Become a Member
  • Track your favourite stocks
  • Create & monitor portfolios
  • Daily portfolio value
Sign Up
Quickpicks
Add shares to your
quickpicks to
display them here!

Result of AGM

28th Apr 2026 15:13

RNS Number : 2643C
GlobalData PLC
28 April 2026
 

28 April 2026

 

 

GlobalData Plc ('GlobalData' or 'the Company')Results of Annual General Meeting ("AGM")

GlobalData Plc, a leading provider of industry intelligence, announces that at the Company's Annual General Meeting held earlier today (28 April 2026) all resolutions were duly passed.

A description on the subject matter of the poll and details on the votes are set out below.

Resolution

In Favour

Against

Totalvotes validlycast

% of issued share capital

Number of votes withheld

Number of votes

%

Number of votes

%

Ordinary resolutions

1

To receive the financial statements of the Company for the year ended 31 December 2025 together with the Reports of the Directors and Auditors.

603,898,458

99.99%

48,952

0.01%

603,947,410

79.77%

6,584

2

To declare a final dividend of 1.2 pence per ordinary share in respect of the year ended 31 December 2025, payable on 1 May 2026 to the holders of ordinary shares at close of business on 27 March 2026.

603,924,453

99.99%

25,823

0.01%

603,950,276

79.77%

3,718

3

To re-elect Murray Legg as a Director of the Company.

584,091,596

99.07%

5,467,487

0.93%

589,559,083

77.87%

14,394,911

4

To re-elect Michael Danson as a Director of the Company.

603,213,797

99.88%

713,030

0.12%

603,926,827

79.76%

27,167

5

To re-elect Graham Lilley as a Director of the Company.

603,772,880

99.97%

153,947

0.03%

603,926,827

79.76%

27,167

6

To re-elect Catherine Birkett as a Director of the Company.

603,701,140

99.96%

225,687

0.04%

603,926,827

79.76%

27,167

7

To re-elect Julien Decot as a Director of the Company.

601,796,611

99.65%

2,130,216

0.35%

603,926,827

79.76%

27,167

8

To re-elect Peter Harkness as a Director of the Company.

603,586,103

99.94%

340,724

0.06%

603,926,827

79.76%

27,167

9

To elect Rachel Higham as a Director of the Company.

603,819,229

99.98%

114,598

0.02%

603,933,827

79.77%

20,167

10

To elect Toby Walter as a Director of the Company.

595,566,169

98.62%

8,354,243

1.38%

603,920,412

79.76%

33,582

11

To approve the reappointment of Deloitte LLP as Auditors of the Company.

603,839,349

99.98%

105,635

0.02%

603,944,984

79.77%

9,010

12

To authorise the Audit Committee to fix the remuneration of the Company's Auditors.

603,744,478

99.97%

209,368

0.03%

603,953,846

79.77%

148

13

To approve the Directors' remuneration report contained on pages 85 to 101 of the Company's report and accounts for the year ended 31 December 2025.

510,050,817

84.45%

93,900,472

15.55%

603,951,289

79.77%

2,705

14

To approve the Directors' remuneration policy contained on pages 98 to 101 of the Company's report and accounts for the year ended 31 December 2025.

501,834,762

83.09%

102,118,084

16.91%

603,952,846

79.77%

1,148

15

To authorise the Directors to allot ordinary shares in the Company.

603,451,535

99.92%

496,456

0.08%

603,947,991

79.77%

6,003

Special resolutions

16

To renew the Directors' power to allot shares or grant rights to subscribe for, or convert securities into, shares or sell treasury shares where they propose to do so for cash (other than pursuant to an employee share scheme) otherwise than to existing shareholders pro rata to their holdings (i.e. non pre-emptively), as permitted by the Articles.

594,788,135

98.48%

9,159,856

1.52%

603,947,991

79.77%

6,003

17

To give the Directors power to make non-pre-emptive issues of ordinary shares in connection with acquisitions and other capital investments as contemplated by the Pre-emption Principles.

594,058,391

98.36%

9,889,600

1.64%

603,947,991

79.77%

6,003

18

To renew the Company's authority to make market purchases of up to 75,721,663 ordinary shares (being 10% of the Company's total issued ordinary share capital as at the date of the Notice of AGM), either for cancellation or for placing into treasury at the determination of the Directors.

602,315,365

99.73%

1,619,156

0.27%

603,934,521

79.77%

19,473

19

To approve a reduction of the length of notice for general meetings other than the Annual General Meeting.

602,778,312

99.81%

1,171,257

0.19%

603,949,569

79.77%

4,425

Independent resolutions

3

To re-elect Murray Legg as a Director of the Company.

158,779,073

96.67%

5,467,487

3.33%

164,246,560

21.69%

14,394,911

6

To re-elect Catherine Birkett as a Director of the Company.

178,388,617

99.87%

225,687

0.13%

178,614,304

23.59%

27,167

7

To re-elect Julien Decot as a Director of the Company.

176,484,088

98.81%

2,130,216

1.19%

178,614,304

23.59%

27,167

8

To re-elect Peter Harkness as a Director of the Company.

178,273,580

99.81%

340,724

0.19%

178,614,304

23.59%

27,167

9

To elect Rachel Higham as a Director of the Company.

178,506,706

99.94%

114,598

0.06%

178,621,304

23.59%

20,167

10

To elect Toby Walter as a Director of the Company.

170,253,646

95.32%

8,354,243

4.68%

178,607,889

23.59%

33,582

 

Notes:

1. A 'vote withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation proportion of the votes "for" or "against" a resolution.

2. A copy of the AGM results will be available on the Company's website at https://www.globaldata.com/.

3. Issued share capital as at 28 April 2026 is 757,140,958 ordinary shares of 1/100 pence each in the capital of the Company.

 

 

-ENDS-

 

ENQUIRIES

GlobalData Plc

0207 936 6400

Mike Danson, Chief Executive Officer

Graham Lilley, Chief Financial Officer

J.P. Morgan Cazenove (Joint Broker)

0203 493 8000

Bill Hutchings

Mose Adigun

Panmure Liberum (Joint Broker)

0203 100 2000

Rupert Dearden

James Sinclair-Ford

 

Investec Bank plc (Joint Broker)

Henry Reast

0207 597 5970

Virginia Bull

FTI Consulting (Financial PR)

0203 727 1000

Edward Bridges

[email protected]

Dwight Burden

Emma Hall

 

LEI: 2138005I669UO6PJXM24

A copy of this announcement will be available on the Company's website at https://www.globaldata.com/. Neither the content of the Company's website, nor the content on any website accessible from hyperlinks on its website for any other website, is incorporated into, or forms part of, this announcement nor, unless previously published by means of a recognised information service, should any such content be relied upon in reaching a decision as to whether or not to acquire, continue to hold, or dispose of, securities in the Company.

 

 

 

 

This information is provided by RNS, the news service of the London Stock Exchange. RNS is approved by the Financial Conduct Authority to act as a Primary Information Provider in the United Kingdom. Terms and conditions relating to the use and distribution of this information may apply. For further information, please contact [email protected] or visit www.rns.com.RNS may use your IP address to confirm compliance with the terms and conditions, to analyse how you engage with the information contained in this communication, and to share such analysis on an anonymised basis with others as part of our commercial services. For further information about how RNS and the London Stock Exchange use the personal data you provide us, please see our Privacy Policy.
 
END
 
 
RAGMZGZDDRGGVZM

Related Shares:

GlobalData
FTSE 100 Latest
Value10,378.82
Change165.71