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S4 Capital PLC

Result of AGM

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RNS Number : 2110P
S4 Capital PLC
16 June 2022
 

16 June 2022

S4 Capital plc

("S4Capital" or "the Company")

Results of Annual General Meeting

S4Capital plc (SFOR.L), the tech-led, new age, new era, digital advertising and marketing services company, announces that at the Company's Annual General Meeting held earlier today, the resolutions proposed were duly passed by way of a poll and without amendment.

 

The total number of votes received on each resolution is as follows:

 

Resolution

For

% of votes cast

Against

% of votes cast

Votes cast as a % of Issued Share Capital

Withheld

1.    

To receive the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2021

 

261,120,634

 

99.99

 

24,332


 

0.01

46.96

 

1,005,416

2.    

To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report

 

193,958,372

 

82.67

 

40,656,046

 

17.33

42.19

 

27,535,964

3.    

To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report

 

162,386,097

 

69.71

 

70,564,359

 

30.29

41.89

 

29,199,926

4.    

To re-elect Sir Martin Sorrell as a Director

 

224,698,476

 

90.93

 

22,416,808

 

9.07

44.44

 

15,035,098

5.    

To re-elect Victor Knaap as a Director

 

261,542,394

 

99.83

 

443,796

 

0.17

47.11

 

164,192

6.    

To re-elect Wesley ter Haar as a Director

 

261,540,840

 

99.83

 

444,995

 

0.17

47.11

 

164,547

7.    

To re-elect Christopher S. Martin as a Director

 

261,540,865

 

99.83

 

444,970

 

0.17

47.11

 

164,547

8.    

To re-elect Paul Roy as a Director

 

249,704,104

 

95.99

 

10,443,442

 

4.01

46.78

 

2,002,836

9.    

To re-elect Rupert Faure Walker as a Director

 

250,511,740

 

96.30

 

9,635,652

 

3.70

46.78

 

2,002,990

10.

To re-elect Susan Prevezer as a Director

 

253,751,564

 

96.86

 

8,235,576

 

3.14

47.11

 

163,242

11.

To re-elect Daniel Pinto as a Director

 

261,540,277

 

99.83

 

445,712

 

0.17

47.11

 

164,393

12.

To re-elect Scott Spirit as a Director

 

261,540,120

 

99.83

 

445,869

 

0.17

47.11

 

164,393

13.

To re-elect Elizabeth Buchanan as a Director

261,542,403

 

99.83

 

444,737

 

0.17

47.11

163,242

14.

To re-elect Margaret Ma Connolly as a Director

261,541,603

 

99.83

 

445,537

 

0.17

47.11

163,242

15.

To re-elect Naoko Okumoto as a Director

261,541,428

 

99.83

 

445,712

 

0.17

47.11

163,242

16.

To re-elect Peter Miles Young as a Director

261,541,253

 

99.83

 

444,736

 

0.17

 

47.11

164,393

 

17.

To elect Mary Basterfield as a Director

259,852,057

 

99.19

 

2,135,083

 

0.81

 

47.11

163,242

 

18.

To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors

261,984,068

 

99.94

 

151,567

 

0.06

 

47.14

14,747

 

19.

To authorise the Directors to fix the remuneration of the auditors

262,099,571

 

99.98

 

40,357

 

0.02

 

47.14

10,454

 

20.

To authorise the Directors generally to allot ordinary shares

255,494,798

 

99.00

 

2,591,909

 

1.00

 

46.41

4,063,675

 

21.

To authorise the disapplication of pre-emption rights generally

257,920,346

 

99.88

 

303,345

 

0.12

 

46.44

3,926,691

 

22.

To authorise the disapplication of pre-emption rights in connection with a specified acquisition or capital investment

258,019,761

 

99.92

 

202,776

 

0.08

 

46.44

3,927,845

 

23.

To authorise the disapplication of pre-emption rights to facilitate pro-rata offers to overseas shareowners

251,628,752

 

98.19

 

4,642,603

 

1.81

 

46.08

5,879,027

 

24.

To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares

258,015,969

 

99.98

60,241

 

0.02

 

46.41

4,074,172

 

25.

To enable the Company to call general meetings, other than an Annual General Meeting, on reduced notice

258,070,339

 

98.45

 

4,071,949

 

1.55

 

47.14

8,094

 

26.

To approve the Bonus Share Issue

258,042,470

 

99.93

 

174,867

 

0.07

46.43

3,933,045

 

27.

To approve the Capital Reduction

258,155,032

 

99.97

 

66,650

 

0.03

 

46.44

3,928,700

 

28.

