Sophos Group Plc Result of AGM (1632Q)

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RNS Number : 1632Q

Sophos Group Plc

07 September 2017

Sophos Group Plc (the 'Company')

Result of Annual General Meeting ('AGM')

The Company's 2017 AGM was held at The Pentagon, Abingdon Science Park, Abingdon OX14 3YP at 3.00pm. All resolutions proposed at the meeting were passed on a poll. The table below shows the total votes validly cast, being those votes for or against each resolution. Total votes cast, including votes withheld were over 388,804,585 Ordinary Shares, representing 83.79% of the Ordinary Shares in issue as at 6pm on 5 September 2017.

 
                               For           For        Against       Against    Total votes      Withheld 
                                (votes)       %          (votes)       %          validly cast     (votes) 
----------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  --------  ---------------  ----------- 
 Ordinary Resolutions 
----------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  --------  ---------------  ----------- 
 1. Annual Report and 
  Accounts.                    388,639,679   99.97%     125,000       0.03%      388,764,679      39,906 
----------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  --------  ---------------  ----------- 
 2. Annual Remuneration 
  Report                       271,042,033   70.18%     115,160,183   29.82%     386,202,216      2,602,369 
----------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  --------  ---------------  ----------- 
 3. Declaration of 
  Final Dividend.              388,784,437   99.9998%   605           0.0002%    388,785,042      19,543 
----------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  --------  ---------------  ----------- 
 4. Election of Rick 
  Medlock.                     382,013,268   98.68%     5,104,545     1.32%      387,117,813      1,686,772 
----------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  --------  ---------------  ----------- 
 5. Election of Vin 
  Murria.                      364,031,419   93.64%     24,737,656    6.36%      388,769,075      35,510 
----------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  --------  ---------------  ----------- 
 6. Re-election of 
  Sandra Bergeron.             369,371,065   95.01%     19,387,168    4.99%      388,758,233      46,352 
----------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  --------  ---------------  ----------- 
 7. Re-election of 
  Nick Bray.                   361,770,669   93.05%     27,033,547    6.95%      388,804,216      369 
----------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  --------  ---------------  ----------- 
 8. Re-election of 
  Peter Gyenes.                361,463,465   92.98%     27,298,121    7.02%      388,761,586      42,999 
----------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  --------  ---------------  ----------- 
 9. Re-election of 
  Kris Hagerman.               361,770,665   93.05%     27,033,920    6.95%      388,804,585      0 
----------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  --------  ---------------  ----------- 
 10. Re-election of 
  Roy Mackenzie.               350,247,043   90.09%     38,523,388    9.91%      388,770,431      34,154 
----------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  --------  ---------------  ----------- 
 11. Re-election of 
  Steve Munford.               352,244,784   90.60%     36,527,284    9.40%      388,772,068      32,517 
----------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  --------  ---------------  ----------- 
 12. Re-election of 
  Salim Nathoo.                352,239,978   90.60%     36,530,453    9.40%      388,770,431      34,154 
----------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  --------  ---------------  ----------- 
 13. Re-election of 
  Paul Walker.                 355,172,816   91.36%     33,598,056    8.64%      388,770,872      33,713 
----------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  --------  ---------------  ----------- 
 14. Re-appointment 
  of KPMG LLP.                 382,047,128   98.27%     6,743,661     1.73%      388,790,789      13,796 
----------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  --------  ---------------  ----------- 
 15. Authorisation 
  to agree the auditors' 
  remuneration.                388,172,529   99.85%     596,419       0.15%      388,768,948      35,637 
----------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  --------  ---------------  ----------- 
 16. Authorisation 
  to make political 
  donations.                   386,224,756   99.34%     2,573,582     0.66%      388,798,338      6,247 
----------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  --------  ---------------  ----------- 
 17. Authorisation 
  to allot shares.             371,367,846   95.52%     17,420,775    4.48%      388,788,621      15,964 
----------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  --------  ---------------  ----------- 
 Special Resolutions 
----------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  --------  ---------------  ----------- 
 18. Authorisation 
  to disapply pre-emption 
  rights                       388,477,303   99.93%     278,505       0.07%      388,755,808      48,671 
----------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  --------  ---------------  ----------- 
 19. Authorisation 
  to disapply pre-emption 
  rights in respect 
  of a greater number 
  of shares for the 
  purpose of financing 
  acquisitions or other 
  capital investments.         384,944,523   99.02%     3,814,848     0.98%      388,759,371      45,108 
----------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  --------  ---------------  ----------- 
 20. Authorisation 
  to make market purchases.    386,412,390   99.53%     1,807,316     0.47%      388,219,706      584,879 
----------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  --------  ---------------  ----------- 
 21. General meetings 
  may be called on not 
  less than 14 clear 
  days' notice.                376,138,880   96.74%     12,660,997    3.26%      388,799,877      4,708 
----------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  --------  ---------------  ----------- 
 22. Approval, adoption 
  and ratification of 
  ordinary remuneration 
  payments to Non-Executive 
  Directors.                   386,598,989   99.92%     319,908       0.08%      386,918,897      1,885,688 
----------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  --------  ---------------  ----------- 
 23. Adoption of New 
  Articles of Association      385,123,990   99.39%     2,358,702     0.61%      387,482,692      1,321,893 
----------------------------  ------------  ---------  ------------  --------  ---------------  ----------- 
 

NOTES:

 
 1.   Votes "For" includes discretionary votes received. 
 2.   A "Vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the proportion 
       of votes "For" or "Against" any resolution, or "Total votes validly cast". 
 3.   The Notice of Annual General Meeting is available on the Company's website 
       https://investors.sophos.com 
 4.   A copy of resolutions 18 to 23 passed at the AGM will shortly be submitted 
       to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection 
       at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM 
 
 

We note that a minority of our shareholders did not support the advisory vote for our Annual Remuneration Report. We believe that our current remuneration policy creates a strong link between pay and performance, and our results in 2017 illustrated excellent delivery against strategy by the management team. We will continue to engage with our shareholders to understand their views in greater detail.

7 September 2017

Eleanor Lacey

General Counsel and Company Secretary

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