21st Sep 2016 14:33
IG Group Holdings plc21 September 2016
Result of Annual General Meeting ("AGM")
The Board of IG Group Holdings plc (the "Company"), a global leader in online trading, is pleased to announce that at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held earlier today, all the resolutions proposed in the Notice of the Meeting were duly passed. A poll was conducted on each resolution proposed at the Meeting. The number of votes for and against each of the resolutions and the number of votes withheld were as follows:
RESOLUTIONS | VOTESFOR | % | VOTESAGAINST | % | VOTESTOTAL | Votes cast as % of Issued Share Capital | VOTESWITHHELD* | ||
1. | To receive the accounts for the year ended 31 May 2016 and accompanying reports | 300,892,545 | 99.94 | 180,969 | 0.06 | 301,073,514 | 82.04% | 23,825 | |
2. | To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report | 278,197,945 | 97.20 | 8,001,015 | 2.80 | 286,198,960 | 77.99% | 14,898,379 | |
3. | To declare a final dividend of 22.95 pence per share | 301,097,339 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 301,097,339 | 82.05% | 0 | |
4. | To re-elect Andy Green as a Director | 299,470,888 | 99.77 | 700,792 | 0.23 | 300,171,680 | 81.79% | 925,659 | |
5. | To re-elect Peter Hetherington as a Director | 300,891,867 | 99.93 | 201,047 | 0.07 | 301,092,914 | 82.05% | 4,425 | |
6. | To re-elect June Felix as a Director | 300,918,760 | 99.94 | 173,534 | 0.06 | 301,092,294 | 82.05% | 5,045 | |
7. | To re-elect Stephen Hill as a Director | 300,795,606 | 99.90 | 296,704 | 0.10 | 301,092,310 | 82.05% | 5,029 | |
8. | To re-elect Malcolm Le May as a Director | 300,601,177 | 99.84 | 491,117 | 0.16 | 301,092,294 | 82.05% | 5,045 | |
9. | To re-elect Jim Newman as a Director | 300,532,548 | 99.82 | 547,975 | 0.18 | 301,080,523 | 82.04% | 16,816 | |
10. | To re-elect Sam Tymms as a Director | 300,446,943 | 99.78 | 649,776 | 0.22 | 301,096,719 | 82.05% | 620 | |
11. | To elect Paul Mainwaring as a Director | 300,548,211 | 99.82 | 548,508 | 0.18 | 301,096,719 | 82.05% | 620 | |
12. | To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors of the Company | 296,181,749 | 98.37 | 4,910,716 | 1.63 | 301,092,465 | 82.05% | 4,874 | |
13. | To authorise the Audit Committee of the Board to determine the auditors' remuneration | 298,659,997 | 99.19 | 2,437,142 | 0.81 | 301,097,139 | 82.05% | 200 | |
14. | To authorise the Directors to allot shares | 284,853,974 | 94.61 | 16,243,364 | 5.39 | 301,097,338 | 82.05% | 0 | |
15. | To disapply the statutory pre-emption rights attaching to shares | 293,120,619 | 99.96 | 108,048 | 0.04 | 293,228,667 | 79.90% | 7,868,672 | |
16. | To disapply the statutory pre-emption rights attaching to shares for the purposes of acquisitions or other capital investments | 275,623,218 | 94.00 | 17,605,449 | 6.00 | 293,228,667 | 79.90% | 7,868,672 | |
17. | To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own shares | 298,194,663 | 99.04 | 2,900,288 | 0.96 | 301,094,951 | 82.05% | 2,388 | |
18. | That a general meeting (other than an AGM) may be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice | 280,568,349 | 93.18 | 20,527,290 | 6.82 | 301,095,639 | 82.05% | 1,700 | |
19. | To adopt new Articles of Association
| 297,846,875 | 99.95 | 162,840 | 0.05 | 298,009,715 | 81.21% | 3,087,624 | |
*A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes cast "For" or "Against" a resolution.
As at 6.00pm on Monday 19 September 2016, the time by which shareholders who wanted to attend, speak and vote at the AGM must have been entered on the Company's register of members, there were 366,981,583 ordinary shares in issue. Shareholders are entitled to one vote per share.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, a copy of the resolutions that do not constitute ordinary business at an annual general meeting will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM
For further information, please contact:
IG Group
Kieran McKinney
Head of Investor Relations 020 7573 0026
FTI Consulting
Neil Doyle / Ed Berry 020 3727 1141 / 1046
IG is a global leader in online trading, providing fast and flexible access to over 10,000 financial markets - including shares, indices, forex, commodities and binaries.
Established in 1974 as the world's first financial spread betting firm, IG's aim is to become the default choice for active traders globally. It is an award-winning multi-platform trading company, the world's No.1 provider of CFDs* and a global leader in forex, and it now offers an execution-only stockbroking service in the UK, Australia, Ireland, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands.
It is a member of the FTSE 250, with offices across Europe, Africa, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and the US, where it offers limited risk derivatives contracts via the Nadex brand.
*Based on revenue excluding FX, published financial statements, September 2015.
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