Company Announcements

Result of AGM

Source: RNS
RNS Number : 2284W
NewRiver REIT PLC
14 August 2020
 

NewRiver REIT plc

("NewRiver" or the "Company")

Results of the AGM

 

The Directors of NewRiver are pleased to announce that at its Annual General Meeting held on Friday 14th August 2020, all of the proposed resolutions as set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting were passed by means of a poll. The final voting figures are set out below:

 

Resolution

Votes for

%

Votes against

%

 

Total Votes Cast

 

Votes withheld*

1

To receive the Directors' Report, Auditor's Report & Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2020

169,209,785

99.98

33,990

0.02

 

169,243,775

 

1,329,414

2

That the Directors' Remuneration Report contained within the Company's 2020 Annual Report on pages 100 to 108 be approved.

 

170,325,322

99.88

200,855

0.12

 

170,526,177

 

47,013

3

That Margaret Ford, being eligible and offering herself for re-election, be re-elected as a Director of the Company.

 

155,650,385

91.33

14,783,750

8.67

 

170,434,135

 

139,054

4

That Colin Rutherford, being eligible and offering himself for re-election, be re-elected as a Director of the Company.

 

170,431,112

99.99

3,024

0.01

 

170,434,136

 

139,054

5

That Allan Lockhart, being eligible and offering himself for re-election, be re-elected as a Director of the Company.

 

169,001,720

99.92

140,394

0.08

 

169,142,114

 

1,431,076

6

That Mark Davies, being eligible and offering himself for re-election, be re-elected as a Director of the Company.

170,285,253

99.92

139,883

0.08

 

170,425,136

 

148,054

7

That Kay Chaldecott, being eligible and offering herself for re-election, be re-elected as a Director of the Company.

 

170,357,144

99.96

67,823

0.04

 

170,424,967

 

148,223

8

That Alastair Miller, being eligible and offering himself for re-election, be re-elected as a Director of the Company.

 

170,359,963

99.96

65,004

0.04

 

170,424,967

 

148,223

9

That PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP be re-appointed as auditor of the Company.

 

170,412,358

99.95

83,376

0.05

 

170,495,734

 

77,456

10

That the Audit Committee be and is hereby authorised to fix the remuneration of the auditor.

 

170,498,331

99.99

15,579

0.01

 

170,513,910

 

59,280

11

That the Directors of the Company be authorised to declare and pay all dividends of the Company as interim dividends.

170,519,782

99.99

13,408

0.01

 

170,533,190

 

40,000

12

That the Directors' Remuneration Policy, set out on pages 91 to 99 of the 2020 Annual Report, be approved.

160,581,406

94.19

9,902,752

5.81

 

170,484,158

 

89,031

13

To authorise the Directors to allot shares.

169,515,900

99.39

1,039,147

0.61

 

170,555,047

 

18,143

14

To disapply pre-emption rights.

170,364,082

99.90

170,396

0.10

 

170,534,478

 

38,712

15

To disapply pre-emption rights in addition to those disapplied by resolution 14.

169,029,430

99.12

1,504,194

0.88

 

170,533,624

 

39,565

16

To authorise the Directors to offer shareholders the right to elect for scrip dividends instead of cash dividends

170,397,754

99.91

157,202

0.09

 

170,554,956

 

18,234

17

To authorise market purchases by the Company of its shares.

 

169,195,661

99.19

1,377,493

0.81

 

170,573,154

 

35

18

To authorise the calling of general meetings on 14 days' notice.

 

166,137,430

97.41

4,426,078

2.59

 

170,563,508

 

9,682

 

AGM Notes:

 

*A "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and cannot be counted in the calculation of the votes for and against a resolution.

 

As at the date of the Annual General Meeting, the total number of shares with voting rights in the Company is 306,278,160. This excludes 2,646,998 shares in the Employee Benefit Trust. The scrutineer of the poll was Link Asset Services.

 

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, NewRiver has submitted a copy of the resolutions dealing with the special business put to shareholders at the AGM today to the National Storage Mechanism facility and these will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

 

 

For further information

 

NewRiver REIT plc

 

 

+44 (0)20 3328 5800

Tom Loughran (Head of Investor Relations)

 

 

 

 


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