26th Apr 2018 12:13
Cobham plc
Annual General Meeting held on 26 April 2018
Cobham plc is pleased to announce that at the AGM held today Thursday 26 April 2018, at 10am, each resolution was passed on a poll.
The votes cast were as follows:
Resolution | Total Votes FOR | %
| Total Votes AGAINST | % | Total Votes Cast | Votes WITHHELD | |
1 | Report & Accounts | 51,295,929 | 99.82 | 92,656 | 0.18 | 51,388,585 | 1,185,487 |
2 | Remuneration Report | 51,634,096 | 98.23 | 929,355 | 1.77 | 52,563,451 | 10,616 |
3 | Appointment - John McAdam | 52,355,335 | 99.61 | 204,709 | 0.39 | 52,560,044 | 14,026 |
4 | Appointment - Rene Medori | 52,428,235 | 99.75 | 132,603 | 0.25 | 52,560,838 | 13,233 |
5 | Appointment - Norton Schwartz | 52,432,489 | 99.75 | 132,581 | 0.25 | 52,565,070 | 9,001 |
6 | Re-election of David Lockwood | 52,413,946 | 99.71 | 151,523 | 0.29 | 52,565,469 | 8,605 |
7 | Re-election of David Mellors | 52,155,263 | 99.22 | 410,153 | 0.78 | 52,565,416 | 8,658 |
8 | Re-election of Michael Wareing | 50,270,482 | 96.16 | 2,009,550 | 3.84 | 52,280,032 | 294,035 |
9 | Re-election of Alison Wood | 52,346,439 | 99.59 | 213,270 | 0.41 | 52,559,709 | 14,363 |
10 | Re-appointment of Auditors | 51,895,295 | 99.02 | 515,405 | 0.98 | 52,410,700 | 163,372 |
11 | Remuneration of Auditors | 52,519,441 | 99.91 | 44,813 | 0.09 | 52,564,254 | 9,821 |
12 | Authority to purchase own shares | 51,772,857 | 98.88 | 588,985 | 1.12 | 52,361,842 | 212,231 |
13 | Authority to allot shares | 44,362,029 | 84.39 | 8,204,956 | 15.61 | 52,566,985 | 7,088 |
14 | General authority to disapply pre-emption rights | 46,100,358 | 87.70 | 6,464,603 | 12.30 | 52,564,961 | 9,114 |
15 | Additional disapplication of pre-emption rights | 50,693,983 | 96.43 | 1,874,436 | 3.57 | 52,568,419 | 5,656 |
16 | Authority to call general meetings on 14 days' notice | 50,526,953 | 96.48 | 1,841,735 | 3.52 | 52,368,688 | 205,380 |
Notes:
(1) Where shareholders appointed the chairman of the meeting as their proxy with discretion as to voting, these votes have been cast in favour of all resolutions.
(2) A vote 'WITHHELD' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes 'FOR' or 'AGAINST' a resolution.
(3) Resolutions 12, 14, 15 and 16 are Special Resolutions requiring a 75% majority.
The following table provides further relevant information:
Cobham plc's One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth AGM (2018) | Cobham plc's One Hundred and Twenty-Seventh AGM (2017) | |
Issued share capital (excluding Treasury Shares) | 2,391,009,391 | 1,707,863,851 |
Total number of possible votes | 59,794,935 | 42,716,296 |
Proxy appointments lodged | 52,568,419 | 34,515,859 |
Representing % of possible vote | 87.9 | 80.8 |
Number of AGM attendees | 7 | 11 |
Total vote % on the poll | 87.9 | 80.8 |
A copy of a document setting out the resolutions passed dealing with special business at the meeting has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.
The Voting results will be placed on our website (www.cobhaminvestors.com).
Mrs Lyn Colloff
Company Secretary
Cobham plc
26 April 2018
Name of contact and telephone number for queries:
Julian Wais
Director of Investor Relations
Tel: 01202 857998
Cobham plc LEI 213800A41R9NL49E5632
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