Last checked at 17 May 2018 11:45
For immediate release 17 May 2018
Staffline Group plc
('Staffline' or 'the Group')
Result of 2018 Annual General Meeting
The 2018 Annual General Meeting of Staffline, the Recruitment and Employability organisation, was held today, Thursday 17 May 2018. All of the eleven resolutions contained within the Notice of 2018 Annual General Meeting were duly passed. Details of votes cast in favour of the resolutions are as follows:
Voting for the resolutions | |||||
Resolution number | Detail of resolution | Holders Voting | Votes | % of Votes Cast | % of shares in issue * |
1 | 2017 Annual report and accounts | 72 | 18,185,970 | 99.98% | 65.31% |
2 | Directors' remuneration | 66 | 16,325,916 | 89.81% | 58.63% |
3 | Declare final 2017 dividend of 15.7p | 72 | 18,185,970 | 99.98% | 65.31% |
4 | Elect director: Michael Watts | 68 | 18,065,697 | 99.39% | 64.87% |
5 | Re-elect director: Andrew Hogarth | 66 | 18,092,616 | 99.47% | 64.97% |
6 | Re-elect director: John Crabtree | 66 | 17,993,713 | 98.93% | 64.62% |
7 | Re-appoint PwC as auditors | 69 | 18,172,538 | 99.91% | 65.26% |
8 | General authority to allot shares | 72 | 18,185,970 | 99.98% | 65.31% |
9 | Disapplication of pre-emption rights | 65 | 17,837,523 | 98.13% | 64.05% |
10 | Disapplication of pre-emption rights | 65 | 17,806,382 | 97.96% | 63.94% |
11 | Purchase of own shares in the market | 67 | 13,748,600 | 99.91% | 49.37% |
*27,849,389 ordinary 10p shares currently in issue.
For further information, please contact: | |
Staffline Group plc | www.stafflinegroupplc.co.uk |
Chris Pullen, Chief Executive Officer 07786 265344 | |
Michael Watts, Group Chief Financial Officer 07970 215262 | |
investors@staffline.co.uk | |
Liberum NOMAD and Joint Broker | www.liberum.com |
Steve Pearce / Joshua Hughes 020 3100 2222 | |
Berenberg Joint Broker | www.berenberg.com |
Chris Bowman / Toby Flaux 020 3465 2722 | |
Buchanan PR and Communications | www.buchanan.uk.com |
Richard Oldworth / Jamie Hooper / Madeleine Seacombe 020 7466 5000 | |
staffline@buchanan.uk.com
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About Staffline
"Enabling the future of work"
Staffline is a leading workforce recruitment and management organisation providing services, mainly in the UK and Eire, to both Government and commercial customers. The Recruitment division (previously 'Staffing') supplied up to 52,000 workers per day in 2017 to more than 1,500 clients. The PeoplePlus division is a leading provider to both Central and Local Government, as well as commercial customers, offering a wide range of services to help and support in the Employability (Welfare to Work), Justice, Communities and Skills arenas.
Recruitment
Specialising in providing complete labour solutions in agriculture, food processing, manufacturing, e-retail, driving and the logistics sectors, the Recruitment business operates from over 400 locations in the UK, Eire and Poland. The Recruitment services include:
· Staffline OnSite, based on clients' premises and providing both blue and white collar, managed, temporary workforces
· Driving Plus, providing HGV drivers to the driving industry
· Staffline Agriculture, providing workers to the UK farming and horticulture sectors
· Staffline Express, our high street branch based operation
· Brightwork, a recruitment business based in Scotland specialising in temporary and permanent jobs to the drinks industry
· Diamond Recruitment, one of the largest providers of recruitment services in Northern Ireland
PeoplePlus
A trusted partner in delivering skills, employability and well-being services. Contracts span Central, Local and Devolved Government and the Private Sector, including:
Employability:
· Work Programme, prime contractor in nine regions and sub-contractor in three regions in England and Wales
· Fair Start Scotland, prime contractor in two regions commencing April 2018
· New Enterprise Allowance (business start-up support), prime contractor in three regions of England and Scotland and a sub-contractor in Wales
· Steps to Success, prime contractor in Northern Ireland, an employment programme to build skills
· Tackling Youth Unemployment through the MyGo service in Suffolk, the Youth Promise Plus in Birmingham and the Wirral Youth Employment Gateway
· Building Employment through Education, working in Schools in Northern Ireland
Education and Training services:
· Prime contractor to the Education and Skills Funding Agency, Welsh Government and Skills Development Scotland, providing Adult Education and Apprenticeships
· Delivering Apprenticeships programmes for the Private Sector, via the Apprenticeship Levy and non-levy programmes
Justice and Community services:
· Ministry of Justice, Transforming Rehabilitation in Warwickshire and West Mercia, delivering rehabilitation services
· Delivery of education and training to prisoners in ten prisons in the East of England and London
· Independent Living Services, supporting 3,500 disabled people lead independent lives
· Access To Work, providing adaptation in the work place for people with disabilities - national contract.
· Support for the users of Prison Visitor Centres for the Northern Ireland Prison Service
· Carers Hubs in Stoke and Staffordshire