Staffline Group PLC Result of AGM (9757L)

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RNS Number : 9757L

Staffline Group PLC

11 September 2019

For immediate release 11 September 2019

Staffline Group plc

('Staffline' or 'the Group')

Result of 2019 Annual General Meeting

The 2019 Annual General Meeting of Staffline, the Recruitment and Training group, was held today, Wednesday 11 September 2019. All of the thirteen resolutions contained within the Notice of 2019 Annual General Meeting were duly passed. Details of votes cast in favour of the resolutions are as follows:

 
                                                         Voting for the resolutions 
 Resolution   Detail of resolution             Holders     Votes      % of Votes   % of shares 
   number                                       Voting                   Cast        in issue 
                                                                                        * 
             -------------------------------  --------  -----------  -----------  ------------ 
              2018 Annual report and 
     1         accounts                          37      52,103,544     96.09        75.59% 
             -------------------------------  --------  -----------  -----------  ------------ 
              Directors' remuneration 
     2         report                            39      54,219,097     99.99        78.66% 
             -------------------------------  --------  -----------  -----------  ------------ 
              Re-elect director: Ed 
     3         Barker                            34      46,155,489     85.12        66.96% 
             -------------------------------  --------  -----------  -----------  ------------ 
              Re-elect director: John 
     4         Crabtree                          39      54,190,060     99.94        78.62% 
             -------------------------------  --------  -----------  -----------  ------------ 
              Re-elect director: Tracy 
     5         Lewis                             39      54,190,060     99.94        78.62% 
             -------------------------------  --------  -----------  -----------  ------------ 
              Re-elect director: Christopher 
     6         Pullen                            39      50,697,848     93.50        73.55% 
             -------------------------------  --------  -----------  -----------  ------------ 
     7        Elect director: Dawn Ward          40      54,190,091     99.99        78.62% 
             -------------------------------  --------  -----------  -----------  ------------ 
              Re-elect director: Michael 
     8         Watts                             37      54,218,855     99.99        78.66% 
             -------------------------------  --------  -----------  -----------  ------------ 
              General authority to allot 
     9         shares                            38      54,220,602     99.99        78.66% 
             -------------------------------  --------  -----------  -----------  ------------ 
              Disapplication of pre-emption 
    10**       rights                            38      54,189,231     99.94        78.61% 
             -------------------------------  --------  -----------  -----------  ------------ 
              Disapplication of pre-emption 
    11**       rights                            38      54,160,523     99.88        78.57% 
             -------------------------------  --------  -----------  -----------  ------------ 
              Purchase of own shares 
    12**       in the market                     36      45,395,850     99.99        65.86% 
             -------------------------------  --------  -----------  -----------  ------------ 
              Amendment of Articles 
    13**       of Association                    38      54,191,179     99.99        78.62% 
             -------------------------------  --------  -----------  -----------  ------------ 
 

*68,930,486 ordinary 10p shares currently in issue.

** Special resolutions

 
 For further information, please contact: 
 Staffline Group plc                           via Vigo Communications 
  www.stafflinegroupplc.co.uk 
  Chris Pullen, Chief Executive Officer 
  Michael Watts, Chief Financial Officer 
 
 Liberum NOMAD and Joint Broker 
  www.liberum.com 
  Steve Pearce / Joshua Hughes                 020 3100 2222 
 
 Berenberg Joint Broker 
  www.berenberg.com 
  Chris Bowman / Toby Flaux                    020 3207 7800 
 
 Vigo Communications Financial PR              020 7390 0230 
  www.vigocomms.com                             [e-mail] 
  Jeremy Garcia / Antonia Pollock / Charlie 
  Neish 
 

Note for Editors

About Staffline - Recruitment, Training and Support

Enabling the Future of Work(TM)

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

Recruitment Division

Staffline is the UK's leading provider of flexible blue-collar workers, supplying over 60,000 staff per day to c. 1,600 private sector clients, across a wide range of industries including agriculture, drinks, driving, food processing, logistics and manufacturing. It operates from over c460 locations in UK, Republic of Ireland and Poland. Its world leading Customer Experience platform provides optimised customer-based staffing management solutions whilst providing market-leading levels of job satisfaction for workers.

PeoplePlus Division

Staffline is the leading adult skills and training provider in the UK, delivering apprenticeships, adult education, prison education and skills-based employability programmes across the country.

Skills and Training - market leading provider of Apprenticeships (both Levy and non-Levy), learning and development, adult education and health and well-being programmes to the Private and Public sector.

Justice and Community - largest independent provider of education and training services for prisoners and ex-offenders, as well as individual support services for carers and people with disabilities, both at home and in the work place.

Employability - market leading provider of programmes providing back-to-work education, skills support services to the unemployed and enterprise advice to individuals wanting to start their own business.

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