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23 MAY 2014
ROBERT WALTERS PLC (THE "COMPANY")
Result of 2014 Annual General Meeting
The Board announces that the Annual General Meeting of the Company was held this morning. All resolutions as set out in the Notice of Meeting dated 15 April 2014 were duly passed on a show of hands.
For information, the results of the proxy voting are given below:
RESOLUTION | FOR | % | DISCRETION | % | AGAINST | % | WITHHELD
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1. To receive and adopt the Accounts of the Company for the year ended 31 December 2013. | 63,887,365 | 99.99 | 5,000 | 0.01 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 |
2. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December 2013 (other than the part containing the Directors' Remuneration Policy). | 51,099,697 | 87.74 | 6,000 | 0.01 | 7,131,942 | 12.25 | 5,654,726 |
3. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy contained in the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December 2013. | 59,842,357 | 93.66 | 6,000 | 0.01 | 4,044,008 | 6.33 | 0 |
4. To declare a final dividend of 3.86p per ordinary share. | 63,877,790 | 99.99 | 5,000 | 0.01 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 |
5. To re-elect Alan Bannatyne as a Director. | 63,886,965 | 99.98 | 5,000 | 0.01 | 400 | 0.01 | 0 |
6. To re-elect Carol Hui as a Director. | 63,863,055 | 99.98 | 5,000 | 0.01 | 400 | 0.01 | 14,335 |
7. To re-elect Andrew Kemp as a Director. | 63,375,330 | 99.20 | 5,000 | 0.01 | 502,460 | 0.79 | 0 |
8. To re-elect Leslie Van de Walle as a Director. | 63,877,190 | 99.98 | 5,000 | 0.01 | 600 | 0.01 | 0 |
9. To re-elect Giles Daubeney as a Director. | 63,886,689 | 99.98 | 5,000 | 0.01 | 676 | 0.01 | 0 |
10. To re-elect Brian McArthur-Muscroft as a Director. | 63,877,114 | 99.98 | 5,000 | 0.01 | 676 | 0.01 | 0 |
11. To re-elect Robert Walters as a Director. | 63,808,298 | 99.87 | 5,000 | 0.01 | 79,067 | 0.12 | 0 |
12. To re-appoint Deloitte LLP as Auditor and authorise the Directors to fix their remuneration. | 63,280,832 | 99.98 | 5,000 | 0.01 | 400 | 0.01 | 596,558 |
13. To authorise the Directors to allot shares pursuant to section 551 Companies Act 2006. | 63,877,390 | 99.98 | 5,000 | 0.01 | 400 | 0.01 | 0 |
14. To disapply section 561 Companies Act 2006. | 63,876,104 | 99.98 | 5,000 | 0.01 | 1,686 | 0.01 | 0 |
15. To authorise the Company to make purchases of its own shares. | 63,876,567 | 99.98 | 5,000 | 0.01 | 1,223 | 0.01 | 0 |
16. To call general meetings other than annual general meetings of the Company on not less than 14 clear days' notice. | 63,082,105 | 98.74 | 5,000 | 0.01 | 795,685 | 1.25 | 0 |
17. To adopt the Robert Walters plc Performance Share Plan | 54,192,465 | 93.05 | 5,000 | 0.01 | 4,040,174 | 6.94 | 5,654,726 |
At the date of the meeting, there were 85,959,729 ordinary shares in issue.
A vote withheld is not a vote at law and has not been counted in the votes for and against.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, a copy of all resolutions passed other than resolutions concerning ordinary business will shortly be submitted to the UK Listing Authority via the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.
Enquiries:
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Fergus Wylie
James Benjamin