Volex PLC Result of AGM (2730F)

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RNS Number : 2730F

Volex PLC

26 July 2016

26 July 2016

VOLEX PLC

Voting Results of 2016 Annual General Meeting ("AGM")

Volex plc (the "Company"), one of the world's largest power cord and harness assemblers, announces the results of its AGM held today. All resolutions were duly passed on a poll.

The proxy votes were cast as follows:

 
 Resolution                         Votes      Votes Against   Votes Withheld* 
                                      For 
 Resolution 1 - To receive 
  the Reports of the Directors 
  and the Auditors and 
  the Accounts for the 
  year ended 3 April 2016.        61,134,942      18,816              700 
 Resolution 2 - To approve 
  the Directors' 
  Remuneration Report.            55,587,021      93,599          5,473,838 
 Resolution 3 - To elect 
  Nat Rothschild as a 
  Director.                       55,152,763     5,506,259         495,436 
 Resolution 4 - To elect 
  Adrian Chamberlain as 
  a Director.                     57,487,151      39,266          3,628,041 
 Resolution 5 - To re-appoint 
  PricewaterhouseCoopers 
  LLP as the auditors 
  of the Company.                 59,227,192      86,317          1,840,949 
 Resolution 6 - To authorise 
  the Directors of the 
  Company to determine 
  the auditors' remuneration.     61,077,052      77,406              0 
 Resolution 7 - To authorise 
  the Directors to allot 
  shares in the Company 
  pursuant to section 
  551 of the Companies 
  Act 2006.                       55,402,536     3,906,542        1,845,380 
 Resolution 8 - To authorise 
  the Directors to allot 
  equity securities pursuant 
  to sections 560, 561(1) 
  and 570 of the Companies 
  Act 2006.                       55,371,433     5,771,573         11,452 
 Resolution 9 - To approve 
  the purchase of ordinary 
  shares pursuant to section 
  701 of the Companies 
  Act 2006.                       55,594,527     5,556,214          3,717 
 Resolution 10 - To permit 
  general meetings (other 
  than the Annual General 
  Meeting) to be called 
  on 14 clear days' notice.       61,120,401      25,436            8,621 
 

* A vote withheld is not treated as a vote in law and would not be counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes cast for or against a resolution.

In accordance with UK Listing Rule 9.6.2R copies of the resolutions passed at the AGM have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do.

A copy of this announcement setting out the poll results for the AGM is also available on the Company's website at www.volex.com.

The full text of each of the resolutions is set out in the notice of AGM, copies of which are available on the Volex website (www.volex.com).

Neither the content of the Company's website nor the content of any website accessible from hyperlinks on the Company's website (or any other website) is incorporated into, or forms part of, this announcement nor, unless previously published by means of a recognised information service, should any such content be relied upon in reaching a decision as to whether or not to acquire, continue to hold, or dispose of, securities in the Company.

 
 Daren Morris 
  Group Chief Financial Officer and Company 
  Secretary 
 
  Volex plc 
 

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