Empresaria Group plc
(the "Company")
Result of Annual General Meeting
23 May 2023
The Company announces the result of voting at its Annual General Meeting held earlier today and confirms that all resolutions were passed with majorities as set out below.
Resolutions 1 to 12 were proposed as Ordinary Resolutions and resolutions 13 and 14 as Special Resolutions.
The results were as follows:
Resolution | Proxies received | ||||
In Favour | Discretion | Against | Withheld | ||
Ordinary Business | |||||
1 | That the audited financial statements for the | 23,162,299 | 0 | 0 | 2,500 |
year ended 31 December 2022 be received | |||||
(ordinary resolution) | |||||
2 | That the directors' remuneration report for the | 22,956,957 | 0 | 205,342 | 2,500 |
year ended 31 December 2022 be approved | |||||
(ordinary resolution) | |||||
3 | That a final dividend of 1.4p per share for the | 23,162,299 | 0 | 0 | 2,500 |
year ended 31 December 2022 be approved | |||||
(ordinary resolution) | |||||
4 | That Penny Freer be re-elected as a director | 22,957,608 | 0 | 0 | 207,191 |
(ordinary resolution) | |||||
5 | That Zach Miles be re-elected as a director | 23,161,648 | 0 | 0 | 3,151 |
(ordinary resolution) | |||||
6 | That Steve Bellamy be elected as a director | 23,161,648 | 0 | 0 | 3,151 |
(ordinary resolution) | |||||
7 | That Ranjit de Sousa be elected as a director | 23,161,648 | 0 | 0 | 3,151 |
(ordinary resolution) | |||||
8 | That Rhona Driggs be re-elected as a director | 23,162,229 | 0 | 0 | 2,500 |
(ordinary resolution) | |||||
9 | That Tim Anderson be re-elected as a director | 23,161,648 | 0 | 0 | 3,151 |
(ordinary resolution) | |||||
10 | That CLA Evelyn Partners Limited be re- | 23,162,229 | 0 | 0 | 2,500 |
appointed as auditor (ordinary resolution) | |||||
11 | To authorise the directors to determine the | 23,162,229 | 0 | 0 | 2,500 |
auditor's remuneration (ordinary resolution) | |||||
Special Business | |||||
12 | That the directors be authorised to allot shares | 23,161,648 | 0 | 0 | 3,151 |
in the Company and to allot equity securities | |||||
(ordinary resolution) | |||||
13 | That the directors be empowered to allot equity | 23,161,648 | 0 | 0 | 3,151 |
securities for cash (special resolution) | |||||
14 | That the Company be authorised to make | 23,161,648 | 0 | 0 | 3,151 |
market purchases of Ordinary Shares (special | |||||
resolution) |
Notes:
A vote 'withheld' is not a vote in law and are not counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes 'for' and 'against' a resolution.
Every shareholder has one vote for every Ordinary Share held. At 6:30pm on 19 May 2023, the issued share capital of the Company consisted of 49,853,001 ordinary shares. The Company held 200,553 Ordinary Shares in treasury. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company as at 19 May 2023 was 49,652,448. Votes cast as a percentage of the issued share capital was approximately 46%.
23 May 2023