Last checked at 21 May 2019 14:17
21 May 2019
NAHL Group PLC
("NAHL" or the "Group")
Result of Annual General Meeting
NAHL, the leading UK marketing and services business focused on the UK consumer legal market, confirms that at the Company's Annual General Meeting held at 10am on 21 May 2019, all of the resolutions were duly passed on a show of hands. The Board was pleased with the support from shareholders for the resolutions.
The full text of each resolution was included in the Company's Notice of the Annual General Meeting posted to shareholders on 24 April 2019 and made available on the Company's website www.nahlgroupplc.co.uk.
Amongst other matters, shareholders approved the final dividend payment of 5.7 pence per share. This will be paid on 31 May 2019 to all shareholders who were on the register on 26 April 2019.
The following table shows the levels of proxies received.
Resolution | Total votes cast | For | Against | Withheld | |||
Number | % | Number | % | ||||
Ordinary resolutions | |||||||
1 | To receive the Annual Report and Accounts | 24,153,266 | 24,153,266 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 |
2 | To approve the directors' remuneration report | 24,153,266 | 23,510,797 | 97.34 | 642,469 | 2.66 | 0 |
3 | To declare a final dividend of 5.7 pence per ordinary share | 24,153,266 | 24,153,266 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 |
4 | To appoint Caroline Brown as a Director of the Company | 24,153,266 | 24,153,266 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 |
5 | To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditor of the Company | 24,153,266 | 24,152,646 | 99.99 | 620 | 0.01 | 0 |
6 | To authorise the Directors to determine the auditors' Remuneration | 24,153,266 | 24,152,966 | 99.99 | 300 | 0.01 | 0 |
7 | Authority for Directors to allot shares | 24,153,266 | 24,149,468 | 99.98 | 3,798 | 0.02 | 0 |
Special resolutions | |||||||
8 | General authority to disapply pre-emption rights | 24,153,266 | 22,764,029 | 94.25 | 1,389,237 | 5.75 | 0 |
9 | Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights | 24,153,266 | 24,136,653 | 99.93 | 16,613 | 0.07 | 0 |
10 | Authority to purchase own shares | 24,153,266 | 24,150,254 | 99.99 | 3,012 | 0.01 | 0 |
For further information please call:
NAHL Group plc Russell Atkinson (CEO) James Saralis (CFO)
| via FTI Consulting Tel: +44 (0) 20 3727 1000 |
finnCap Ltd (NOMAD & Broker) Julian Blunt / James Thompson (Corporate Finance) Andrew Burdis (Corporate Broking)
| Tel: +44 (0) 20 7220 0500 |
FTI Consulting (Financial PR) Alex Beagley James Styles Laura Saraby
| Tel: +44 (0) 20 3727 1000 |
Notes to Editors
NAHL Group plc (AIM: NAH) is a leader in the Consumer Legal Services ("CLS") market. The Group provides services and products to individuals and businesses in the CLS market through its three divisions:
· Personal Injury provides outsourced marketing services to law firms through National Accident Helpline and claims processing services to individuals through Your Law, National Law Partners and National Accident Law.
· Critical Care provides a range of specialist services in the catastrophic and serious injury market to both claimants and defendants through Bush and Company Rehabilitation.
· Residential Property provides marketing services to law firms and conveyancers as well as surveys to individuals through Fitzalan Partners. It also provides property searches through Searches UK.
More information is available at www.nahlgroupplc.co.uk