HSS Hire Group PLC Results of Annual General Meeting (9288C)

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RNS Number : 9288C

HSS Hire Group PLC

20 June 2019

20 June 2019

HSS Hire Group plc

Results of Annual General Meeting ("AGM")

At the AGM of HSS Hire Group plc held today at 11.00 am at Hilton Garden Inn Heathrow, Pavilion Centre, Eastern Perimeter Road, Hatton Cross, Heathrow, TW6 2SQ, all resolutions set out in the Notice of Meeting were voted on a poll and were passed by the requisite majorities.

Resolutions 1 to 14 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 15 to 18 were passed as special resolutions. The results of the poll are set out below.

 
 Ordinary resolutions          Votes      % Votes    Votes    % Votes    Total votes  % of Issued     Votes 
                                for         for      against   against     validly       share       withheld 
                                            (1)                  (1)         cast       capital        (2) 
                                                                                         voted 
                                                                                        (1,2,3) 
 Resolution 
  1: 
  Receive annual 
  report and 
  accounts                  132,955,061    100.00        476      0.00   132,955,537       78.11%         476 
                           ------------  --------  ---------  --------  ------------  -----------  ---------- 
 Resolution 
  2: 
  Approve remuneration 
  report                    132,930,615     99.98     21,900      0.02   132,952,515       78.11%       3,498 
                           ------------  --------  ---------  --------  ------------  -----------  ---------- 
 Resolution 
  3: 
  Approve remuneration 
  policy                    132,930,615     99.98     21,900      0.02   132,952,515       78.11%       3,498 
                           ------------  --------  ---------  --------  ------------  -----------  ---------- 
 Resolution 
  4: 
  Approve amendments 
  to the Long 
  Term Incentive 
  Plan and Deferred 
  Bonus Plan                132,928,165     99.98     23,039      0.02   132,951,204       78.11%       4,809 
                           ------------  --------  ---------  --------  ------------  -----------  ---------- 
 Resolution 
  5: 
  Re-election 
  of Alan Peterson          132,949,204    100.00      5,178      0.00   132,954,382       78.11%         952 
                           ------------  --------  ---------  --------  ------------  -----------  ---------- 
 Resolution 
  6: 
  Re-election 
  of Amanda Burton          132,948,163    100.00      5,489      0.00   132,953,652       78.11%       1,682 
                           ------------  --------  ---------  --------  ------------  -----------  ---------- 
 Resolution 
  7: 
  Re-election 
  of Douglas 
  Robertson                 132,948,490    100.00      5,892      0.00   132,954,382       78.11%         952 
                           ------------  --------  ---------  --------  ------------  -----------  ---------- 
 Resolution 
  8: 
  Re-election 
  of Thomas Sweet-Escott    132,947,449     99.99      6,933      0.01   132,954,382       78.11%         952 
                           ------------  --------  ---------  --------  ------------  -----------  ---------- 
 Resolution 
  9: 
  Re-election 
  of Steve Ashmore          132,949,204    100.00      5,178      0.00   132,954,382       78.11%         952 
                           ------------  --------  ---------  --------  ------------  -----------  ---------- 
 Resolution 
  10: 
  Re-election 
  of Paul Quested           132,949,204    100.00      5,178      0.00   132,954,382       78.11%         952 
                           ------------  --------  ---------  --------  ------------  -----------  ---------- 
 Resolution 
  11: 
  Re-appoint 
  BDO LLP as 
  auditors                  132,952,884    100.00      1,631      0.00   132,954,515       78.11%       1,498 
                           ------------  --------  ---------  --------  ------------  -----------  ---------- 
 Resolution 
  12: 
  Authorise directors 
  to agree auditors' 
  remuneration              132,953,563    100.00        952      0.00   132,954,515       78.11%       1,498 
                           ------------  --------  ---------  --------  ------------  -----------  ---------- 
 Resolution 
  13: 
  Renew authority 
  to allot new 
  shares                    132,938,268     99.99     16,793      0.01   132,955,061       78.11%         952 
                           ------------  --------  ---------  --------  ------------  -----------  ---------- 
 Resolution 
  14: 
  Political donations       132,919,792     99.97     34,079      0.03   132,953,871       78.11%       2,142 
                           ------------  --------  ---------  --------  ------------  -----------  ---------- 
 
 
                     VOTES OF INDEPENDENT SHAREHOLDERS ON THE RESOLUTIONS CONCERNING 
                                                   THE 
                          RE-ELECTION OF THE INDEPENDENT NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS 
 Ordinary resolutions      Votes      % Votes    Votes    % Votes    Total votes  % of Issued     Votes 
                             for        for      against   against     validly       share       withheld 
                                        (1)                  (1)         cast       capital        (2) 
                                                                                     voted 
                                                                                    (1,2,4) 
                        -----------  --------  ---------  --------  ------------  -----------  ---------- 
 Resolution 
  6: 
  Re-election 
  of Amanda Burton       47,266,455     99.99      5,489      0.01    47,271,944       55.93%       1,682 
                        -----------  --------  ---------  --------  ------------  -----------  ---------- 
 Resolution 
  7: 
  Re-election 
  of Douglas 
  Robertson              47,266,782     99.99      5,892      0.01    47,272,674       55.93%         952 
                        -----------  --------  ---------  --------  ------------  -----------  ---------- 
 
 
 Special resolutions       Votes for    % Votes    Votes    % Votes    Total votes  % of Issued     Votes 
                                          for      against   against     validly       share       withheld 
                                          (1)                  (1)         cast       capital        (2) 
                                                                                       voted 
                                                                                      (1,2,3) 
 Resolution 
  15: 
  Disapplication 
  of pre-emption 
  rights to allotment 
  of equity securities    132,929,331     99.98     24,266      0.02   132,953,597       78.11%       2,416 
                         ------------  --------  ---------  --------  ------------  -----------  ---------- 
 Resolution 
  16: 
  Disapplication 
  of pre-emption 
  rights for 
  financing or 
  capital investment      132,932,354     99.98     21,243      0.02   132,953,597       78.11%       2,416 
                         ------------  --------  ---------  --------  ------------  -----------  ---------- 
 Resolution 
  17: 
  Authority to 
  purchase own 
  shares                  132,936,775     99.99     18,762      0.01   132,955,537       78.11%         476 
                         ------------  --------  ---------  --------  ------------  -----------  ---------- 
 Resolution 
  18: 
  Notice of general 
  meetings                132,938,980     99.99     16,246      0.01   132,955,226       78.11%         787 
                         ------------  --------  ---------  --------  ------------  -----------  ---------- 
 

Notes:

   1.     The percentages above are rounded to two decimal places. 

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

3. The number of ordinary shares in issue on 20 June 2019 was 170,207,142. Shareholders are entitled to one vote per share.

4. The number of ordinary shares in issue on 20 June 2019 controlled by Independent Shareholders as defined in the explanatory notes to the Notice of the Annual General Meeting circulated on 10 May 2019.

Copies of resolutions 15 to 18, being resolutions other than resolutions concerning ordinary business passed by the Company at the above AGM, have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

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