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Result of AGM

17th Jul 2009 15:44

RNS Number : 8988V
Cable & Wireless PLC
17 July 2009
 



CABLE AND WIRELESS PLC 

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Cable and Wireless plc held its Annual General Meeting today, 17th July 2009, at The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Broad Sanctuary, London SW1P 3EE.

All resolutions were put to the meeting on a poll, the full results of which are given below. 

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, two copies of all resolutions passed other than resolutions concerning ordinary business and two copies of the new Articles of Association have today been submitted to the UK Listing Authority for publication through the Listing Authority's Document Viewing Facility.

RESOLUTIONS

VOTES FOR

%

VOTES

AGAINST

%

VOTES

WITHHELD

1

To receive the Report and Accounts

1,771,522,525

98.98

18,251,860

1.02

373,758

2

To approve the Remuneration Report

1,117,768,963

74.54

381,886,504

25.46

290,492,675

3

To declare a final dividend

1,785,985,575

99.89

1,967,261

0.11

2,195,307

4

To re-elect Richard Lapthorne

1,728,926,614

96.73

58,367,347

3.27

2,854,181

5

To elect John Barton

1,746,675,813

97.63

42,376,804

2.37

1,095,526

6

To elect Mary Francis

1,783,812,861

99.71

5,212,052

0.29

1,123,230

7

To elect Penny Hughes

1,783,788,911

99.71

5,233,997

0.29

1,125,235

8

To elect Tim Pennington

1,784,068,942

99.72

5,006,816

0.28

1,072,385

9

To re-elect Simon Ball

1,733,673,568

96.90

55,373,959

3.10

1,100,616

10

To re-elect John Pluthero

1,783,700,770

99.70

5,452,503

0.30

994,870

11

To re-elect Kasper Rorsted

1,733,536,861

96.90

55,549,567

3.10

1,061,715

12

To re-appoint the Auditor

1,705,533,536

95.58

78,957,509

4.42

5,657,097

13

To authorise the Directors to set the Auditor's remuneration

1,502,903,128

94.84

81,720,088

5.16

205,524,927

14

To give authority to allot shares

1,772,205,366

99.22

13,977,418

0.78

3,965,359

15

To disapply pre-emption rights*

1,783,083,674

99.84

2,867,397

0.16

4,197,072

16

To adopt new Articles of Association*

1,784,873,096

99.94

1,106,386

0.06

4,168,661

17

To authorise the purchase of its own shares by the Company*

1,767,868,500

99.87

2,227,376

0.13

20,052,267

18

To amend the rules of the LTIP

1,279,726,647

75.30

419,884,436

24.70

90,537,059

19

To amend the award to Richard Lapthorne

1,276,800,541

75.28

419,274,817

24.72

94,072,784

20

To authorise the Company to call a general meeting of shareholders on not less than 14 days' notice*

1,758,463,507

98.37

29,204,782

1.63

2,479,854

* Special Resolution

A Member of the Audit Committee

 Member of the Nominations Committee 

R Member of the Remuneration Committee

This information is provided by RNS
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