HSS Hire Group PLC Results of Annual General Meeting ("AGM")) (1698S)

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RNS Number : 1698S

HSS Hire Group PLC

21 June 2018

21 June 2018

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 12 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 13 to 16 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                   132,577,519    100.00      4,903      0.00   132,582,422       77.89%           0 
                           -------------  --------  ---------  --------  ------------  -----------  ---------- 
 Resolution 
  2: 
  Receive and 
  approve remuneration 
  report                     132,564,675     99.99     12,987      0.01   132,577,662       77.89%       4,760 
                           -------------  --------  ---------  --------  ------------  -----------  ---------- 
 Resolution 
  3: 
  Re-election 
  of Alan Peterson           132,571,915     99.99     10,031      0.01   132,581,946       77.89%         476 
                           -------------  --------  ---------  --------  ------------  -----------  ---------- 
 Resolution 
  4: 
  Re-election 
  of Amanda Burton           132,571,185     99.99     10,031      0.01   132,581,216       77.89%       1,206 
                           -------------  --------  ---------  --------  ------------  -----------  ---------- 
 Resolution 
  5: 
  Re-election 
  of Douglas 
  Robertson                  132,571,915     99.99     10,031      0.01   132,581,946       77.89%         476 
                           -------------  --------  ---------  --------  ------------  -----------  ---------- 
 Resolution 
  6: 
  Re-election 
  of Thomas Sweet-Escott     132,571,439     99.99     10,507      0.01   132,581,946       77.89%         476 
                           -------------  --------  ---------  --------  ------------  -----------  ---------- 
 Resolution 
  7: 
  Re-election 
  of Steve Ashmore           132,571,915     99.99     10,031      0.01   132,581,946       77.89%         476 
                           -------------  --------  ---------  --------  ------------  -----------  ---------- 
 Resolution 
  8: 
  Re-election 
  of Paul Quested            132,572,391     99.99      9,555      0.01   132,581,946       77.89%         476 
                           -------------  --------  ---------  --------  ------------  -----------  ---------- 
 Resolution 
  9: 
  Re-appoint 
  BDO LLP as 
  auditors                   132,571,031     99.99      6,631      0.01   132,577,662       77.89%       4,760 
                           -------------  --------  ---------  --------  ------------  -----------  ---------- 
 Resolution 
  10: 
  Authorise directors 
  to agree auditors' 
  remuneration               132,571,031     99.99      6,631      0.01   132,577,662       77.89%       4,760 
                           -------------  --------  ---------  --------  ------------  -----------  ---------- 
 Resolution 
  11: 
  Renew authority 
  to allot new 
  shares                     132,567,631     99.99      9,555      0.01   132,577,186       77.89%       5,236 
                           -------------  --------  ---------  --------  ------------  -----------  ---------- 
 Resolution 
  12: 
  Political donations        132,563,726     99.99     18,196      0.01   132,581,922       77.89%         500 
                           -------------  --------  ---------  --------  ------------  -----------  ---------- 
 
 
                     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 
  4: 
  Re-election 
  of Amanda Burton       46,889,477     99.98     10,031      0.02    46,899,508       55.49%       1,206 
                        -----------  --------  ---------  --------  ------------  -----------  ---------- 
 Resolution 
  5: 
  Re-election 
  of Douglas 
  Robertson              46,890,207     99.98     10,031      0.02    46,900,238       55.49%         476 
                        -----------  --------  ---------  --------  ------------  -----------  ---------- 
 
 
 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 
  13: 
  Disapplication 
  of pre-emption 
  rights to allotment 
  of equity securities    132,567,631     99.99      9,555      0.01   132,577,186       77.89%       5,236 
                         ------------  --------  ---------  --------  ------------  -----------  ---------- 
 Resolution 
  14: 
  Disapplication 
  of pre-emption 
  rights for 
  financing or 
  capital investment      132,567,631     99.99     10,031      0.01   132,577,662       77.89%       4,760 
                         ------------  --------  ---------  --------  ------------  -----------  ---------- 
 Resolution 
  15: 
  Authority to 
  purchase own 
  shares                  132,566,287     99.99     16,135      0.01   132,582,422       77.89%           0 
                         ------------  --------  ---------  --------  ------------  -----------  ---------- 
 Resolution 
  16: 
  Notice of general 
  meetings                132,575,061     99.99      7,361      0.01   132,582,422       77.89%           0 
                         ------------  --------  ---------  --------  ------------  -----------  ---------- 
 

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 21 June 2018 was 170,207,142. Shareholders are entitled to one vote per share.

4. The number of ordinary shares in issue on 21 June 2018 controlled by Independent Shareholders as defined in the explanatory notes to the Notice of the Annual General Meeting circulated on 9 May 2018.

Copies of resolutions 13 to 16, 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.

For further information, please contact:

 
 HSS Hire Group plc                 Tel: [phone] 
 Daniel Joll, Company Secretary 
 Jonathan Edwards, Investor 
  Relations, Treasury and Special 
  Projects Manager 
 
 
 Teneo Blue Rubicon    Tel: [phone] 
 Robert Morgan 
  Shona Buchanan 
 
 

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