At the Company's Annual General Meeting held earlier today, each of the resolutions set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting dated 26 February 2018 was passed on a poll. Votes cast were as follows:
Resolution
Votes For
%
Votes Against
%
Total Votes
Votes Withheld
1 - To receive the report and accounts
56,648,230
100.00%
0
0.00%
56,648,230
0
2 - To approve the Directors’ remuneration policy
55,910,955
98.71%
732,307
1.29%
56,643,262
4,967
3 - To approve the Directors’ remuneration report
56,038,045
99.79%
117,717
0.21%
56,155,762
492,466
4 – To declare a final dividend of 24.5p per Ordinary Share
56,648,230
100.00%
0
0.00%
56,648,230
0
5 – To appoint KPMG LLP as Auditors
55,915,273
98.71%
732,956
1.29%
56,648,229
0
6 - To agree the Auditors’ remuneration
56,643,230
99.99%
5,000
0.01%
56,648,230
0
7 - To elect Ms Eva Lindqvist
52,813,926
93.23%
3,832,187
6.77%
56,646,113
2,117
8 - To re-elect Mr Peter Hill CBE
56,373,761
99.52%
271,389
0.48%
56,645,150
3,080
9 - To re-elect Mr Alain Michaelis
56,294,733
99.38%
351,497
0.62%
56,646,230
2,000
10 - To re-elect Mr Chris Girling
56,034,720
98.93%
607,160
1.07%
56,641,880
6,350
11 - To re-elect Mr James Hind
56,223,297
99.26%
418,933
0.74%
56,642,230
6,000
12 - To re-elect Ms Nancy Tuor Moore
56,540,148
99.81%
106,082
0.19%
56,646,230
2,000
13 – To re-elect Mr Paul Withers
56,530,839
99.80%
114,841
0.20%
56,645,680
2,550
14 - To re-elect Dr Venu Raju
56,293,576
99.38%
352,654
0.62%
56,646,230
2,000
15 - Authority to allot shares
53,396,052
94.26%
3,250,678
5.74%
56,646,730
1,500
16 - Authority to disapply pre-emption rights
56,627,517
99.97%
16,213
0.03%
56,643,730
4,500
17 - Authority to disapply pre-emption rights (limited circumstances)
52,785,444
93.19%
3,859,785
6.81%
56,645,229
3,000
18 - Authority to buy back shares
55,666,825
98.53%
828,957
1.47%
56,495,782
152,447
19 - Authority to make political donations
53,021,857
94.44%
3,118,699
5.56%
56,140,556
507,674
20 - Authority to call a general meeting on 14 days’ notice
54,356,222
95.95%
2,292,008
4.05%
56,648,230
0
21 - To approve the rules of the Keller Long Term Incentive Plan
55,759,635
98.44%
882,214
1.56%
56,641,849
6,380
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of the resolutions passed (other than those concerning ordinary business) will shortly be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.
The full text of all the resolutions passed at the meeting can be found in the Notice of Annual General Meeting, which is available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM and on the Company's website at www.keller.com.
Enquiries:
Keller Group plc
Kerry Porritt, Company Secretary
Tel: 020 7616 7575
LEI number: 549300QO4MBL43UHSN10
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Keller Group plc is a United Kingdom-based geotechnical specialist contractor providing a portfolio of advanced foundation and ground improvement techniques used across the entire construction sector. The Company's geographical divisions include North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa. Its expertise includes ground improvement, grouting, deep foundations, earth retention, marine, and instrumentation and monitoring. Its solutions include improve bearing capacity; low impact, low carbon construction; containment; excavation support; stabilization; marine structures; seepage control; slope stabilization; and monitoring. Its improve bearing capacity solution includes bearing capacity/settlement control, heave control, heavy foundations, liquefaction mitigation, re-levelling structures and underpinning. Its marine structures solution includes the design and construction of new ports, jetties and quays as well as the extension and restoration of existing structures.