Company Announcements

Result of AGM

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Victrex PLC
12 February 2021
 

Result of Annual General Meeting

 

Victrex plc is pleased to announce that at the Annual General Meeting held on 12 February 2021 ('the Meeting') all the resolutions considered at the Meeting were passed. 

 

The following table summarises the final  proxy voting:

 

Res No.

Resolution

Votes For

%

Votes Against

%

Votes Withheld

01

To receive the financial statements and the auditors' and Directors' reports for the year ended 30 September 2020

71,496,078

99.99%

9,103

0.01%

2,808,156

02

To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report

70,431,079

95.64%

3,210,454

4.36%

671,804

03

To declare a final dividend

74,289,552

100.00%

0

0.00%

23,786

04

To re-elect Larry Pentz as a Director

72,860,932

98.08%

1,426,685

1.92%

25,720

05

To re-elect Jane Toogood as a Director

74,202,408

99.89%

85,194

0.11%

25,736

06

To re-elect Janet Ashdown as a Director

74,200,448

99.88%

86,954

0.12%

25,936

07

To re-elect Brendan Connolly as a Director

74,202,090

99.89%

85,312

0.11%

25,936

08

To re-elect David Thomas as a Director

74,199,445

99.88%

87,874

0.12%

26,019

09

To re-elect Jakob Sigurdsson as a Director

73,605,320

99.08%

682,782

0.92%

25,236

10

To re-elect Martin Court as a Director

73,594,034

99.93%

50,109

0.07%

669,194

11

To re-elect Richard Armitage as a Director

72,535,951

98.50%

1,108,241

1.50%

669,146

12

To elect Ros Rivaz as a Director of the Company

68,797,275

92.61%

5,490,344

7.39%

25,719

13

To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditor of the Company

74,284,103

99.99%

4,161

0.01%

25,074

14

To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the auditors' remuneration

74,286,050

100.00%

2,343

0.00%

24,945

15

To authorise political donations under the Companies Act 2006

68,492,457

92.20%

5,794,665

7.80%

26,216

16

To authorise the Directors' to allot shares pursuant to section 551 of the Companies Act 2006

67,976,817

91.50%

6,311,950

8.50%

24,571

17

Special Resolution to partially disapply the statutory rights of pre-emption

74,131,263

99.79%

156,700

0.21%

25,375

18

Special Resolution to authorise the Directors to  disapply the statutory rights of pre-emption to a further 5%

62,926,314

84.71%

11,361,681

15.29%

25,342

19

Special Resolution to authorise the Company to purchase its own shares pursuant to section 701 of the Companies Act 2006

68,119,830

91.73%

6,141,945

8.27%

51,562

20

Hold general meetings (other than annual general meetings) upon 14 clear days' notice

72,918,921

98.16%

1,370,436

1.84%

23,981

21

Articles of Association

74,283,870

100.00%

1,826

0.00%

27,642

                                                                                   

Any discretionary proxy votes have been aggregated within the 'For' total above. Any votes withheld are not a vote in law and have not been included in the above calculations. The issued share capital at the date of the meeting was 86,756,920 ordinary shares. 

 

A copy of the resolutions passed at the meeting which were not ordinary business has been forwarded today to the National Storage Mechanism in accordance with LR 9.6.2 of the Financial Conduct Authority's UKLA Listing Rules.

 

The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual General Meeting contained in the Annual Report and Accounts which is available for viewing at the National Storage Mechanism which can be located at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM and from the Company's website www.victrexplc.com.

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