FDM Group (Holdings) plc Result of AGM (6853W)

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RNS Number : 6853W

FDM Group (Holdings) plc

28 April 2016

28 April 2016

FDM Group (Holdings) plc

Result of AGM

The board of directors of FDM Group (Holdings) plc (the "Company" or "FDM") announces that, at the Company's 2016 annual general meeting held earlier today, all resolutions were duly passed on a show of hands.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2(R), a copy of the resolutions passed at the Annual General Meeting will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

As at the date of the meeting, there were 107,517,506 ordinary shares with voting rights in issue. The following proxies were received by the Company from shareholders prior to the meeting:

 
                 RESOLUTION                                FOR                          AGAINST              WITHHELD 
-------------------------------------------  ------------------------------  -----------------------------  ---------- 
                                                VOTES      % OF VOTES CAST*     VOTES     % OF VOTES CAST*     VOTES 
----  -------------------------------------  -----------  -----------------  ----------  -----------------  ---------- 
       Receive the Company's Annual Report 
        and Accounts for the year ended 31 
        December 2015 together 
        with the reports of the directors 
 1      and shareholders.                     93,312,583                100           0                  0       9,926 
----  -------------------------------------  -----------  -----------------  ----------  -----------------  ---------- 
 2     Approve the Directors' Remuneration    91,803,347              98.37   1,519,162               1.63           0 
        Report (other than the part 
        containing the Directors' 
        Remuneration Policy) for the year 
        ended 31 December 2015. 
----  -------------------------------------  -----------  -----------------  ----------  -----------------  ---------- 
 3     Declare a final ordinary dividend      93,320,779              99.99       1,730               0.01           0 
        for the year ended 31 December 2015 
        of 8.5 pence for each 
        ordinary share in the capital of 
        the Company. 
----  -------------------------------------  -----------  -----------------  ----------  -----------------  ---------- 
 4     Declare a special dividend for the     93,322,509                100           0                  0           0 
        year ended 31 December 2015 of 5.0 
        pence for each ordinary 
        share in the capital of the 
        Company. 
----  -------------------------------------  -----------  -----------------  ----------  -----------------  ---------- 
 5     Re-elect Roderick Flavell as a         93,131,020              99.79     191,489               0.21           0 
        director of the Company 
----  -------------------------------------  -----------  -----------------  ----------  -----------------  ---------- 
 6     Re-elect Peter Whiting as a director   93,320,779              99.99       1,730               0.01           0 
        of the Company 
----  -------------------------------------  -----------  -----------------  ----------  -----------------  ---------- 
 7     Re-elect Robin Taylor as a director    93,320,779              99.99       1,730               0.01           0 
        of the Company 
----  -------------------------------------  -----------  -----------------  ----------  -----------------  ---------- 
 8     Re-elect Michelle Senecal de Fonseca   93,320,779              99.99       1,730               0.01           0 
        as a director of the Company 
----  -------------------------------------  -----------  -----------------  ----------  -----------------  ---------- 
 9     Re-elect David Lister as a director    93,320,779              99.99       1,730               0.01           0 
        of the Company 
----  -------------------------------------  -----------  -----------------  ----------  -----------------  ---------- 
 10    Re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers      93,294,351              99.97      28,158               0.03           0 
        LLP as the Company's auditors 
----  -------------------------------------  -----------  -----------------  ----------  -----------------  ---------- 
 11    Authorise the directors to agree the   93,322,509                100           0                  0           0 
        remuneration of the auditors 
----  -------------------------------------  -----------  -----------------  ----------  -----------------  ---------- 
 12    Authorise the directors to allot       92,548,323              99.19     754,463               0.81      19,723 
        shares pursuant to section 551 of 
        the Companies Act 2006 
        (the "Act") 
----  -------------------------------------  -----------  -----------------  ----------  -----------------  ---------- 
 13    Special Resolution:                    82,046,975              97.18   2,376,935               2.82   8,898,599 
        Disapply pre-emption rights 
        pursuant to section 570 of the Act 
----  -------------------------------------  -----------  -----------------  ----------  -----------------  ---------- 
 14    Special Resolution:                    93,302,786              99.98      19,723               0.02           0 
        Authorise the Company to make 
        market purchases of its own shares 
        pursuant to section 701 of 
        the Act 
----  -------------------------------------  -----------  -----------------  ----------  -----------------  ---------- 
 15    Special Resolution:                    88,685,472              95.03   4,637,037               4.97           0 
        That a general meeting (other than 
        an AGM) may be called on not less 
        than 14 clear days' notice 
----  -------------------------------------  -----------  -----------------  ----------  -----------------  ---------- 
 

*Excludes votes withheld

ends

For further information please contact:

 
 FDM Group (Holdings)    Rod Flavell -    020 7067 0000 
  plc                     CEO              (today) 
                          Mike McLaren     0203 056 8240 
                           - CFO            (thereafter) 
 Weber Shandwick         Nick Oborne / 
  (financial PR)          Tom Jenkins     020 7067 0000 
 
 

About FDM

FDM is an international professional services provider with a focus on IT. Operating from offices in Europe, North America and Asia, FDM specialises in recruiting, training and deploying its own permanent IT Consultants ("Mounties") across a number of service areas including: development, testing, project management, data analysis, application support, infrastructure, business analysis and compliance.

With a large number of blue chip clients across its operational territories, FDM meets the demands of its customers through the provision of highly-trained and geographically flexible Mounties that are employed by FDM. FDM offers a high-value, low risk proposition to both trainees and clients and looks principally to recruit:

-- Graduates local to each of the territories in which it operates, typically but not exclusively training them in-territory and then placing them onto client sites within the same territory; and

-- Ex-military personnel local to each of the territories in which it operates, training them as IT or business Consultants in that territory and placing them on client sites in the same territory.

FDM strongly supports the recruitment of women into the IT industry and actively encourages their advancement through their global 'Women in IT' initiative.

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