Unite Group PLC AGM Statement (9195E)

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RNS Number : 9195E

Unite Group PLC

11 May 2017

11 May 2017

THE UNITE GROUP PLC (the "Company")

AGM - VOTING RESULTS

The Company announces that at its Annual General Meeting held today all resolutions were duly passed on a show of hands.

Details of the proxy votes are as follows:

 
                                         For                  Against 
---  ------------------------  ----------------------  ---------------------  ----------- 
            Resolution            Votes*      % Votes     Votes      % Votes     Votes 
                                                Cast                   Cast     Withheld 
                                                                                   ** 
---  ------------------------  ------------  --------  -----------  --------  ----------- 
      Receive Annual 
       Reports and 
 1     Accounts                 182,128,901     99.93      130,000      0.07      134,724 
---  ------------------------  ------------  --------  -----------  --------  ----------- 
      Directors' Remuneration 
 2     Report                   172,055,505     99.48      904,419      0.52    9,433,701 
---  ------------------------  ------------  --------  -----------  --------  ----------- 
      Declare Final 
 3     Dividend                 182,135,791    100.00            0      0.00      257,834 
---  ------------------------  ------------  --------  -----------  --------  ----------- 
 4    Re-elect P White          142,149,611     89.75   16,239,847     10.25   24,004,167 
---  ------------------------  ------------  --------  -----------  --------  ----------- 
 5    Re-elect R Smith          178,530,981     97.88    3,862,644      2.12            0 
---  ------------------------  ------------  --------  -----------  --------  ----------- 
 6    Re-elect J Lister         178,530,981     97.88    3,862,644      2.12            0 
---  ------------------------  ------------  --------  -----------  --------  ----------- 
 7    Re-elect R Simpson        178,531,109     97.88    3,862,516      2.12            0 
---  ------------------------  ------------  --------  -----------  --------  ----------- 
 8    Re-elect M Wolstenholme   180,868,088     99.16    1,523,537      0.84        2,000 
---  ------------------------  ------------  --------  -----------  --------  ----------- 
 9    Re-elect T Wilson         182,086,897     99.83      304,728      0.17        2,000 
---  ------------------------  ------------  --------  -----------  --------  ----------- 
 10   Re-elect A Jones          182,088,980     99.83      304,619      0.17           26 
---  ------------------------  ------------  --------  -----------  --------  ----------- 
 11   Re-elect E McMeikan       182,087,006     99.83      306,619      0.17            0 
---  ------------------------  ------------  --------  -----------  --------  ----------- 
 12   Re-appoint Auditor        182,390,530    100.00        1,095   0.00***        2,000 
---  ------------------------  ------------  --------  -----------  --------  ----------- 
 13   Auditors' Remuneration    182,392,530    100.00        1,095   0.00***            0 
---  ------------------------  ------------  --------  -----------  --------  ----------- 
      Authority to 
 14    Allot Shares             158,024,372     87.04   23,522,851     12.96      846,402 
---  ------------------------  ------------  --------  -----------  --------  ----------- 
      Dis-apply Pre-emption 
       Rights - 1(st) 
 15    5% (General)             179,134,981     99.98       27,734      0.02    3,230,910 
---  ------------------------  ------------  --------  -----------  --------  ----------- 
      Dis-apply Pre-emption 
       Rights - 2(nd) 
       5% (acquisition 
       or specified 
 16    capital Investment)      177,227,646     98.92    1,935,095      1.08    3,230,884 
---  ------------------------  ------------  --------  -----------  --------  ----------- 
      Article 94 of 
       the Articles 
 17    of Association           181,592,499     99.56      801,126      0.44            0 
---  ------------------------  ------------  --------  -----------  --------  ----------- 
      Allow General 
       Meeting on 14 
 18    days' notice             158,503,062     86.90   23,890,128     13.10          435 
---  ------------------------  ------------  --------  -----------  --------  ----------- 
 

* Includes those votes giving the Chairman discretion.

** A "Vote Withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of "For" and "Against" a resolution.

***0.0001 rounded to 0.00 for consistency

Number of shares represented by proxy: 182,393,625

Number of ordinary shares in issue as at the date of the AGM (no shares held in treasury): 224,427,055

Resolutions 1 to 14 and 18 were passed as ordinary resolutions, and Resolutions 15, 16 and 17 were passed as special resolutions.

Pursuant to UK Listing Rule 9.6.2R, copies of all resolutions, other than those concerning ordinary business, adopted at the AGM will be shortly submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM

The full text of the resolutions passed at the AGM can be found in the Notice of AGM which is available alongside the AGM results on the Company's website at http://www.unite-group.co.uk/

END

For further information, please contact:

 
Unite Students 
 Christopher Szpojnarowicz, Company Secretary    Tel: [phone] 
 
 

This information is provided by RNS

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