SOLID STATE PLC (SOLI) — Annual General Meeting

Investor webinar replay

Replay transcript excerpt

Thank you very much and welcome to those in the room. Nice to see you and thanks for coming. And also welcome to attendees online who are joining the annual general meeting of SOLID STATE. Thank you very much for joining us. What I'd like to do first is introduce the board of directors. So I'm Nigel Rogers. I'm the chairman of the company. The executive group is led by CEO Gary Marsh, who is joining us remotely today. Pete James next to me, the CFO, and the two divisional managing directors, Matthew Richards and John McMichael. On my extreme right is Pete McGowan, who's the senior independent director. Unfortunately, I have apologies from Sam Smith, who's the most recent independent director to join the board, but has been diverted off the N 40, which is closed and is currently on the back streets of London Spa and send her apologies. I also have in the room on my extreme left and welcome for the first time our new company secretary, Linda Dixon. Having made those introductions, I'd now like to declare the annual general meeting open with permission of shareholders. I'll take the notice as read. I'm sure you'd prefer not to endure the pain and torture of having me read it out loud. What I'd like to do first is to open the meeting for questions. We have not had any questions submitted online in advance of the meeting, but I'd like to open the room for any questions for anybody present. To read in a sigh of relief, I see shaking heads around me. So in that case, I will proceed to the notice of meeting and the resolutions. I have in front of me the proxy results which have been received in advance. We have approximately 6,000,000 votes in favor of each of the revolution resolutions and a maximum of 600,000 votes against representing around 5% of the shared capital, whic...