REG - Speedy Hire PLC - Result of AGM

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08/09/2022 16:45

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RNS Number : 8342Y  Speedy Hire PLC  08 September 2022

Speedy Hire Plc

8 September 2022

 

 

Speedy Hire Plc ("Company")

Resolutions passed at Annual General Meeting - 8 September 2022

 

 

At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 8 September 2022 at the
offices of Addleshaw Goddard LLP at Milton Gate, 60 Chiswell Street, London
EC1Y 4AG, all resolutions were passed on a show of hands.

 

The following is a summary of the Forms of Proxy received up to 48 hours
before the time of the Annual General Meeting by the Registrars, appointing
the Chairman of the Annual General Meeting as proxy:

 

 No  Resolution                                                                      For*                     Against                  Withheld**
                                                                                     No. of Votes  % of Vote  No. of Votes  % of Vote  No. of Votes
 1   To receive and adopt the annual accounts for the financial year ended 31 March  372,282,726   99.99%     53,205        0.01%      271,295
     2022 together with the

     reports of the Directors and auditors (ordinary).
 2   To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the financial year ended 31   364,700,578   98.07%     7,173,863     1.93%      732,785
     March 2022 (ordinary).
 3   To declare a final dividend of 1.45 pence per share in respect of the year      372,570,099   99.99%     32,879        0.01%      4,248
     ended 31 March 2022 (ordinary).
 4   To re-elect David Shearer as a Director of the Company (ordinary).              330,866,731   88.80%     41,728,515    11.20%     11,980
 5   To re-elect Russell Down as a Director of the Company (ordinary).               372,508,567   99.98%     86,679        0.02%      11,980
 6   To re-elect James Bunn as a Director of the Company (ordinary).                 372,513,460   99.98%     77,816        0.02%      15,950
 7   To re-elect David Garman as a Director of the Company (ordinary).               369,493,264   99.17%     3,101,982     0.83%      11,980
 8   To re-elect Rob Barclay as a Director of the Company (ordinary).                367,280,202   99.98%     80,105        0.02%      5,246,919
 9   To re-elect Rhian Bartlett as a Director of the Company (ordinary).             369,498,154   99.17%     3,097,092     0.83%      11,980
 10  To re-elect Shatish Dasani as a Director of the Company (ordinary).             369,392,828   99.14%     3,202,418     0.86%      11,980
 11  To re-elect Carol Kavanagh as a Director of the Company (ordinary).             372,486,558   99.98%     90,408        0.02%      30,260
 12  To appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Auditors (ordinary).                   370,496,430   99.48%     1,951,054     0.52%      159,742
 13  To authorise the Directors to determine the remuneration of                     372,337,566   99.97%     115,948       0.03%      153,712
     PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (ordinary).
 14  To authorise the Directors to allot shares (ordinary).                          359,373,798   96.48%     13,098,113    3.52%      135,315
 15  To authorise the Directors to allot securities free from pre-emption rights,    372,331,471   99.96%     149,882       0.04%      125,873
     subject to certain specified

     limitations (special).
 16  To disapply statutory pre-emption rights in relation to acquisitions or other   358,170,027   96.16%     14,313,826    3.84%      123,373
     capital investments (special).
 17  To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own shares (special).  370,454,075   99.51%     1,807,847     0.49%      345,304
 18  To authorise the calling of general meetings on not less than 14 days' notice   371,213,247   99.66%     1,256,589     0.34%      137,390
     (special).
 19  To permit the Company to make political donations (ordinary).                   369,219,100   99.09%     3,375,947     0.91%      12,179

 

* The votes of any proxy giving the Chairman discretion how to vote have been
included in the votes For a resolution.

** A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation
of percentages of votes cast For and Against a resolution.

N.B. Percentage figures are rounded to 2 decimal places.

 

As at 6 September 2022, the number of issued shares of the Company was
516,983,637, of which 23,245,936 were held in treasury. Therefore, the total
voting rights in the Company as at that date was 493,737,701.

 

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of all the resolutions passed as
special business at the Annual General Meeting will shortly be available for
inspection at the National Storage Mechanism which can be accessed at
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
(https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism) .

 

 

 

Neil Hunt

Company Secretary

 

 

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