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2015 AGM Poll Results

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bwin.party digital entertainment
21 May 2015
 



 

21 May 2015

 

bwin.party digital entertainment plc

('bwin.party', the 'Company')

 

2015 Annual General Meeting ('AGM') Poll Results

 

At the Company's AGM held in Gibraltar today, all resolutions as set out in the Company's notice of AGM dated 14 April 2015, were approved. 

 

The full results of the poll votes were as follows:

 

Ordinary Resolutions

Total

For

Against

Withheld

Number

Votes Cast

Number

% of shares voted

Number

% of shares voted

Number

 

1. To receive the Company's Annual Report and

Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2014

 

535,661,243

535,499,899

99.97

134,250

0.03

27,094

 

2. To approve the 2014 Directors' Remuneration Report

 

535,661,243

482,996,921

91.08

47,277,793

8.92

5,386,529

3. To re-appoint the joint auditors

535,661,243

529,946,637

98.94

5,687,346

1.06

27,260

 

4. To authorise the Directors to determine the joint auditors' remuneration

 

535,661,243

535,616,952

99.99

31,629

0.01

12,662

5. To declare a final dividend

535,661,243

535,655,767

100.00

3,034

0.00

2,442

6. To re-appoint Per Afrell as a Director

 

535,661,243

504,970,759

95.33

24,760,722

4.67

5,929,762

 

7. To re-appoint Liz Catchpole as a Director

 

535,661,243

492,586,430

99.59

2,030,362

0.41

41,044,451

 

8. To re-appoint Sylvia Coleman as a Director

 

535,661,243

492,059,728

99.48

2,572,558

0.52

41,028,957

 

9. To re-appoint Barry Gibson as a Director

 

535,661,243

492,455,750

99.56

2,152,560

0.44

41,052,933

10. To re-appoint Georg Riedl as a Director

 

535,661,243

460,023,666

94.55

26,508,472

5.45

49,129,105

11. To re-appoint Daniel Silvers as a Director

 

535,661,243

508,530,412

95.42

24,391,304

4.58

2,739,527

 

12. To re-appoint Norbert Teufelberger as a Director

 

535,661,243

491,627,260

91.78

44,031,642

8.22

2,341

 

13. To re-appoint Martin Weigold as a Director

 

535,661,243

491,631,088

91.78

44,026,198

8.22

3,957

14. To re-appoint Philip Yea as a Director

535,661,243

532,343,353

99.77

1,208,807

0.23

2,109,083

 

15. To approve an update to the share allotment authority

 

535,661,243

533,978,596

99.69

1,662,917

0.31

19,730

Special  Resolutions







 

16. To approve the disapplication of pre-emption rights

 

535,661,243

535,603,866

99.99

50,874

0.01

6,503

17. To renew the Company's share buy-back authority

535,661,243

535,447,657

100.00

18,909

0.00

194,677

 

Note: 824,713,835 ordinary shares of 0.015 pence per share in issue as at 21 May 2015, of which 1,395,862 shares are held in the bwin.party Shares Trust (the 'Trust') and the trustee of the Trust has waived all voting rights in respect of these shares. Therefore the total number of shares with voting rights was 823,317,973 as at 21 May 2015.

 

At the conclusion of the AGM there were two retirements from the Board.  Helmut Kern, an independent Director and Chairman of the Audit & Risk Committee, retired and Liz Catchpole, a newly appointed independent Director, succeeds him in chairing the Audit & Risk Committee. Rod Perry, Senior Independent Director and Chairman of the Remuneration Committee also retired and is succeeded in both these roles by Barry Gibson, another newly appointed independent Director. 

 

 

Enquiries:

 

Robert Hoskin, Company Secretary                   +350 200 78700

bwin.party digital entertainment plc

 

Contacts:

Investors

Peter Reynolds             +44 (0) 20 7337 0100

 

Media

Jay Dossetter               +44 (0) 20 7337 0100

 

 


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