REG - Gattaca PLC - Result of AGM

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10/12/2019 15:00

RNS Number : 4087W
Gattaca PLC
10 December 2019
 


10 December 2019
Gattaca plc
 
Result of Annual General Meeting
 
 
Gattaca plc ("Gattaca" or the "Group"), the specialist Engineering and Technology (IT & Telecoms) recruitment solutions business, announces that at its Annual General Meeting held today, 10 December 2019, all the resolutions put to shareholders were passed.  Resolutions 1 to 11 were passed as ordinary resolutions and Resolutions 12 and 13 were passed as special resolutions.  
 
Resolution 1, and Resolutions 3 to 13 inclusive were passed on a show of hands.  Resolution 2 was passed on a poll. 
The final proxy voting position is shown below (inclusive of proxy votes cast at the Meeting).  Any proxy votes which are at the discretion of the Chairman have been included in the "For" total.



No.


Resolutions
(Please refer to Notice of Meeting for full text)


For


Against


Vote Withheld


% Vote Cast For[1]




Ordinary Resolutions




1.     


To receive and adopt the Annual Report and Accounts for the financial year ended 31 July 2019, together with the reports of the Directors and auditors


2,011,993


0


556


100%




2.     


To approve, on an advisory basis, for three years from the date of the Meeting the Directors' Remuneration Policy, the full text of which available on our website


34,941


1,977,052


556


1.74%




3.     


To re-elect Patrick Shanley as a Director of the Company


2,008,393


0


4,156


100%




4.     


To re-elect Kevin Freeguard as a Director of the Company


2,008,393


0


4,156


100%




5.     


To re-elect Salar Farzad as a Director of the Company


2,008,393


0


4,156


100%




6.  


To re-elect Richard Bradford as a Director of the Company


2,008,393


0


4,156


100%




7.  


To re-elect David Lawther as a Director of the Company


2,008,393


0


4,156


100%




8.  


To re-elect George Materna as a Director of the Company


1,977,037


31,356


4,156


98.44%




9.  


To re-appoint PwC LLP as auditors of the Company


2,011,993


0


556


100%




10.   


To authorise the Directors to determine the auditors' remuneration


2,011,993


0


556


100%




11.   


To authorise the Directors to allot shares generally


2,010,136


1,857


556


99.91%




Special Resolutions




12.  


To empower the Directors to allot shares for cash (other than pro-rata to existing shareholders)


2,010,136


0


2,413


100%




13.  


To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own ordinary shares


2,010,066


1,927


556


99.90%



 
The final voting position on Resolution 2 (inclusive of poll votes cast at the Meeting) was as follows:



For


Against


Vote Withheld


% Vote Cast For




7,522,912


1,977,052


556


79.19%



 
For further information please contact:



Gattaca plc


 
+44 (0) 1489 898989




Kevin Freeguard, Chief Executive Officer
Salar Farzad, Chief Financial Officer
 


 




Citigate Dewe Rogerson


+44 (0) 20 7638 9571




Nick Hayns / Louise Mason-Rutherford / Lucy Eyles / Claire Dansie
 


 




Liberum Capital Limited (Nominated Advisor & Broker)


+44 (0) 20 3100 2000




Bidhi Bhoma / Robert Morton / Euan Brown
 


 



 
 
 





[1] Discounting votes withheld





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