22nd Jan 2009 11:33
Enterprise Inns plc
22nd January 2009
Results of AGM
Enterprise Inns plc (the 'Company') is pleased to announce that at its Annual General Meeting held on 22nd January 2009 all the resolutions proposed were passed on a show of hands.
Full details of the proxy votes received from shareholders prior to the meeting for each resolution are set out below and will also be made available on the Company's website: www.enterpriseinns.com
|
Resolutions |
Votes for |
% of votes cast |
Votes against |
% of votes cast |
Votes total for and against |
Votes withheld |
|
1. Adoption of Report and Accounts |
229,513,263 |
99.55 |
1,037,533 |
0.45 |
230,550,796 |
12,908 |
|
2. Approval of Remuneration Report |
222,129,752 |
98.9 |
2,469,416 |
1.1 |
224,599,168 |
5,964,536 |
|
3. Declaration of Final Dividend |
230,563,704 |
100 |
Nil |
N/A |
230,563,704 |
Nil |
|
4. Reappointment of Mr H V Reid |
228,645,326 |
99.33 |
1,547,142 |
0.67 |
230,192,468 |
371,236 |
|
5. Reappointment of Mr D O Maloney |
230,041,905 |
99.78 |
512,433 |
0.22 |
230,554,338 |
9,366 |
|
6. Reappointment of Auditors' |
223,760,612 |
97.05 |
6,797,091 |
2.95 |
230,557,703 |
6,000 |
|
7. Auditors' Remuneration |
226,595,177 |
98.29 |
3,949,153 |
1.71 |
230,544,330 |
19,374 |
|
8. Authority to Allot Shares |
229,729,723 |
99.65 |
803,068 |
0.35 |
230,532,791 |
30,913 |
|
9. Disapplication of Pre-emption Rights |
229,888,811 |
99.72 |
644,452 |
0.28 |
230,533,263 |
99.72 |
|
10. Purchase of Own Shares |
228,647,176 |
99.33 |
1,545,179 |
0.67 |
230,192,355 |
371,349 |
Notes:
(i) The votes 'for' figures include those votes giving the Chairman discretion on casting votes.
(ii) A 'vote withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the total number of votes cast on a resolution or in the calculation of the percentages of the votes cast for or against a resolution.
(iii) Full details of the resolutions were set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting dated 4th December 2008
(iv) Resolutions 1 to 8 were ordinary resolutions, requiring more than 50% of votes cast for or against to be in favour of the resolutions
(v) Resolutions 9 and 10 were special resolutions, requiring not less than 75% of votes cast for or against to be in favour of the resolutions
Certified copies of the document setting out the resolutions passed as special business (as defined by the Listing Rules of the UK Listing Authority) by the Company at the meeting have been submitted to the UK Listing Authority and will shortly be made available for inspection at the UK Listing Authority's Document Viewing Facility, from 9.00 am to 5.30 pm on every weekend except bank holidays, which is situated at:
Financial Services Authority
25 The North ColonnadeCanary WharfLondon
E14 5HS
Tel: (0) 20 7676 1000
The following are brief summaries of the resolutions passed as special business by the Company:
1. Approval of the authority for the Company to disapply statutory pre emption rights,
2. Approval of the authority for the Company for a period of 15 months to purchase up to 14.99% of its own shares in the market
Printed copies may be obtained in writing to the Deputy Company Secretary, Enterprise Inns plc, 3 Monkspath Hall Road, Solihull, West Midlands, B90 4SJ.
J A Poole
Deputy Company Secretary
0121 256 3024
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