16 March 2021
Blue Prism Group plc
("Blue Prism" or the "Group")
Results of AGM
Blue Prism (AIM: PRSM), a global leader in Intelligent Process Automation, announces that at its Annual General Meeting held earlier today, all resolutions were duly passed. The Board would like to thank investors for their support and enthusiasm for the progress made by Blue Prism to date.
The Board notes that that resolutions 5 (re-election of Jason Kingdon), 7 (re-election of Chris Batterham) and 8 (re-election of Ken Lever) were passed with the necessary majority but with less than 80% in favour.
The Board will continue to engage with shareholders to understand and discuss their concerns with respect to each of the above resolutions and will provide an update in due course and within 6 months at the latest.
The number of proxies received in respect of each resolution are as follows:
|
Resolution |
Votes in favour |
% in favour |
Votes against |
% against |
Votes withheld |
|
1. Receive and adopt report and accounts |
65,048,402 |
99.98 |
29 |
0.01 |
23,604 |
|
2. Appoint Grant Thornton UK LLP as auditors |
65,066,262 |
99.98 |
1,610 |
0.01 |
4,163 |
|
3. Authorise directors to settle auditor remuneration |
65,066,056 |
99.98 |
1,797 |
0.01 |
4,182 |
|
4. Approve remuneration report |
63,688,733 |
98.51 |
953,805 |
1.48 |
429,497 |
|
5. Re-appoint Jason Kingdon |
39,886,556 |
65.53 |
20,976,149 |
34.46 |
4,209,330 |
|
6. Re-appoint Ijoma Maluza |
54,494,776 |
86.87 |
8,230,274 |
13.12 |
2,346,985 |
|
7. Re-appoint Christopher Batterham |
46,315,702 |
73.99 |
16,274,201 |
26 |
2,482,132 |
|
8. Re-appoint Kenneth Lever |
40,667,102 |
62.49 |
24,398,884 |
37.5 |
6,049 |
|
9. Appoint Rachel Mooney |
65,051,435 |
99.97 |
14,141 |
0.02 |
6,459 |
|
10. Appoint Maurizio Carli |
64,994,117 |
99.88 |
71,412 |
0.11 |
6,506 |
|
11. Appoint Murray Rode |
64,994,274 |
99.88 |
71,712 |
0.11 |
6,049 |
|
12. Authorise directors to allot shares |
62,603,264 |
96.2 |
2,463,158 |
3.79 |
5,613 |
|
13. Authorise directors to disapply pre-emption up to 5% |
65,057,817 |
99.98 |
6,147 |
0.01 |
8,071 |
|
14. Authorise directors to dis-apply pre-emption up to a further 5% in connection with acquisition/capex |
61,166,725 |
94 |
3,896,672 |
5.99 |
8,638 |
|
15. Authorise directors to purchase shares |
64,919,703 |
99.98 |
3,613 |
0.01 |
148,719 |
CONTACT DETAILS
For further information please contact:
Enquiries:
|
Blue Prism Group plc Tom Hull, Head of Investor Relations
|
Tel: +44 (0)77 3670 7407 |
|
BofA Securities James Robertson Oliver Elias
|
Tel: +44 (0)20 7628 1000 |
|
Investec Bank plc Carlton Nelson Ben Griffith
|
Tel: +44 (0)20 7597 5970 |
|
Brunswick Caroline Daniel
|
Tel: +44 (0)20 7404 5959 |
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