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Result of AGM

30th Jun 2025 12:07

RNS Number : 0059P
Tern PLC
30 June 2025
 

30 June 2025

 

Tern Plc

 

("Tern" or the "Company")

Result of AGM

Tern Plc (AIM:TERN), the investment company specialising in supporting high growth, early-stage, disruptive Internet of Things ("IoT") technology businesses, announces that at the Company's Annual General Meeting ("AGM") held earlier today resolutions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 were passed on a poll. Resolution 6 was not passed.

 

Following resolution 6 not being passed, the Directors do not currently have the authority to issue new ordinary shares for cash disapplying statutory pre-emption rights, although the Directors would have the authority to issue shares on a pre-emptive basis pursuant to the authority granted under resolution 5. The Board will consider the outcome of voting on resolution 6, in light of the 'Background and reasons for the Resolutions' set out in the Company's announcement of 6 June 2025. Whilst the other Resolutions were passed with the necessary majority, the Board also notes the voting in relation to these resolutions. The Board is committed to continuing an open dialogue with the Company's shareholders. Following the voting at the AGM, where it is able to, the Board will continue to seek to engage with those shareholders who are understood to have voted against certain of the resolutions to understand their views and/or any specific concerns.

 

Details of the proxy voting on each resolution are set out below:

 

Resolution

Votes For*

Votes Against

Votes Withheld**

Total Votes Cast (excluding Withheld)**

No. of ordinary shares

% of ordinary shares voted**

No. of ordinary shares

% of ordinary shares voted**

No. of ordinary shares

 

ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS

1. To receive and adopt the accounts for the financial year ended 31 December 2024

160,308,490

90.29%

17,239,892

9.71%

4,063,923

177,548,382

2. To re-appoint S&W Partners as auditors of the Company and to authorise the Directors to determine their remuneration.

162,034,929

91.30%

15,442,603

8.70%

4,134,773

177,477,532

3. To re-appoint Iain Ross as a Director of the Company

149,809,896

82.58%

31,605,781

17.42%

196,628

181,415,677

4. To re-appoint Jane McCracken as a Director of the Company

147,298,974

81.16%

34,191,306

18.84%

652,025

181,490,280

5. To authorise the Directors to allot securities

144,402,655

79.82%

36,499,605

20.18%

326,740

180,902,260

 

SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS

6. To disapply statutory pre-emption rights

114,170,212

62.81%

67,602,180

37.19%

369,913

181,772,392

7. To allow the Company to make market purchases of its Ordinary Shares

156,106,645

86.28%

24,824,812

13.72%

680,848

180,931,457

 

* Votes 'For' include votes giving the Chairman discretion.

** A 'Vote Withheld' is not a vote in law and has not been counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes 'For' and 'Against' a resolution.

 

The resolutions are set out in full in the Notice available on the Company's website at https://ternplc.com/aim-rule-26/ The votes received represented approximately [ ] per cent. of the Company's issued share capital.

 

Director Retirement and Appointment of Chair

 

As announced on 6 June 2025, Ian Ritchie, who has been the Company's Non-Executive Chairman since 2017, retired from the Board at the conclusion of the AGM. The Company would like to thank Ian for his considerable contribution to Tern over the last eight years and wishes him well in his retirement.

 

Jane McCracken, previously an independent Non-Executive Director of the Company, assumed the role of the Company's Chair at the conclusion of the AGM, initially on an interim basis.

 

The Board of the Company now therefore comprises Jane McCracken (Independent Interim Non-Executive Chair) and Iain Ross (Independent Non-Executive Director). The Board will continue to be supported by a non-Board senior management team, led by Al Sisto and Bruce Leith. An overview of Tern's management and governance arrangements can be found in the Company's announcement of 21 November 2023 and biographical details of the members of the Board and the senior management team can be found in the Company's annual report for the year ended 31 December 2024.

 

The Company notes that whilst it will fulfil the Companies Act requirement as a public company to have at least two directors, the Board is mindful of the Company's needs, having in mind that the Company is admitted to trading on a UK public market and will look to appoint an additional Non-Executive Director when a suitable candidate is identified.

 

Enquiries

 

Tern Plc

Jane McCracken (Chair)

via IFC Advisory

 

Allenby Capital Limited

(Nominated Adviser and Broker)

Alex Brearley / Dan Dearden-Williams (Corporate Finance)

Kelly Gardiner / Guy McDougall (Sales and Corporate Broking)

 

Tel: 0203 328 5656

 

IFC Advisory

(Financial PR and IR)

Tim Metcalfe

Graham Herring

Florence Staton

 

Tel: 0203 934 6630

 

 

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