FDM Group (Holdings) plc Result of AGM (9165W)

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RNS Number : 9165W

FDM Group (Holdings) plc

28 April 2021

28 April 2021

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 2021 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 https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

As at the date of the meeting, there were 109,191,669 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 2020 together 
        with the reports of the Directors 
 1      and shareholders.                   95,187,496               99.99          24                0.01   1,437,952 
      -----------------------------------  -----------  ------------------  ----------  ------------------  ---------- 
 2     Approve the Directors'               90,648,379               96.49   3,298,797                3.51   2,678,296 
        Remuneration Policy. 
      -----------------------------------  -----------  ------------------  ----------  ------------------  ---------- 
 3     Approve the Directors'               87,882,825               92.90   6,713,905                7.10   2,028,742 
        Remuneration Report (other than 
        the part containing the 
        Directors' 
        Remuneration Policy) for the year 
        ended 31 December 2020. 
      -----------------------------------  -----------  ------------------  ----------  ------------------  ---------- 
 4     Declare a final ordinary dividend    96,316,061               99.68     309,411                0.32           0 
        for the year ended 31 December 
        2020 of 15.0 pence for each 
        ordinary share in the capital of 
        the Company. 
      -----------------------------------  -----------  ------------------  ----------  ------------------  ---------- 
 5     Approve the amendments to the        94,857,508               98.18   1,761,750                1.82       6,214 
        rules of the FDM 2014 Performance 
        Share Plan. 
      -----------------------------------  -----------  ------------------  ----------  ------------------  ---------- 
 6     Approve the rules of the FDM         95,252,570               98.58   1,372,337                1.42         565 
        Buy-As-You-Earn Plan ("BAYE") and 
        authorise the Directors to 
        adopt the BAYE. 
      -----------------------------------  -----------  ------------------  ----------  ------------------  ---------- 
 7     Re-elect Andrew Brown as a           96,434,122               99.80     191,350                0.20           0 
        Director of the Company. 
      -----------------------------------  -----------  ------------------  ----------  ------------------  ---------- 
 8     Re-elect Rod Flavell as a Director   90,847,228               94.02   5,778,244                5.98           0 
        of the Company. 
      -----------------------------------  -----------  ------------------  ----------  ------------------  ---------- 
 9     Re-elect Sheila Flavell as a         96,433,605               99.81     188,400                0.19       3,467 
        Director of the Company. 
      -----------------------------------  -----------  ------------------  ----------  ------------------  ---------- 
 10    Re-elect Michael McLaren as a        96,427,647               99.80     197,825                0.20           0 
        Director of the Company. 
      -----------------------------------  -----------  ------------------  ----------  ------------------  ---------- 
 11    Re-elect Alan Kinnear as a           95,151,101               98.47   1,474,371                1.53           0 
        Director of the Company. 
      -----------------------------------  -----------  ------------------  ----------  ------------------  ---------- 
 12    Re-elect David Lister as a           91,194,965               99.15     777,906                0.85   4,652,601 
        Director of the Company. 
      -----------------------------------  -----------  ------------------  ----------  ------------------  ---------- 
 13    Re-elect Jacqueline de Rojas as a    96,518,414               99.89     107,058                0.11           0 
        Director of the Company 
      -----------------------------------  -----------  ------------------  ----------  ------------------  ---------- 
 14    Re-elect Michelle Senecal de         96,625,448               99.99          24                0.01           0 
        Fonseca as a Director of the 
        Company. 
      -----------------------------------  -----------  ------------------  ----------  ------------------  ---------- 
 15    Re-elect Peter Whiting as a          85,021,852               89.87   9,580,443               10.13   2,023,177 
        Director of the Company. 
      -----------------------------------  -----------  ------------------  ----------  ------------------  ---------- 
 16    Re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers    95,258,116               98.58   1,367,356                1.42           0 
        LLP as the Company's auditors. 
      -----------------------------------  -----------  ------------------  ----------  ------------------  ---------- 
 17    Authorise the Directors to agree     96,625,429               99.99          24                0.01          19 
        the remuneration of the auditors. 
      -----------------------------------  -----------  ------------------  ----------  ------------------  ---------- 
 18    Authorise the Directors to allot     92,914,342               96.16   3,710,565                3.84         565 
        securities pursuant to section 
        551 of the Companies Act 2006 
        (the "Act"). 
      -----------------------------------  -----------  ------------------  ----------  ------------------  ---------- 
 19    Special Resolution:                  96,310,477               99.67     314,430                0.33         565 
        Disapply pre-emption rights 
        pursuant to section 570 of the 
        Act. 
      -----------------------------------  -----------  ------------------  ----------  ------------------  ---------- 
 20    Special Resolution:                  91,995,123               95.21   4,629,784                4.79         565 
        Disapply pre-emption rights in 
        additional limited circumstances. 
      -----------------------------------  -----------  ------------------  ----------  ------------------  ---------- 
 21    Special Resolution:                  94,924,406               98.26   1,681,724                1.74      19,342 
        Authorise the Company to make 
        market purchases of its own 
        shares pursuant to section 701 of 
        the Act. 
      -----------------------------------  -----------  ------------------  ----------  ------------------  ---------- 
 22    Special Resolution:                  96,209,792               99.57     415,680                0.43           0 
        That a general meeting (other 
        than an AGM) may be called on not 
        less than 14 clear days' notice. 
      -----------------------------------  -----------  ------------------  ----------  ------------------  ---------- 
 

*Includes proxies giving the Chairman discretion as to how to vote

**Excludes votes withheld

ends

For further information please contact:

 
 FDM Group (Holdings)    Mark Heather - Company 
  plc                     Secretary                0203 056 8240 
                         Financial Public 
 Nick Oborne              Relations                07850 127526 
 

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