Weir Group Regulatory News (WEIR)

9 May 2007 15:54

Weir Group PLC09 May 2007 THE WEIR GROUP PLC 9 May 2007 Voting Results The Annual General Meeting of The Weir Group PLC was held on Wednesday 9 May2007 at 11 am. All resolutions were passed on a poll via electronic voting.Resolutions 1-10 being passed as ordinary resolutions with resolutions 11-14being passed as special resolutions. No. Resolution No. of votes Percentage No. of votes Percentage No. of for the of votes against the of votes votes resolution received resolution received withheld1 To receive and 127,887,063 99.88 151,750 0.12 5,057 adopt the financial statements for the 52 weeks ended 29 December 2006, and the reports of the directors and auditors thereon 2 To declare a 128,043,449 100.00 1,200 0.00 300 dividend 3 To approve the 123,292,482 96.44 4,547,716 3.56 204,749 Remuneration Committee Report as set out in the annual report for the 52 weeks ended 29 December 2006 4 To elect Keith 127,809,540 99.84 204,001 0.16 28,908 Cochrane as a director 5 To re-elect 127,811,700 99.84 207,008 0.16 26,162 Sir Robert Smith as a director 6 To re-elect 127,835,602 99.86 184,226 0.14 21,668 Alan Mitchelson as a director 7 To re-elect 127,058,516 99.69 394,815 0.31 592,618 Prof. Ian Percy as a director 8 To re-appoint 127,861,463 99.88 150,742 0.12 29,291 Ernst & Young LLP as auditors 9 To authorise 127,870,569 99.88 151,131 0.12 12,463 the directors to fix the remuneration of the auditors 10 To renew the 127,893,324 99.91 118,700 0.09 33,925 directors' general authority to allot relevant securities 11 To disapply, 127,803,193 99.88 147,481 0.12 95,275 within certain limits, the statutory pre-emption rights arising on the allotment of shares 12 To renew the 127,900,666 99.92 103,275 0.08 40,929 Company's power to purchase its own shares 13 To allow the 127,682,852 99.81 237,794 0.19 124,224 Company to default to electronic communications and approve the subsequent amendment to the Articles of Association 14 To amend the 127,751,450 99.86 182,691 0.14 111,808 Articles of Association a) Any proxy appointments which give discretion to the Chairman have beenincluded in the "for" total. b) At close of business on 8 May 2007 there were 208,255,936 relevantshares in issue (excluding treasury shares). This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange