Last checked at 11 Sep 2019 10:42
For immediate release 11 September 2019
Staffline Group plc
('Staffline' or 'the Group')
Result of 2019 Annual General Meeting
The 2019 Annual General Meeting of Staffline, the Recruitment and Training group, was held today, Wednesday 11 September 2019. All of the thirteen resolutions contained within the Notice of 2019 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 | 2018 Annual report and accounts | 37 | 52,103,544 | 96.09 | 75.59% |
2 | Directors' remuneration report | 39 | 54,219,097 | 99.99 | 78.66% |
3 | Re-elect director: Ed Barker | 34 | 46,155,489 | 85.12 | 66.96% |
4 | Re-elect director: John Crabtree | 39 | 54,190,060 | 99.94 | 78.62% |
5 | Re-elect director: Tracy Lewis | 39 | 54,190,060 | 99.94 | 78.62% |
6 | Re-elect director: Christopher Pullen | 39 | 50,697,848 | 93.50 | 73.55% |
7 | Elect director: Dawn Ward | 40 | 54,190,091 | 99.99 | 78.62% |
8 | Re-elect director: Michael Watts | 37 | 54,218,855 | 99.99 | 78.66% |
9 | General authority to allot shares | 38 | 54,220,602 | 99.99 | 78.66% |
10** | Disapplication of pre-emption rights | 38 | 54,189,231 | 99.94 | 78.61% |
11** | Disapplication of pre-emption rights | 38 | 54,160,523 | 99.88 | 78.57% |
12** | Purchase of own shares in the market | 36 | 45,395,850 | 99.99 | 65.86% |
13** | Amendment of Articles of Association | 38 | 54,191,179 | 99.99 | 78.62% |
*68,930,486 ordinary 10p shares currently in issue.
** Special resolutions
For further information, please contact: | |
Staffline Group plc www.stafflinegroupplc.co.uk Chris Pullen, Chief Executive Officer Michael Watts, Chief Financial Officer | via Vigo Communications |
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 3207 7800
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Vigo Communications Financial PR www.vigocomms.com Jeremy Garcia / Antonia Pollock / Charlie Neish | 020 7390 0230 staffline@vigocomms.com
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Note for Editors
About Staffline - Recruitment, Training and Support
Enabling the Future of Work™
Staffline is the UK's market leading Recruitment and Training group. It has two divisions:
Recruitment Division
Staffline is the UK's leading provider of flexible blue-collar workers, supplying over 60,000 staff per day to c. 1,600 private sector clients, across a wide range of industries including agriculture, drinks, driving, food processing, logistics and manufacturing. It operates from over c460 locations in UK, Republic of Ireland and Poland. Its world leading Customer Experience platform provides optimised customer-based staffing management solutions whilst providing market-leading levels of job satisfaction for workers.
PeoplePlus Division
Staffline is the leading adult skills and training provider in the UK, delivering apprenticeships, adult education, prison education and skills-based employability programmes across the country.
Skills and Training - market leading provider of Apprenticeships (both Levy and non-Levy), learning and development, adult education and health and well-being programmes to the Private and Public sector.
Justice and Community - largest independent provider of education and training services for prisoners and ex-offenders, as well as individual support services for carers and people with disabilities, both at home and in the work place.
Employability - market leading provider of programmes providing back-to-work education, skills support services to the unemployed and enterprise advice to individuals wanting to start their own business.