COATS GROUP PLC ('Coats' or the 'Company')
Results of the Annual General Meeting ("AGM")
Coats announces that at the AGM, held in London, United Kingdom on 21 May 2015, all the resolutions put to the meeting were duly passed by way of a show of hands by the requisite majority.
The following table shows the proxy votes cast on each resolution:
Resolution | Total Votes For | Total Votes Against | Total Votes cast as % of Issued Share Capital | Votes Withheld | |||
% | % | % | |||||
1 | Receipt of Annual Report 2014 | 877,734,757 | 99.98 | 206,332 | 0.02 | 62.37 | 87,256 |
2 | Approval of Remuneration Report | 800,774,198 | 91.25 | 76,809,864 | 8.75 | 62.35 | 441,138 |
3 | Re-election of Mike Allen | 869,535,302 | 99.06 | 8,290,765 | 0.94 | 62.36 | 202,278 |
4 | Election of Nicholas Bull | 869,669,267 | 99.07 | 8,164,235 | 0.93 | 62.36 | 194,843 |
5 | Election of Paul Forman | 869,460,922 | 99.05 | 8,346,662 | 0.95 | 62.36 | 220,761 |
6 | Election of David Gosnell | 869,639,037 | 99.07 | 8,173,783 | 0.93 | 62.36 | 215,525 |
7 | Election of Richard Howes | 853,809,846 | 97.27 | 23,971,456 | 2.73 | 62.36 | 247,043 |
8 | Election of Alan Rosling | 869,581,493 | 99.06 | 8,237,282 | 0.94 | 62.36 | 209,570 |
9 | Election of Rajiv Sharma | 853,777,424 | 98.97 | 8,914,924 | 1.03 | 61.29 | 15,335,065 |
10 | Reappointment of Auditor | 877,453,543 | 99.96 | 382,436 | 0.04 | 62.36 | 192,366 |
11 | Approval of Auditor remuneration | 877,339,848 | 99.94 | 565,597 | 0.06 | 62.37 | 122,900 |
12 | Authority to allot relevant securities | 868,777,044 | 98.98 | 8,970,070 | 1.02 | 62.36 | 281,231 |
13 | Authority to disapply pre- emption rights | 869,317,160 | 99.05 | 8,334,949 | 0.95 | 62.35 | 376,236 |
14 | Authority to purchase own Shares | 870,388,924 | 99.15 | 7,461,735 | 0.85 | 62.36 | 177,686 |
15 | Authority to call general meetings on clear 14 days' notice | 781,452,539 | 89.01 | 96,455,105 | 10.99 | 62.37 | 120,701 |
16 | Adoption of new articles | 869,337,896 | 99.08 | 8,106,132 | 0.92 | 62.34 | 584,317 |
17 | Approval of Non-Executive Directors' Fees | 865,682,368 | 98.69 | 11,515,543 | 1.31 | 62.32 | 830,434 |
Notes:
Any proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Chairman have been in the "for" column.
A vote "withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the "votes for" or
"against" the resolution.
Copies of the special business resolutions passed at the AGM are being submitted to the UK Listing Authority, and will shortly be available for inspection at the UK National Storage Mechanism which is located at http://www.hemscott.com/nsm.do
Total Voting Rights
The total number of Company's ordinary shares in issue and therefore the total number of voting
rights as at the close of business (UK time) on 19 May 2015 was 1,407,612,282.
An audio recording of the AGM has been made and will be made available on the Company's website
at www.coats.comlater today.
Stuart Morgan
Company Secretary
21 May 2015
UK media Richard Mountain +44 20 3727 1374
New Zealand and Australian media Geoff Senescall +64 9 309 5659
Investors Jaideep Thatai +44 20 8210 5086
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