Staffline Group PLC Result of 2022 Annual General Meeting (9638M)

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RNS Number : 9638M

Staffline Group PLC

26 May 2022

26 May 2022

STAFFLINE GROUP PLC

("Staffline", the "Company" or the "Group")

Result of 2022 Annual General Meeting

The 2022 Annual General Meeting ("AGM") of Staffline, the recruitment and training group, was held today, Thursday 26 May 2022. All of the resolutions proposed at the AGM were duly passed, with the exception of Resolution 5, which was withdrawn, all other resolutions were passed by shareholders. Details of votes cast are as follows:

 
                                                    Voting for the resolutions 
 Resolution   Detail of resolution         Holders      Votes       % of    % of shares 
   number                                   Voting                  Votes    in issue* 
                                                                    Cast 
             ---------------------------  --------  ------------  -------  ------------ 
              Annual report and accounts 
       1.      2021                          40      133,115,413   99.84%     80.30% 
             ---------------------------  --------  ------------  -------  ------------ 
              Directors' remuneration 
       2.      report                        35      117,140,064   87.85%     70.67% 
             ---------------------------  --------  ------------  -------  ------------ 
              Re-elect director: 
       3.      Albert Ellis                  40      133,119,054   99.84%     80.30% 
             ---------------------------  --------  ------------  -------  ------------ 
              Re-elect director: 
       4.      Daniel Quint                  40      133,119,054   99.84%     80.30% 
             ---------------------------  --------  ------------  -------  ------------ 
       5.     Re-elect director:             n/a         n/a        n/a         n/a 
               Ian Lawson 
             ---------------------------  --------  ------------  -------  ------------ 
              Re-elect director: 
       6.      Catherine Lynch               36      117,226,748   87.92%     70.72% 
             ---------------------------  --------  ------------  -------  ------------ 
              Re-elect director: 
       7.      Ian Starkey                   40      133,119,054   99.84%     80.30% 
             ---------------------------  --------  ------------  -------  ------------ 
              Re-elect director: 
       8.      Tom Spain                     40      133,120,418   99.84%     80.31% 
             ---------------------------  --------  ------------  -------  ------------ 
              Reappoint Grant Thornton 
       9.      as Auditors                   41      133,117,031   99.84%     80.30% 
             ---------------------------  --------  ------------  -------  ------------ 
       10.    Remuneration of Auditors       41      133,117,039   99.84%     80.30% 
             ---------------------------  --------  ------------  -------  ------------ 
              General authority to 
       11.     allot shares                  34      81,094,749    60.80%     48.92% 
             ---------------------------  --------  ------------  -------  ------------ 
              Purchase of own shares 
       12.     in the market **              39      132,601,515   99.72%     79.99% 
             ---------------------------  --------  ------------  -------  ------------ 
       13.    General Meetings **            39      133,040,442   99.78%     80.26% 
             ---------------------------  --------  ------------  -------  ------------ 
 

* 165,767,728 ordinary 10p shares currently in issue.

** Special resolutions

The Company notes there was a sizable vote against Resolution 11, representing 39.20% of votes cast on the resolution. Feedback received from certain shareholders indicated that some were concerned by the potential dilution caused by an allotment of shares.

For further information, please contact:

 
 Staffline Group plc                       via Vigo Consulting 
  www.stafflinegroupplc.co.uk 
  Albert Ellis, Chief Executive Officer 
  Daniel Quint, Chief Financial Officer 
 
 Liberum (Nominated Adviser and Broker) 
  www.liberum.com 
  Richard Lindley / William Hall           020 3100 2222 
 
 Vigo Consulting (Financial PR)            020 7390 0230 
  www.vigoconsulting.com                    [e-mail] 
  Jeremy Garcia / Kate Kilgallen 
 

About Staffline

Providing workforce solutions

Staffline is the UK's market leading Recruitment and Training group. It has three divisions:

Recruitment GB

Staffline is a leading provider of flexible blue-collar workers, supplying c.33,000 staff per day on average from around 420 client sites, across a wide range of industries including agriculture, supermarkets, drinks, driving, food processing, logistics and manufacturing.

Recruitment Ireland

The Recruitment Ireland business is a leading end to end solutions provider operating across twenty industries, ten branch locations and ten onsite customer locations, supplying c.4,500 staff per day on average, and offering RPO, MSP, temporary and permanent solutions across the island of Ireland

PeoplePlus Division

PeoplePlus is leading skills and employability business with a clear purpose to help people transform their lives, get jobs and keep jobs, and develop their careers. The division works with employers to develop workforces of the future, and with central, local and devolved governments to support their economic and social policy agendas

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