12th Jun 2012 16:46
Premier Farnell plc
Annual General Meeting of the Company
At the Company's Annual General Meeting (AGM) held today (12 June 2012), all of the resolutions proposed were passed on a poll set out below.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, full details of the resolutions passed as special business will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM
The following table shows the votes cast on each resolution:
VOTES % VOTES % VOTES % of VOTES FOR AGAINST TOTAL ISC* WITHHELD** VOTED Receive the Directors' Report, Accounts and 306,972,185 100.00 2,433 0.00 306,974,618 82.94% 1,681Auditors' Report
Approval of the Directors' 207,290,117 67.86 98,189,880 32.14 305,479,997 82.53% 1,494,302 Remuneration Report
Declare final dividend 306,978,926 100.00 0 0.00 306,978,926 82.94% 431
Elect Val Gooding as a 306,425,158 99.83 529,983 0.17 306,955,141 82.93% 24,216 Director
Elect Nicholas Cadbury 306,288,620 99.78 664,499 0.22 306,953,119 82.93% 26,238 as a Director
Re-elect Laurence Bain 306,276,537 99.78 663,248 0.22 306,939,785 82.93% 39,572 as a Director
Re-elect Andrew Dougal 291,123,988 94.84 15,830,743 5.16 306,954,731 82.93% 24,626 as a Director
Re-elect Dennis Millard 288,335,701 93.93 18,619,128 6.07 306,954,829 82.93% 24,528 as a Director
Re-elect Paul Withers as 291,111,921 94.84 15,840,885 5.16 306,952,806 82.93% 26,551a Director Re-elect Thomas Reddin 289,866,312 94.43 17,085,461 5.57 306,951,773 82.93% 24,526as a Director Re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers 289,311,061 99.39 1,790,048 0.61 291,101,109 78.65% 15,875,190LLP as Auditors Fix remuneration of PricewaterhouseCoopers 291,663,712 99.46 1,585,855 0.54 293,249,567 79.23% 13,729,790 LLP as Auditors
Authority to allot shares 306,772,104 99.94 180,400 0.06 306,952,504 82.93% 26,853
Donations to EU political 302,158,325 98.50 4,615,774 1.50 306,774,099 82.88% 203,558organisations Dis-apply pre-emption 306,854,731 99.98 54,361 0.02 306,909,092 82.92% 60,765rights Buy-back of ordinary 306,916,068 99.98 53,104 0.02 306,969,172 82.94% 10,185shares Buy-back of preference 306,878,130 99.97 91,209 0.03 306,969,339 82.94% 10,018shares Notice of general 297,374,214 96.87 9,595,697 3.13 306,969,911 82.94% 9,446meetings *ISC = Issued Share Capital
**A "Vote Withheld" is not a 'vote' in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes 'For' and 'Against' the resolution.
The total number of ordinary shares of £0.05 each eligible to be voted at the Annual General Meeting was 370,125,052. The scrutineers of the poll were Computershare Investor Services PLC.
Enquiries:
Steven Webb - Company Secretary
Premier Farnell plc
12 June 2012
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