1st Dec 2016 09:36
PURECIRCLE LIMITED("PureCircle" or "the Company")
Result of Annual General Meeting
PureCircle (www.purecircle.com), the world's leading producer and marketer of high purity stevia ingredients, announces that all of the resolutions proposed at the Company's Annual General Meeting held today (1 December 2016) were duly passed on a show of hands.
A summary of proxies received in respect of each resolution is set out below:
No. | Resolution | Votes validly cast | In Favour | Against | Withheld* | ||
No of votes | No of votes | % | No of votes | % | No of votes | ||
1. | Adopt the Annual Report & Accounts | 95,229,612 | 95,229,612 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2. | Approve the Director's remuneration report | 94,894,174 | 94,703,873 | 99.8 | 190,301 | 0.2 | 335,438 |
3. | Approve the Director's remuneration policy | 94,894,174 | 94,890,074 | 100 | 4,100 | 0 | 335,438 |
4. | Ratify the appointment of PricewaterhoouseCoopers LLP as auditors | 95,229,612 | 95,229,612 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
5. | Appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors | 95,229,612 | 95,229,612 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
6. | Authorise the Directors to determine the auditors' remuneration | 95,229,612 | 94,890,624 | 99.64 | 338,988 | 0.36 | 0 |
7. | Election of John Gibney as a Director | 95,229,612 | 95,229,112 | 100 | 500 | 0 | 0 |
8. | Election of Rakesh Sinha as a Director | 95,229,612 | 94,893,724 | 99.65 | 335,888 | 0.35 | 0 |
9. | Re-election Paul Selway-Swift as a Director | 95,229,612 | 95,229,112
| 100 | 500 | 0 | 0 |
10. | Re-election Magomet Malsagov as a Director | 95,229,612 | 94,324,556 | 99.05 | 905,056 | 0.95 | 0 |
11. | Re-election Christopher Pratt as a Director | 95,229,612 | 95,229,112 | 100 | 500 | 0 | 0 |
12. | Re-election Lai Hock Meng as a Director | 95,229,612 | 95,229,112 | 100 | 500 | 0 | 0 |
13. | Re-election Guy Wollaert as a Director | 95,229,612 | 94,893,724 | 99.65 | 335,888 | 0.35 | 0 |
14. | Re-election Mitch Adamek as a Director | 95,229,612 | 95,229,112
| 100 | 500 | 0 | 0 |
15. | Authority to Directors to allot shares | 95,229,612 | 92,362,512 | 96.99 | 2,867,100 | 3.01 | 0 |
16. | Special Resolution: Authority to the Directors to make non pre-emptive share allotments | 95,229,612 | 92,866,059
| 97.52 | 2,363,553 | 2.48 | 0 |
17. | Special Resolution: Authority to the Directors to make non pre-emptive share allotments in connection with an acquisition or specified capital investment | 95,229,612 | 92,864,059 | 97.52 | 2,365,553 | 2.48 | 0 |
18. | Amendments to the rules of the PureCircle Long Term Incentive Plan | 95,229,562 | 94,744,875 | 99.49 | 484,687 | 0.51 | 50 |
* A vote "withheld" is not a vote in law and is therefore not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes for and against the resolution.
The total number of shares in issue (excluding treasury shares) at the record date and time for voting was 173,649,794.
In accordance with LR9.6.2, a copy of the resolutions relating to special business at the Annual General Meeting has today been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm.
A summary of the proxy votes received and a copy of the Notice of Annual General Meeting 2016 are available at http://purecircle.com/investors/shareholder-and-constitutional-documents/
1 December 2016
NOTES TO EDITORS
PureCircle is the world's leading producer of high-purity stevia ingredients for the global food and beverage industry. Its mission is to encourage healthier diets around the world through the supply of natural ingredients to the global food and beverage industry. Its vision is to lead the global expansion of stevia as the next mass volume, natural-origin sweetener. PureCircle has offices around the world with the global headquarters in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Business was founded in 2002. PureCircle's shares are listed on the main market of the London Stock Exchange and trade under the ticker symbol PURE. For more information, visit: www.purecircle.com.
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