Volex PLC Result of AGM (0550M)

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RNS Number : 0550M

Volex PLC

25 July 2017

25 July 2017

VOLEX PLC

Voting Results of 2017 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 For    Votes Against   Votes Withheld* 
 Resolution 1 - To 
  receive the Reports 
  of the Directors and 
  the Auditors and the 
  Accounts for the year 
  ended 2 April 2017.                  61,109,986      18,640               0 
 Resolution 2 - To 
  approve the Directors' 
  Remuneration Report.                 61,079,327      44,749            4,550 
 Resolution 3 - To 
  approve Directors' 
  Remuneration Policy.                 61,081,377      41,761            5,488 
 Resolution 4 - To 
  elect Dean Moore as 
  a Director.                          60,101,373      23,545          1,003,708 
 Resolution 5 - To 
  re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers 
  LLP as the auditors 
  of the Company.                      61,097,465      31,161              0 
 Resolution 6 - To 
  authorise the Directors 
  of the Company to 
  determine the auditors' 
  remuneration.                        61,105,900      22,676             50 
 Resolution 7 - To 
  authorise the Directors 
  to allot shares in 
  the Company pursuant 
  to section 551 of 
  the Companies Act 
  2006.                                60,890,587      236,623           1,416 
 Resolution 8 - To 
  authorise the Directors 
  to allot equity securities 
  pursuant to sections 
  560, 561(1) and 570 
  of the Companies Act 
  2006.                                60,880,298      243,554           4,774 
 Resolution 9 - To 
  approve the purchase 
  of ordinary shares 
  pursuant to section 
  701 of the Companies 
  Act 2006.                            61,109,711      17,849            1,066 
 Resolution 10 - To 
  permit general meetings 
  (other than the Annual 
  General Meeting) to 
  be called on 14 clear 
  days' notice.                        61,111,450      17,176              0 
 

* 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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