31st Jul 2014 07:00
Result of AGM
The Annual General Meeting of WS Atkins plc was held at The Royal College of Physicians, 11 St Andrews Place, Regent's Park, London NW1 4LE on Wednesday 30 July 2014.
All 20 resolutions put to the members were passed on a poll. Accordingly, resolutions 1 to 17 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 18 to 20 were passed as special resolutions.
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 annual report and accounts | 67,498,838 | 99.9997% | 227 | 0.0003% | 43,557 |
2. | To approve the policy on directors' remuneration | 59,955,108 | 89.45% | 7,074,669 | 10.55% | 490,397 |
3. | To approve the report on directors' remuneration | 61,520,224 | 91.10% | 6,006,545 | 8.90% | 16,315 |
4. | To receive and consider the Corporate Sustainability Report | 67,505,805 | 99.99% | 4,089 | 0.01% | 32,674 |
5. | To declare a final dividend of 23.25p per ordinary share | 67,542,872 | 99.9999% | 100 | 0.0001% | 541 |
6. | To re-elect Fiona Clutterbuck as a director of the Company | 67,214,503 | 99.52% | 323,276 | 0.48% | 4,843 |
7. | To re-elect Allan Cook as a director of the Company | 67,320,383 | 99.68% | 218,902 | 0.32% | 3,337 |
8. | To re-elect Heath Drewett as a director of the Company | 67,383,878 | 99.77% | 155,401 | 0.23% | 3,343 |
9. | To re-elect Uwe Krueger as a director of the Company | 67,407,777 | 99.80% | 131,719 | 0.20% | 3,588 |
10. | To re-elect Raj Rajagopal as a director of the Company | 67,251,721 | 99.58% | 286,737 | 0.42% | 3,893 |
11. | To elect Alan James Cullens as a director of the Company | 67,381,150 | 99.77% | 156,869 | 0.23% | 4,332 |
12. | To elect Allister Langlands as a director of the Company | 67,242,440 | 99.56% | 295,579 | 0.44% | 4,332 |
13. | To elect Thomas Leppert as a director of the Company | 67,418,754 | 99.86% | 95,355 | 0.14% | 28,242 |
14. | To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditor | 65,346,164 | 99.46% | 357,405 | 0.54% | 1,839,053 |
15. | To authorise the directors to fix the remuneration of the auditor | 65,930,839 | 99.52% | 319,440 | 0.48% | 1,292,072 |
16. | To authorise political donations and expenditure under the Companies Act 2006 | 67,252,705 | 99.60% | 273,235 | 0.40% | 16,411 |
17. | To renew the authority to allot shares | 66,064,714 | 97.82% | 1,474,202 | 2.18% | 3,435 |
18. | To renew the authority to allot equity securities for cash | 67,512,823 | 99.96% | 26,465 | 0.04% | 3,063 |
19. | To allow general meetings (other than annual general meetings) to be called on 14 days' notice | 64,160,428 | 94.99% | 3,381,170 | 5.01% | 1,024 |
20. | To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares | 67,475,751 | 99.91% | 60,462 | 0.09% | 6,138 |
* 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.
Eliza Unwin
Company Secretarial Assistant
31 July 2014
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