BWIN.PARTY DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT PLC 21 May 2015
bwin.party digital entertainment plc('bwin.party', the 'Company')
2015 Annual General Meeting ('AGM') Poll Results
At the Company's AGM held in Gibraltar today, all resolutions as set out in the Company's notice of
AGM dated 14 April 2015, were approved.
The full results of the poll votes were as follows:
Ordinary Resolutions | Total | For | Against | Withheld | ||
Number | Votes Cast | Number | % of shares voted | Number | % of shares voted | Number |
1. To receive the Company's Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2014 | 535,661,243 | 535,499,899 | 99.97 | 134,250 | 0.03 | 27,094 |
2. To approve the 2014 Directors' Remuneration Report | 535,661,243 | 482,996,921 | 91.08 | 47,277,793 | 8.92 | 5,386,529 |
3. To re-appoint the joint auditors | 535,661,243 | 529,946,637 | 98.94 | 5,687,346 | 1.06 | 27,260 |
4. To authorise the Directors to determine the joint auditors' remuneration | 535,661,243 | 535,616,952 | 99.99 | 31,629 | 0.01 | 12,662 |
5. To declare a final dividend | 535,661,243 | 535,655,767 | 100.00 | 3,034 | 0.00 | 2,442 |
6. To re-appoint Per Afrell as a Director | 535,661,243 | 504,970,759 | 95.33 | 24,760,722 | 4.67 | 5,929,762 |
7. To re-appoint Liz Catchpole as a Director | 535,661,243 | 492,586,430 | 99.59 | 2,030,362 | 0.41 | 41,044,451 |
8. To re-appoint Sylvia Coleman as a Director | 535,661,243 | 492,059,728 | 99.48 | 2,572,558 | 0.52 | 41,028,957 |
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9. To re-appoint Barry Gibson as a Director | 535,661,243 | 492,455,750 | 99.56 | 2,152,560 | 0.44 | 41,052,933 |
10. To re-appoint Georg Riedl as a Director | 535,661,243 | 460,023,666 | 94.55 | 26,508,472 | 5.45 | 49,129,105 |
11. To re-appoint Daniel Silvers as a Director | 535,661,243 | 508,530,412 | 95.42 | 24,391,304 | 4.58 | 2,739,527 |
12. To re-appoint Norbert Teufelberger as a Director | 535,661,243 | 491,627,260 | 91.78 | 44,031,642 | 8.22 | 2,341 |
13. To re-appoint Martin Weigold as a Director | 535,661,243 | 491,631,088 | 91.78 | 44,026,198 | 8.22 | 3,957 |
14. To re-appoint Philip Yea as a Director | 535,661,243 | 532,343,353 | 99.77 | 1,208,807 | 0.23 | 2,109,083 |
15. To approve an update to the share allotment authority | 535,661,243 | 533,978,596 | 99.69 | 1,662,917 | 0.31 | 19,730 |
Special Resolutions | ||||||
16. To approve the disapplication of pre- emption rights | 535,661,243 | 535,603,866 | 99.99 | 50,874 | 0.01 | 6,503 |
17. To renew the Company's share buy- back authority | 535,661,243 | 535,447,657 | 100.00 | 18,909 | 0.00 | 194,677 |
Note: 824,713,835 ordinary shares of 0.015 pence per share in issue as at 21 May 2015, of which 1,395,862 shares are held in the bwin.party Shares Trust (the 'Trust') and the trustee of the Trust has waived all voting rights in respect of these shares. Therefore the total number of shares with voting rights was 823,317,973 as at 21 May 2015.
At the conclusion of the AGM there were two retirements from the Board. Helmut Kern, an independent Director and Chairman of the Audit & Risk Committee, retired and Liz Catchpole, a newly appointed independent Director, succeeds him in chairing the Audit & Risk Committee. Rod Perry, Senior Independent Director and Chairman of the Remuneration Committee also retired and is succeeded in both these roles by Barry Gibson, another newly appointed independent Director.
Enquiries:Robert Hoskin, Company Secretary +350 200 78700 bwin.party digital entertainment plc
Contacts:
Investors
Peter Reynolds +44 (0) 20 7337 0100
Media
Jay Dossetter +44 (0) 20 7337 0100
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