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26/01/2017 14:15

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Connect Group PLC
26 January 2017
26 January 2017
Connect Group PLC
Result of 2017 Annual General Meeting
Connect Group PLC is pleased to announce that at its AGM held at 11.30am today, all resolutions put to the meeting were duly passed. All resolutions were voted on by way of a poll and the results of the poll for each resolution are shown below:
Resolution
For
Against
Withheld
No. of votes
%
No. of votes
%
No. of votes
1
To receive the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 August 2016
177,987,483
99.99%
17,612
0.01%
19,178
2
To approve the directors' remuneration report for the year ended 31 August 2016
168,302,228
96.30%
6,462,878
3.70%
3,259,167
3
To approve the directors' remuneration policy
165,987,901
94.21%
10,203,503
5.79%
1,832,869
4
To declare a final dividend of 6.5p per share
178,022,197
100.00%
1,308
0.00%
768
5 
To elect David Bauernfeind
176,154,740
99.28%
1,273,736
0.72%
595,797
6
To re-elect Gary Kennedy
174,833,621
99.93%
119,137
0.07%
3,071,515
7
To re-elect Mark Cashmore
174,597,574
98.40%
2,833,159
1.60%
593,540
8
To re-elect Jonathan Bunting
176,155,411
99.28%
1,274,556
0.72%
594,306
9
To re-elect Andrew Brent
177,319,220
99.94%
109,785
0.06%
595,268
10
To re-elect Colin Child
175,841,748
99.11%
1,587,725
0.89%
594,800
11
To re-elect Denis Collis
175,845,285
99.11%
1,584,776
0.89%
594,212
12
To re-appoint the auditor
177,740,341
99.84%
281,389
0.16%
2,543
13
To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the auditor's remuneration
177,974,245
99.98%
33,397
0.02%
16,631
14
Authority to make political donations
175,160,079
98.57%
2,545,818
1.43%
318,376
15
Authority to allot shares
151,542,441
85.14%
26,443,356
14.86%
38,476
16
Authority to partially disapply pre-emption rights*
151,535,061
85.14%
26,444,607
14.86%
44,605
17
Authority to make market purchases of ordinary shares*
177,666,029
99.82%
325,956
0.18%
32,288
18
Authority to call general meetings (other than the AGM) on 14 clear days' notice*
173,595,539
97.54%
4,381,890
2.46%
46,844
* Special resolution
Notes:
1. Where shareholders appointed the Chairman as their proxy with discretion as to voting, their votes were cast in favour of the resolutions and 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 percentages of the votes cast for and against a resolution.
3. The total number of shares in issue at 6pm on 24 January 2017 was 247,576,954. Votes were cast in respect of 71.9% of the issued share capital.
In accordance with the UK Listing Authority's Listing Rule 9.6.2, a copy of the special business passed at the AGM, being resolutions 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18, has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.
Alison Painter
Interim Deputy Company Secretary

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