23rd Apr 2008 16:30
Aggreko PLC23 April 2008 At the Aggreko plc Annual General Meeting, held at 11.00 a.m. today,shareholders passed all resolutions, and in particular: ORDINARY DIVIDEND RESOLUTION 3 was duly proposed. The Chairman then put the resolution to themeeting and declared it carried on a show of hands as follows: No. 3 THAT a final dividend for the year ended 31 December 2007 of 5.02 penceper share be declared on the ordinary shares of 20p each of the Company payableon 16 May 2008 to shareholders registered at the close of business on 18 April2008. It was reported that 166,982,745 proxy votes had been placed, representing61.41% of the total issued share capital. 99.99% of the votes cast were infavour and 0.01% of the votes cast were against. The number of votes withheldwas 28,609. ALLOTMENT OF SHARES FOR CASH RESOLUTION 14 was duly proposed. The Chairman then put it to the meeting as aSpecial Resolution and declared it carried on a show of hands as follows: No. 14 THAT the Board of Directors of the Company (the 'Directors') be and they are hereby empowered pursuant to Section 95 of theCompanies Act 1985 (the 'Act') to allot equity securities(within the meaning of Section 94 of the Act) wholly for cash (i) by sellingequity securities held by the Company as treasury shares or (ii) by allottingnew equity securities pursuant to any authority for the time being in forceunder Section 80 of the Act, as if Section89(1) of the Act did not apply to suchallotment, PROVIDED THAT this power shall be limited to: (a) the allotment of equity securities for cash in connection with or pursuantto a rights issue or any other offer in favour of the holders of equitysecurities and other persons entitled to participate therein in proportion (asnearly as may be practicable) to the respective numbers of equity securitiesthen held by them (or, as appropriate, the number of such securities which suchother persons are for those purposes deemed to hold), but subject to suchexclusions or other arrangements as the Directors may consider necessary,expedient or appropriate to deal with any fractional entitlements or legal orpractical difficulties which may arise under the laws of, or the requirements ofany recognised regulatory body or any stock exchange in, any territory orotherwise; and (b) the allotment (otherwise than pursuant to sub-paragraph (a) above) ofequity securities for cash up to an aggregate nominal value of £2,712,600; and shall expire on the earlier of 22 July 2009 and the conclusion of the AnnualGeneral Meeting of the Company held in 2009, save that the Company may beforesuch expiry make an offer or agreement which would or might require equitysecurities to be allotted after such expiry and the Directors may allot equitysecurities in pursuance of such an offer or agreement as if the power conferredhereby had not expired. It was reported that 166,982,745 proxy votes were placed, representing 61.41% ofthe total issued share capital. 99.96% of the votes cast were in favour and0.04% were against. The number of votes withheld was 229,820. PURCHASE OF OWN SHARES RESOLUTION 15 was duly proposed. The Chairman then put it to the meeting as aSpecial Resolution and declared it carried on a show of hands as follows: No. 15 THAT the Company is hereby generally and unconditionally authorised tomake market purchases (within the meaning of Section 163(3) of the Companies Act1985) of ordinary shares of 20p each in the Company ('Ordinary Shares') PROVIDED THAT: (a) the maximum number of Ordinary Shares hereby authorised to be purchased is27,126,000; (b) the maximum price which may be paid for any such Ordinary Share is anamount equal to the higher of (i)105% of the average of the middle marketquotations for an Ordinary Share as derived from The London Stock Exchange DailyOfficial List for the five business days immediately preceding the day on whichthe share is contracted to be purchased and (ii) the higher of the price of thelast independent trade and the highest current independent bid on the tradingvenue where the purchase is carried out, and the minimum price which may be paidfor any Ordinary Share is 20p (in each case exclusive of associated expenses); (c) the authority hereby conferred shall (unless previously renewed or revoked)expire at the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting ot the Company or 18months from the date of the passing of this resolution, whichever is theearlier; but a contract of purchase may be made before such expiry which will ormay be completed wholly or partly thereafter, and a purchase of Ordinary Sharesmay be made in pursuance of any such contract; and (d) any Ordinary Shares so purchased shall be cancelled or, if the Directors sodetermine and subject to the provisions of any statutory instruments relating totreasury shares and any applicable regulations of the United Kingdom ListingAuthority, held as treasury shares. It was reported that 166,982,745 proxy votes were placed, representing 61.41% ofthe total issued share capital. 99.98% of the votes cast were in favour and0.02% were against. The number of votes withheld was 186,582. ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION RESOLUTION 16 was duly proposed. The Chairman then put it to the meeting as aSpecial Resolution and declared it carried on a show of hands as follows: No. 16 THAT the draft regulations produced to the meeting and, for the purposesof identification, initialled by the Chairman of the meeting be adopted as theArticles of Association of the Company in substitution for, and to the entireexclusion of, the existing Articles of Association of the Company. The materialchanges to the Articles of Association of the Company are summarised in Part Bof the Appendix to the Notice of the Annual General Meeting It was reported that 166,982,745 proxy votes were placed, representing 61.41% ofthe total issued share capital. 98.47% of the votes cast were in favour and1.53% were against. The number of votes withheld was 3,848,536. NEW ARTICLE 100 RESOLUTION 17 was duly proposed. The Chairman then put it to the meeting as aSpecial Resolution and declared it carried on a show of hands as follows: No. 17 THAT subject to resolution 16 set out in the notice of the AnnualGeneral Meeting of the Company being passed and with effect from 12.01 a.m. on 1October 2008 (or such later date as section 175 of the Companies Act 2006 shallbe brought into force), Article 100 of the Company's Articles ofAssociation adopted pursuant to such resolution 16 be deleted in its entiretyand replaced by the new Article 100. It was reported that 166,982,744 proxy votes were placed, representing 61.41% ofthe total issued share capital. 99.79% of the votes cast were in favour and0.21% were against. The number of votes withheld was 2,038,939. Aggreko plc has today submitted to the UK Listing Authority prints ofResolutions passed at the Annual General Meeting on 23 April 2008 concerningitems other than ordinary business. These documents will shortly be availablefor inspection at the UK Listing Authority's Document Viewing Facility which issituated at:- The Financial Services Authority25 The North ColonnadeCanary WharfLondon E14 5HS The results of the proxy voting will be available on the Company's website. Number of ordinary shares in issue at meeting date (excluding Treasury shares): 271,927,784 Hew Campbell23 April 2008 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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