuart Quin, Chief Executive Officer | |
Roy Davis, Chairman | |
Investec Bank plc | +44 (0)20 7597 5970 |
Sara Hale Daniel Adams | |
FTI Consulting | +44 (0)20 3727 1000 |
Victoria Foster Mitchell | |
Robert Winder |
About Medica
Medica is the UK market leader in the provision of teleradiology services, providing outsourced interpretation and reporting on MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computerised tomography) and plain film (x-ray) images. The Company currently offers three primary services to hospital radiology departments: NightHawk, an out-of-hours service, routine cross-sectional reporting on MRI and CT scans, and routine plain film reporting on x-ray images.
Medica has developed a bespoke, secure IT platform that provides market-leading linkage between a hospital's radiology information system (RIS) and consultant radiologists who contract with Medica. Direct RIS access ensures that the full wider patient information is available and reviewed with every report.
The Company contracts with the largest pool of consultant radiologists outside of the NHS and has been trusted to provide more than 1.3 million examinations annually across its customer base of more than 100 NHS Trusts and various private hospital groups and diagnostic imaging companies. For more information please visit www.medicagroup.co.uk