3rd May 2013 14:16
Laird PLC Annual General Meeting
A copy of the resolutions (other than ordinary business resolutions) passed at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held today, together with details of the proxy votes have been submitted to the Document Viewing Facility and may be viewed there. The address is as follows:
The Financial Services Authority
25 The North Colonnade
Canary Wharf
London
E14 5HS
LAIRD PLC
RESULT OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
3 MAY 2013
At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held today the voting results were as set out below.
Proxy votes, expressed as number of votes and as a percentage of shares voted, were received in respect of a total number of 222,395,229 shares and in respect of the following Resolutions:
Ordinary Business | For or at Discretion | Against | "Vote Withheld"*
|
To receive and adopt the Report of the Directors and Accounts to 31 December 2012
| 220,412,044
99.11%
| 1,983,035
0.89% | 150
Less than 0.10% |
To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report
| 211,220,872
99.27% | 1,547,236
0.73% | 9,627,121
3.60% |
To declare a final dividend
| 222,395,088
100.00% | 141
Less than 0.10% | 0
0.00%
|
To re-elect Mr N J Keen as a Director
| 211,550,369
99.54% | 979,459
0.46% | 9,865,401
3.69% |
To re-elect Mr D C Lockwood as a Director
| 220,994,388
99.37% | 1,391,372
0.63% | 9,469
Less than 0.10% |
To re-elect Mr J C Silver as a Director
| 220,946,967
99.35% | 1,438,793
0.65% | 9,469
Less than 0.10% |
To re-elect Ms P Bell as a Director
| 216,073,353
97.16% | 6,311,993
2.84% | 9,883
Less than 0.10% |
For or at Discretion | Against | "Vote Withheld" | |
To re-elect Sir Christopher Hum as a Director
| 216,074,863
97.16% | 6,307,611
2.84% | 12,755
Less than 0.10% |
To re-elect Professor M J Kelly as a Director
| 216,079,802
97.16% | 6,307,611
2.84% | 7,816
Less than 0.10% |
To re-elect Mr A J Reading as a Director
| 206,558,521
92.88% | 15,832,178
7.12% | 4,530
Less than 0.10% |
To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP as Auditors and to authorise the Board to fix their remuneration | 124,369,837
81.53% | 28,179,486
18.47% | 69,845,906
26.11% |
Special Business | |||
Ordinary Resolution
| |||
To approve the new Share Plan
| 218,238,001
98.15% | 4,103,254
1.85% | 53,974
0.02% |
To give the Directors authority to allot shares
| 220,038,445
98.94% | 2,347,118
1.06% | 9,666
Less than 0.10% |
Special Resolutions
| |||
To disapply pre-emption rights
| 221,576,286
99.65% | 784,127
0.35% | 34,816
0.01% |
To authorise the Company to purchase its own ordinary shares
| 220,604,838
99.81% | 415,680
0.19% | 1,374,711
0.51% |
To approve the notice period for extraordinary general meetings
| 209,700,298
94.29% | 12,694,069
5.71% | 862
Less than 0.10% |
* A "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes "for" and "against" a resolution and therefore the figures shown for "vote withheld" are a percentage of issued share capital.
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Anna Hartropp, Head of Investor Relations Reg Hoare
John Olsen
Tel: 020 7468 4040 Tel: 020 3128 8100
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