To adopt new articles of association

257,300,793

 

99.93

 

172,422

 

0.07

 

46.30

4,677,167

 

29.

To approve amendments to the Employee Share Ownership Plan

210,365,928

 

81.72

 

47,049,159

18.28

 

46.29

4,735,295

 

 

Notes:

(i)               Votes 'For' include those votes giving the chairman of the meeting discretion.

(ii)              The number of ordinary shares in issue on 16 June 2022 was 556,085,466.  Ordinary shareowners are entitled to one vote per share. 

(iii)             A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes validly cast.

Full details of the resolutions are set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting dated 14 May 2022 (which is available on the Company's website at https://www.s4capital.com/investors).

Resolutions 1 to 20 and Resolution 29 were ordinary resolutions, requiring more than 50 per cent. of shareowners' votes to be cast in favour of the resolutions. Resolutions 21 to 25 and 27 and 28 were special resolutions, requiring at least 75 per cent. of shareowners' votes to be cast in favour of the resolutions.

The Board welcomes the support of shareowners for all of the resolutions at today's meeting. However, we note that a significant minority of shareowners voted against Resolution 3, the approval of the new Directors' Remuneration Policy. The Nomination and Remuneration Committee consulted with major shareowners on the terms of the new Policy in advance of the AGM and is aware of the views of some shareowners on specific matters. Nevertheless, the Committee will seek to engage with those shareowners who voted against Resolution 3 (and who have not already explained their reasons for doing so) to understand their reasons for doing so, and will provide an update no later than six months after the date of the AGM.

 

S4Capital plc                                                      

Sir Martin Sorrell, Executive Chairman                                    Tel: +44 (0)20 3793 0003

 

Powerscourt (PR adviser to S4Capital plc)                             Tel: +44 (0) 778 670 2526

Robin O'Kelly

Jane Glover

 

About S4Capital

 

S4Capital (SFOR.L) is the tech-led, new age/new era digital advertising and marketing services company, established by Sir Martin Sorrell in May 2018.


Its strategy is to build a purely digital advertising and marketing services business for global, multinational, regional, local clients and millennial-driven influencer brands. This will be achieved by integrating leading businesses in three practice areas: content, data & digital media and technology services, along with an emphasis on "faster, better, cheaper" executions in an always-on consumer-led environment, with a unitary structure.


Digital is by far the fastest-growing segment of the advertising market. S4Capital estimates that in 2021 digital accounted for approximately 60% or $420-450 billion of total global advertising spend of $700-750 billion (excluding over $500 billion of trade promotion marketing, the primary target of the Amazon advertising platform) and projects that by 2022 total global advertising spend will expand to $770-850 billion and digital's share will grow to approximately 65% and by 2024 to approximately 70%, accelerated by the impact of covid-19.


In 2018, S4Capital combined with MediaMonks, the leading AdAge A-listed creative digital content production company led by Victor Knaap and Wesley ter Haar, and then with MightyHive, the market-leading digital media solutions provider for future thinking marketers and agencies, led by Peter Kim and Christopher S. Martin.


Since then, MediaMonks and MightyHive have combined with more than 25 companies across content, data & digital media and Technology services. For a full list, please see the S4Capital website.


In August 2021, S4Capital launched its unitary brand by merging MediaMonks and MightyHive into Media.Monks, represented by a dynamic logo mark that features MightyHive's iconic hexagon. As the operational brand, Media.Monks underpins S4Capital's agility, digital knowledge and efficiency and is the next step in delivering on its foundational promise to unify content, data & digital media and Technology services.


Victor Knaap, Wesley ter Haar, Pete Kim, Christopher Martin, Mary Basterfield and Scott Spirit all joined the S4Capital Board as Directors. The S4Capital Board also includes Rupert Faure Walker, Paul Roy, Daniel Pinto, Sue Prevezer, Elizabeth Buchanan, Naoko Okumoto, Margaret Ma Connolly, Peter Rademaker and Miles Young.


The Company now has around 9,000 people in 33 countries across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa and Asia-Pacific and a current market capitalisation of approximately £1.3 billion (c.$1.7 billion) and would rank in the FTSE 200. It achieved Unicorn status in a little over one year, unique in the advertising and marketing services industry. Sir Martin was CEO of WPP for 33 years, building it from a £1 million "shell" company in 1985 into the world's largest advertising and marketing services company with a market capitalisation of over £16 billion on the day he left. Today its market capitalisation is £8.7 billion, dropping into third place behind both Omnicom and Publicis for the first time ever. Prior to that Sir Martin was Group Financial Director of Saatchi & Saatchi Company Plc for nine years.
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