14th May 2014 16:56
14 May 2014
Cape plc
("Cape" or the "Company")
Result of 2014 Annual General Meeting
Cape plc, the international provider of essential, non-mechanical industrial and specialist services to the energy and mineral resources sectors, announces that at its Annual General Meeting held earlier today, all the resolutions put to shareholders were duly passed on a poll.
Full details of the resolutions passed, together with explanatory notes, are set out in Notice of Meeting which is available on the Company's website www.capeplc.com.
Resolutions | For | Against | Votes Withheld* | Total | ||
Number | % | Number | % | |||
1. To receive and adopt the audited financial statements of the Company for the financial year ended 31 December 2013.
| 97,497,746 | 100.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 101 | 97,497,847 |
2. To declare a final dividend of 9.5 pence per Ordinary Share.
| 97,247,589 | 99.74% | 250,258 | 0.26% | 0 | 97,497,847 |
3. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report (excluding the Directors' Remuneration Policy).
| 96,986,965 | 99.48% | 509,832 | 0.52% | 1,050 | 97,497,847 |
4. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy of Cape plc.
| 96,592,146 | 99.07% | 904,651 | 0.93% | 1,050 | 97,497,847 |
5. To re-appoint Tim Eggar.
| 93,335,919 | 95.73% | 4,160,957 | 4.27% | 971 | 97,497,847 |
6. To re-appoint Joe Oatley.
| 97,160,171 | 99.65% | 336,705 | 0.35% | 971 | 97,497,847 |
7. To re-appoint Michael Speakman.
| 97,159,479 | 99.65% | 337,397 | 0.35% | 971 | 97,497,847 |
8. To re-appoint Michael Merton.
| 97,281,905 | 99.78% | 214,971 | 0.22% | 971 | 97,497,847 |
9. To re-appoint Brendan Connolly.
| 97,257,905 | 99.75% | 238,971 | 0.25% | 971 | 97,497,847 |
10. To re-appoint Leslie Van de Walle.
| 97,127,888 | 99.75% | 243,028 | 0.25% | 126,931 | 97,497,847 |
11. To re-appoint E&Y as auditors.
| 96,650,630 | 99.26% | 721,257 | 0.74% | 125,960 | 97,497,847 |
12. To authorise the directors to determine the remuneration of the auditors.
| 97,244,717 | 99.75% | 247,130 | 0.25% | 6,000 | 97,497,847 |
13. To authorise the directors to issue and allot shares.
| 97,292,133 | 99.80% | 194,614 | 0.20% | 11,100 | 97,497,847 |
14. To disapply pre-emption rights.
| 97,452,831 | 99.96% | 35,916 | 0.04% | 9,100 | 97,497,847 |
15. To authorise the Company to make market purchases of shares. (+)
| 339,691,738 | 100.00% | 9,421 | 0.00% | 4,562 | 339,705,721 |
*"Vote Withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes "For" and "Against" a resolution and is not reflected in the total figures set out above.
+ Votes for resolution 15 include 242,207,874 votes attributable to the 1 scheme share of £1 held by The Law Debenture Trust Corporation p.l.c.
In accordance with LR 9.6.2, Cape plc has lodged copies of resolutions 14 and 15, which were passed at the Annual General Meeting to the National Storage Mechanism, which will shortly be available for inspection at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do.
Enquiries:
Cape plc
Richard Allan, General Counsel and Company Secretary Tel: +44 (0) 1895 459 988
About Cape:
Cape plc (www.capeplc.com), which is premium listed on the main market of the London Stock Exchange, provides a range of non-mechanical industrial services including access systems, insulation, coatings, refractory linings and a range of specialist services including environmental services and storage tank construction and maintenance to both industrial plant operators and major international engineering and construction companies.
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