Avon Rubber PLC Result of AGM and Retirement of Director (5167D)

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RNS Number : 5167D

Avon Rubber PLC

29 January 2015

29 January 2015

Avon Rubber p.l.c.

(the 'Company')

Result of AGM and Retirement of Director

Result of AGM

Avon Rubber p.l.c. is pleased to announce that, at its Annual General Meeting held on the 29 January 2015, all the resolutions proposed in the Notice of Meeting were passed on a show of hands.

Full details of the proxy votes received from shareholders prior to the meeting for each resolution are set out below and will also be made available on the Company's website: www.avon-rubber.com

 
      RESOLUTIONS                               FOR         %     AGAINST    %     WITHELD 
---  -------------------------------------  -----------  ------  --------  -----  -------- 
      To receive the Report 
 1     and Accounts                          20,853,134   99.99     58      <1%    30,000 
---  -------------------------------------  -----------  ------  --------  -----  -------- 
      To approve the Directors' 
 2     Remuneration Report                   20,647,892   99.03   200,738   <1%    34,562 
---  -------------------------------------  -----------  ------  --------  -----  -------- 
 3    To declare a final dividend            20,852,460   99.99     674     <1%    30,000 
---  -------------------------------------  -----------  ------  --------  -----  -------- 
      To re-appoint Andrew 
 4     Lewis as a Director                   20,847,915   99.97    4,777    <1%    30,500 
---  -------------------------------------  -----------  ------  --------  -----  -------- 
      To re-appoint Richard 
 5     Wood as a Director                    20,842,953   99.95    9,739    <1%    30,500 
---  -------------------------------------  -----------  ------  --------  -----  -------- 
      To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers 
       LLP as auditors of the 
 6     Company                               20,701,029   99.94   12,163    <1%    170,000 
---  -------------------------------------  -----------  ------  --------  -----  -------- 
      To authorise the Directors 
       to determine the auditors' 
 7     remuneration                          20,844,469   99.97    4,723    <1%    34,000 
---  -------------------------------------  -----------  ------  --------  -----  -------- 
      To authorise the Directors 
 8     to allot shares                       20,831,863   99.91   18,095    <1%    33,234 
---  -------------------------------------  -----------  ------  --------  -----  -------- 
      To disapply pre-emption 
 9     rights*                               20,831,072   99.91   18,595    <1%    33,525 
---  -------------------------------------  -----------  ------  --------  -----  -------- 
      To authorise the Company 
       to purchase its own 
 10    shares*                               20,823,243   99.85   29,949    <1%    30,000 
---  -------------------------------------  -----------  ------  --------  -----  -------- 
      To authorise short notice 
 11    general meetings*                     20,595,810   98.76   256,882   1.24   30,500 
---  -------------------------------------  -----------  ------  --------  -----  -------- 
 

Notes

1. Any proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Chairman have been included in the "for" total.

2. A "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes "for" and "against" a resolution.

3. Discretionary proxy votes lodged in favour of a third party have not been included in the 'for', 'against' or 'total' figures.

   4.    At the date of the AGM the issued share capital of the Company is 31,023,292 ordinary shares. 

In accordance with paragraph 9.6.2 of the Listing Rules, a copy of the resolutions passed as special business at the AGM have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do.

Retirement of Director

As previously reported in the 2014 Annual Report, Stella Pirie retired as Non-Executive Director of the Company at the conclusion of the AGM. Richard Wood has replaced Mrs Pirie as the Senior Independent Director.

Miles Ingrey-Counter

Company Secretary

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