3rd May 2016 18:10
RANDGOLD RESOURCES LIMITEDIncorporated in Jersey, Channel IslandsReg. No. 62686LSE Trading Symbol: RRSNASDAQ Trading Symbol: GOLD("Randgold Resources" or the "Company")
FINAL DIVIDEND FOR 2015, ELECTION FOR STERLING DIVIDEND, AND RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Jersey, Channel Islands, 3 May 2016 - Randgold Resources confirms that at the Company's Annual General Meeting held earlier today the shareholders approved a final dividend for the year ended 31 December 2015 of US$0.66 per share. The dividend payment will be made on Friday 27 May 2016 to shareholders on the register as at Friday 18 March 2016. The ex-dividend date was Thursday 17 March 2016.
The exchange rate for payment to those shareholders who have elected to receive the final dividend for the year ended 31 December 2015 in Pounds Sterling is: £1 = US$1.4675.
The Company also announces that at the Company's Annual General Meeting all of the resolutions were passed on a poll. Copies of all the resolutions passed have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do.
A summary of the votes cast in respect of each resolution is set out below (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 the resolution):
Resolution | In Favour | Against | Withheld | |||
No. of votes | % of votes | No. of votes | % of votes | No. of votes | ||
Ordinary Resolutions | ||||||
1. | Report and Accounts | 80 059 440 | 100.00 | 235 | 76 036 | |
2. | Declaration of Dividend | 80 063 309 | 100.00 | 1 499 | 70 903 | |
3. | Directors' Remuneration Report | 78 211 539 | 97.69 | 1 848 261 | 2.31 | 75 900 |
4. | Directors' Remuneration Policy | 78 176 791 | 97.65 | 1 884 261 | 2.35 | 73 968 |
5. | Re-election of Safiatou Ba-N'Daw | 80 057 604 | 99.99 | 7 726 | 0.01 | 70 370 |
6. | Re-election of Mark Bristow | 79 273 983 | 99.99 | 6 168 | 0.01 | 855 849 |
7. | Re-election of Norborne Cole Jr | 79 782 563 | 99.65 | 282 617 | 0.35 | 785 329 |
8. | Re-election of Christopher Coleman | 79 786 171 | 99.65 | 279 008 | 0.35 | 70 521 |
9. | Re-election of Kadri Dagdelen | 80 014 891 | 99.94 | 50 277 | 0.06 | 70 532 |
10. | Re-election of Jemal-ud-din Kassum | 80 055 672 | 99.99 | 9 546 | 0.01 | 70 482 |
11. | Re-election of Jeanine Mabunda Lioko | 80 056 083 | 99.99 | 9 196 | 0.01 | 70 421 |
12. | Re-election of Andrew Quinn | 79 987 106 | 99.90 | 78 323 | 0.10 | 70 271 |
13. | Re-election of Graham Shuttleworth | 79 982 701 | 99.90 | 82 372 | 0.10 | 70 627 |
14. | Re-appointment of Auditors | 79 855 312 | 99.74 | 210 242 | 0.26 | 70 157 |
15. | Auditors' Remuneration | 80 089 912 | 99.99 | 6 454 | 0.01 | 39 345 |
Ordinary Resolutions | ||||||
16. | Authority to Allot Shares | 78 614 567 | 99.99 | 11 131 | 0.01 | 1 510 013 |
17. | Awards of Shares to Non-Executive Directors (other than the Senior Independent Director and the Chairman) | 78 117 180 | 99.63 | 287 995 | 0.37 | 1 730 536 |
18. | Award of Shares to Senior Independent Director | 78 118 346 | 99.63 | 287 191 | 0.37 | 1 730 174 |
19. | Award of Shares to Chairman | 78 116 596 | 99.63 | 288 483 | 0.37 | 1 730 632 |
Special Resolutions | ||||||
20. | Authority to Disapply Pre-Emption Rights | 78 547 436 | 99.91 | 72 984 | 0.09 | 1 515 291 |
21. | Authority for the Company to Purchase its Own Shares | 77 967 360 | 99.16 | 660 289 | 0.84 | 1 508 062 |
RANDGOLD RESOURCES ENQUIRIES:
Chief ExecutiveMark Bristow+44 788 071 1386+44 779 775 2288
| Financial DirectorGraham Shuttleworth+44 779 771 1338+44 153 4735 333
| Investor & Media RelationsKathy du Plessis+44 20 7557 7738[email protected]
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Website: www.randgoldresources.com
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