Rathbone Brothers Rathbone Brothers Plc : Result Of Agm
12 May 2017 - 12:25AM
UK Regulatory
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RATHBONE BROTHERS PLC ('Rathbones')
RESULTS OF THE 2017 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
NOTIFICATION REQUIRED BY LISTING RULE 9.6.18
At the forty-sixth Annual General Meeting of the Company held at 8
Finsbury Circus, London, EC2M 7AZ on Thursday 11 May 2017, all the
resolutions proposed (which were contained in the Notice of Meeting
dated 7 April 2017) were passed on a poll.
Resolutions 1 to 15 were ordinary resolutions and resolutions 15 to 18
were special resolutions.
The full text of the resolutions is set out in the Notice of Annual
General Meeting, a copy of which is on the Company's website at
http://www.rathbones.com/investor-relations/governance. A copy has also
been made available for inspection through the National Storage
Mechanism which can be found at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.
The results of the poll were as follows:
Votes
cast as
a % of
the
voting
Resolution For % Against % Votes cast capital Withheld
To adopt the report and accounts for the year ended
1 31 December 2016 41,267,109 99.94 23,101 0.06 41,290,210 81.45% 57,490
To approve the directors' remuneration report for
2 the year ended 31 December 2016 38,555,276 96.20 1,524,379 3.80 40,079,655 79.06% 1,268,045
To declare a final dividend of 36p per share for the
3 year ended 31 December 2016 41,319,949 100.00 1,101 0.00 41,321,050 81.51% 26,650
4 To re-elect Mark Nicholls as a director 41,159,189 99.92 34,032 0.08 41,193,221 81.25% 154,479
5 To re-elect Philip Howell as a director 41,180,192 99.80 84,203 0.20 41,264,395 81.39% 83,305
6 To re-elect Paul Stockton as a director 41,311,229 99.99 4,815 0.01 41,316,044 81.50% 31,656
7 To re-elect James Dean as a director 41,298,540 99.99 2,162 0.01 41,300,702 81.47% 46,998
8 To elect Sarah Gentleman as a director 41,295,940 99.99 2,162 0.01 41,298,102 81.46% 49,598
9 To re-elect Kathryn Matthews as a director 41,265,018 99.92 34,535 0.08 41,299,553 81.46% 48,147
10 To elect Jim Pettigrew as a director 40,283,499 99.91 36,794 0.09 40,320,293 79.53% 1,027,407
11 To re-appoint KPMG LLP as auditors of the Company 40,454,186 98.87 464,036 1.13 40,918,222 80.71% 429,478
12 To authorise the directors to agree the remuneration 41,278,577 99.93 27,563 0.07 41,306,140 81.48% 41,560
of the auditors
13 To approve an authority to make political donations 39,888,925 98.25 712,361 1.75 40,601,286 80.09% 746,414
and to incur political expenditure
14 To approve a general authority to allot ordinary 39,431,880 95.45 1,879,553 4.55 41,311,433 81.49% 36,267
shares
15 To authorise the disapplication of pre-emption rights 40,703,522 98.55 598,648 1.45 41,302,170 81.47% 45,530
16 To further authorise the disapplication of pre-emption 36,911,698 89.36 4,394,828 10.64 41,306,526 81.48% 41,174
rights regarding shares issued in connection with
an acquisition or capital investment
17 To authorise market purchases of ordinary shares 40,494,219 98.01 820,281 1.99 41,314,500 81.49% 33,200
18 To authorise the convening of a general meeting (other 40,875,827 98.95 434,673 1.05 41,310,500 81.49% 37,200
than the AGM) or not less than 14 days' notice
For the purposes of section 341 of the Companies Act 2006, the votes
cast are expressed as a percentage of 50,696,817 ordinary shares. A
vote "withheld" is not a vote in law and has not been counted as a vote
"for" or "against" a resolution. In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2,
a copy of the resolutions passed at today's AGM will be submitted to the
National Storage Mechanism.
Ali Johnson
Company Secretary
Tel: 020 7399 0326
This announcement is distributed by Nasdaq Corporate Solutions on behalf
of Nasdaq Corporate Solutions clients.
The issuer of this announcement warrants that they are solely
responsible for the content, accuracy and originality of the information
contained therein.
Source: Rathbone Brothers Plc via Globenewswire
http://www.rathbones.com/
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