18th Oct 2013 09:00
Date: 18 October 2013
Dechra® Pharmaceuticals PLC
Results of Annual General Meeting ("AGM")
AGM Meeting Date: 4pm on 17 October 2013
Issued Share Capital at meeting date: 87,224,400
Number of shareholders in attendance: 11
All resolutions were passed on a show of hands.
Details of the proxy voting instructions lodged prior to the AGM are set out below:
Resolution (No. as noted on proxy form)
| Total For (1) | Total Against | Withheld (2) | ||
No. of votes | % of vote | No. of votes | % of vote | No. of votes | |
Resolution 1: To receive and consider the report and accounts
| 69,695,806 | 99.98 | 15,670 | 0.02 | 0 |
Resolution 2: To receive and approve the Directors Remuneration Report
| 64,850,115 | 98.83 | 769,256 | 1.17 | 4,092,105 |
Resolution 3: To declare a final dividend
| 69,711,476 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Resolution 4: To elect Anthony Griffin
| 69,676,314 | 99.95 | 31,435 | 0.05 | 3,727 |
Resolution 5: To elect Julian Heslop
| 69,685,803 | 99.97 | 21,946 | 0.03 | 3,727 |
Resolution 6: To elect Ishbel Macpherson
| 69,679,185 | 99.96 | 28,564 | 0.04 | 3,727 |
Resolution 7: To elect Anne-Francoise Nesmes
| 69,693,731 | 99.98 | 14,018 | 0.02 | 3,727 |
Resolution 8: To re-elect Michael Redmond
| 69,681,584 | 99.96 | 29,892 | 0.04 | 0 |
Resolution 9: To re-elect Ian Page
| 69,697,383 | 99.98 | 14,093 | 0.02 | 0 |
Resolution 10: To re-elect Edwin Torr
| 69,696,733 | 99.98 | 14,743 | 0.02 | 0 |
Resolution 11: To re-elect Dr Christopher Richards
| 69,187,157 | 99.88 | 85,609 | 0.12 | 438,710 |
Resolution 12: To appoint KPMG LLP as Auditor
| 64,967,320 | 98.59 | 932,184 | 1.41 | 3,811,972 |
Resolution 13: To authorise the Directors to fix the remuneration of the Auditor
| 67,978,480 | 99.97 | 21,674 | 0.03 | 1,711,322 |
Resolution 14: To approve the amendments to the Dechra Long Term Incentive Plan
| 54,789,541 | 84.34 | 10,174,737 | 15.66 | 4,747,198 |
Resolution 15: To grant authority to allot shares to a specific limit
| 69,252,197 | 99.97 | 21,219 | 0.03 | 438,060 |
Resolution 16: To disapply pre-emptive rights
| 69,694,517 | 99.98 | 13,359 | 0.02 | 1,000 |
Resolution 17: To grant authority to the Company to purchase its own shares
| 69,658,941 | 99.92 | 52,535 | 0.08 | 0 |
Resolution 18: To call general meetings (other than an AGM) on not less than 14 clear days notice
| 68,542,004 | 98.33 | 1,167,222 | 1.67 | 2,250 |
Notes
1. Includes discretionary votes
2. A "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes "For" and "Against" a resolution
3. 3,360 votes were lodged in favour of a Third Party in respect of each resolution
4. Votes tendered in respect of 69,711,476 shares representing 79.92% of the issued share capital
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2R, a copy of the resolutions passed as special business at the AGM have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm.
Related Shares:
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