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Result of AGM

13th May 2009 15:19

RNS Number : 1950S
Weir Group PLC
13 May 2009
 



THE WEIR GROUP PLC

13 May 2009

Voting Results

The Annual General Meeting of The Weir Group PLC was held on Wednesday 13 May 2009 at 11 am. All resolutions were passed on a poll via electronic voting. Resolutions 1-11 being passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 12, 13 and 14 being passed as special resolutions.

No.

Resolution

No. of votes for the resolution

Percentage of votes received

No. of votes against the resolution

Percentage of votes received

No. of votes withheld

1

To receive and adopt the financial statements for the 52 weeks ended 26 December 2008, and the reports of the directors and auditors thereon

132,980,459

99.89

151,109

0.11

1,656,889

2

To declare a dividend

134,493,325

99.99

11,382

0.01

374,750

3

To approve the Remuneration Committee Report as set out in the annual report for the 52 weeks ended 26 December 2008

130,424,344

97.98

2,688,654

2.02

1,678,458

4

To elect John Mogford as a director

134,038,737

99.45

743,148

0.55

91,572

5

To elect Richard Menell as a director

132,891,113

98.61

1,872,449

1.39

110,231

6

To re-elect Michael Dearden as a director

132,446,210

98.27

2,329,094

1.73

98,489

7

To re-elect Lord Robertson as a director

132,336,792

98.19

2,440,952

1.81

102,049

8

To re-elect Prof. Ian Percy as a director

130,525,446

96.85

4,246,317

3.15

108,030

9

To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP as auditors

134,637,036

99.89

150,858

0.11

91,899

10

To authorise the directors to fix the remuneration of the auditors

134,765,423

99.98

22,476

0.02

91,894

11

To renew the directors' general authority to allot relevant securities

133,039,428

98.71

1,733,526

1.29

100,839

12

To disapply, within certain limits, the statutory pre-emption rights arising on the allotment of shares

133,394,579

99.88

165,409

0.12

1,313,805

13

To renew the Company's power to purchase its own shares

134,653,428

99.91

126,989

0.09

93,376

14

To authorise that general meetings, other than the company's annual general meeting, may be called on 14 clear days notice.

132,708,057

98.45

2,088,792

1.55

82,944

Any proxy appointments which give discretion to the Chairman have been included in the "for" total.

At close of business on 12 May 2009 there were 210,293,264 relevant shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).

A copy of the Resolutions passed has been submitted to the UK Listing Authority and will shortly be available for inspection at the UK Listing Authority's Document Viewing Facility, which is situated at:

The Financial Services Authority

25 The North Colonnade

Canary WharfLondonE14 5HS

This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
 
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