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29/01/2015 13:11

RNS Number : 5167D
Avon Rubber PLC
29 January 2015
29 January 2015
Avon Rubber p.l.c.
(the 'Company')
Result of AGM and Retirement of Director
Result of AGM
Avon Rubber p.l.c. is pleased to announce that, at its Annual General Meeting held on the 29 January 2015, all the resolutions proposed in the Notice of Meeting 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.avon-rubber.com

RESOLUTIONS
FOR
%
AGAINST
%
WITHELD
1
To receive the Report and Accounts
20,853,134
99.99
58
<1%
30,000
2
To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report
20,647,892
99.03
200,738
<1%
34,562
3
To declare a final dividend
20,852,460
99.99
674
<1%
30,000
4
To re-appoint Andrew Lewis as a Director
20,847,915
99.97
4,777
<1%
30,500
5
To re-appoint Richard Wood as a Director
20,842,953
99.95
9,739
<1%
30,500
6
To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors of the Company
20,701,029
99.94
12,163
<1%
170,000
7
To authorise the Directors to determine the auditors' remuneration
20,844,469
99.97
4,723
<1%
34,000
8
To authorise the Directors to allot shares
20,831,863
99.91
18,095
<1%
33,234
9
To disapply pre-emption rights*
20,831,072
99.91
18,595
<1%
33,525
10
To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares*
20,823,243
99.85
29,949
<1%
30,000
11
To authorise short notice general meetings*
20,595,810
98.76
256,882
1.24
30,500
Notes 
1. Any proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Chairman have been included in the "for" total.
2. 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" a resolution.
3. Discretionary proxy votes lodged in favour of a third party have not been included in the 'for', 'against' or 'total' figures.
4. At the date of the AGM the issued share capital of the Company is 31,023,292 ordinary shares.
In accordance with paragraph 9.6.2 of the Listing Rules, a copy of the resolutions passed as special business at the AGM have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do.
Retirement of Director
As previously reported in the 2014 Annual Report, Stella Pirie retired as Non-Executive Director of the Company at the conclusion of the AGM. Richard Wood has replaced Mrs Pirie as the Senior Independent Director.
Miles Ingrey-Counter
Company Secretary

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