19th Jul 2007 14:45
Yell Group plc19 July 2007 Yell Group plc (the "Company") announces that at its Annual General Meeting ("AGM") held earlier today, Thursday 19 July 2007, all the proposed resolutionswere duly passed on a poll and the results were as follows: VOTES % VOTES AGAINST % VOTES WITHHELD* VOTES FOR TOTALResolution 1 519,290,099 99.93 350,870 0.07 13,588 519,640,969Resolution 2 519,640,803 100.00 270 0.00 13,484 519,641,073Resolution 3 403,290,699 78.68 109,267,170 21.32 7,096,688 512,557,869Resolution 4 510,879,217 98.56 7,443,855 1.44 1,331,485 518,323,072Resolution 5 513,886,043 99.14 4,437,029 0.86 1,331,485 518,323,072Resolution 6 501,481,616 97.33 13,779,605 2.67 4,393,336 515,261,221Resolution 7 515,533,872 99.71 1,506,821 0.29 2,613,864 517,040,693Resolution 8 519,628,447 100.00 12,626 0.00 13,484 519,641,073Resolution 9 511,242,380 98.38 8,398,564 1.62 13,613 519,640,944Resolution 10 501,331,923 96.48 18,308,521 3.52 14,113 519,640,444Resolution 11 513,753,037 99.71 1,506,100 0.29 4,395,420 515,259,137Resolution 12 506,851,809 98.37 8,409,308 1.63 4,393,440 515,261,117Resolution 13 495,309,845 95.62 22,699,114 4.38 1,645,598 518,008,959Resolution 14 498,693,017 96.45 18,347,133 3.55 2,614,407 517,040,150Resolution 15 519,632,238 100.00 6,211 0.00 16,108 519,638,449Resolution 16 518,556,855 99.79 1,082,944 0.21 14,758 519,639,799Resolution 17 514,242,163 99.67 1,721,279 0.33 3,691,115 515,963,442Resolution 18 519,275,349 99.93 353,183 0.07 26,025 519,628,532Resolution 19 519,067,401 99.99 51,822 0.01 535,334 519,119,223Resolution 20 519,637,011 100.00 1,969 0.00 15,577 519,638,980 Notes The following are the resolutions voted on at the Company's AGM. Resolution 1 That the reports of the directors and auditors, and the audited accounts be received and considered Resolution 2 That the final dividend be declared and approved. Resolution 3 That the directors' remuneration report be approved. Resolution 4 That John Condron be re-elected as a director. Resolution 5 That John Davis be re-elected as a director. Resolution 6 That Lyndon Lea be re-elected as a director. Resolution 7 That Lord Powell of Bayswater be re-elected as a director. Resolution 8 That Robert Scott be re-elected as a director. Resolution 9 That John Coghlan be re-elected as a director. Resolution 10 That Joachim Eberhardt be re-elected as a director. Resolution 11 That Richard Hooper be re-elected as a director Resolution 12 That Tim Bunting be elected as a director. Resolution 13 That PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP be re-appointed Auditors. Resolution 14 That the directors be authorised to determine the Auditors remuneration. Resolution 15 That the authorised share capital of the Company be and is hereby increased from £9,363,200 to £10,403,200 by the creation of an additional 104,000,000 ordinary shares of 1 pence each. Resolution 16 That the directors be authorised to allot relevant securities under s80 of the Companies Act 1985. Resolution 17 That the Company and Yell Limited each be authorised to make donations to EU political organisations and incur EU political expenditure. **Resolution 18 That the new Articles of Association in the form produced to this Annual General Meeting and initialled by the Chairman for the purposes of identification be adopted as the new Articles of Association of the Company in substitution for, and to the exclusion of, the existing Articles of Association. **Resolution 19 That the directors be authorised to disapply statutory pre-emption rights. **Resolution 20 That the Company be authorised to purchase its own shares. * A "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes for and against the resolution. ** Denotes special resolutions Two copies of all resolutions passed as special business (Resolutions 15 and 18)have, pursuant to Listing Rule 9.6.2, been submitted to the FSA and will shortlybe made available via the FSA's Document Viewing Facility situated at: The Financial Services Authority25 The North ColonnadeCanary WharfLondon E14 5HS Enquiries: Howard Rubenstein Company Secretary Tel: +44 (0) 118 960 3663 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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