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Lamprell plc
12 May 2015
 



 

12 May 2015

 

LAMPRELL PLC
("Lamprell" or the "Company", and with its subsidiaries the "Group")

 

RESULTS OF 2015 AGM

 

 

At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held at 10.00AM (local time) today at 7th Floor, Jumeirah Emirates Tower, Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, all the resolutions set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting ("AGM Notice") published by the Company on 2 April 2015 were duly passed except for resolution 5 which was not put to the meeting in light of the announcement from earlier today that Peter Whitbread would not be standing for re-election.

 

Voting on all resolutions was by way of a show of hands.  Voting on resolutions 7, 9 and 11 was by Independent Shareholders (as defined in the AGM Notice) only.

 

FINAL PROXY VOTING TOTALS

 

Details of the final proxy votes received in respect of the resolutions proposed at the Annual General Meeting are as follows:

 

Resolution no

Business

TOTAL SHARES VOTED

FOR

AGAINST

WITHHELD


Ordinary Business





1

To receive and adopt the Company's financial statements together with the reports of the directors and auditors for the period ending 31 December 2014

250,930,520

248,034,408

2,896,112

88,919

2

To approve the Directors' annual report on remuneration for the year ended 31 December 2014 included in the 2014 Annual Report and Accounts

251,017,471

244,470,733

6,546,738

401

3

To elect  John Kennedy as a director of the Company

251,019,038

249,855,857

1,163,181

401

4

To elect James Moffat as a director of the Company

251,019,038

250,876,283

142,755

401

5

-

-

-

-

-

6

To elect Michael Press as a director of the Company

251,019,039

250,652,696

366,343

401

7

To elect Michael Press as a director of the Company (Independent Shareholder vote)

164,784,911

164,331,535

453,376

401

8

To elect Ellis Armstrong as a director of the Company

251,019,038

250,530,007

489,031

401

9

To elect Ellis Armstrong as a director of the  Company (Independent Shareholder vote)

164,784,911

164,295,880

489,031

401

10

To elect John Malcolm as a director of the Company

251,019,038

248,733,682

2,285,356

401

11

To elect John Malcolm as a director of the Company (Independent Shareholder vote)

164,784,911

164,332,191

452,720

401

12

To appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC, Isle of Man, as auditors of the Company

251,019,038

246,052,392

4,966,646

401

13

To authorise the directors to fix the auditors' remuneration

251,018,499

250,458,059

560,440

940


Special Business





 

14

To authorise the directors to allot shares pursuant to Article 5.1 of the Company's Articles of Association

251,019,038

250,922,706

96,332

401

 

15

To disapply the pre-emption rights pursuant to article 5.2 of the Company's Articles of Association

251,018,038

250,922,952

95,086

1,401

 

16

To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its ordinary shares

251,019,439

251,015,684

3,755

0

 







 

 

Notes to proxy voting totals table:

 

1. Any proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Chairman have been included in the 'FOR' total.

 

2. A 'VOTE WITHHELD' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes for or against a resolution and is not included in the total proxy votes received for each resolution.

 

3. Number of ordinary shares of 5 pence each in issue at meeting date: 341,726,570.

 

4. The Controlling Shareholder (as defined in the AGM Notice) was not eligible to vote on resolutions 7, 9 and 11.  The Controlling Shareholder holds a total of 113,182,291 Ordinary Shares, equating to 33.12% of the issued ordinary share capital with voting rights.

 

** These votes reflect the results of the poll taken during the meeting, rather than the proxy votes received.

 

Copies of the resolutions passed as Special Business have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm.

 

 

- Ends -

 

 

Enquiries:

 

Lamprell plc

Alex Ridout, Company Secretary

+971 (0) 4 803 9308

Natalia Erikssen

+44 7885 522 989



Tulchan Communications, London

Martin Robinson

+44 (0) 207 353 4200

Martin Pengelley


 


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