Last checked at 13 Jun 2012 17:45
Severfield-Rowen plc
Results of Annual General Meeting
At the Company's Annual General Meeting at 12 noon today, 13 June 2012, all of the resolutions were passed on a show of hands.
Copies of all the resolutions passed have been submitted to the UK Listing Authority via the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for review at http://www.hemscott.com/nsm.do.
A summary of Proxies received in respect of each resolution is set out below (a "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes for and against the resolution):
In Favour | Against | Total | Withheld | |||
Resolution | No of votes | % of votes | No of votes | % of votes | No of votes | No of votes |
1. To receive and adopt the Directors' Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2011 together with the Auditors' Report
| 64,158,634 | 99.2% | 532,995 | 0.8% | 64,691,629 | 5,311
|
2. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December 2011
| 50,114,215 | 82.9% | 10,343,566 | 17.1% | 60,457,781 | 4,239,159 |
3. To declare a final dividend of 3.5p per share in respect of the year ended 31 December 2011
| 64,694,440 | 100.0% | - | - | 64,694,440 | - |
4. To re-elect P A Emerson as a Director
| 64,615,893 | 99.9% | 76,106 | 0.1% | 64,691,999 | 4,941 |
5. To re-elect T J L Hayward as a Director
| 50,708,631 | 84.5% | 9,330,168 | 15.5% | 60,038,799 | 4,658,141 |
6. To re-elect N C Holt as a Director
| 64,561,537 | 99.8% | 126,262 | 0.2% | 64,687,799 | 8,141 |
7. To reappoint Deloitte LLP as auditors of the Company to hold office until the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company in 2013
| 64,562,881 | 99.8% | 130,451 | 0.2% | 64,693,332 | 3,608 |
8. To authorise the Directors to determine the auditors' remuneration
| 64,572,960 | 99.8% | 123,169 | 0.2% | 64,696,129 | 811 |
9. To authorise the Directors to allot securities pursuant to section 551 of the Companies Act 2006
| 61,621,262 | 97.1% | 1,809,091 | 2.9% | 63,430,353 | 1,266,587 |
10. To authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights pursuant to section 561 of the Companies Act 2006
| 64,599,001 | 99.9% | 37,445 | 0.1% | 64,636,446 | 60,494 |
11. To authorise the Company to make market purchases pursuant to section 701 of the Companies Act 2006
| 64,586,391 | 99.8% | 100,177 | 0.2% | 64,686,568 | 10,372 |
12. That a general meeting of the Company (other than an annual general meeting) may be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice | 63,860,890 | 98.7% | 836,050 | 1.3% | 64,696,940 | - |
For further information, please contact:
Severfield-Rowen Plc | John Dodds Chairman Tom Haughey Chief Executive Officer Alan Dunsmore Finance Director
| 01845 577896
01845 577896
01845 577896
|
Jefferies Hoare Govett | Simon Hardy Harry Nicholas
| 020 7029 8000 020 7029 8000 |
Pelham Bell Pottinger | Archie Berens Zoe Sanders Guy Scarborough | 020 7861 3112 020 7861 3887 020 7861 3870 |