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04/02/2016 16:30

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Connect Group PLC
04 February 2016
4 February 2016
Connect Group PLC
Result of 2016 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 2015
175,514,718
99.99%
18,272
0.01%
811,787
2
To approve the directors' remuneration report
172,516,695
98.56%
2,514,453
1.44%
1,313,629
3
To declare a final dividend of 6.3p per share
175,532,223
100.00%
1,528
0.00%
811,026
4
To elect Gary Kennedy
174,781,859
99.59%
725,271
0.41%
837,647
5
To elect Colin Child
175,476,814
99.98%
38,841
0.02%
829,122
6
To elect Denise Collis
175,463,739
99.97%
48,569
0.03%
832,469
7
To re-elect Mark Cashmore
174,342,443
99.33%
1,182,320
0.67%
820,014
8
To re-elect Jonathan Bunting
174,340,153
99.33%
1,184,379
0.67%
820,245
9
To re-elect Nick Gresham
151,200,007
99.23%
1,179,880
0.77%
23,964,890
10
To re-elect Andrew Brent
175,489,673
99.98%
33,164
0.02%
821,940
11
To re-appoint the auditor
175,235,195
99.83%
296,506
0.17%
813,076
12
To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the auditor's remuneration
174,800,909
99.58%
728,986
0.42%
814,882
13
Authority to make political donations
174,785,828
99.73%
477,875
0.27%
1,094,789
14
Authority to allot shares
149,372,358
85.11%
26,135,957
14.89%
836,462
15
To approve the Connect Group Long Term Incentive Plan
173,163,827
98.94%
1,851,400
1.06%
1,329,550
16
To approve the Connect Group Executive Share Option Scheme
173,884,091
99.36%
1,123,698
0.64%
1,336,988
17
To approve the Connect Group Sharesave Scheme
175,391,309
99.98%
41,472
0.02%
911,996
18
Authority to partially disapply pre-emption rights*
149,946,551
85.05%
26,347,303
14.95%
50,923
19
Authority to make market purchases of ordinary shares*
175,457,703
99.96%
63,584
0.04%
823,490
20
Authority to call general meetings (other than the AGM) on 14 clear days' notice*
168,982,034
96.27%
6,547,735
3.73%
815,008
* 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 2 February 2016 = 246,611,392. Votes were cast in respect of 71.4% 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 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20, has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.
Adele Duff
Assistant Company Secretary

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