27th Apr 2017 11:53
Cobham plc
Annual General Meeting held on 27 April 2017
Cobham plc is pleased to announce that at the AGM held today Thursday 27 April 2017, at 10am, each resolution was passed on a poll.
The votes cast were as follows:
Resolution | Total Votes FOR | %
| Total Votes AGAINST | % | Total Votes Cast | Votes WITHHELD | |
1 | Report & Accounts | 34,295,300 | 99.99 | 2,402 | 0.01 | 34,297,702 | 221,952 |
2 | Remuneration Policy | 32,316,198 | 93.62 | 2,200,906 | 6.38 | 34,517,104 | 2,542 |
3 | Remuneration Report | 34,099,321 | 98.79 | 417,666 | 1.21 | 34,516,987 | 2,661 |
4 | Appointment - David Lockwood | 34,471,138 | 99.86 | 47,926 | 0.14 | 34,519,064 | 588 |
5 | Appointment - David Mellors | 34,432,606 | 99.75 | 86,257 | 0.25 | 34,518,863 | 790 |
6 | Re-election of Jonathan Flint | 34,474,225 | 99.87 | 44,430 | 0.13 | 34,518,655 | 997 |
7 | Re-election of Mike Hagee | 34,353,549 | 99.65 | 121,655 | 0.35 | 34,475,204 | 44,447 |
8 | Re-election of Birgit Nørgaard | 30,206,819 | 96.63 | 1,052,917 | 3.37 | 31,259,736 | 3,259,911 |
9 | Re-election of Alan Semple | 34,439,687 | 99.78 | 77,257 | 0.22 | 34,516,944 | 2,707 |
10 | Re-election of Mike Wareing | 34,461,795 | 99.84 | 56,746 | 0.16 | 34,518,541 | 1,160 |
11 | Re-election of Alison Wood | 34,433,543 | 99.76 | 83,492 | 0.24 | 34,517,035 | 2,613 |
12 | Re-appointment of Auditors | 33,271,963 | 96.40 | 1,241,486 | 3.60 | 34,513,449 | 6,198 |
13 | Remuneration of Auditors | 34,414,889 | 99.70 | 103,646 | 0.30 | 34,518,535 | 1,116 |
14 | Approval of the Cobham LTIP | 32,123,866 | 93.07 | 2,391,875 | 6.93 | 34,515,741 | 3,904 |
15 | Approval of the Cobham Deferred Bonus Share Plan | 34,463,970 | 99.85 | 50,366 | 0.15 | 34,514,336 | 5,313 |
16 | Authority to purchase own shares | 33,411,130 | 97.06 | 1,013,725 | 2.94 | 34,424,855 | 94,793 |
17 | Authority to allot shares | 31,344,716 | 90.81 | 3,172,530 | 9.19 | 34,517,246 | 2,403 |
18 | Authority to allot equity securities for cash | 33,206,791 | 96.21 | 1,308,961 | 3.79 | 34,515,752 | 3,896 |
19 | Authority to allot equity securities for cash re acquisitions | 30,537,372 | 88.48 | 3,977,605 | 11.52 | 34,514,977 | 4,669 |
20 | Authority to call general meetings on 14 days' notice | 33,046,999 | 96.11 | 1,336,894 | 3.89 | 34,383,893 | 135,749 |
Notes:
(1) Where shareholders appointed the chairman of the meeting as their proxy with discretion as to voting, these votes have been cast in favour of all resolutions.
(2) A vote 'WITHHELD' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes 'FOR' or 'AGAINST' a resolution.
(3) Resolutions 16, 18 and 20 are Special Resolutions requiring a 75% majority.
The following table provides further relevant information:
Cobham plc's One Hundred and Twenty-Seventh AGM (2017) | Cobham plc's One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth AGM (2016) | |
Issued share capital (excluding Treasury Shares) | 1,707,863,851 | 1,138,575,901 |
Total number of possible votes | 42,716,296 | 28,484,098 |
Proxy appointments lodged | 34,515,859 | 23,759,786 |
Representing % of possible vote | 80.8 | 83.41 |
Number of AGM attendees | 11 | 10 |
Total vote % on the poll | 80.8 | 83.41 |
A copy of a document setting out the resolutions passed dealing with special business at the meeting has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.
The Voting results will be placed on our website (www.cobhaminvestors.com).
Mrs Lyn Colloff
Company Secretary
Cobham plc
27 April 2017
Name of contact and telephone number for queries:
Julian Wais
Director of Investor Relations
Tel: 01202 857998
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