13th Sep 2012 15:18
Thursday, 13th September 2012
Announcement of AGM Poll Results
Darty plc (formerly Kesa Electricals plc) gives notice that at its ninth Annual General Meeting held in London today a poll was taken on all resolutions put to the meeting; 15 of the 16 resolutions were passed by the members entitled to vote.
Set out below is the result of the poll, including where proxies lodged, and voted in accordance with the instructions given.
Annual General Meeting Resolutions numbered as per Notice of Meeting
| For
| Against | Abstentions | |||
Number | % | Number | % | Number | ||
1. | To receive the report of the Directors and the financial statements of the Company for the year ended 30 April 2012 together with the report of the auditors
| 413,789,718 | 99.99 | 20,742 | 0.01 | 861,048 |
2. | To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company's auditors
| 347,332,262 | 98.92 | 3,793,996 | 1.08 | 63,543,704 |
3. | To authorise the Directors to determine the Company's auditors' remuneration
| 377,396,334 | 98.99 | 3,854,767 | 1.01 | 33,420,614 |
4. | To approve the Directors' remuneration report for the year ended 30 April 2012 (set out on pages 37 to 43 of the Annual report 2011/12)
| 165,635,695 | 41.96 | 229,078,135 | 58.04 | 19,958,102 |
5. | To declare a final dividend of 1.25 cents per ordinary share.
| 414,527,624 | 99.98 | 98,717 | 0.02 | 45,591 |
6. | To re-appoint Alison Reed as a Director who retires under Article 82 of the Company's Articles of Association
| 411,217,612 | 99.18 | 3,395,001 | 0.82 | 59,319 |
7. | To re-appoint Thierry Falque-Pierrotin as a Director
| 256,392,314 | 96.85 | 8,332,327 | 3.15 | 132,549,482 |
8. | To re-appoint Bernard Dufau as a Director
| 411,194,138 | 99.18 | 3,408,916 | 0.82 | 68,878 |
9. | To re-appoint Michel Léonard as a Director
| 389,930,722 | 94.05 | 24,679,802 | 5.95 | 61,126 |
10. | To re-appoint Alan Parker as a Director
| 411,222,059 | 99.18 | 3,379,504 | 0.82 | 70,087 |
11. | To re-appoint Dominic Platt as a Director
| 410,211,462 | 98.93 | 4,439,056 | 1.07 | 21,228 |
12. | To renew the Directors' authority until the conclusion of the 2013 AGM, to allot relevant securities up to a maximum nominal amount of €52,425,768
| 413,885,395 | 99.82 | 741,877 | 0.18 | 44,626 |
13. | To empower the Directors until the conclusion of the 2013 AGM to allot equity securities up to a maximum nominal amount of €7,943,298
| 414,501,463 | 99.98 | 75,426 | 0.02 | 95,043 |
14. | To authorise the Company to make donations to European Union political organisations and to incur EU political expenditure not exceeding £75,000 in aggregate during the period ending on the conclusion of the 2013 AGM
| 404,499,336 | 97.85 | 8,878,202 | 2.15 | 1,290,590 |
15. | To empower the Company until the conclusion of the 2013 AGM to make market purchases of its own shares up to a maximum of 52,955,321
| 404,040,729 | 99.91 | 375,998 | 0.09 | 10,254,100 |
16. | To authorise the Company to call a general meeting (other than an annual general meeting) on not less than 14 clear days notice
| 392,250,892 | 94.60 | 22,390,874 | 5.40 | 28,803 |
A copy of the resolutions passed as special business (resolutions 13 - 17 inclusive) at today's AGM will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do.
ENDS
Enquiries
Analysts
Darty plc
Simon Ward UK +44 (0) 20 7269 1400
Media
Darty plc
Simon Ward UK +44 (0) 20 7269 1400
Vinciane Beurlet France +33 (0) 1 43 18 52 00
RLM Finsbury
Rollo Head UK +44 (0) 20 7251 3801
Jenny Davey
About Darty plc
Darty group is a leading cross channel service led electrical retailer operating nearly 500 stores in nine European countries and achieving 11% of its products sales on the web. With more than 16,500 people, it generates an annual turnover of over €4 billion through three operating segments: Darty (France), Other established businesses (which consists of Vanden Borre in Belgium, BCC in the Netherlands, and Datart in the Czech Republic and Slovakia), and Developing businesses (which consist of Darty Italy, Darty Spain and Darty Turkey). Its ordinary shares are listed with the UK Listing Authority and trade on the market for listed securities on the London Stock Exchange under the symbol DRTY.L. It is also listed on the Premier Marche of the Paris Stock Exchange.
For further information, please visit the company's website, www.dartygroup.com.
Related Shares:
DRTY.L