30th Jun 2011 15:22
30 June 2011
bwin.party digital entertainment plc
(the 'Company')
2011 Annual General Meeting ("AGM") Poll Results
At the Company's AGM held in Gibraltar today, the ordinary resolutions (resolutions 1 to 14) and special resolutions (resolutions 15 and 16) set out in the Company's notice of AGM dated 27 May 2011, were passed on a poll by shareholders.
The full results of the poll votes were as follows:
Ordinary Resolutions | Total | For | Against | Abstain | ||
Number |
Votes Cast |
Number |
% of shares voted |
Number |
% of shares voted |
Number |
1. To receive the Company's Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2010 | 498,554,681 | 498,256,637 | 99.94% | 298,044 | 0.06% | 2,642,513 |
2. To approve the 2010 Remuneration Report
| 496,873,110 | 356,588,789 | 71.77% | 140,284,321 | 28.23% | 4,324,082 |
3. To re-appoint the joint auditors | 501,184,833 | 498,426,505 | 99.45% | 2,758,328 | 0.55% | 12,360 |
4. To authorise the Board to determine the joint auditors' remuneration
| 496,510,974 | 495,585,433 | 99.81% | 925,541 | 0.19% | 4,686,220 |
5. To re-appoint Rod Perry as a Director
| 498,547,325 | 491,948,708 | 98.68% | 6,598,617 | 1.32% | 2,649,869 |
6. To re-appoint Martin Weigold as a Director
| 498,552,411 | 498,022,397 | 99.89% | 530,014 | 0.11% | 2,644,783 |
7. To re-appoint Per Afrell as a Director
| 497,332,093 | 493,004,975 | 99.13% | 4,327,118 | 0.87% | 3,865,101 |
8. To re-appoint Joachim Baca as a Director
| 498,552,411 | 498,023,614 | 99.89% | 528,797 | 0.11% | 2,644,783 |
9. To re-appoint Manfred Bodner as a Director
| 498,552,310 | 491,465,099 | 98.58% | 7,087,211 | 1.42% | 2,644,883 |
10. To re-appoint Simon Duffy as a Director
| 497,980,729 | 497,213,375 | 99.85% | 767,354 | 0.15% | 3,216,464 |
11. To re-appoint Helmut Kern as a Director
| 498,552,411 | 492,925,776 | 98.87% | 5,626,635 | 1.13% | 2,644,783 |
12. To re-appoint Georg Riedl as a Director
| 495,706,670 | 493,085,417 | 99.47% | 2,621,253 | 0.53% | 5,490,523 |
13. To re-appoint Norbert Teufelberger as a Director
| 498,552,411 | 496,408,316 | 99.57% | 2,144,095 | 0.43% | 2,644,783 |
14. To approve an update to the share allotment authority
| 497,566,539 | 495,974,568 | 99.68% | 1,591,971 | 0.32% | 3,630,655 |
Special Resolutions | ||||||
15. To approve the disapplication of pre-emption rights
| 498,549,213 | 498,524,031 | 99.99% | 25,182 | 0.01% | 2,647,981 |
16. To renew the Company's share buy-back authority | 500,617,032 | 500,344,082 | 99.95% | 272,950 | 0.05% | 579,161 |
Note: 852,909,271 shares of 0.015 pence per share in issue as at 30 June 2011, of which 5,727,041 shares are held in the bwin.party Shares Trust (the 'Trust') and the trustee of the Trust has waived all voting rights in respect of these shares. Therefore the total number of shares with voting rights was 847,182,230 as at 30 June 2011.
The Company will submit copies of the special resolutions (resolutions 15 and 16) with the Financial Services Authority and they will shortly be available for inspection at www.Hemscott.com/nsm.doc.
Contacts:
bwin.party digital entertainment plc
Robert Hoskin | +350 200 78700 |
Company Secretary |
Related Shares:
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