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RNS Number : 6353V
Ricardo plc
29 October 2014
RICARDO PLC
RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Ricardo plc announces that all resolutions proposed at its Annual General Meeting held earlier today were duly passed on a show of hands.
Details of the proxy voting instructions, lodged prior to the meeting, are set out below:
Resolution | For | % | Discretion | % | Against | % | Withheld | |
1 | To receive and adopt the 2014 Report and Accounts | 39,236,019 | 99.98 | 1,735 | 0.01 | 2,187 | 0.01 | 76,622 |
2 | To declare a final dividend | 39,312,641 | 99.99 | 3922 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
3 | To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors | 38,682,460 | 99.97 | 1,735 | 0.01 | 5,941 | 0.02 | 626,427 |
4 | To authorise the Audit Committee to fix the auditors' remuneration | 39,090,874 | 99.98 | 2,754 | 0.01 | 760 | 0.01 | 222,175 |
5 | To elect Terry Morgan as a director | 39,310,895 | 99.98 | 2,754 | 0.01 | 1,748 | 0.01 | 1,166 |
6 | To re-elect Ian Gibson as a director | 39,224,914 | 99.77 | 2,754 | 0.01 | 85,542 | 0.22 | 3,353 |
7 | To re-elect Ian Lee as a director | 39,306,577 | 99.97 | 2,754 | 0.01 | 6,066 | 0.02 | 1,166 |
8 | To re-elect David Hall as a director | 39,090,867 | 99.43 | 2,754 | 0.01 | 221,776 | 0.56 | 1,166 |
9 | To re-elect Hans Joachim Schöpf as a director | 39,303,920 | 99.97 | 2,754 | 0.01 | 7,723 | 0.02 | 2,166 |
10 | To re-elect Dave Shemmans as a director | 38,211,523 | 97.19 | 2,754 | 0.01 | 1,100,532 | 2.80 | 1,754 |
11 | To re-elect Peter Gilchrest as a director | 39,305,832 | 99.98 | 2,754 | 0.01 | 5,811 | 0.01 | 2,166 |
12 | To re-elect Mark Garrett as a director | 39,226,677 | 99.77 | 2,754 | 0.01 | 85,378 | 0.22 | 1,1754 |
13 | To approve the directors' remuneration report | 39,033,074 | 99.30 | 5,122 | 0.01 | 270,000 | 0.69 | 8,367 |
14 | To approve the directors' remuneration policy | 38,631,436 | 98.30 | 2,935 | 0.01 | 663,779 | 1.69 | 18,413 |
15 | To approve the rules of the 2014 LTIP | 38,860,121 | 98.86 | 3,922 | 0.01 | 443,335 | 1.13 | 9,185 |
16 | To approve the rules of the 2014 ESOP | 37,280,980 | 96.20 | 1,735 | 0.01 | 1,468,481 | 3.79 | 565,367 |
17 | To authorise the directors to allot shares | 39,292,112 | 99.94 | 1,735 | 0.01 | 20,235 | 0.05 | 2,481 |
18 | To dis-apply pre-emption rights | 39,288,017 | 99.63 | 1,735 | 0.01 | 24,711 | 0.06 | 2,100 |
19 | To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares | 39,302,594 | 99.96 | 1,735 | 0.01 | 11,307 | 0.03 | 927 |
20 | To call general meetings on not less than 14 clear days' notice | 38,731,204 | 98.51 | 1,735 | 0.01 | 581,437 | 1.48 | 2,187 |
21 | To amend the Articles of Association | 38,867,055 | 98.90 | 1,735 | 0.01 | 429,710 | 1.09 | 18,063 |
An abstention is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of proportion of votes "For" or "Against" a resolution.
The total number of ordinary shares in issue as at 27 October 2014 was 52,279,953 of these 39,320,244 including abstentions (75.21%) were voted.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2R, a copy of the resolutions, other than those concerning ordinary business, passed by the Company at the AGM held on 29 October 2014, has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.
For further information contact:
The Company Secretary, Patricia Ryan 01273 794776