14 May 2013 14:54
14 May 2013
Sportech PLC
Result of Annual General Meeting and General Meeting
Sportech PLC ("the Company") confirms that all resolutions proposed at the Annual General Meeting and General Meeting held on Tuesday 14 May 2013 at 10.00am at Olswang, 90 High Holborn, London, WC1V 6XX and set out in the Notice of Meeting dated 11 April 2013 were duly passed on a show of hands.
The final proxy voting position is shown below. Any proxy votes which are at the discretion of the Chairman have been included in the "In Favour" total.
Annual General Meeting Resolutions
In Favour | Against | Withheld | |||
Resolutions | Number |
% |
Number |
Number | |
1 | Ordinary Resolution - to receive and adopt the Directors' Report, Auditors' Report and the accounts for the year ended 31 December 2012. | 175,516,248 | 99.99 | 18,903 | 0 |
2 | Ordinary Resolution - to approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December 2012. | 175,499,484 | 99.98 | 35,193 | 474 |
3 | Ordinary Resolution - that Lorne Weil, a retiring Director, be re-appointed a Director of the Company. | 165,279,284 | 99.69 | 515,082 | 9,740,785 |
4 | Ordinary Resolution - that Ian Hogg, a retiring Director, be re-appointed a Director of the Company. | 175,513,587 | 99.99 | 21,564 | 0 |
5 | Ordinary Resolution - to re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors and to authorise the Directors to fix their remuneration. | 172,877,857 | 99.78 | 387,161 | 2,270,133 |
6 | Ordinary Resolution - to authorise the Directors to allot shares. | 175,501,975 | 99.99 | 18,194 | 14,982 |
7 | Special Resolution - to disapply pre-emption rights in respect of the Directors' authority granted in Resolution 6. | 175,512,447 | 99.99 | 18,293 | 4,411 |
8 | Special Resolution - to grant the Directors authority to make limited market purchases of the Company's Ordinary Shares. | 175,523,361 | 99.99 | 11,675 | 115 |
9 | Ordinary Resolution - to authorise the Directors to adopt the UK Sharesave Scheme and the International Sharesave Scheme. | 175,512,653 | 99.99 | 21,967 | 531 |
10 | Ordinary Resolution - to authorise the Directors to adopt the US Sharesave Scheme. | 175,504,371 | 99.98 | 29,553 | 1,227 |
11 | Special resolution - to grant the Company power to call a General Meeting other than an Annual General Meeting on not less than 14 days' clear notice. | 175,156,283 | 99.79 | 375,628 | 3,240 |
General Meeting Resolution
In Favour | Against | Withheld | |||
Resolution | Number |
% |
Number |
Number | |
1 | Special resolution - to adopt the new Articles of Association of the Company in substitution for the Company's existing Articles of Association. | 173,955,769 | 99.23 | 1,353,953 | 833 |
The Company has submitted copies of the resolutions passed at the meeting (other than resolutions concerning ordinary business) to the UK Listing Authority and these documents will be available shortly for inspection at the UK Listing Authority's Document Viewing Facility which is situated at:
Financial Services Authority
25 The North ColonnadeCanary WharfLondon
E14 5HS
Tel. No. 020 7676 1000
The proxy figures for the resolutions will also be displayed on the Company's corporate website, www.sportechplc.com.
Bob Mercer, Company Secretary (Alternate) Tel: 020 7268 2400
Sportech PLC
Brunswick Group LLP Tel: 020 7404 5959
Mike Smith, Tom Williams, Arif Shah