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31 July 2018
VOLEX PLC
Voting Results of 2018 Annual General Meeting ("AGM")
Volex plc (the "Company"), one of the world's largest power cord and harness assemblers, announces the results of its AGM held today. All resolutions were duly passed on a poll. The proxy votes were cast as follows:
Resolution | Votes For | Votes Against | Votes Withheld* | |||
Resolution 1 - To receive the Reports of the Directors and the Auditors and the Accounts for the year ended 1 April 2018.
| 102,506,094 | 15,040 | 61 | |||
Resolution 2 - To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report.
| 102,475,694 | 42,098 | 3,403 |
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Resolution 3 - To elect Daren Morris as a Director.
| 102,496,520 | 23,646 | 1,029 |
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Resolution 4 - To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the auditors of the Company.
| 102,494,383 | 25,393 | 1,419 |
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Resolution 5 - To authorise the Directors of the Company to determine the auditors' remuneration.
| 102,504,210 | 16,924 | 61 |
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Resolution 6 - To authorise the Directors to allot shares in the Company pursuant to section 551 of the Companies Act 2006.
| 102,491,966 | 23,885 | 5,344 |
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Resolution 7 - To authorise the Directors to allot equity securities pursuant to sections 560, 561(1) and 570 of the Companies Act 2006.
| 102,486,933 | 30,104 | 4,158 |
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Resolution 8 - To approve the purchase of ordinary shares pursuant to section 701 of the Companies Act 2006.
| 102,502,609 | 11,403 | 7,183 |
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Resolution 9 - To permit general meetings (other than the Annual General Meeting) to be called on 14 clear days' notice.
| 102,499,787 | 16,715 | 4,693 |
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* A vote withheld is not treated as a vote in law and would not be counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes cast for or against a resolution.
A copy of this announcement setting out the poll results for the AGM is also available on the Company's website at www.volex.com.
The full text of each of the resolutions is set out in the notice of AGM, copies of which are available on the Volex website (www.volex.com).
Neither the content of the Company's website nor the content of any website accessible from hyperlinks on the Company's website (or any other website) is incorporated into, or forms part of, this announcement nor, unless previously published by means of a recognised information service, should any such content be relied upon in reaching a decision as to whether or not to acquire, continue to hold, or dispose of, securities in the Company.
Daren Morris Group Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary
Volex plc
Liberum, Nominated Adviser & Broker +44 203 100 2000 Steve Pearce & Euan Brown
Market abuse regulation This announcement is released by Volex plc and contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) 596/2014 (MAR), and is disclosed in accordance with the Company's obligations under Article 17 of MAR. For the purposes of MAR and Article 2 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1055, this announcement is being made on behalf of the Company by Daren Morris, CFO.
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