26 September 2024
Samarkand
Group plc
("Samarkand", the "Company" or together with its subsidiaries
the "Group")
Result of
Annual General Meeting
Samarkand Group plc, (AQSE: SMK), the
cross-border eCommerce technology solution provider, announces that at the Company's annual general meeting ("AGM"
or the "Meeting"), held earlier today, all resolutions were duly
passed.
Proxy votes received in relation to each
resolution proposed at the AGM were as follows:
|
Resolution number
|
Resolution
|
Votes for
|
Votes
against
|
Votes
withheld
|
Total proxy
votes
|
|
|
|
No. of
votes
|
% of votes
cast*
|
No. of
votes
|
% of votes
cast*
|
No. of
votes
|
|
|
ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS
|
|
1
|
To receive the Company's audited
financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2024.
|
43,487,849
|
99.60
|
174,800
|
0.40
|
49,000
|
43,662,649
|
|
2
|
To re-appoint Tanith Dodge as a
Director.
|
41,819,180
|
97.91
|
893,471
|
2.09
|
998,998
|
42,712,651
|
|
3
|
To re-appoint Simon Smiley as a
Director.
|
43,422,197
|
99.45
|
240,452
|
0.55
|
49,000
|
43,662,649
|
|
4
|
To re-appoint Jeanette Hern as a
Director.
|
36,207,420
|
82.83
|
7,455,229
|
17.07
|
49,000
|
43,662,649
|
|
5
|
To re-appoint Gravita as Auditor of
the Company.
|
41,819,180
|
95.78
|
1,843,469
|
4.22
|
49,000
|
43,662,649
|
|
6
|
To authorise the directors to allot
securities.
|
34,631,573
|
79.23
|
9,080,076
|
20.77
|
-
|
43,711,649
|
|
SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS
|
|
7
|
To give the directors authority to
disapply pre-emption provisions to enable the directors in certain
circumstances to allot new shares for cash other than on a
pre-emptive basis.
|
34,596,373
|
79.21
|
9,080,076
|
20.79
|
35,200
|
43,676,449
|
* Excludes withheld votes
As at the date of the AGM, the issued share
capital of the Company comprised 58,358,201ordinary shares.
Accordingly, the total number of ordinary shares entitling the
holders to attend and vote for or against all resolutions was
58,358,201. In accordance with the Company's Articles of
Association, on a poll every member has one vote for every share
held. Votes withheld are not votes in law. There were no
discretionary votes cast.
For more
information, please contact:
|
Samarkand
Group plc
|
http://samarkand.global/
|
|
David Hampstead, Chief Executive
Officer
Eva Hang, Chief Financial Officer
|
info@samarkand.global
|
|
|
|
|
Guild
Financial Advisory Limited
|
|
|
Ross Andrews
Tomas Klaassen
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+44 (0) 7973839767
+44 (0) 7834458095
|
|
|
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Notes to
Editors
Samarkand is a consumer brand owner
and distributor operating a scale up platform for niche, premium,
multichannel, health and healing brands. Core owned brands include
Napiers the Herbalists, Scotland's oldest natural herbal
apothecary and Zita West, a leading specialist supplement line for
fertility and reproductive health. Platform services include
marketing, sales and channel development with a focus on social
commerce, China market entry, international expansion and
manufacturing. In addition, the group works as the
exclusive China market partner for a select portfolio of
niche luxury skin care brands and connects these brands to the
Chinese consumer via cross border eCommerce.
Founded in 2016, Samarkand is
headquartered in Tonbridge, UK with offices
in Shanghai.
For further information please
visit https://www.samarkand.global/