2nd Aug 2012 07:00
Result of AGM
The Annual General Meeting of WS Atkins plc was held at the Lincoln Centre, 18 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3ED on Wednesday 1 August 2012.
All 23 resolutions put to the members were passed on a poll. Accordingly, resolutions 1 to 20 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 21 to 23 were passed as special resolutions.
Copies of all resolutions passed at the meeting other than those resolutions concerning ordinary business will be submitted shortly to the National Storage Mechanism and will then be available for inspection at: www.hemscott.com/nsm.do.
The results of the polls are set out below and will be available on the Company's website (www.atkinsglobal.com/investors):
For | Against | Shares marked as Votes Withheld / Abstentions * | ||||
Resolution (No. as noted on proxy form) | Votes | % | Votes | % | ||
1. | To receive the Directors' Report and Accounts | 68,497,379 | 99.96 | 26,789 | 0.04 | 180 |
2. | To approve the report on directors' remuneration | 63,256,684 | 97.03 | 1,935,716 | 2.97 | 3,331,060 |
3. | To receive and consider the Corporate Responsibility Review | 68,496,201 | 99.97 | 18,641 | 0.03 | 8,618 |
4. | To declare a final dividend of 20.75p per ordinary share | 68,511,786 | 99.98 | 12,382 | 0.02 | 180 |
5. | To re-elect Lord Boyce as a director of the Company | 68,398,626 | 99.82 | 121,049 | 0.18 | 4,673 |
6. | To re-elect Fiona Clutterbuck as a director of the Company | 68,420,526 | 99.86 | 99,149 | 0.14 | 4,673 |
7. | To re-elect Allan Cook as a director of the Company | 67,446,147 | 99.62 | 254,701 | 0.38 | 823,500 |
8. | To re-elect Joanne Curin as a director of the Company | 68,421,175 | 99.86 | 98,500 | 0.14 | 4,673 |
9. | To re-elect Heath Drewett as a director of the Company | 68,404,005 | 99.83 | 115,670 | 0.17 | 4,673 |
10. | To re-elect Alun Griffiths as a director of the Company | 68,412,674 | 99.85 | 104,607 | 0.15 | 7,067 |
11. | To re-elect Uwe Krueger as a director of the Company | 68,404,786 | 99.84 | 112,880 | 0.16 | 6,682 |
12. | To re-elect Raj Rajagopal as a director of the Company | 67,174,607 | 99.61 | 265,844 | 0.39 | 1,083,897 |
13. | To elect Rodney Slater as a director of the Company | 68,406,453 | 99.85 | 104,593 | 0.15 | 13,302 |
14. | To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditor | 67,561,768 | 99.80 | 132,494 | 0.20 | 830,086 |
15. | To authorise the directors to fix the remuneration of the auditor | 68,358,747 | 99.76 | 164,393 | 0.24 | 1,002 |
16. | To authorise political donations and expenditure under the Act | 68,033,744 | 99.31 | 473,448 | 0.69 | 17,156 |
17. | To renew the authority to allot shares | 68,035,142 | 99.44 | 385,070 | 0.56 | 103,248 |
18. | To adopt the all-employee share plans | 68,399,008 | 99.83 | 119,731 | 0.17 | 3,011 |
19. | To adopt the WS Atkins plc Long Term Incentive Plan | 62,616,870 | 92.51 | 5,070,804 | 7.49 | 835,786 |
20. | To adopt the WS Atkins plc Long-term Growth Unit plan | 54,731,680 | 81.19 | 12,680,756 | 18.81 | 1,111,023 |
21. | To renew the authority to allot equity securities for cash | 68,479,817 | 99.94 | 37,846 | 0.06 | 5,797 |
22. | To allow general meetings (other than annual general meetings) to be called on 14 days' notice | 64,917,595 | 94.74 | 3,605,809 | 5.26 | 1,663 |
23. | To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares | 67,591,270 | 99.84 | 110,267 | 0.16 | 821,923 |
* A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes for or against the resolution.
Ashley Gerrard
Company Secretarial Assistant - Graduate Trainee
02 August 2012
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