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Speedy Hire PLC
05 September 2024
 

Speedy Hire Plc

5 September 2024

 

 

Speedy Hire Plc ("Company")

Resolutions passed at Annual General Meeting - 5 September 2024

 

 

At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 5 September 2024 at the offices of Panmure Liberum at Ropemaker Place, 25 Ropemaker Street, London, EC2Y 9LY, all resolutions set out in the Notice of Meeting were voted on by means of a poll.

 

Resolutions 1 to 15 and resolutions 20 to 22 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 16 to 19 were passed as special resolutions. The results of the poll are set out below:

 

No

Resolution

For *

Against

Withheld **

 


No. of Votes

% of Vote

No. of Votes

% of Vote

No. of Votes

1

To receive and adopt the annual accounts of the Company for the financial year ended 31 March 2024 together with the

reports of the Directors and auditors (ordinary).

322,891,228

99.87%

423,881

0.13%

405,702

2

To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the financial year ended 31 March 2024 (ordinary).

322,854,836

99.78%

724,883

0.22%

141,092

3

To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy (ordinary).

252,125,891

80.26%

62,015,362

19.74%

9,579,557

4

To declare a final dividend of 1.80 pence per ordinary share in respect of the financial year ended 31 March 2024 (ordinary).

323,341,111

99.91%

303,731

0.09%

75,969

5

To re-elect Dan Evans as a Director of the Company (ordinary).

323,165,534

99.88%

393,109

0.12%

162,168

6

To re-elect Paul Rayner as a Director of the Company (ordinary).

323,172,728

99.88%

381,428

0.12%

166,655

7

To re-elect David Shearer as a Director of the Company (ordinary).

305,355,297

94.38%

18,188,345

5.62%

177,168

8

To re-elect David Garman as a Director of the Company (ordinary).

315,404,085

97.48%

8,153,757

2.52%

162,968

9

To re-elect Rob Barclay as a Director of the Company (ordinary).

318,983,517

98.59%

4,558,524

1.41%

178,770

10

To re-elect Rhian Bartlett as a Director of the Company (ordinary).

315,582,992

97.54%

7,974,850

2.46%

162,968

11

To re-elect Shatish Dasani as a Director of the Company (ordinary).

315,340,242

97.46%

8,227,491

2.54%

153,077

12

To re-elect Carol Kavanagh as a Director of the Company (ordinary).

312,136,920

96.47%

11,420,923

3.53%

162,968

13

To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Auditors (ordinary).

323,056,638

99.82%

574,296

0.18%

89,877

14

To authorise the Directors to determine the remuneration of the Auditors (ordinary).

323,410,929

99.95%

177,277

0.05%

132,605

15

To authorise the Directors to allot shares (ordinary).

322,748,145

99.71%

930,084

0.29%

42,582

16

To authorise the Directors to allot securities free from pre-emption rights, subject to certain specified limitations (special).

323,102,959

99.83%

566,235

0.17%

51,617

17

To disapply statutory pre-emption rights in relation to acquisitions or other capital investments (special).

322,742,513

99.72%

897,907

0.28%

80,391

18

To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own shares (special).

316,414,713

97.79%

7,167,202

2.21%

138,896

19

To authorise the calling of general meetings (other than Annual General Meetings) on not less than 14 days' notice (special).

322,840,164

99.74%

835,051

0.26%

45,596

20

To permit the Company to make political donations (ordinary).

315,335,984

97.44%

8,293,956

2.56%

90,871

21

To approve the Speedy Hire Plc Performance Share Plan 2024 (ordinary).

322,864,201

99.76%

765,366

0.24%

91,244

22

To approve the Speedy Hire 2024 Sharesave Scheme (ordinary).

323,353,261

99.94%

194,646

0.06%

172,904

 

N.B. Percentage figures are rounded to 2 decimal places.

 

*     The votes of any proxy giving the Chairman discretion how to vote have been included in the votes For a resolution.

**   A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of percentages of votes cast For and Against a resolution.

 

As at 5 September 2024, the number of issued shares of the Company was 516,983,637, of which 55,141,657 were held in treasury. Therefore, the total voting rights in the Company as at that date was 461,841,980.

 

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of all the resolutions passed as special business at the Annual General Meeting will shortly be available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism which can be accessed at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

 

 

 

Neil Hunt

Company Secretary

 

 

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