Speedy Hire PLC - Result of AGM
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Speedy Hire PLC
07 September 2023
 

Speedy Hire Plc

7 September 2023

 

 

Speedy Hire Plc ("Company")

Resolutions passed at Annual General Meeting - 7 September 2023

 

 

At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 7 September 2023 at the offices of Addleshaw Goddard LLP at Milton Gate, 60 Chiswell Street, London EC1Y 4AG, all resolutions set out in the Notice of Meeting were voted on a poll and passed by the requisite majorities.

 

Resolutions 1 to 15 and resolution 20 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 16 to 19 were passed as special resolutions. The results of the poll are set out below:

 

No

Resolution

For *

Against

Withheld **

 


No. of Votes

% of Vote

No. of Votes

% of Vote

No. of Votes

1

To receive and adopt the annual accounts for the financial year ended 31 March 2023 together with the

reports of the Directors and auditors (ordinary).

334,034,160

98.79%

4,092,120

1.21%

382,458

2

To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the financial year ended 31 March 2023 (ordinary).

334,750,118

98.92%

3,658,028

1.08%

100,592

3

To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy.

328,333,433

97.02%

10,084,023

2.98%

91,282

4

To declare a final dividend of 1.80 pence per share in respect of the year ended 31 March 2023 (ordinary).

338,410,672

99.99%

42,663

0.01%

55,403

5

To elect Dan Evans as a Director of the Company (ordinary).

338,181,503

99.96%

122,072

0.04%

205,163

6

To elect Paul Rayner as a Director of the Company (ordinary).

338,257,171

99.97%

111,404

0.03%

140,163

7

To re-elect David Shearer as a Director of the Company (ordinary).

301,328,552

89.66%

34,754,193

10.34%

2,425,993

8

To re-elect David Garman as a Director of the Company (ordinary).

335,168,528

99.06%

3,187,890

0.94%

152,320

9

To re-elect Rob Barclay as a Director of the Company (ordinary).

338,159,041

99.95%

175,567

0.05%

174,130

10

To re-elect Rhian Bartlett as a Director of the Company (ordinary).

335,208,034

99.07%

3,139,392

0.93%

161,312

11

To re-elect Shatish Dasani as a Director of the Company (ordinary).

334,697,764

98.95%

3,541,154

1.05%

269,820

12

To re-elect Carol Kavanagh as a Director of the Company (ordinary).

338,198,558

99.95%

172,860

0.05%

137,320

13

To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Auditors (ordinary).

336,212,606

99.35%

2,205,924

0.65%

87,208

14

To authorise the Directors to determine the remuneration of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (ordinary).

338,342,295

99.97%

113,224

0.03%

53,219

15

To authorise the Directors to allot shares (ordinary).

311,290,311

91.99%

27,118,928

8.01%

99,499

16

To authorise the Directors to allot securities free from pre-emption rights, subject to certain specified limitations (special).

309,433,862

91.42%

29,036,764

8.58%

38,112

17

To disapply statutory pre-emption rights in relation to acquisitions or other capital investments (special).

309,236,620

91.40%

29,086,841

8.60%

185,277

18

To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own shares (special).

328,781,611

97.16%

9,614,705

2.84%

112,422

19

To authorise the calling of general meetings on not less than 14 days' notice (special).

337,948,712

99.86%

489,617

0.14%

70,409

20

To permit the Company to make political donations (ordinary).

333,557,753

98.56%

4,857,311

1.44%

93,674

 

N.B. Percentage figures are rounded to 2 decimal places.

 

*     The votes of any proxy giving the Chairman discretion how to vote have been included in the votes For a resolution.

**   A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of percentages of votes cast For and Against a resolution.

 

As at 7 September 2023, the number of issued shares of the Company was 516,983,637, of which 55,146,281 were held in treasury. Therefore, the total voting rights in the Company as at that date was 461,837,356.

 

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of all the resolutions passed as special business at the Annual General Meeting will shortly be available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism which can be accessed at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

 

 

 

Neil Hunt

Company Secretary

 

 

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