Weir Group Regulatory News (WEIR)

7 May 2008 16:35

Weir Group PLC07 May 2008 THE WEIR GROUP PLC 7 May 2008 Voting Results The Annual General Meeting of The Weir Group PLC was held on Wednesday 7 May2008 at 11 am. All resolutions were passed on a poll via electronic voting.Resolutions 1-10, 15 and 16 being passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions11-14 being passed as special resolutions. No. Resolution No. of votes Percentage No. of votes Percentage No. of votes for the of votes against the of votes withheld resolution received resolution received 1 To receive 117,596,981 99.37 746,667 0.63 277,951 and adopt the financial statements for the 52 weeks ended 28 December 2007, and the reports of the directors and auditors thereon 2 To declare a 118,621,599 100.00 0 0.00 0 dividend 3 To approve 111,927,568 94.89 6,028,771 5.11 665,259 the Remuneration Committee Report as set out in the annual report for the 52 weeks ended 28 December 2007 4 To re-elect 117,882,795 99.38 730,524 0.62 8,280 Christopher Clark as a director 5 To re-elect 117,786,058 99.31 814,823 0.69 20,718 Stephen King as a director 6 To re-elect 116,803,376 98.47 1,808,948 1.53 9,275 Mark Selway as a director 7 To re-elect 115,666,590 98.66 1,566,750 1.34 1,389,337 Prof. Ian Percy as a director 8 To 116,189,066 99.10 1,056,658 0.90 1,376,953 re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP as auditors 9 To authorise 117,993,933 99.49 607,566 0.51 18,179 the directors to fix the remuneration of the auditors 10 To renew the 117,463,280 99.06 1,119,385 0.94 36,876 directors' general authority to allot relevant securities 11 To disapply, 118,465,797 99.92 92,182 0.08 62,062 within certain limits, the statutory pre-emption rights arising on the allotment of shares 12 To renew the 118,492,274 99.92 95,106 0.08 34,498 Company's power to purchase its own shares 13 To amend the 115,976,058 99.48 605,771 0.52 1,649,411 Articles of Association 14 To amend the 118,406,690 99.87 157,451 0.13 55,816 Articles of Association 15 To amend the 112,125,141 94.95 5,967,527 5.05 530,009 rules of the Weir Group LTIP 16 To approve a 97,418,075 85.37 16,691,239 14.63 4,510,588 conditional award agreement a) Any proxy appointments which give discretion to the Chairman have beenincluded in the "for" total.b) At close of business on 6 May 2008 there were 209,967,947 relevantshares in issue (excluding treasury shares). A copy of the Resolutions passed has been submitted to the UK Listing Authorityand will shortly be available for inspection at the UK Listing Authority'sDocument Viewing Facility, which is situated at: The Financial Services Authority25 The North ColonnadeCanary WharfLondon E14 5HS This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange