26 Jun 2014 17:11
26 June 2014
STOBART GROUP LIMITED
Result of AGM
Stobart, the infrastructure and support services group, announces that at its Annual General Meeting held at 11.30 a.m. today, each of the resolutions submitted to the meeting (as set out in the Notice of Meeting) was proposed and passed by the appropriate majority.
The votes received were as follows
| Votes in favour | Votes at Chairman's discretion | Votes against | Votes withheld | % in favour incl. Chairman's discretion but excl. withheld votes | |||||
To receive the Company's Annual Accounts and the Directors' Report, Directors' Remuneration Report and the Auditors' Report. | 225,019,628 | 264,673 | 174,919 | 21,638 | 99.80 | |||||
To declare a final dividend of 4p per ordinary share. | 225,011,344 | 259,150 | 209,808 | 556 | 99.80 | |||||
To re-elect Ben Whawell as a Director. | 224,881,480 | 267,850 | 306,876 | 24,652 | 99.74 | |||||
To re-elect Andrew Tinkler as a Director. | 224,865,699 | 250,850 | 336,337 | 27,972 | 99.74 | |||||
To re-elect Iain Ferguson as a Director. | 220,625,296 | 276,196 | 4,549,599 | 29,767 | 97.86 | |||||
To re-elect Andrew Wood as a Director. | 224,797,617 | 276,196 | 383,868 | 23,177 | 99.71 | |||||
To approve appointment of John Garbutt as a Director. | 225,039,512 | 282,050 | 99,686 | 59,610 | 99.83 | |||||
To approve appointment of John Coombs as a Director. | 225,049,308 | 282,050 | 89,890 | 59,610 | 99.83 | |||||
To approve appointment of Richard Butcher as a Director. | 224,820,070 | 290,050 | 319,433 | 51,305 | 99.73 | |||||
To re-appoint KPMG LLP as Auditors of the Company. | 220,666,794 | 252,770 | 4,477,586 | 83,708 | 97.90 | |||||
To authorise the Directors to fix the Auditors' remuneration. | 224,817,851 | 269,770 | 297,422 | 95,815 | 99.75 | |||||
To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report. | 219,252,394 | 273,647 | 5,729,941 | 224,875 | 97.34 | |||||
To approve the Director's Remuneration Policy. | 211,899,974 | 273,699 | 13,206,457 | 100,727 | 94.02 | |||||
To authorise the Directors to issue shares. | 224,984,221 | 280,408 | 153,788 | 62,441 | 99.81 | |||||
To disapply pre-emption rights on the issue of shares in the Company. | 224,439,484 | 322,008 | 603,628 | 115,738 | 99.59 | |||||
To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares | 224,954,230 | 324,755 | 165,789 | 36,084 | 99.79 | |||||
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A copy of all the resolutions passed, other than those concerning ordinary business, has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: http://www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do.
ENDS
ENQUIRIES:
Stobart | +44 020 7851 9090 |
Andrew Tinkler, Chief Executive Officer Ben Whawell, Chief Financial Officer |
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Lansons |
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Tony Langham (tonyl@lansons.com) | +44 20 7294 3617 / +44 7979 692287 |
Anna Schirmer (annas@lansons.com) | +44 20 7294 3605
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Influence Associates | +44 20 7287 9610 |
Stuart Dyble/James Andrew |
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