Gattaca PLC Result of AGM (4087W)

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RNS Number : 4087W

Gattaca PLC

10 December 2019

10 December 2019

Gattaca plc

Result of Annual General Meeting

Gattaca plc ("Gattaca" or the "Group"), the specialist Engineering and Technology (IT & Telecoms) recruitment solutions business, announces that at its Annual General Meeting held today, 10 December 2019, all the resolutions put to shareholders were passed. Resolutions 1 to 11 were passed as ordinary resolutions and Resolutions 12 and 13 were passed as special resolutions.

Resolution 1, and Resolutions 3 to 13 inclusive were passed on a show of hands. Resolution 2 was passed on a poll.

The final proxy voting position is shown below (inclusive of proxy votes cast at the Meeting). Any proxy votes which are at the discretion of the Chairman have been included in the "For" total.

 
 No.              Resolutions                 For       Against    Vote Withheld      % Vote 
           (Please refer to Notice of                                               Cast For[1] 
             Meeting for full text) 
 Ordinary Resolutions 
       To receive and adopt the Annual 
        Report and Accounts for the 
        financial year ended 31 July 
        2019, together with the reports 
 1.     of the Directors and auditors      2,011,993       0            556            100% 
      ----------------------------------  ----------  ----------  --------------  ------------- 
       To approve, on an advisory 
        basis, for three years from 
        the date of the Meeting the 
        Directors' Remuneration Policy, 
        the full text of which available 
 2.     on our website                      34,941     1,977,052        556           1.74% 
      ----------------------------------  ----------  ----------  --------------  ------------- 
       To re-elect Patrick Shanley 
 3.     as a Director of the Company       2,008,393       0           4,156           100% 
      ----------------------------------  ----------  ----------  --------------  ------------- 
       To re-elect Kevin Freeguard 
 4.     as a Director of the Company       2,008,393       0           4,156           100% 
      ----------------------------------  ----------  ----------  --------------  ------------- 
       To re-elect Salar Farzad as 
 5.     a Director of the Company          2,008,393       0           4,156           100% 
      ----------------------------------  ----------  ----------  --------------  ------------- 
       To re-elect Richard Bradford 
 6.     as a Director of the Company       2,008,393       0           4,156           100% 
      ----------------------------------  ----------  ----------  --------------  ------------- 
       To re-elect David Lawther 
 7.     as a Director of the Company       2,008,393       0           4,156           100% 
      ----------------------------------  ----------  ----------  --------------  ------------- 
       To re-elect George Materna 
 8.     as a Director of the Company       1,977,037    31,356         4,156          98.44% 
      ----------------------------------  ----------  ----------  --------------  ------------- 
       To re-appoint PwC LLP as auditors 
 9.     of the Company                     2,011,993       0            556            100% 
      ----------------------------------  ----------  ----------  --------------  ------------- 
       To authorise the Directors 
        to determine the auditors' 
 10.    remuneration                       2,011,993       0            556            100% 
      ----------------------------------  ----------  ----------  --------------  ------------- 
       To authorise the Directors 
 11.    to allot shares generally          2,010,136     1,857          556           99.91% 
      ----------------------------------  ----------  ----------  --------------  ------------- 
 Special Resolutions 
       To empower the Directors to 
        allot shares for cash (other 
        than pro-rata to existing 
 12.    shareholders)                      2,010,136       0           2,413           100% 
      ----------------------------------  ----------  ----------  --------------  ------------- 
       To authorise the Company to 
        make market purchases of its 
 13.    own ordinary shares                2,010,066     1,927          556           99.90% 
      ----------------------------------  ----------  ----------  --------------  ------------- 
 

The final voting position on Resolution 2 (inclusive of poll votes cast at the Meeting) was as follows:

 
    For       Against    Vote Withheld   % Vote Cast For 
 7,522,912   1,977,052   556             79.19% 
            ----------  --------------  ---------------- 
 

For further information please contact:

 
Gattaca plc                                 [phone] 
Kevin Freeguard, Chief Executive Officer 
  Salar Farzad, Chief Financial Officer 
Citigate Dewe Rogerson                     [phone] 
Nick Hayns / Louise Mason-Rutherford 
 / Lucy Eyles / Claire Dansie 
Liberum Capital Limited (Nominated 
 Advisor & Broker)                         [phone] 
Bidhi Bhoma / Robert Morton / Euan 
 Brown 
 

[1] Discounting votes withheld

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