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BTG PLC
13 July 2017
 

BTG plc

13 July 2017

BTG plc: Results of 2017 Annual General Meeting

London, UK: BTG plc (LSE:BTG), the global specialist healthcare company, announces that all resolutions proposed at the Annual General Meeting held earlier today were duly passed by the required majority by means of a poll vote.

The results of the poll votes on the resolutions are shown in the table below and will be posted on the Company's website www.btgplc.com:

Resolution

Votes for*

% of vote

Votes against

% of vote

Total Votes

% of Issued Share Capital Voted

Votes Withheld

1

Receive and adopt the report and accounts

328,807,744

99.99%

13,380

0.01%

328,821,124

85.13%

1,049,020

2

Approve the directors' remuneration report

325,527,863

99.42%

1,883,099

0.58%

327,410,962

84.77%

2,459,182

3

Re-elect Susan Foden as a director

329,838,050

99.99%

17,100

0.01%

329,855,150

85.40%

14,994

4

Re-elect Giles Kerr as a director

328,184,336

99.49%

1,670,731

0.51%

329,855,067

85.40%

15,077

5

Re-elect Louise Makin as a director

328,602,283

99.70%

990,967

0.30%

329,593,250

85.33%

276,894

6

Re-elect Ian Much as a director

327,272,601

99.22%

2,582,477

0.78%

329,855,078

85.40%

15,066

7

Re-elect James O'Shea as a director

329,839,420

99.99%

15,647

0.01%

329,855,067

85.40%

15,077

8

Re-elect Rolf Soderstrom as a director

329,837,480

99.99%

17,770

0.01%

329,855,250

85.40%

14,894

9

Re-elect Garry Watts as a director

318,523,372

96.76%

10,652,684

3.24%

329,176,056

85.23%

694,087

10

Re-elect Richard Wohanka as a director

328,695,104

99.65%

1,160,010

0.35%

329,855,114

85.40%

15,030

11

Elect Graham Hetherington as a director

328,047,128

99.45%

1,808,573

0.55%

329,855,701

85.40%

14,443

12

Re-appoint KPMG Audit plc as Auditors

322,244,795

98.12%

6,161,813

1.88%

328,406,608

85.03%

1,463,536

13

Authorise Directors to fix Auditor remuneration

325,038,001

98.54%

4,824,817

1.46%

329,862,818

85.40%

7,326

14

Authorise the Company to make Political Donations

321,542,025

99.50%

1,617,331

0.50%

323,159,356

83.67%

6,710,756

15

Authority to allot shares

327,354,725

99.24%

2,507,134

0.76%

329,861,859

85.40%

8,285

16

Disapplication of pre-emption rights in respect of up to 5% of the Company's issued share capital

329,776,824

99.98%

70,255

0.02%

329,847,079

85.40%

23,065

17

Disapplication of pre-emption rights in respect of an additional 5% of the Company's issued share capital

317,093,402

96.13%

12,751,815

3.87%

329,845,217

85.40%

24,927

18

Call a general meeting on not less than 14 days' notice

322,478,737

97.77%

7,365,253

2.23%

329,843,990

85.40%

26,153










*where shareholders appointed the Chairman as their proxy with discretion as to voting, their votes were cast in favour of the resolutions and their shares have been included in the "votes for" column

As at 10:30 a.m. on 11 July 2017 (being the time at which shareholders who wanted to attend and vote at the meeting were required to have their details entered in the register of members) there were 386,236,658 shares of 10p each in issue.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of the resolutions passed as special business at the Annual General Meeting have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM

Contacts:

Andy Burrows, Vice President, Corporate and Investor Relations

+44 (0)20 7575 1741

 

Stuart Hunt, Investor Relations Manager

+44 (0)20 7575 1582

 


This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
 
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