16th May 2014 14:00
For immediate release | 16 May 2014 |
Centamin plc ("Centamin" or "the Company")
(LSE:CEY, TSX:CEE)
Results of Annual General Meeting of Shareholders
Centamin wishes to advise that the outcomes of each resolution put to the Company's members at the Annual General Meeting held at The Royal Yacht Hotel, St Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands on Friday 16th May 2014 at 11.00am (Jersey time), are as set out below:
VOTESFOR | % | VOTESAGAINST | % | VOTESWITHHELD (1) | |
Ordinary Resolution 1Annual Accounts, Director's Report and Auditor's Report | 644,025,499 | 99.13 | 5,661,925 | 0.87 | 18,127,910 |
Ordinary Resolution 2 Adoption of the Remuneration Report | 392,308,097 | 74.02 | 137,672,263 | 25.98 | 137,834,974 |
Ordinary Resolution 3.1 Re-Election of Mr Josef El-Raghy | 534,355,558 | 89.51 | 62,649,401 | 10.49 | 70,810,375 |
Ordinary Resolution 3.2Re-Election of Mr Trevor Schultz | 597,824,967 | 89.54 | 69,813,772 | 10.46 | 176,595 |
Ordinary Resolution 3.3Re-Election of Mr Edward Haslam | 657,610,438 | 98.59 | 9,410,341 | 1.41 | 794,555 |
Ordinary Resolution 3.4Re-Election of Prof. G. Robert Bowker | 659,792,088 | 98.83 | 7,787,822 | 1.17 | 235,424 |
Ordinary Resolution 3.5Re-Election of Mr Mark Arnesen | 666,496,590 | 99.83 | 1,135,349 | 0.17 | 183,395 |
Ordinary Resolution 3.6Re-Election of Mr Mark Bankes | 667,049,979 | 99.92 | 518,561 | 0.08 | 246,794 |
Ordinary Resolution 3.7Re-Election of Mr Kevin Tomlinson | 659,790,539 | 99.00 | 6,632,774 | 1.00 | 1,392,021 |
Ordinary Resolution 4.1Re-Appointment of Deloitte LLP as the Company Auditors until the conclusion of the audit tender process | 672,200,258 | 99.22 | 5,282,946 | 0.78 | 721,390 |
Ordinary Resolution 4.2Authorising the Directors to agree the Auditor's Remuneration | 675,634,105 | 99.92 | 542,839 | 0.08 | 2,027,649 |
Ordinary Resolution 5Authorise Directors to Allot Relevant Securities | 640,333,165 | 95.92 | 27,231,844 | 4.08 | 250,325 |
Special Resolution 6Disapplication of Pre-Emptive Rights | 640,247,066 | 95.91 | 27,285,196 | 4.09 | 283,072 |
Special Resolution 7Market Purchase of Ordinary Shares | 676,216,598 | 99.95 | 325,713 | 0.05 | 1,662,281 |
(1) A "Vote Withheld" is not a 'vote' in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes 'For' and 'Against' the resolution.
The total number of ordinary shares of no par value eligible to be voted at the Annual General Meeting was 1,152,107,984. The scrutineers of the poll were Computershare Investor Services PLC.
A copy of the resolutions passed at the AGM has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for viewing shortly at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.
The full text of each of the resolutions is set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting, copies of which are available on the Centamin website at www.centamin.com.
For more information please contact:
Centamin plc Josef El-Raghy, Chairman Andy Davidson, Head of Business Development and Investor Relations +44 (0) 1534 828708 | Buchanan Bobby Morse Gordon Poole Gabriella Clinkard + 44 (0) 20 7466 5000 |
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