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Results of voting at Annual General Meeting

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NMC Health Plc
20 June 2019
 

 

 

 

NMC Health plc - Results of voting at Annual General Meeting 

 

 

 

London, 20 June 2019: NMC Health plc (LSE: NMC), the leading private healthcare operator in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) with international services across 19 countries, announces the results of voting at its Annual General Meeting ("AGM") held earlier today, 20 June 2019, on the resolutions as set out in the AGM Notice of Meeting.

 

A poll was held on each of the resolutions and the Company is pleased to announce that all resolutions were duly passed. Resolutions 18, 19, 20 and 21 were proposed as special resolutions and all other resolutions were proposed as ordinary resolutions.

 

The result of the poll on each resolution was as follows:

 

 


For

% For

Against

% Against

Total Votes Validly Cast

Total votes cast as % of Issued Share Capital

Votes Withheld

Resolution 1:

To receive the Annual Report and Accounts for 2018

178,512,751

97.99%

3,662,401

2.01%

182,175,152

87.26%

66,118

Resolution 2:

To approve the Directors' remuneration report

177,669,926

97.65%

4,269,641

2.35%

181,939,567

87.15%

301,703

Resolution 3:

To declare a final dividend for 2018

178,587,411

98.00%

3,651,502

2.00%

182,238,913

87.29%

2,358

Resolution 4:

To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP as auditors

178,334,955

97.86%

3903757

2.14%

182,238,712

87.29%

2,558

Resolution 5:

To authorise the Audit Committee to set the auditors' remuneration

178,577,885

99.99%

9725

0.01%

178,587,610

85.54%

3,653,660

Resolution 6:

To re-elect H. J. Mark Tompkins as a Director

174,176,912

97.59%

4,294,467

2.41%

178,471,379

85.49%

3,769,891

Resolution 7:

To re-elect Dr B. R. Shetty as a Director

178,230,047

97.84%

3,931,368

2.16%

182,161,415

87.25%

79,855

Resolution 8:

To re-elect Khalifa Bin Butti as a Director

181,776,262

99.75%

462,651

0.25%

182,238,913

87.29%

2,358

Resolution 9:

To re-elect Prasanth Manghat as a Director

178,228,213

97.80%

4,010,700

2.20%

182,238,913

87.29%

2,358

Resolution 10:

To re-elect Hani Buttikhi as a Director

181,776,462

99.75%

462,451

0.25%

182,238,913

87.29%

2,358

Resolution 11:

To re-elect Ayesha Abdullah as a Director

181,904,623

99.82%

334,290

0.18%

182,238,913

87.29%

2,358

Resolution12:

To re-elect Tarek Alnabulsi as a Director

178,580,986

100.00%

6,625

0.00%

178,587,611

85.54%

3,653,660

Resolution 13:

To re-elect Abdulrahman Basaddiq as a Director

176,040,826

98.57%

2,546,784

1.43%

178,587,610

85.54%

3,653,660

Resolution 14:

To re-elect Jonathan Bomford as a Director

177,744,006

99.69%

544,259

0.31%

178,288,265

85.40%

3,953,005

Resolution 15:

To re-elect Lord Clanwilliam as a Director

178,411,208

99.90%

176,403

0.10%

178,587,611

85.54%

3,653,660

Resolution 16:

To re-elect Salma Hareb as a Director

178,322,776

99.85%

264,835

0.15%

178,587,611

85.54%

3,653,660

Resolution 17:

To authorise the Company to make political donations

177,896,683

97.62%

4,342,164

2.38%

182,238,847

87.29%

2,424

Resolution 18 (Special):

To authorise the Directors to allot shares and to disapply statutory pre-emption rights on share allotments

178,587,200

98.00%

3,651,713

2.00%

182,238,913

87.29%

2,358

Resolution 19 (Special):

Additional authority to authorise the Directors to allot shares and to disapply statutory pre-emption rights on share allotments for specified acquisitions or capital investments

177,912,476

97.63%

4,326,437

2.37%

182,238,913

87.29%

2,358

Resolution 20 (Special): That article 50 be amended with the word "twelve" being deleted & the word "fourteen" added in its place

178,587,344

98.00%

3,651,302

2.00%

182,238,646

87.29%

2,625

Resolution 21 (Special):

To authorise general meetings to be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice

171,234,188

93.96%

11,004,725

6.04%

182,238,913

87.29%

2,358









 

 

 

 

VOTES OF SHAREHOLDERS EXCLUDING CONTROLLING SHARHOLDERS

 


For

% For

Against

% Against

Total Votes Validly Cast

Votes Withheld

Resolution 6:

To re-elect H. J. Mark Tompkins as a Director

58,650,538

93.18%

4,294,467

6.82%

62,945,005

3,769,891

Resolution 11:

To re-elect Dr Ayesha Abdullah as a Director

66,378,249

99.50%

334,290

0.50%

66,712,539

2,358

Resolution 12:

To re-elect Tarek Alnabulsi as a Director

63,054,612

99.99%

6,625

0.01%

63,061,237

3,653,660

Resolution 14:

To re-elect Jonathan Bomford as a Director

62,217,632

99.13%

544,259

0.87%

62,761,891

3,953,005

Resolution15:

To re-elect Lord Clanwilliam as a Director

62,884,834

99.72%

176,403

0.28%

63,061,237

3,653,660

Resolution 16:

To re-elect Salma Hareb as a Director

62,796,402

99.58%

264,835

0.42%

63,061,237

3,653,660

 

 

The total number of shares in issue at 6pm on Thursday 20th June 2019 was 208,770,133 ordinary shares of 10 pence each.

 

Any proxy appointments giving discretion to the Chairman of the Meeting have been included as a vote for each resolution.

 

Votes withheld are not a vote in law and have not been counted in the calculation of the votes for and against each resolution or the total votes validly cast.

 

As the Company has controlling shareholders as defined in the Financial Conduct Authority's Listing Rules, each resolution to elect an Independent Director (resolutions 6, 11, 12, 14, 15 and 16) have, pursuant to Listing Rule 9.2.2E, been approved by a majority of votes cast by the shareholders of the Company as a whole and the independent shareholders of the Company, being those shareholders entitled to vote on each resolution excluding the controlling shareholders.

 

 

General

 

Copies of all resolutions are available for inspection in the Notice of Meeting previously submitted to the UK Listing Authority's Document Viewing Facility, via the National Storage Mechanism www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM. 

 

A copy of the resolutions that do not constitute ordinary business at an annual general meeting will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will then be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM. 

 

The Notice of Meeting and the voting results are also available on the NMC Health plc website at www.nmchealth.com.  


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