10th Feb 2016 17:15
10 February 2016
Urban&Civic plc
Results of Annual General Meeting
Urban&Civic plc (the "Company") announces that all resolutions were passed unanimously by shareholders of the Company (the "Shareholders") on a show of hands at the Company's Annual General Meeting held on Wednesday 10 February 2016. Proxies were received by the Company from Shareholders in advance of the Annual General Meeting as follows:
Resolution | For the Resolution (i) | % votes cast | Against the resolution | % votes cast | Votes Withheld (ii) | |
1 | To receive and adopt the accounts of the Company for the year ended 30 September 2015. | 121,835,892 | 100.00% | - | 0.00% | 609,127 |
2 | To approve the directors' remuneration report. | 119,917,605 | 99.33% | 812,240 | 0.67% | 1,715,174 |
3 | To declare a final dividend for the year of 1.65p pence per share. | 122,305,118 | 100.00% | - | 0.00% | 139,901 |
4 | To re-elect Nigel Hugill as a director of the Company. | 120,512,320 | 99.82% | 219,982 | 0.18% | 1,712,717 |
5 | To re-elect Robin Butler as a director of the Company. | 122,083,281 | 99.82% | 220,737 | 0.18% | 141,001 |
6 | To re-elect Philip Leech as a director of the Company. | 120,504,565 | 98.53% | 1,799,453 | 1.47% | 141,001 |
7 | To re-elect Jonathan Austen as a director of the Company. | 120,505,320 | 98.53% | 1,798,698 | 1.47% | 141,001 |
8 | To re-elect Robert Adair as a director of the Company. | 119,384,527 | 97.61% | 2,919,491 | 2.39% | 141,001 |
9 | To re-elect June Barnes as a director of the Company. | 122,297,660 | 99.99% | 6,358 | 0.01% | 141,001 |
10 | To re-elect Alan Dickinson as a director of the Company. | 121,634,479 | 99.45% | 667,584 | 0.55% | 142,956 |
11 | To re-elect Robert Dyson as a director of the Company. | 122,297,121 | 99.99% | 6,897 | 0.01% | 141,001 |
12 | To re-elect Duncan Hunter as a director of the Company. | 122,299,416 | 100.00% | 2,647 | 0.00% | 142,956 |
13 | To re-elect Mark Tagliaferri as a director of the Company. | 119,348,641 | 97.58% | 2,955,377 | 2.42% | 141,001 |
14 | To re-appoint BDO LLP as auditor to the Company. | 122,305,218 | 100.00% | - | 0.00% | 139,801 |
15 | To authorise the directors to determine the auditor's remuneration. | 122,305,218 | 100.00% | - | 0.00% | 139,801 |
16 | To authorise the directors to allot equity securities. | 112,978,637 | 92.37% | 9,326,581 | 7.63% | 139,801 |
17 | To disapply statutory pre-emption rights.(iii) | 120,718,746 | 99.99% | 11,099 | 0.01% | 1,715,174 |
18 | To authorise the directors to make market purchases of shares of the Company.(iii) | 122,285,614 | 99.98% | 19,604 | 0.02% | 139,801 |
19 | To approve the Company's Scrip Dividend Scheme. | 122,295,733 | 99.99% | 7,530 | 0.01% | 141,756 |
20 | To approve the rules of the Urban&Civic Performance Share Plan 2016. | 116,504,644 | 96.50% | 4,222,491 | 3.50% | 1,717,884 |
21 | To authorise the making of political donations by the Company. | 119,569,715 | 97.83% | 2,655,503 | 2.17% | 219,801 |
22 | To authorise the Company to call any general meeting of the Company other than the annual general meeting by notice of at least 14 clear days (iii) | 106,095,989 | 86.75% | 16,207,476 | 13.25% | 141,554 |
Notes:
As at the date of the meeting there were 144,006,555 ordinary shares of 20 pence each in issue. Proxies amounting to 122,446,019 votes were received in respect of all resolutions (iv).
(i) Includes votes cast at the discretion of the Chairman
(ii) A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of votes for or against a resolution
(iii) A Special Resolution requires at least 75% of votes in favour
(iv) Includes 1,000 votes cast by proxy at the discretion of a third party other than the Chairman
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of resolutions other than those concerning ordinary business passed at the Annual General Meeting have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm.
For further information:
Urban&Civic plc
Jon Austen 020 7509 5555
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