Company Announcements

Result of AGM

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Blackbird PLC
18 June 2024
 

18 June 2024

Blackbird plc

(the "Company")

Result of Annual General Meeting

Blackbird plc (AIM:BIRD), the technology licensor, developer and seller of market-leading cloud native video editing platform, Blackbird, and developer of the multiplayer editor in a browser, elevate.io, announces that at the Company's Annual General Meeting ("AGM") held earlier today, all resolutions were duly passed on a show of hands.

The proxy votes received from shareholders on each resolution are set out below:

 

FOR*

AGAINST

Total votes cast (excluding votes withheld)

 

No. of votes withheld

 

No. of votes for

% of total votes cast

 

 

 

 

No. of votes against

 

 

 

% of total votes cast

 

 

ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS


 

 

 

 

 

1.     To receive the Company's annual reports and accounts for the year ended 31 December 2023

187,553,227

99.86%

257,000

0.14%

187,810,227

8,048

2.     In accordance with the 2023 QCA Code, advisory vote to approve the directors' remuneration and benefits for the year ended 31 December 2023.

174,892,929

93.13%

12,906,498

6.87%

187,799,427

18,848

3.     To reappoint Moore Kingston Smith LLP as auditors of the Company

187,549,283

99.86%

260,944

0.14%

187,810,227

8,048

4.     To reappoint Andrew Bentley as a Director

174,673,509

93.01%

13,136,718

6.99%

187,810,227

8,048

5.     To reappoint Ian McDonough as a Director

187,504,838

99.84%

305,389

0.16%

187,810,227

8,048

6.     To reappoint Stephen White as a Director

175,552,125

99.57%

758,102

0.43%

176,310,227

11,508,048

7.     To reappoint Stephen Streater as a Director

187,502,125

99.84%

308,102

0.16%

187,810,227

8,048

8.     To reappoint Anne de Kerckhove as a Director

187,052,125

99.60%

758,102

0.40%

187,810,227

8,048

9.     To renew the authority of the Directors to allot shares

187,464,710

99.82%

345,517

0.18%

187,810,227

8,048

SPECIAL RESOLUTION







10.  To renew the disapplication of pre-emption rights

174,986,409

93.18%

12,817,018

6.82%

187,803,427

14,848

11.  To approve the extension of the Company's Long Term Incentive Plan 2019

187,373,329

99.77%

436,898

0.23%

187,810,227

8,048

*Includes Chairman's and Third Party discretionary votes.

Further to the Company's announcement on 28 May 2024, following the conclusion of the AGM, Anne de Kerckhove is now Chair of the board of the Company.

Contacts:

Blackbird plc

Ian McDonough, Chief Executive Officer

Stephen White, Chief Operating and Financial Officer

Tel: +44 (0)20 8879 7245

Allenby Capital Limited (Nominated Adviser and Broker)

Nick Naylor / Piers Shimwell (Corporate Finance)

Amrit Nahal / Guy McDougall (Equity Sales and Corporate Broking)

Tel: +44 (0)20 3328 5656

 

About Blackbird plc

Blackbird plc operates in the fast-growing SaaS, Media and Entertainment and content creation markets.  Blackbird plc's patented technology allows for frame accurate navigation, playback, viewing and editing in the cloud and it has two products.

Blackbird a market leading suite of cloud-native computing applications, is used by rights holders, broadcasters, sports and news video specialists, live events and content owners, post production houses, other mass market digital video channels and corporations.

elevate.io, currently in general release, is the company's new collaborative content creation tool in a web browser aimed at professional teams and the Creator Economy.

Blackbird plc also licences its core video technology under its 'Powered by Blackbird' licensing model. Enabling video companies to accelerate their path to true cloud business models, licensees benefit from power and carbon reductions, cost and time savings, less hardware and bandwidth requirements and easy scalability.

www.blackbird.video

www.linkedin.com/company/blackbird-cloud

www.twitter.com/blackbirdcloud

www.facebook.com/blackbirdplc

www.youtube.com/c/blackbirdcloud

www.elevate.io

 

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