21st Jan 2010 13:19
21st January 2010
Results of AGM
Enterprise Inns Plc (the "Company") is pleased to announce that at its Annual General Meeting held on 21st January 2010 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 |
279,987,413 |
99.27 |
2,064,611 |
0.73 |
282,052,024 |
40,744 |
|
2. Approval of Remuneration Report |
270,667,360 |
95.98 |
11,348,077 |
4.02 |
282,015,437 |
77,331 |
|
3. Reappointment of Mr D A Harding |
279,416,033 |
99.07 |
2,625,506 |
0.93 |
282,041,539 |
51,229 |
|
4. Reappointment of Mr W S Townsend |
281,133,870 |
99.68 |
910,969 |
0.32 |
282,044,839 |
47,929 |
|
5. Auditor's Reappointment |
261,529,658 |
92.8 |
20,290,749 |
7.2 |
281,820,407 |
272,360 |
|
6. Auditor's Remuneration |
264,952,235 |
94.27 |
16,113,736 |
5.73 |
281,065,971 |
1,026,797 |
|
7. Authority to the directors to Allot Shares |
268,035,422 |
96.79 |
8,894,025 |
3.21 |
276,929,447 |
5,163,070 |
|
8. Partial Disapplication of Statutory Pre-emption Rights |
281,988,694 |
99.99 |
39,311 |
0.01 |
282,028,005 |
64,513 |
|
9. Purchase of own Shares by the Company |
281,274,338 |
99.73 |
768,234 |
0.27 |
282,042,572 |
50,196 |
|
10. Amending the Articles of Association |
277,804,927 |
99.87 |
359,265 |
0.13 |
278,164,192 |
3,928,575 |
|
11. Approving the notice period for General Meetings |
273,852,472 |
97.1 |
8,182,976 |
2.9 |
282,035,448 |
57,320 |
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 2009.
(iv) Resolutions 1 to 7 were ordinary resolutions, requiring more than 50% of votes cast for or against to be in favour of the resolutions.
(v) Resolutions 8 to 11 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:
Printed copies may be obtained in writing to the Company Secretary, Enterprise Inns Plc, 3 Monkspath Hall Road, Solihull, West Midlands, B90 4SJ.
J A Poole
Company Secretary
0121 256 3024
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