Last checked at 24 Oct 2017 18:17
BROOKS MACDONALD GROUP PLC (the "Company")
RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2017
At the Annual General Meeting of the Company, held on 24 October 2017 at 09:30, the following resolutions were passed by shareholders on a show of hands.
Valid proxies were received by the Company from shareholders prior to the meeting as follows:
| Resolution | For | % | Against | % | Total number of shares for which proxy appointments validly made | Withheld |
1 | To receive and consider the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 30 June 2017
| 9,853,654 | 100% | 0 | 0% | 9,853,654 | 0 |
2 | To approve the directors' remuneration report for the year ended 30 June 2017
| 9,557,509 | 96.98% | 296,145 | 3.01% | 9,853,654 | 0 |
3 | To declare a final dividend of 26 pence per ordinary share
| 9,853,654 | 100% | 0 | 0% | 9,853,654 | 0 |
4 | To re-elect Caroline Connellan as a director | 9,853,654 | 100% | 0 | 0% | 9,853,654 | 0
|
5 | To re-elect Colin Harris as a director
| 9,853,654 | 100% | 0 | 0% | 9,853,654 | 0 |
6 | To re-elect Nicholas Holmes as a director | 9,853,654 | 100%
| 0 | 0% | 9,853,654 | 0 |
7 | To re-elect Simon Jackson as a director | 9,853,654
| 100% | 0 | 0% | 9,853,654 | 0 |
8 | To re-elect Christopher Knight as a director
| 6,086,426 | 91.68% | 552,620 | 8.32% | 6,639,046 | 3,214,608 |
9 | To re-elect Christopher Macdonald as a director
| 9,853,654 | 100% | 0 | 0% | 9,853,654 | 0 |
10 | To re-elect Richard Price as a director
| 9,853,654 | 100% | 0 | 0% | 9,853,654 | 0 |
11 | To re-elect Diane Seymour-Williams as a director
| 9,811,492 | 99.57% | 42,162 | 0.43% | 9,853,654 | 0 |
12 | To re-elect Andrew Shepherd as a director
| 9,853,654 | 100% | 0 | 0% | 9,853,654 | 0 |
13 | To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company's auditors and to authorise the directors to determine their remuneration
| 9,853,654 | 100% | 0 | 0% | 9,853,654 | 0 |
14 | Ordinary resolution to give the directors authority to allot shares
| 9,853,654 | 100% | 0 | 0% | 9,853,654 | 0 |
15 | Special resolution to give the directors power to disapply pre-emption rights in relation to the allotment of shares
| 9,692,923 | 98.37% | 160,731 | 1.63% | 9,853,654 | 0 |
16 | Special resolution to give the directors additional power to disapply pre-emption rights in relation to acquisitions and specified capital investments
| 9,692,563 | 98.37% | 160,731 | 1.63% | 9,853,294 | 360 |
17 | Special resolution to give the company a general authority to purchase its own shares
| 8,244,154 | 83.67% | 1,609,500 | 16.33% | 9,853,654 | 0 |
As previously announced, Richard Spencer and Simon Wombwell did not seek re-election at this year's Annual General Meeting.
Notes:
1. The full text of the resolutions is set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting, a copy of which can be found on the Company's website (www.brooksmacdonald.com).
2. Any proxy appointments which gave the Chairman discretion have been included in the "for" total.
3. A vote "withheld" is not a vote in law and has not been counted as a vote "for" or "against" a resolution.
Enquiries to:
Brooks Macdonald Group plc Caroline Connellan, Chief Executive Simon Jackson, Finance Director Andrew Shepherd, Deputy Chief Executive | www.brooksmacdonald.com 020 7499 6424 |
|
|
Peel Hunt LLP (Nominated Adviser and Broker) Guy Wiehahn / Adrian Haxby
| 020 7418 8900 |
MHP Communications Reg Hoare / Simon Hockridge / Charlie Barker | 020 3128 8100 |
Notes to editors
Brooks Macdonald Group plc, through its various subsidiaries, provides wealth and investment management services in the UK and internationally. The Group, which was founded in 1991 and began trading on AIM in 2005, had discretionary funds under management (FUM) of £11bn as at 30 September 2017.
The Group has eleven offices across the mainland UK and two in the Channel Islands including London, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Guernsey, Hale, Hampshire, Jersey, Leamington Spa, Manchester, Taunton, Tunbridge Wells and York.