25 Jun 2015 15:52
25 June 2015
STOBART GROUP LIMITED
Result of AGM
Stobart Group Limited, the Support Services and Infrastructure Group, announces that at its Annual General Meeting held at 1.00 p.m. today, each of the resolutions submitted to the meeting (as set out in the Notice of Meeting) was proposed and passed by the appropriate majority.
The votes cast were as follows:
| Votes in favour | Votes at Chairman's discretion | Votes against | Votes withheld | % in favour incl. Chairman's discretion but excl. withheld votes |
To receive the Company's Annual Accounts, the Directors' Report, and the Auditors' Report. | 259,631,874 | 202,796 | 19,500 | 805,963 | 99.99% |
To declare a final dividend of 4p per ordinary share. | 260,464,866 | 186,596 | 0 | 8,671 | 100% |
To re-elect Iain Ferguson CBE as a Director. | 251,052,721 | 199,962 | 816,977 | 8,590,473 | 99.68% |
To re-elect Andrew Tinkler as a Director. | 260,204,080 | 198,796 | 239,479 | 17,778 | 99.91% |
To re-elect Andrew Wood as a Director. | 259,900,310 | 199,296 | 501,294 | 59,233 | 99.81% |
To re-elect Ben Whawell as a Director. | 260,163,333 | 198,796 | 239,815 | 58,189 | 99.91% |
To re-elect John Coombs as a Director. | 260,161,306 | 205,504 | 237,090 | 56,233 | 99.91% |
To re-elect John Garbutt as a Director. | 260,152,996 | 199,296 | 249,788 | 58,053 | 99.90% |
To re-elect Richard Butcher as a Director. | 260,172,574 | 198,796 | 217,695 | 71,068 | 99.92% |
To re-appoint KPMG LLP as Auditors of the Company. | 259,227,547 | 192,796 | 1,217,314 | 22,476 | 99.53% |
To authorise the Directors to fix the Auditors' remuneration. | 260,364,364 | 192,796 | 60,248 | 42,725 | 99.98% |
To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report. | 220,641,997 | 192,496 | 39,723,901 | 101,739 | 84.75% |
To approve the adoption of SAYE Share Option Scheme. | 260,118,087 | 220,448 | 257,618 | 63,980 | 99.90% |
To authorise the Directors to issue shares. | 260,225,624 | 226,448 | 163,200 | 44,861 | 99.94% |
To disapply pre-emption rights on the issue of shares in the Company. | 259,266,306 | 334,493 | 925,385 | 133,949 | 99.64% |
To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares. | 260,134,120 | 306,423 | 158,388 | 61,202 | 99.94% |
A copy of all the resolutions passed, other than those concerning ordinary business, has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: http://www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do.
Enquiries:
Stobart Group | +44 207 851 9090 |
Andrew Tinkler, Chief Executive Officer Ben Whawell, Chief Financial Officer
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Redleaf PR | +44 207 382 4730 |
Emma Kane Charlie Geller | Stobart@redleafpr.com |
Influence Associates | +44 207 287 9610 |
Stuart Dyble James Andrew
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