REG - Speedy Hire PLC - Result of AGM

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RNS Number : 1118D  Speedy Hire PLC  05 September 2024

Speedy Hire Plc

5 September 2024

 

 

Speedy Hire Plc ("Company")

Resolutions passed at Annual General Meeting - 5 September 2024

 

 

At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 5 September 2024 at the
offices of Panmure Liberum at Ropemaker Place, 25 Ropemaker Street, London,
EC2Y 9LY, all resolutions set out in the Notice of Meeting were voted on by
means of a poll.

 

Resolutions 1 to 15 and resolutions 20 to 22 were passed as ordinary
resolutions and resolutions 16 to 19 were passed as special resolutions. The
results of the poll are set out below:

 

 No  Resolution                                                                      For *                    Against                  Withheld **
                                                                                     No. of Votes  % of Vote  No. of Votes  % of Vote  No. of Votes
 1   To receive and adopt the annual accounts of the Company for the financial year  322,891,228   99.87%     423,881       0.13%      405,702
     ended 31 March 2024 together with the

     reports of the Directors and auditors (ordinary).
 2   To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the financial year ended 31   322,854,836   99.78%     724,883       0.22%      141,092
     March 2024 (ordinary).
 3   To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy (ordinary).                       252,125,891   80.26%     62,015,362    19.74%     9,579,557
 4   To declare a final dividend of 1.80 pence per ordinary share in respect of the  323,341,111   99.91%     303,731       0.09%      75,969
     financial year ended 31 March 2024 (ordinary).
 5   To re-elect Dan Evans as a Director of the Company (ordinary).                  323,165,534   99.88%     393,109       0.12%      162,168
 6   To re-elect Paul Rayner as a Director of the Company (ordinary).                323,172,728   99.88%     381,428       0.12%      166,655
 7   To re-elect David Shearer as a Director of the Company (ordinary).              305,355,297   94.38%     18,188,345    5.62%      177,168
 8   To re-elect David Garman as a Director of the Company (ordinary).               315,404,085   97.48%     8,153,757     2.52%      162,968
 9   To re-elect Rob Barclay as a Director of the Company (ordinary).                318,983,517   98.59%     4,558,524     1.41%      178,770
 10  To re-elect Rhian Bartlett as a Director of the Company (ordinary).             315,582,992   97.54%     7,974,850     2.46%      162,968
 11  To re-elect Shatish Dasani as a Director of the Company (ordinary).             315,340,242   97.46%     8,227,491     2.54%      153,077
 12  To re-elect Carol Kavanagh as a Director of the Company (ordinary).             312,136,920   96.47%     11,420,923    3.53%      162,968
 13  To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Auditors (ordinary).                323,056,638   99.82%     574,296       0.18%      89,877
 14  To authorise the Directors to determine the remuneration of the Auditors        323,410,929   99.95%     177,277       0.05%      132,605
     (ordinary).
 15  To authorise the Directors to allot shares (ordinary).                          322,748,145   99.71%     930,084       0.29%      42,582
 16  To authorise the Directors to allot securities free from pre-emption rights,    323,102,959   99.83%     566,235       0.17%      51,617
     subject to certain specified limitations (special).
 17  To disapply statutory pre-emption rights in relation to acquisitions or other   322,742,513   99.72%     897,907       0.28%      80,391
     capital investments (special).
 18  To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own shares (special).  316,414,713   97.79%     7,167,202     2.21%      138,896
 19  To authorise the calling of general meetings (other than Annual General         322,840,164   99.74%     835,051       0.26%      45,596
     Meetings) on not less than 14 days' notice (special).
 20  To permit the Company to make political donations (ordinary).                   315,335,984   97.44%     8,293,956     2.56%      90,871
 21  To approve the Speedy Hire Plc Performance Share Plan 2024 (ordinary).          322,864,201   99.76%     765,366       0.24%      91,244
 22  To approve the Speedy Hire 2024 Sharesave Scheme (ordinary).                    323,353,261   99.94%     194,646       0.06%      172,904

 

N.B. Percentage figures are rounded to 2 decimal places.

 

*     The votes of any proxy giving the Chairman discretion how to vote
have been included in the votes For a resolution.

**   A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the
calculation of percentages of votes cast For and Against a resolution.

 

As at 5 September 2024, the number of issued shares of the Company was
516,983,637, of which 55,141,657 were held in treasury. Therefore, the total
voting rights in the Company as at that date was 461,841,980.

 

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of all the resolutions passed as
special business at the Annual General Meeting will shortly be available for
inspection at the National Storage Mechanism which can be accessed at
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
(https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism) .

 

 

 

Neil Hunt

Company Secretary

 

 

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