18th Jul 2008 15:13
CABLE AND WIRELESS PLC
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Cable and Wireless plc held its Annual General Meeting today, 18th July 2008, at The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Broad Sanctuary, London SW1P 3EE.
All resolutions were put to the meeting on a poll, the full results of which are given below.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, two copies of all resolutions passed other than resolutions concerning ordinary business and two copies of the new Articles of Association have today been submitted to the UK Listing Authority for publication through the Listing Authority's Document Viewing Facility.
|
RESOLUTIONS |
VOTES FOR |
% |
VOTES AGAINST |
% |
VOTES WITHELD |
|
|
1 |
To receive the Report and Accounts |
1,598,263,941 |
97.10 |
47,806,130 |
2.90 |
1,804,616 |
|
2 |
To receive the Remuneration Report |
1,450,501,508 |
96.04 |
59,868,132 |
3.96 |
137,538,296 |
|
3 |
To declare a final dividend |
1,613,563,275 |
99.95 |
741,152 |
0.05 |
33,570,260 |
|
4 |
To re-elect Richard Lapthorne N |
1,607,738,452 |
97.87 |
35,019,273 |
2.13 |
5,116,962 |
|
5 |
To re-elect George Battersby |
1,640,799,513 |
99.70 |
4,980,679 |
0.30 |
2,094,495 |
|
6 |
To re-elect Kate Nealon ANR |
1,636,472,502 |
99.44 |
9,295,342 |
0.56 |
2,106,843 |
|
7 |
To re-elect Tony Rice |
1,639,483,854 |
99.62 |
6,304,617 |
0.38 |
2,086,216 |
|
8 |
To re-elect Agnès Touraine AR |
1,616,863,564 |
99.39 |
10,000,126 |
0.61 |
21,010,997 |
|
9 |
To re-appoint the Auditor |
1,645,061,585 |
99.95 |
828,564 |
0.05 |
1,984,538 |
|
10 |
To authorise the Directors to set the remuneration of the Auditor |
1,641,186,749 |
99.72 |
4,579,407 |
0.28 |
2,108,531 |
|
11 |
To give authority to allot shares |
1,641,502,118 |
99.75 |
4,153,144 |
0.25 |
2,219,425 |
|
12 |
To disapply pre-emption rights 1 |
1,642,085,065 |
99.80 |
3,330,616 |
0.20 |
2,459,006 |
|
13 |
To renew the SCRIP dividend Authority |
1,641,606,975 |
99.84 |
2,686,989 |
0.16 |
3,595,627 |
|
14 |
To adopt new Articles of Association1 |
1,567,488,353 |
99.70 |
4,795,021 |
0.30 |
75,591,313 |
|
15 |
To authorise the purchase of its own shares by the Company 1 |
1,642,913,734 |
99.83 |
2,772,958 |
0.17 |
2,187,995 |
|
16 |
To authorise political expenditure |
1,595,275,117 |
98.82 |
19,008,971 |
1.18 |
33,590,599 |
1 Special Resolution
A Member of the Audit Committee
N Member of the Nominations Committee
R Member of the Remuneration Committee
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