Volex PLC Result of AGM (3465W)

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RNS Number : 3465W

Volex PLC

31 July 2018

31 July 2018

VOLEX PLC

Voting Results of 2018 Annual General Meeting ("AGM")

Volex plc (the "Company"), one of the world's largest power cord and harness assemblers, announces the results of its AGM held today. All resolutions were duly passed on a poll. The proxy votes were cast as follows:

 
 Resolution                          Votes       Votes        Votes 
                                      For        Against     Withheld* 
 Resolution 1 - To receive 
  the Reports of the Directors 
  and the Auditors and 
  the Accounts for the 
  year ended 1 April 2018.        102,506,094    15,040         61 
 Resolution 2 - To approve 
  the Directors' Remuneration 
  Report.                         102,475,694    42,098      3,403 
 Resolution 3 - To elect 
  Daren Morris as a Director.     102,496,520    23,646      1,029 
 Resolution 4 - To re-appoint 
  PricewaterhouseCoopers 
  LLP as the auditors of 
  the Company.                    102,494,383    25,393      1,419 
 Resolution 5 - To authorise 
  the Directors of the 
  Company to determine 
  the auditors' remuneration.     102,504,210    16,924       61 
 Resolution 6 - To authorise 
  the Directors to allot 
  shares in the Company 
  pursuant to section 551 
  of the Companies Act 
  2006.                           102,491,966    23,885      5,344 
 Resolution 7 - To authorise 
  the Directors to allot 
  equity securities pursuant 
  to sections 560, 561(1) 
  and 570 of the Companies 
  Act 2006.                       102,486,933    30,104      4,158 
 Resolution 8 - To approve 
  the purchase of ordinary 
  shares pursuant to section 
  701 of the Companies 
  Act 2006.                       102,502,609    11,403      7,183 
 Resolution 9 - To permit 
  general meetings (other 
  than the Annual General 
  Meeting) to be called 
  on 14 clear days' notice.       102,499,787    16,715      4,693 
 
 

* A vote withheld is not treated as a vote in law and would not be counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes cast for or against a resolution.

A copy of this announcement setting out the poll results for the AGM is also available on the Company's website at www.volex.com.

The full text of each of the resolutions is set out in the notice of AGM, copies of which are available on the Volex website (www.volex.com).

Neither the content of the Company's website nor the content of any website accessible from hyperlinks on the Company's website (or any other website) is incorporated into, or forms part of, this announcement nor, unless previously published by means of a recognised information service, should any such content be relied upon in reaching a decision as to whether or not to acquire, continue to hold, or dispose of, securities in the Company.

 
 Daren Morris 
  Group Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary 
 
  Volex plc 
 
  Liberum, Nominated Adviser & Broker [phone] 
  2000 
  Steve Pearce & Euan Brown 
 
  Market abuse regulation 
  This announcement is released by Volex plc and 
  contains inside information for the purposes of 
  Article 7 of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) 596/2014 
  (MAR), and is disclosed in accordance with the 
  Company's obligations under Article 17 of MAR. 
  For the purposes of MAR and Article 2 of Commission 
  Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1055, this announcement 
  is being made on behalf of the Company by Daren 
  Morris, CFO. 
 

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