G4S PLC G4S plc, the parent company of the G4S global integrated security group, announces that, at its AGM held on 4 June 2015, all the resolutions put to shareholders were duly passed.
This included resolutions: to allow the payment of political donations; to allow general meetings other than AGMs to be called on 14 days' notice; and a general authority to make market purchases for up to 10% of its own shares.
The board has no present intention of utilising the authority to buy back shares, which has been renewed in accordance with common business practice.
The results of the poll on the resolutions put before the AGM are:
Resolution | For | % | Against | % | Withheld* | Total votes |
1. To adopt the financial statements and reports of directors and auditor | 1,243,124,237 | 99.94 | 688,008 | 0.06 | 381,308 | 1,243,812,245 |
2.To approve the Directors' remuneration report | 1,205,582,283 | 96.92 | 38,297,746 | 3.08 | 334,376 | 1,243,880,029 |
3. To confirm and declare the dividend | 1,243,894,185 | >99.99 | 24,848 | 312,119 | 1,243,919,033 | |
4. Re-election of Ashley Almanza as a director | 1,240,258,360 | 99.71 | 3,596,894 | 0.29 | 330,664 | 1,243,855,254 |
5. Re-election of John Connolly as a director | 1,226,564,395 | 98.67 | 16,585,128 | 1.33 | 1,037,477 | 1,243,149,523 |
6. Re-election of Adam Crozier as a director | 1,243,696,787 | 99.99 | 157,577 | 0.01 | 342,637 | 1,243,854,364 |
7. Re-election of Mark Elliott as a director | 1,243,064,591 | 99.94 | 756,160 | 0.06 | 376,249 | 1,243,820,751 |
8. Re-election of Winnie Kin Wah Fok as a director | 1,242,992,603 | 99.93 | 874,481 | 0.07 | 329,917 | 1,243,867,084 |
9. Re-election of Himanshu Raja as a director | 1,243,720,310 | 99.99 | 103,064 | 0.01 | 373,627 | 1,243,823,374 |
10. Re-election of Paul Spence as a director | 1,243,736,161 | 99.99 | 87,591 | 0.01 | 373,249 | 1,243,823,752 |
11. Re-election of Clare Spottiswoode as a director | 1,159,042,348 | 95.71 | 51,976,012 | 4.29 | 33,178,640 | 1,211,018,360 |
12. Re-election of Tim Weller as a director | 1,243,489,236 | 99.97 | 326,647 | 0.03 | 381,118 | 1,243,815,883 |
13. To appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditor | 1,243,137,913 | 99.94 | 684,331 | 0.06 | 374,357 | 1,243,822,244 |
14. To authorise the directors to determine the auditor's remuneration | 1,243,669,241 | 99.98 | 213,940 | 0.02 | 345,420 | 1,243,883,181 |
15. To authorise the directors to allot shares up to a specified amount | 1,220,843,823 | 98.24 | 21,879,888 | 1.76 | 1,503,808 | 1,242,723,711 |
16. Special resolution to give authority to directors to disapply statutory pre-emption rights | 1,163,712,744 | 93.57 | 79,942,519 | 6.43 | 571,756 | 1,243,655,263 |
17. Special resolution to give limited authority for the purchase of its own shares by the company | 1,243,341,459 | 99.99 | 144,521 | 0.01 | 743,962 | 1,243,485,980 |
18. Authority to make political donations and incur political expenditure | 1,228,233,968 | 99.22 | 9,660,277 | 0.78 | 6,348,670 | 1,237,894,245 |
19. Special resolution to authorise the calling of general meetings (excluding Annual General Meetings) on 14 days' notice | 1,143,716,724 | 91.96 | 100,025,306 | 8.04 | 454,961 | 1,243,742,030 |
Grahame Gibson and Mark Seligman retired from the board at the conclusion of the meeting and so there were no resolutions relating to their re-election.
As announced previously, John Daly will be appointed as a director on 5 June 2015. Mr Daly will be an independent non-executive director and upon appointment will be a member of the Audit and Remuneration Committees.
In compliance with Listing Rule 9.6.2R, copies of resolutions 15 to 19 have been forwarded to the FCA for publication through its document viewing facility where they will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.
The percentage of issued share capital which was voted was 80.2%**.
* Votes withheld are not votes in law and are not counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes for and against a resolution.
**Total voting rights of the shares in issue: 1,551,594,436. Every shareholder has one vote for every ordinary share held.
For further enquiries, please contact: | |
Nigel Fairbrass - Director of Media Relations | +44(0) 1293 554400 |
Helen Parris - Director of Investor Relations | +44 (0) 1293 554400 |
G4S is the leading global, integrated security company, specialising in the provision of security services and solutions to customers. Our mission is to create material, sustainable value for our customers and shareholders by being the supply partner of choice in all of our markets.
G4S is quoted on the London Stock Exchange and has a secondary stock exchange listing in Copenhagen. G4S is active in over 110 countries and has 623,000 employees. For more information on G4S, visit www.g4s.com.
|
distributed by
|
