15 Nov 2016 16:09
A & J MUCKLOW GROUP PLC - ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2016
RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Following the Annual General Meeting of the Company, which was held earlier today, the Board is pleased to announce that all the resolutions proposed at the meeting were passed on a show of hands.
The total number of shares in respect of which proxy appointments were validly made for the meeting is 44,510,024. A summary of the proxy votes validly received prior to the meeting on each resolution is set out below, and is also available on the Company's website, www.mucklow.com.
Resolution | Total proxy votes validly cast
| Votes for (2) | Votes against | Votes withheld (3) | |
Number | % of issued ordinary share capital (1) | ||||
1. To receive the financial statements and the directors' report, strategic report and auditor's report. | 44,510,024 | 70.3 | 44,510,024 | 0 | 0 |
2. To approve the Board Report on Directors' Remuneration (excluding the Directors' Remuneration Policy). | 44,487,018 | 70.3 | 44,264,188 | 222,830 | 23,006 |
3. To declare a final dividend of 6.88p. | 44,510,024 | 70.3 | 44,510,024 | 0 | 0 |
4. To re-appoint David Ian Wooldridge as a director. | 44,501,324 | 70.3 | 44,500,239 | 1,085 | 8,700 |
5. To appoint Ian Charles Cornock as a director. | 44,498,324 | 70.3 | 44,492,451 | 5,873 | 11,700 |
6. To appoint Peter James Norman Hartill as a director. | 44,494,118 | 70.3 | 44,488,245 | 5,873 | 15,906 |
7. To reappoint KPMG LLP as auditor. | 44,504,255 | 70.3 | 44,501,939 | 2,316 | 5,769 |
8. To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the auditor's remuneration. | 44,508,955 | 70.3 | 44,502,139 | 6,816 | 1,069 |
9. To authorise the directors to allot new shares. | 44,505,024 | 70.3 | 44,484,017 | 21,007 | 5,000 |
10. To disapply statutory pre-emption rights on the issue of new shares for cash up to an aggregate nominal amount of £791,185.00. | 44,491,662 | 70.3 | 44,453,861 | 37,801 | 18,362 |
11. To retain a 14 clear days notice period for general meetings other than AGMs. | 44,499,410 | 70.3 | 40,906,231 | 3,593,179 | 10,614 |
Notes:
(1) The number of ordinary shares in issue at 11.30 a.m. on 13 November 2016 was 63,294,833.
(2) Votes "for" include those votes giving the Chairman discretion.
(3) A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes for or against a resolution.
The full text of all of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual General Meeting which is available for viewing at the National Storage Mechanism (which can be located at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM) and at the Company's website, www.mucklow.com.
A copy of those resolutions passed at the meeting as special business (being resolutions numbered 9 to 11 above) has also been submitted to the Financial Conduct Authority via the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.
15 November 2016
For further information, please contact:
David Wooldridge
Finance Director and Company Secretary
A & J Mucklow Group plc
Tel 0121 550 1841