19th Jun 2013 13:55
19 June 2013
bwin.party digital entertainment plc
('bwin.party', the 'Company')
2013 Annual General Meeting ("AGM") Poll Results
At the Company's AGM held in Gibraltar today, the ordinary resolutions (resolutions 1 to 18) and special resolutions (resolutions 19 and 20) set out in the Company's notice of AGM dated 30 April 2013, were passed on a poll by shareholders.
The full results of the poll votes were as follows:
Ordinary Resolutions | Total | For | Against | Abstain | ||
Number | Votes Cast | Number | % of shares voted | Number | % of shares voted | Number |
1. To receive the Company's Annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 December 2012
| 538,740,129 | 534,433,326 | 99.20% | 4,306,803 | 0.80% | 302,200 |
2. To approve the 2012 Directors' Remuneration Report
| 490,530,942 | 459,625,439 | 93.70% | 30,905,503 | 6.30% | 48,510,837 |
3. To re-appoint the joint auditors | 534,694,010 | 534,554,308 | 99.97% | 139,702 | 0.03% | 4,347,769 |
4. To authorise the Directors to determine the joint auditors' remuneration
| 538,737,342 | 538,625,530 | 99.98% | 111,812 | 0.02% | 304,437 |
5. To declare a final dividend | 538,739,245 | 538,737,225 | 100% | 2,020 | 0% | 302,534 |
6. To re-appoint Per Afrell as a Director
| 528,891,629 | 521,148,908 | 98.54% | 7,742,721 | 1.46% | 10,147,305 |
7. To re-appoint Geoff Baldwin as a Director
| 530,698,276 | 524,557,900 | 98.84% | 6,140,376 | 1.16% | 8,340,658 |
8. To re-appoint Manfred Bodner as a Director
| 530,727,411 | 524,556,015 | 98.84% | 6,171,396 | 1.16% | 8,311,523 |
9. To re-appoint Tim Bristow as a Director
| 538,736,915 | 538,322,451 | 99.92% | 414,464 | 0.08% | 302,019 |
10. To appoint Sylvia Coleman as a Director
| 538,737,781 | 538,328,617 | 99.92% | 409,164 | 0.08% | 301,153 |
11. To re-appoint Simon Duffy as a Director
| 536,930,402 | 535,629,778 | 99.76% | 1,300,624 | 0.24% | 2,108,532 |
12. To re-appoint Helmut Kern as a Director
| 495,899,023 | 488,158,002 | 98.44% | 7,741,021 | 1.56% | 43,139,911 |
13. To re-appoint Lewis Moonie as a Director
| 538,737,915 | 521,285,102 | 96.76% | 17,452,813 | 3.24% | 301,019 |
14. To re-appoint Rod Perry as a Director
| 538,737,915 | 537,863,820 | 99.84% | 874,095 | 0.16% | 301,019 |
15. To re-appoint Georg Riedl as a Director
| 530,698,142 | 395,959,817 | 74.61% | 134,738,325 | 25.39% | 8,340,792 |
16. To re-appoint Norbert Teufelberger as a Director
| 538,737,915 | 537,656,645 | 99.80% | 1,081,270 | 0.20% | 301,019 |
17. To re-appoint Martin Weigold as a Director
| 538,737,915 | 535,407,370 | 99.38% | 3,330,545 | 0.62% | 301,019 |
18. To approve an update to the share allotment authority
| 538,733,313 | 537,047,497 | 99.69% | 1,685,816 | 0.31% | 305,621 |
Special Resolutions | ||||||
19. To approve the disapplication of pre-emption rights
| 538,732,051 | 538,721,920 | 100% | 10,131 | 0% | 306,883 |
20. To renew the Company's share buy-back authority | 536,055,003 | 535,942,119 | 99.98% | 112,884 | 0.02% | 305,531 |
Note: 816,060,045 ordinary shares of 0.015 pence per share in issue as at 19 June 2013, of which 4,121,473 shares are held in the bwin.party Shares Trust (the 'Trust') and the trustee of the Trust has waived all voting rights in respect of these shares. Therefore the total number of shares with voting rights was 811,938,572 as at 19 June 2013.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2 copies of resolutions 18,19 and 20 will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do
Enquiries:
Robert Hoskin, Company Secretary +350 200 78700
bwin.party digital entertainment plc
Contacts:
bwin.party digital entertainment plc
Investors
Peter Reynolds +44 (0) 20 7337 0177
Media
John Shepherd +44 (0) 20 7337 0141
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