13 May 2014 14:58
13 May 2014
Sportech PLC
Result of Annual General Meeting
Sportech PLC ("the Company") confirms that all resolutions proposed at the Annual General Meeting held on Tuesday 13 May 2014 at 10.00 a.m. at the offices of Olswang LLP, 90 High Holborn, London, WC1V 6XX and set out in the Notice of Meeting dated 8 April 2014 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.
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 2013. | 169,400,073 | 99.85 | 252,730 | 499 |
2 | Ordinary Resolution - to approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December 2013. | 156,081,312 | 98.63 | 2,169,645 | 11,402,345 |
3 | Ordinary Resolution - to approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy. | 168,692,832 | 99.43 | 958,752 | 1,718 |
4 | Ordinary Resolution - that Peter Wodehouse Williams, are tiring Director, be re-appointed a Director of the Company. | 163,254,035 | 96.23 | 6,398,820 | 447 |
5 | Ordinary Resolution - that Roger Dean Withers, a retiring Director, be re-appointed a Director of the Company. | 150,623,177 | 95.16 | 7,657,493 | 11,372,632 |
6 | Ordinary Resolution - that Richard C Roberts, appointed by the Directors in the previous twelvemonths, be re-appointed a Director of the Company. | 169,016,655 | 99.62 | 636,200 | 447 |
7 | Ordinary Resolution - that John Clifford Baty, appointed by the Directors in the previous twelve months, be re-appointed a Director of the Company. | 169,625,519 | 99.98 | 27,336 | 447 |
8 | Ordinary Resolution - to re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors and to authorise the Directors to fix their remuneration. | 150,911,630 | 89.79 | 17,164,302 | 1,577,370 |
9 | Ordinary Resolution - to authorise the Directors to allot shares. | 169,622,835 | 99.99 | 24,489 | 5,978 |
10 | Special Resolution - to disapply pre-emption rights in respect of the Directors' authority granted in Resolution 9. | 169,621,582 | 99.98 | 30,042 | 1,678 |
11 | Special Resolution - to grant the Directors authority to make limited market purchases of the Company's Ordinary Shares. | 169,628,081 | 99.99 | 19,373 | 5,848 |
12 | 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. | 169,005,335 | 99.62 | 642,535 | 5,432 |
A copy of the resolutions passed as Special Business at the Annual General Meeting is being submitted to the UK Listing Authority and will shortly be available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism document viewing facility at:
http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm.
The proxy figures for the resolutions will also be displayed on the Company's corporate website, www.sportechplc.com.
-Ends-
Luisa Wright, Company Secretary Tel: 020 7268 2400
Sportech PLC
Brunswick Group LLP Tel: 020 7404 5959
Mike Smith, Tom Williams