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Result of AGM

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Unite Group PLC (The)
12 May 2022
 

 

 

12 May 2022

 

THE UNITE GROUP PLC (the "Company")

 

RESULTS OF THE 2022 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

 

The Unite Group plc announces that all resolutions put to the Annual General Meeting held today, 12 May 2022, were passed on a poll.  The results for each resolution are as follows:

 



For

Against

 

 

Resolution

Votes1

% Votes Cast

Votes

% Votes Cast

Votes Withheld 2

Ordinary Resolutions

1

Receive Annual Reports and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2021

366,204,421

100

0

0

496,065

2

To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report contained in the Annual Report and Accounts

357,032,859

97.83

7,905,945

2.17

1,761,682

3

To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report (other than the part containing the Directors' Remuneration Policy) contained in the Annual Report and Accounts

354,173,687

97.05

10,765,117

2.95

1,761,682

4

Declare 2021 final dividend

 

366,698,609

100

0

0

1,877

5

Re-elect Richard Huntingford

343,237,965

95.01

18,041,159

4.99

5,421,362

6

Re-elect Richard Smith 

    

350,742,761

96.11

14,196,043

3.89

1,761,682

 

7

Re-elect Joseph Lister 

   

361,869,914

99.16

3,068,890

0.84

1,761,682

 

8

Re-elect Elizabeth McMeikan

354,585,021

97.16

10,353,783

2.84

1,761,682

9

Re-elect Ross Paterson

 

 

361,909,698

99.17

3,029,106

0.83

1,761,682

10

Re-elect Ilaria del Beato

 

 

361,919,781

99.17

3,019,023

0.83

1,761,682

 

11

Re-elect Dame Shirley Pearce

361,520,392

99.11

3,257,507

0.89

1,922,587

12

Re-elect Thomas Jackson

 

 

355,239,698

97.34

9,699,106

2.66

1,761,682

 

13

Re-elect Professor Sir Steve Smith

361,917,978

99.17

3,020,826

0.83

1,761,682

14

Re-appoint Deloitte LLP as Auditor        

365,846,677

99.77

850,440

0.23

3,369

15

Auditor's Remuneration  

 

366,695,243

100

1,524

0

1,877

 

 

16

Authority to Allot Shares

328,394,983

90.17

35,814,023

9.83

2,488,892

 

 

Special Resolutions

17

Dis-apply Pre-emption Rights (General)

360,205,249

99.35

2,355,331

0.65

4,139,906

18

Dis-apply Pre-emption Rights (Acquisition or Specified Capital Investment)

350,565,954

96.69

11,994,626

3.31

4,139,906

19

Allow General Meeting on 14 days' notice

324,419,058

88.94

40,359,112

11.06

1,922,315

 

1 Includes those votes giving the Chairman discretion.

2 A "Vote Withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of "For" and "Against" a resolution.

 

Maximum number of shares represented by proxy: 366,700,486 shares

 

Number of ordinary shares in issue as at the date of the AGM (no shares held in treasury): 399,311,939.

Resolutions 1 to 16 were passed as ordinary resolutions and Resolutions 17 to 19 were passed as special resolutions.

 

Pursuant to UK Listing Rule 9.6.2R, copies of all resolutions, other than those concerning ordinary business, adopted at the AGM will be shortly submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection at:

https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

 

The full text of the resolutions passed at the AGM can be found in the Notice of AGM, which is available alongside the AGM results on the Company's website at http://www.unite-group.co.uk/.

 

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For further information, please contact:

Unite Students

Christopher Szpojnarowicz, Company Secretary

 

 

Tel: +44 117 302 7120 



 

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