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Costain Group PLC
05 May 2016

Costain Group PLC

("Costain" or "the Group")

Results of AGM

At the Company's Annual General Meeting held on 05 May 2016, the resolutions set out in the Notice of Meeting circulated to shareholders on 31 March 2016 and put to the meeting were passed on a show of hands. The number of shares in issue at the voting record date was 102,100,417 ordinary shares.

The proxy figures for the resolutions were as follows:

TOTAL VOTES

CAST

VOTES

FOR

% of Votes Cast

VOTES AGAINST

% of Votes Cast

VOTES WITHHELD

Resolution 1

65,559,270

65,553,813

99.99%

5,457

0.01%

1,107,347

Resolution 2

65,552,916

65,340,074

99.68%

212,842

0.32%

1,113,701

Resolution 3

65,580,587

65,577,144

99.99%

3,443

0.01%

1,086,030

Resolution 4

65,573,176

65,545,690

99.96%

27,486

0.04%

1,093,441

Resolution 5

(see note 4 below)

Resolution 6

65,572,261

65,548,740

99.96%

23,521

0.04%

1,094,356

Resolution 7

65,171,473

63,995,607

98.20%

1,175,866

1.80%

1,495,144

Resolution 8

65,557,787

65,528,580

99.96%

29,207

0.04%

1,108,830

Resolution 9

65,568,435

65,423,444

99.78%

144,991

0.22%

1,098,182

Resolution 10

65,513,201

65,479,603

99.95%

33,598

0.05%

1,153,416

Resolution 11

65,543,601

64,533,935

98.46%

1,009,666

1.54%

1,123,016

Notes:

1. Percentages are expressed as a proportion of the total votes cast (which does not include votes withheld).

2. A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not included in the calculation of the votes 'For' or 'Against' the Resolutions, nor the total votes cast.

3. Any proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Chairman have been included in the 'For' totals.

4. Resolution number 5 was not put to the meeting as it was no longer required, as announced on 06 April 2016.

A copy of this announcement confirming the proxy figures will be available on the Company's website.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2R, copies of Resolutions 9, 10 and 11 will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism, where they will be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm.aspx. In addition, copies of these Resolutions will also be filed with Companies House.

05 May 2016

ENQUIRIES:

Costain Group PLC

Tel: 01628 842 444

Tracey Wood

Company Secretary

Instinctif Partners

Tel: 020 7457 2020

Mark Garraway

Helen Tarbet


This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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