24th Oct 2014 15:59
The Go-Ahead Group plc
('Go-Ahead' or 'The Company')
Result of Annual General Meeting
At the Annual General Meeting of Go-Ahead held earlier today, 24 October 2014, all resolutions proposed at the meeting were duly passed on a show of hands. A summary of the proxy votes registered prior to the AGM is outlined below and is available on the Company's website at www.go-ahead.com.
The total issued share capital of the Company at today's date is 46,905,978 ordinary shares of 10p each and the total number of shares eligible to vote at the AGM was 43,003,748.
Resolution | Total Votes Cast (Excluding Abstain/ Withheld) | Votes For | Votes Against | Votes Discretionary | Votes Abstain/Withheld | Poll Yes/No |
1. To receive the Annual Report and Accounts 2014
| 25,598,905 | 25,516,521 | 1,225 | 81,159 | 72,945 | No |
2. To approve the directors' remuneration report
| 25,630,049 | 25,012,991 | 538,681 | 78,377 | 41,801 | No |
3. To approve the directors' remuneration policy
| 22,219,825 | 21,489,111 | 651,724 | 78,990 | 3,452,025 | No |
4. To approve the final dividend of 59.0p per share
| 25,671,311 | 25,592,721 | 482 | 78,108 | 539 | No |
5. To re-elect Andrew Allner as a non-executive director
| 25,657,062 | 23,955,036 | 1,622,194 | 79,832 | 14,788 | No |
6. To re-elect Katherine Innes Ker as a non-executive director
| 25,668,298 | 25,280,838 | 309,196 | 78,264 | 3,552 | No |
7. To re-elect Nick Horler as a non-executive director
| 25,667,853 | 25,523,575 | 65,309 | 78,969 | 3,997 | No |
8. To re-elect Adrian Ewer as a non-executive director
| 25,668,174 | 25,524,499 | 64,706 | 78,969 | 3,676 | No |
9. To re-elect David Brown as an executive director
| 25,667,626 | 24,880,981 | 707,068 | 79,577 | 4,224 | No |
10. To re-elect Keith Down as an executive director
| 25,668,349 | 25,307,202 | 281,023 | 80,124 | 3,501 | No |
11. To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP as auditor of the Group
| 25,445,638 | 25,005,217 | 361,608 | 78,813 | 226,212 | No |
12. To authorise the directors to determine the remuneration of the auditor
| 25,670,508 | 25,366,377 | 225,005 | 79,126 | 1,342 | No |
13. To authorise the Group to make political donations and incur political expenditure
| 25,662,438 | 24,776,181 | 838,181 | 48,076 | 9,412 | No |
14. To authorise the Directors to allot shares
| 25,631,630 | 24,242,395 | 1,341,031 | 48,204 | 40,220 | No |
15. To authorise the directors to disapply pre-emption rights (special resolution)
| 25,666,358 | 25,509,484 | 77,563 | 79,311 | 5,492 | No |
16. To give authority to the Group to make market purchases of its own shares (special resolution)
| 25,666,206 | 25,577,967 | 9,428 | 78,811 | 5,644 | No |
17. To authorise the calling of general meetings of the Group by notice of 14 clear days (special resolution)
| 25,668,837 | 23,666,122 | 1,923,199 | 79,516 | 3,013 | No |
Further details of each of the resolutions, are set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting 2014 available on Go-Ahead's website, www.go-ahead.com.
A copy of the resolutions relating to special business at the Annual General Meeting have today been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do.
For further information please contact:
Carolyn Ferguson, Company Secretary - 0191 232 3123
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