Ricardo PLC Result of AGM (0402T)

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RNS Number : 0402T

Ricardo PLC

14 November 2013

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Ricardo plc

14 November 2013

RICARDO PLC

RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Ricardo plc announces that all resolutions proposed at its Annual General Meeting held earlier today were duly passed on a show of hands.

Details of the proxy voting instructions, lodged prior to the meeting, are set out below:

 
      Resolution                             For          %       Discretion   %      Against        %      Withheld 
---  -------------------------------------  -----------  ------  -----------  -----  -------------  -----  --------- 
      To receive and adopt 
       the 2013 Report and 
 1     Accounts                              37,616,721   97.72   10,188       0.03   866,414        2.25   419,442 
---  -------------------------------------  -----------  ------  -----------  -----  -------------  -----  --------- 
      To approve the Directors' 
 2     Remuneration Report                   38,846,119   99.84   10,188       0.03       52,365     0.13   4,093 
---  -------------------------------------  -----------  ------  -----------  -----  -------------  -----  --------- 
      To declare a final 
 3     dividend                              38,902,577   99.97   10,188       0.03        0         0      0 
---  -------------------------------------  -----------  ------  -----------  -----  -------------  -----  --------- 
      To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers 
 4     LLP as auditors                       38,442,458   99.91     6,908      0.02       26,258     0.07   437,141 
---  -------------------------------------  -----------  ------  -----------  -----  -------------  -----  --------- 
      To authorise the Audit 
       Committee to fix the 
 5     auditors' remuneration                38,858,974   99.86     6,908      0.02       46,515     0.12   368 
---  -------------------------------------  -----------  ------  -----------  -----  -------------  -----  --------- 
      To elect Ian Gibson 
 6     as a director                         38,877,487   99.91   10,188       0.03       22,026     0.06   3,064 
---  -------------------------------------  -----------  ------  -----------  -----  -------------  -----  --------- 
      To re-elect Michael 
 7     Harper as a director                  38,890,468   99.95   10,188       0.03         9,045    0.02   3,064 
---  -------------------------------------  -----------  ------  -----------  -----  -------------  -----  --------- 
      To re-elect Ian Lee 
 8     as a director                         38,890,272   99.95   10,188       0.03         9,336    0.02   2,969 
---  -------------------------------------  -----------  ------  -----------  -----  -------------  -----  --------- 
      To re-elect David Hall 
 9     as a director                         38,890,017   99.95   10,188       0.03         9,591    0.02   2,969 
---  -------------------------------------  -----------  ------  -----------  -----  -------------  -----  --------- 
      To re-elect Hans Joachim 
 10    Sch pf as a director                  38,880,017   99.92   10,188       0.03       17,738     0.05   4,822 
---  -------------------------------------  -----------  ------  -----------  -----  -------------  -----  --------- 
      To re-elect Dave Shemmans 
 11    as a director                         37,803,777   97.15   10,188       0.03   1,096,331      2.82   2,469 
---  -------------------------------------  -----------  ------  -----------  -----  -------------  -----  --------- 
      To re-elect Peter Gilchrist 
 12    as a director                         38,889,742   99.94   10,188       0.03          9,866   0.03   2,969 
---  -------------------------------------  -----------  ------  -----------  -----  -------------  -----  --------- 
      To re-elect Mark Garrett 
 13    as a director                         38,873,876   99.91   11,188       0.03        24,637    0.06   3,064 
---  -------------------------------------  -----------  ------  -----------  -----  -------------  -----  --------- 
      To authorise the Company 
       and its subsidiaries 
 14    to make political donations           37,525,909   97.52   11,988       0.03      940,947     2.45   433,921 
---  -------------------------------------  -----------  ------  -----------  -----  -------------  -----  --------- 
      To authorise the directors 
 15    to allot shares                       38,879,878   99.94   12,138       0.03        11,460    0.03   9,289 
---  -------------------------------------  -----------  ------  -----------  -----  -------------  -----  --------- 
      To disapply pre-emption 
 16    rights                                38,862,127   99.89   10,188       0.03        32,325    0.08   8,125 
---  -------------------------------------  -----------  ------  -----------  -----  -------------  -----  --------- 
      To authorise the Company 
       to purchase its own 
 17    shares                                38,865,700   99.94   10,188       0.03        10,740    0.03   26,137 
---  -------------------------------------  -----------  ------  -----------  -----  -------------  -----  --------- 
      To call general meetings 
       on not less than 14 
 18    clear days' notice                    38,082,007   97.87   10,188       0.03      815,182     2.10   5,387 
---  -------------------------------------  -----------  ------  -----------  -----  -------------  -----  --------- 
 

An abstention is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of proportion of votes "For" or "Against" a resolution.

The total number of ordinary shares in issue as at 12 November 2013 was 52,266,500 of these 38,912,415 including abstentions (74.5%) were voted.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2R, a copy of the resolutions, other than those concerning ordinary business, passed by the Company at the AGM held on 14 November 2013, has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

For further information contact:

   The Company Secretary, Patricia Ryan                     01273 794776 

This information is provided by RNS

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