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Annual General Meeting

11th Mar 2014 14:34

RNS Number : 0327C
GW Pharmaceuticals PLC
11 March 2014
 



 

GW Pharmaceuticals plc

 

Annual General Meeting

 

 

London, UK, 11 March 2014: GW Pharmaceuticals plc (AIM: GWP, NASDAQ: GWPH or the "Company") hereby provides notification that, at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held earlier today, all the resolutions set out in the Notice of Meeting sent to shareholders were duly proposed and passed.

 

Details of the proxy votes received in relation to each of the resolutions (which are more particularly described in the Notice of General Meeting) are as follows:

 

For

Against

Total votes

% of votes cast

in favour

Resolution 1

54,576,745

5,990

54,582,735

100.0%

Resolution 2

54,527,806

50,161

54,577,967

99.9%

Resolution 3

53,028,998

1,532,737

54,561,735

97.2%

Resolution 4

54,551,665

30,482

54,582,147

99.9%

Resolution 5

54,556,653

25,112

54,581,765

99.9%

Resolution 6

54,552,853

30,482

54,583,335

99.9%

Resolution 7

53,505,240

1,073,505

54,578,745

98.0%

Resolution 8

53,501,621

1,079,114

54,580,735

98.0%

Resolution 9

52,864,815

1,692,209

54,557,024

96.9%

 

Proxy forms which gave the Chairman and other Directors discretion have been included in the "For" total.

 

About GW Pharmaceuticals plc

Founded in 1998, GW is a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing novel therapeutics from its proprietary cannabinoid product platform in a broad range of disease areas. GW commercialized the world's first plant-derived cannabinoid prescription drug, Sativex®, which is approved for the treatment of spasticity due to multiple sclerosis in 25 countries. Sativex is also in Phase 3 clinical development as a potential treatment of pain in people with advanced cancer. This Phase 3 program is intended to support the submission of a New Drug Application for Sativex in cancer pain with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and in other markets around the world. GW has a deep pipeline of additional cannabinoid product candidates, including Epidiolex which has received Orphan Drug Designation from the FDA for the treatment of Dravet and Lennox-Gastaut syndromes, severe, drug-resistant epilepsy syndromes. GW's product pipeline also includes compounds in Phase 1 and 2 clinical development for glioma, ulcerative colitis, type‑2 diabetes, and schizophrenia. For further information, please visit www.gwpharm.com.

 

For further information, please contact:

 

Enquiries:

 

GW Pharmaceuticals plc

Justin Gover, CEO

+44 1980 557000

Stephen Schultz, VP Investor Relations

+ 1 401 500 6570

 

FTI Consulting (Media enquiries)

 

+44 20 7831 3113

Ben Atwell / Simon Conway / John Dineen

 

Trout Group, LLC (US investor relations)

 

+ 1 646 378 2900

Todd James / Chad Rubin

 

Peel Hunt LLP

+44 207 418 8900

James Steel

 

 

This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
 
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