4 Jun 2025 15:03
S4Capital plc
("S4Capital"Β or "the Company")
Results of 2025 Annual General Meeting
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S4Capital plc (SFOR.L), announces that following its Annual General Meeting ("AGM") held at 15 Bonhill Street, London EC2A 4DN and virtually on 4 June 2025 at midday, all the proposed resolutions were duly passed by shareowners by way of a poll. Resolutions 1 to 17 were passed as ordinary resolutions. Resolutions 18 to 22 were passed as special resolutions.
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The total number of votes cast on the poll for each resolution (the full text of the resolutions is detailed in the Notice of AGM dated 8 May 2025) is set out below.
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Resolution | Votes For | % of votes cast | Votes Against | % of votes cast | Total Cast | Withheld |
1. To receive the 2024 annual report and accounts | 277,887,831 | 99.97% | 80,857 | 0.03% | 277,968,688 | 74,572 |
2. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report | 268,735,303 | 96.69% | 9,203,870 | 3.31% | 277,939,173 | 103,345 |
3. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy | 253,476,103 | 91.20% | 24,446,786 | 8.80% | 277,922,889 | 119,629 |
4. To declare a final dividend of 1 pence per share | 277,067,227 | 99.66% | 956,557 | 0.34% | 278,023,784 | 19,476 |
5. To re-elect Sir Martin Sorrell as a Director | 266,176,600 | 98.23% | 4,804,756 | 1.77% | 270,981,356 | 7,046,904 |
6. To re-elect Elizabeth Buchanan as a Director | 234,037,345 | 84.24% | 43,780,157 | 15.76% | 277,817,502 | 225,758 |
7. To re-elect Margaret Ma Connolly as a Director | 272,148,651 | 97.96% | 5,668,851 | 2.04% | 277,817,502 | 225,758 |
8. To re-elect Colin Day as a Director | 274,760,534 | 98.90% | 3,056,968 | 1.10% | 277,817,502 | 225,758 |
9. To re-elect Daniel Pinto as a Director | 246,025,191 | 88.56% | 31,782,311 | 11.44% | 277,807,502 | 235,758 |
10. To re-elect Susan Prevezer as a Director | 272,950,755 | 98.25% | 4,856,747 | 1.75% | 277,807,502 | 235,758 |
11. To elect Radhika Radhakrishnan as a Director | 275,830,719 | 99.22% | 2,163,717 | 0.78% | 277,994,436 | 48,824 |
12. To elect Nirvik Singh as a Director | 275,284,038 | 99.18% | 2,278,639 | 0.82% | 277,562,677 | 230,583 |
13. To re-elect Rupert Faure Walker as a Director | 274,362,540 | 98.89% | 3,093,335 | 1.11% | 277,455,875 | 337,385 |
14. To re-elect Peter Miles Young as a Director | 271,865,498 | 97.97% | 5,639,778 | 2.03% | 277,505,276 | 287,984 |
15. To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors | 276,773,032 | 99.83% | 465,515 | 0.17% | 277,238,547 | 554,713 |
16.To authorise the Directors to fix the remuneration of the auditors | 277,403,150 | 99.87% | 363,171 | 0.13% | 277,766,321 | 26,197 |
17. To authorise the Directors generally to allot ordinary shares | 272,910,099 | 98.26% | 4,819,437 | 1.74% | 277,729,536 | 62,982 |
18.To authorise the disapplication of pre-emption rights generally | 275,438,748 | 99.29% | 1,968,577 | 0.71% | 277,407,325 | 385,193 |
19. To authorise the disapplication of pre-emption rights in connection with a specified acquisition or capital investment | 273,128,190 | 98.35% | 4,585,463 | 1.65% | 277,713,653 | 78,865 |
20. To authorise the disapplication of pre-emption rights to facilitate pro-rata offers to overseas shareowners | 274,321,088 | 98.78% | 3,396,726 | 1.22% | 277,717,814 | 74,704 |
21. To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares | 276,108,853 | 99.40% | 1,662,537 | 0.60% | 277,771,390 | 21,128 |
22. To enable the Company to call general meetings, other than an Annual General Meeting, on reduced notice | 272,966,622 | 98.31% | 4,704,058 | 1.69% | 277,670,680 | 122,580 |
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Notes:
(1) The "for" votes include those giving the Chairman discretion.
(2) Total votes "for" and "against" are expressed as a percentage of the total votes cast.
(3) A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes "for" or "against" a resolution.
(4) Total Voting Rights:Β 613,636,656 ordinary shares.
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The above poll results will shortly be available on the website. In accordance with UK Listing Rule 22.2.6 a copy of the resolutions, other than those concerning ordinary business of the Company, will be submitted to the FCA and will in due course be available for inspection at:Β https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
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Enquiries
S4Capital plc
Tel: +44 (0)20 3793 0003
Sir Martin Sorrell, Executive Chairman
Sodali & Co (PR Advisor)
Tel: +44 (0)7970 246 725
Elly Williamson/ Pete LambieΒ
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About S4Capital
Our strategy is to build a purely digital advertising and marketing services business for global, multinational, regional, and local clients, and millennial-driven influencer brands. This will be achieved by integrating leading businesses in two synchronised Practices: Marketing Services and Technology Services, along with an emphasis on 'faster, better, cheaper, more' execution in an always-on consumer-led environment, with a unitary structure.
The Company now has approximately 7,000 people in 33 countries with approximately 80% of net revenue across the Americas, 15% across Europe, the Middle East and Africa and 5% across Asia-Pacific. The longer-term objective is a geographic split of 60%:20%:20%. Marketing Services accounted for approximately 90% of net revenue, and Technology Services 10%. The longer term objective is a practice split of 75%:25%.
Sir Martin was CEO of WPP for 33 years, building it from a Β£1 million 'shell' company in 1985 into the world's largest advertising and marketing services company, with a market capitalisation of over Β£16 billion on the day he left. Prior to that Sir Martin was Group Financial Director of Saatchi & Saatchi Company Plc for nine years.
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