Last checked at 23 Mar 2016 14:04
23 March 2016
Safestore Holdings plc
("Safestore" or "the Company")
Result of Annual General Meeting
The Directors of Safestore are pleased to report that at the Annual General Meeting, held on 23 March 2016, all resolutions in the Notice of Meeting were put to the meeting and were duly passed on a show of hands. The total number of proxy votes lodged for each resolution in advance of the meeting is set out below.
Resolution | Votes For | % | Votes Against | % | Votes Total | % of ISC Voted | Votes Withheld |
1 | 154,769,870 | 99.94 | 90,000 | 0.06 | 154,859,870 | 74.56% | 392,777 |
2 | 141,900,265 | 97.28 | 3,964,713 | 2.72 | 145,864,978 | 70.23% | 9,387,669 |
3 | 153,356,884 | 98.86 | 1,769,266 | 1.14 | 155,126,150 | 74.69% | 126,497 |
4 | 154,916,833 | 99.87 | 209,317 | 0.13 | 155,126,150 | 74.69% | 126,497 |
5 | 154,920,801 | 100.00 | - | - | 154,920,801 | 74.59% | 331,846 |
6 | 147,304,981 | 98.03 | 2,950,317 | 1.96 | 150,255,118 | 72.35% | 4,997,529 |
7 | 143,159,390 | 95.28 | 7,087,728 | 4.72 | 150,247,118 | 72.34% | 5,005,529 |
8 | 149,145,435 | 99.26 | 1,109,683 | 0.74 | 150,255,118 | 72.35% | 4,997,529 |
9 | 148,958,788 | 99.14 | 1,296,330 | 0.86 | 150,255,118 | 72.35% | 4,997,529 |
10 | 148,410,527 | 98.77 | 1,844,591 | 1.23 | 150,255,118 | 72.35% | 4,997,529 |
11 | 149,971,484 | 99.81 | 283,142 | 0.19 | 150,254,626 | 72.35% | 4,998,021 |
12 | 154,701,314 | 99.72 | 426,804 | 0.28 | 155,128,118 | 74.69% | 124,529 |
13 | 149,096,395 | 96.11 | 6,033,723 | 3.89 | 155,130,118 | 74.69% | 122,529 |
14 | 155,123,650 | 99.92 | 128,997 | 0.08 | 155,252,647 | 74.75% | - |
15 | 155,126,914 | 99.99 | 1,204 | 0.01 | 155,128,118 | 74.69% | 124,529 |
16 | 144,464,753 | 93.13 | 10,663,365 | 6.87 | 155,128,118 | 74.69% | 124,529 |
*ISC = Issued Share Capital of the Company
Resolutions 1 to 13 were passed as ordinary resolutions. Resolutions 14 to 16 were passed as special resolutions.
Where shareholders appointed the Chairman as their proxy with discretion as to voting, their votes were cast in favour of the resolutions and their shares have been included in the "votes for column.
A "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the percentages of votes cast for and against a resolution.
The current issued capital of Safestore Holdings plc is 207,685,949 shares.
Resolution 1 - To receive the Annual Report and Accounts
Resolution 2 - To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report
Resolution 3 - To appoint Deloitte LLP as auditors
Resolution 4 - To authorise the Directors to determine the auditors' remuneration
Resolution 5 - To declare a final dividend of 6.65 pence per ordinary share
Resolution 6 - To re-elect Alan Lewis as a Director
Resolution 7 - To re-elect Keith Edelman as a Director
Resolution 8 - To re-elect Frederic Vecchioli as a Director
Resolution 9 - To re-elect Andy Jones as a Director
Resolution 10 - To re-elect Ian Krieger as a Director
Resolution 11 - To re-elect Joanne Kenrick as a Director
Resolution 12 - To authorise political donations and political expenditure
Resolution 13 - To authorise the directors to allot relevant securities
Resolution 14** - To authorise the dis-application of pre-emption rights
Resolution 15** - To authorise market purchases of ordinary shares
Resolution 16** - To authorise general meetings other than annual general meetings to be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice
** Special Resolutions requiring a 75% majority
In accordance with LR 9.6.2, copies of the resolutions passed as special business have been forwarded to the FCA for publication through the Document Viewing Facility and will be accessible via the National Storage Mechanism website at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM
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For further information, please contact:
Sam Ahmed - Company Secretary | 020 8732 1500 |
About Safestore:
· | Safestore is the UK's largest self-storage group with 119 stores, comprising 95 wholly owned stores in the UK (including 56 in London and the South East with the remainder in key metropolitan areas such as Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Liverpool and Bristol) and 24 wholly owned stores in the Paris region. In addition, Safestore has 12 Space Maker stores under management in the UK.
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· | Safestore operates more self-storage sites inside the M25 and in central Paris than any competitor providing more proximity to customers in the wealthiest and densest UK and French markets.
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· | Safestore was founded in the UK in 1998. It acquired the French business "Une Pièce en Plus" ("UPP") in 2004 which was founded in 1998 by the current Safestore Group CEO Frederic Vecchioli.
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· | Safestore has been listed on the London Stock Exchange since 2007. It entered the FTSE 250 index in October 2015.
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· | The Group provides storage to around 49,000 personal and business customers.
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· | Safestore (excluding Space Maker) has a maximum lettable area ("MLA") of 4.925 million sq ft (excluding the expansion pipeline stores) of which 3.435 million sq ft was occupied at 31 January 2016.
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· | Safestore employs around 525 people in the UK and France. |