REG - HSS Hire Group PLC - Results of Annual General Meeting
RNS Number : 9288CHSS Hire Group PLC20 June 201920 June 2019
HSS Hire Group plc
Results of Annual General Meeting ("AGM")
At the AGM of HSS Hire Group plc held today at 11.00 am at Hilton Garden Inn Heathrow, Pavilion Centre, Eastern Perimeter Road, Hatton Cross, Heathrow, TW6 2SQ, all resolutions set out in the Notice of Meeting were voted on a poll and were passed by the requisite majorities.
Resolutions 1 to 14 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 15 to 18 were passed as special resolutions. The results of the poll are set out below.
Ordinary resolutions
Votes
for% Votes for 1
Votes
against% Votes against 1
Total votes validly cast
% of Issued share capital voted 1,2,3
Votes withheld 2
Resolution 1:
Receive annual report and accounts
132,955,061
100.00
476
0.00
132,955,537
78.11%
476
Resolution 2:
Approve remuneration report
132,930,615
99.98
21,900
0.02
132,952,515
78.11%
3,498
Resolution 3:
Approve remuneration policy
132,930,615
99.98
21,900
0.02
132,952,515
78.11%
3,498
Resolution 4:
Approve amendments to the Long Term Incentive Plan and Deferred Bonus Plan
132,928,165
99.98
23,039
0.02
132,951,204
78.11%
4,809
Resolution 5:
Re-election of Alan Peterson
132,949,204
100.00
5,178
0.00
132,954,382
78.11%
952
Resolution 6:
Re-election of Amanda Burton
132,948,163
100.00
5,489
0.00
132,953,652
78.11%
1,682
Resolution 7:
Re-election of Douglas Robertson
132,948,490
100.00
5,892
0.00
132,954,382
78.11%
952
Resolution 8:
Re-election of Thomas Sweet-Escott
132,947,449
99.99
6,933
0.01
132,954,382
78.11%
952
Resolution 9:
Re-election of Steve Ashmore
132,949,204
100.00
5,178
0.00
132,954,382
78.11%
952
Resolution 10:
Re-election of Paul Quested
132,949,204
100.00
5,178
0.00
132,954,382
78.11%
952
Resolution 11:
Re-appoint BDO LLP as auditors
132,952,884
100.00
1,631
0.00
132,954,515
78.11%
1,498
Resolution 12:
Authorise directors to agree auditors' remuneration
132,953,563
100.00
952
0.00
132,954,515
78.11%
1,498
Resolution 13:
Renew authority to allot new shares
132,938,268
99.99
16,793
0.01
132,955,061
78.11%
952
Resolution 14:
Political donations
132,919,792
99.97
34,079
0.03
132,953,871
78.11%
2,142
VOTES OF INDEPENDENT SHAREHOLDERS ON THE RESOLUTIONS CONCERNING THE
RE-ELECTION OF THE INDEPENDENT NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS
Ordinary resolutions
Votes
for% Votes for 1
Votes
against% Votes against 1
Total votes validly cast
% of Issued share capital voted 1,2,4
Votes withheld 2
Resolution 6:
Re-election of Amanda Burton
47,266,455
99.99
5,489
0.01
47,271,944
55.93%
1,682
Resolution 7:
Re-election of Douglas Robertson
47,266,782
99.99
5,892
0.01
47,272,674
55.93%
952
Special resolutions
Votes for
% Votes for 1
Votes
against% Votes against 1
Total votes validly cast
% of Issued share capital voted 1,2,3
Votes withheld 2
Resolution 15:
Disapplication of pre-emption rights to allotment of equity securities
132,929,331
99.98
24,266
0.02
132,953,597
78.11%
2,416
Resolution 16:
Disapplication of pre-emption rights for financing or capital investment
132,932,354
99.98
21,243
0.02
132,953,597
78.11%
2,416
Resolution 17:
Authority to purchase own shares
132,936,775
99.99
18,762
0.01
132,955,537
78.11%
476
Resolution 18:
Notice of general meetings
132,938,980
99.99
16,246
0.01
132,955,226
78.11%
787
Notes:
1. The percentages above are rounded to two decimal places.
2. A "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes "for" or "against" a resolution.
3. The number of ordinary shares in issue on 20 June 2019 was 170,207,142. Shareholders are entitled to one vote per share.
4. The number of ordinary shares in issue on 20 June 2019 controlled by Independent Shareholders as defined in the explanatory notes to the Notice of the Annual General Meeting circulated on 10 May 2019.
Copies of resolutions 15 to 18, being resolutions other than resolutions concerning ordinary business passed by the Company at the above AGM, have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.
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