15th May 2013 16:36
15 May 2013 Cape plc
("Cape" or the "Company")
Result of 2013 Annual General Meeting
Cape plc, the international provider of essential, non-mechanical support services to the energy and mineral resources sectors, announces that at its Annual General Meeting held earlier today, all the resolutions put to shareholders were duly passed on a poll.
Full details of the resolutions passed, together with explanatory notes, are set out in the Notice of Meeting which is available on the Company's website www.capeplc.com.
Resolutions | For/ Discretion | Against | Vote Withheld* | Total | ||
Number | % | Number | % | |||
1. To receive and adopt the audited financial statements of the Company for the financial year ended 31 December 2012 together with the reports of the directors and auditors thereon.
| 90,974,466 | 99.96 | 32,980 | 0.04 | 161,599 | 91,007,446 |
2. To declare a final dividend of 9.5 pence per Ordinary Share in respect of the financial year ended 31 December 2012.
| 90,915,785 | 99.72 | 252,862 | 0.28 | 398 | 91,168,647 |
3. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report of the Company for the financial year ended 31 December 2012. | 88,343,673 | 98.39 | 1,441,948 | 1.61 | 1,383,424 | 89,785,621 |
4. To re-elect Tim Eggar. | 89,241,872 | 97.89 | 1,926,109 | 2.11 | 1064 | 91,167,981 |
5. To re-elect Michael Merton. | 89,878,922 | 98.59 | 1,288,812 | 1.41 | 1,311 | 91,167,734 |
6. To re-elect Brendan Connolly. | 89,270,332 | 97.92 | 1,891,800 | 2.08 | 6,913 | 91,162,132 |
7. To elect Jonathan (Joe) Oatley. | 90,242,328 | 98.98 | 925,804 | 1.02 | 913 | 91,168,132 |
8. To elect Michael Speakman. | 90,241,345 | 98.98 | 926,787 | 1.02 | 913 | 91,168,132 |
9. To elect Leslie Van de Walle. | 88,937,051 | 97.57 | 2,218,933 | 2.43 | 13,061 | 91,155,984 |
10. To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors to the Company. | 90,930,249 | 99.93 | 64,646 | 0.07 | 174,150 | 90,994,895 |
11. To authorise the Directors to determine the auditor's remuneration. | 91,110,908 | 99.94 | 51,986 | 0.06 | 6,151 | 91,162,894 |
12. To authorise the Directors to allot equity securities pursuant to the articles of association of the Company. | 90,749,119 | 99.55 | 405,821 | 0.45 | 14,105 | 91,154,940 |
13. To authorise the Directors to allot equity securities for cash disapplying pre-emption rights in the Company's articles of association.
| 90,467,565 | 99.25 | 684,975 | 0.75 | 16,505 | 91,152,540 |
14. To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares. (+) | 90,968,905 | 99.98 | 19,801 | 0.02 | 180,339 | 90,988,706 |
*'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 is not reflected in the total figures set out above.
+ Votes for Resolution no. 14 include 242,145,608 votes attributable to the 1 scheme share of £1 held by The Law Debenture Trust Corporation p.l.c.
In accordance with LR 9.6.2, Cape plc has lodged copies of resolutions 12, 13 and 14 passed at the meeting to the National Storage Mechanism which will shortly be available for inspection at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do.
Enquiries:
Cape plc | |
Chris Judd, Company Secretary | Tel. +65 6681 0542
|
M:Communications | |
Patrick d'Ancona | Tel. +44 (0)20 7920 2347 |
Ben Simons | Tel. +44 (0)20 7920 2340 |
About Cape:
Cape plc (www.capeplc.com), which is listed on the main market of the London Stock Exchange, provides a range of essential industrial services including access systems, insulation, painting, coating, blasting, industrial cleaning, training and assessment to industrial plant operators and major international engineering and construction companies.
As a single source provider, Cape is able to provide a range of specialist multi-disciplinary services specifically tailored to meet the needs of the client providing the most intelligent and cost efficient solutions for our clients' in-plant maintenance and capital needs.
In the year ended 31 December 2012, Cape reported adjusted revenues of £749.4 million. With scale and leading market positions across its international footprint, Cape employs over 21,000 people around the world.
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