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RNS Number : 4750R  S4 Capital PLC  06 June 2024

S(4)Capital plc

("S(4)Capital" or "the Company")

Results of 2024 Annual General Meeting

S(4)Capital plc (SFOR.L), announces that following its Annual General Meeting
("AGM") held at 15 Bonhill Street, London EC2A 4DN and virtually on 6 June
2024 at midday, all the proposed resolutions were duly passed by shareowners
by way of a poll.  Resolutions 1 to 7 and 9 to 15 were passed as ordinary
resolutions.  Resolutions 16 to 20 were passed as special resolutions.
Resolution 8 was withdrawn.

 

The total number of votes cast on the poll for each resolution (the full text
of the resolutions is detailed in the notice of the AGM dated 8 May 2024) is
set out below.

 

 Resolution                                                                      Votes For    % of votes cast  Votes Against  % of votes cast  Total Cast   Withheld
 1. To receive the 2023 annual report and accounts                               252,873,695  99.98%           46,497         0.02%            252,920,192  91,652
 2. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report                                228,268,961  90.28%           24,577,121     9.72%            252,846,082  165,762
 3. To re-elect Sir Martin Sorrell as a Director                                 223,580,368  94.35%           13,401,178     5.65%            236,981,546  16,050,298
 4. To re-elect Daniel Pinto as a Director                                       247,433,436  97.85%           5,445,525      2.15%            252,878,961  132,883
 5. To re-elect Elizabeth Buchanan as a Director                                 251,910,206  99.61%           994,208        0.39%            252,904,414  107,430
 6. To re-elect Margaret Ma Connolly as a Director                               247,434,821  97.84%           5,470,622      2.16%            252,905,443  106,401
 7. To re-elect Mary Basterfield as a Director                                   250,055,144  98.88%           2,833,223      1.12%            252,888,367  123,477
 8. To re-elect Naoko Okumoto as a Director                                      Resolution withdrawn
 9. To re-elect Peter Miles Young as a Director                                  247,468,031  97.85%           5,446,519      2.15%            252,914,550  97,294
 10. To re-elect Rupert Faure Walker as a Director                               251,932,354  99.61%           982,089        0.39%            252,914,443  97,401
 11. To re-elect Susan Prevezer as a Director                                    251,913,585  99.60%           1,001,858      0.40%            252,915,443  96,401
 12. To re-elect Colin Day as a Director                                         251,968,241  99.62%           966,146        0.38%            252,934,387  97,457
 13. To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors                        252,683,801  99.92%           205,719        0.08%            252,889,520  122,324
 14.To authorise the Directors to fix the remuneration of the auditors           252,297,036  99.77%           579,684        0.23%            252,876,720  135,124
 15. To authorise the Directors generally to allot ordinary shares               246,754,547  97.60%           6,077,586      2.40%            252,832,133  179,711
 16.To authorise the disapplication of pre-emption rights generally              218,130,194  86.39%           34,362,405     13.61%           252,492,599  512,245
 17. To authorise the disapplication of pre-emption rights in connection with a  214,129,025  84.69%           38,697,432     15.31%           252,826,457  178,387
 specified acquisition or capital investment
 18. To authorise the disapplication of pre-emption rights to facilitate         209,840,351  83.11%           42,647,174     16.89%           252,487,525  517,319
 pro-rata offers to overseas shareowners
 19. To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares                         251,217,062  99.32%           1,708,753      0.68%            252,925,815  86,029
 20. To enable the Company to call general meetings, other than an Annual        244,412,859  96.63%           8,514,018      3.37%            252,926,877  84,967
 General Meeting, on reduced notice

 

Notes:

(1)  The "for" votes include those giving the Chairman discretion.

(2)  Total votes "for" and "against" are expressed as a percentage of the
total votes cast.

(3)  A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the
calculation of the proportion of votes "for" or "against" a resolution.

(4)  Issued Share Capital: 596,916,764 ordinary shares.

 

The above poll results will shortly be available on the website. In accordance
with Listing Rule 9.6.2 a copy of the resolutions, other than those concerning
ordinary business of the Company, will be submitted to the FCA and will in due
course be available for inspection
at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
(https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism)

 

Enquiries

S(4)Capital plc

Tel: +44 (0)20 3793 0003

Sir Martin Sorrell, Executive Chairman

Powerscourt (PR adviser to S(4)Capital plc)

Tel: +44 (0)7970 246 725

Elly Williamson/ Pete Lambie

 

About S(4)Capital

S(4)Capital plc (SFOR.L) is the tech-led, new age/new era digital advertising,
marketing and technology services company, established by Sir Martin Sorrell
in May 2018.

Our strategy is to build a purely digital advertising and marketing services
business for global, multinational, regional, and local clients, and
millennial-driven influencer brands. This will be achieved by integrating
leading businesses in three practices: Content, Data&digital Media and
Technology Services, along with an emphasis on 'faster, better, cheaper, more'
execution in an always-on consumer-led environment, with a unitary structure.

The S4Capital Board includes Rupert Faure Walker, Daniel Pinto, Sue Prevezer,
Elizabeth Buchanan, Margaret Ma Connolly, Miles Young and Colin Day as
Non-Executive Directors.

The Company now has approximately 7,600 people in 32 countries with
approximately 80% of net revenue across the Americas, 15% across Europe, the
Middle East and Africa and 5% across Asia-Pacific. The longer-term objective
is a geographic split of 60%:20%:20%. Content currently accounts for
approximately 60% of net revenue, Data&digital Media 25% and Technology
Services 15%. The long-term objective for the practices is a split of
50%:25%:25%.

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.
Prior to that Sir Martin was Group Financial Director of Saatchi & Saatchi
Company Plc for nine years.

 

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