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Hansard Global plc
09 November 2017
 

09 November 2017

 

Hansard Global plc

 

Results of Annual General Meeting held on 8th November 2017

 

Hansard Global plc (the "Company") announces that at its Annual General Meeting ("AGM") held on 8 November 2017, Resolutions 1 to 13 (inclusive) as ordinary resolutions together with Resolution 14 as a special resolution, were duly passed on a show of hands and the results of the proxy votes are as follows:

 

 

RESOLUTION

VOTES

FOR

% OF VOTES CAST

VOTES

AGAINST

% OF VOTES CAST

VOTES CAST IN TOTAL

TOTAL VOTES CAST AS A % OF ISSUED SHARE CAPITAL

VOTES WITHHELD

1.

To receive the 2017 Directors' Report and Accounts and the auditor's report

100,931,163

99.96

35,996

0.04

100,967,159

73.46

335,324

2.

To approve the Remuneration Report for the year ended 30th June 2017

97,552,458

96.31

3,742,025

3.69

101,294,483

73.70

8,000

3.

To declare a final dividend of 5.30 pence per share  

101,302,483

100

0

0

101,302,483

73.70

0

4.

To re-elect Dr L S Polonsky CBE as a director

100,626,422

99.33

676,061

0.67

101,302,483

73.70

0

5.

To re-elect Mr M Dyson as a director

97,313,587

96.25

3,790,724

3.75

101,104,311

73.56

198,172

6.

To re-elect Mr P P C Gregory as a director

99,823,215

98.54

1,479,268

1.46

101,302,483

73.70

0

7.

To re-elect Mr G S Marr as a director

101,277,152

99.97

25,331

0.03

101,302,483

73.70

0

8.

To re-elect Mr A C Frepp as a director

101,002,418

99.7

300,065

0.3

101,302,483

73.70

0

9.

To re-elect Mr T N Davies as a director

101,268,903

99.97

33,580

0.03

101,302,483

73.70

0

10.

To re-appoint Mr M A L Polonsky as an Alternate Director (alternate to Dr L S Polonsky CBE)

73,893,606

72.96

27,388,630

27.04

101,282,236

73.69

20,247

11.

To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC, Isle of Man as auditor

100,916,569

99.61

396,777

0.39

101,313,346

73.71

217

12.

To approve the Hansard Global Sharesave Option Plan 2017

101,255,603

99.95

46,580

0.05

101,302,183

73.70

300

13.

To authorise the Company  to buy back its own ordinary shares

100,277,112

98.99

1,025,371

1.01

101,302,483

73.70

0

14.

To give the directors authority to allot shares 

100,684,286

99.41

599,117

0.59

101,283,403

73.69

8,000

 

Votes of shareholders excluding the controlling shareholder/related parties on election and re-election of independent non-executive directors

 

RESOLUTION

VOTES

For

VOTES

AGAINST

VOTES

WITHHELD

5.

30,991,001

3,790,724

198,172

8.

34,679,832

300,065

0

 

 

Notes:

 

1.   Proxy Results are taken from the 70 valid Forms of Proxies received. 

2.   Any proxy appointments giving discretion to the Chairman of the Meeting have been included in the "For" total. 

3.   A vote "Withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes "For" or "Against" a resolution. 

4.   The Company's total ordinary shares in issue (total voting rights) as at 8th November 2017 2017 was 137,449,611 ordinary shares of 50 pence each. Ordinary shareholders are entitled to one vote per ordinary share held. 

5.   As the Company has a controlling shareholder, Dr Polonsky CBE, as defined in the Financial Conduct Authority's Listing Rules, each resolution to elect an independent non-executive director (resolutions 5 & 8) have under Listing Rule 9.2.2E been approved by a majority of the votes cast by: 

(a) the shareholders of the Company as a whole; and

(b) the independent shareholders of the Company, that is, all the shareholders entitled to vote on each resolution, excluding the controlling shareholder. 

6.   In respect of resolution 10, the Board notes that a significant proportion of votes have been cast against the reappointment of Mr Polonsky as an alternate director to Dr Polonsky CBE.  This appointment is part of a long term succession plan for the Polonsky family and the Polonsky Foundation holdings. 

7.   In accordance with Listing Rules 9.6.2, a copy of the special business resolutions passed at the meeting have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

 

Legal Entity Identifier: 213800ZJ9F2EA3Q24K05

 


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