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Ricardo plc
14 November 2013
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 2013 Report and Accounts | 37,616,721 | 97.72 | 10,188 | 0.03 | 866,414 | 2.25 | 419,442 |
2 | To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report | 38,846,119 | 99.84 | 10,188 | 0.03 | 52,365 | 0.13 | 4,093 |
3 | To declare a final dividend | 38,902,577 | 99.97 | 10,188 | 0.03 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
4 | To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors | 38,442,458 | 99.91 | 6,908 | 0.02 | 26,258 | 0.07 | 437,141 |
5 | To authorise the Audit Committee to fix the auditors' remuneration | 38,858,974 | 99.86 | 6,908 | 0.02 | 46,515 | 0.12 | 368 |
6 | To elect Ian Gibson as a director | 38,877,487 | 99.91 | 10,188 | 0.03 | 22,026 | 0.06 | 3,064 |
7 | To re-elect Michael Harper as a director | 38,890,468 | 99.95 | 10,188 | 0.03 | 9,045 | 0.02 | 3,064 |
8 | To re-elect Ian Lee as a director | 38,890,272 | 99.95 | 10,188 | 0.03 | 9,336 | 0.02 | 2,969 |
9 | To re-elect David Hall as a director | 38,890,017 | 99.95 | 10,188 | 0.03 | 9,591 | 0.02 | 2,969 |
10 | To re-elect Hans Joachim Schὅpf as a director | 38,880,017 | 99.92 | 10,188 | 0.03 | 17,738 | 0.05 | 4,822 |
11 | To re-elect Dave Shemmans as a director | 37,803,777 | 97.15 | 10,188 | 0.03 | 1,096,331 | 2.82 | 2,469 |
12 | To re-elect Peter Gilchrist as a director | 38,889,742 | 99.94 | 10,188 | 0.03 | 9,866 | 0.03 | 2,969 |
13 | To re-elect Mark Garrett as a director | 38,873,876 | 99.91 | 11,188 | 0.03 | 24,637 | 0.06 | 3,064 |
14 | To authorise the Company and its subsidiaries to make political donations | 37,525,909 | 97.52 | 11,988 | 0.03 | 940,947 | 2.45 | 433,921 |
15 | To authorise the directors to allot shares | 38,879,878 | 99.94 | 12,138 | 0.03 | 11,460 | 0.03 | 9,289 |
16 | To disapply pre-emption rights | 38,862,127 | 99.89 | 10,188 | 0.03 | 32,325 | 0.08 | 8,125 |
17 | To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares | 38,865,700 | 99.94 | 10,188 | 0.03 | 10,740 | 0.03 | 26,137 |
18 | To call general meetings on not less than 14 clear days' notice | 38,082,007 | 97.87 | 10,188 | 0.03 | 815,182 | 2.10 | 5,387 |
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 12 November 2013 was 52,266,500 of these 38,912,415 including abstentions (74.5%) 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 14 November 2013, 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