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 11 were proposed as Ordinary Resolutions and resolutions 12 and 13 as Special Resolutions.
The results were as follows:
Resolution
Proxies received
In Favour
Discretion
Against
Withheld
Ordinary Business
1
To receive the report and accounts for the year
31,314,405
0
0
0
ended 31 December 2020 (ordinary resolution)
2
To approve the directors' remuneration report for
31,308,665
0
3,525
2,215
the year ended 31 December 2020 (ordinary
resolution)
3
To declare a final dividend of 1p per share
31,314,405
0
0
0
(ordinary resolution)
4
To re-elect Tony Martin as a director
31,313,754
0
651
0
(ordinary resolution)
5
To re-elect Penny Freer as a director
29,458,214
0
266,191
1,590,000
(ordinary resolution)
6
To re-elect Zach Miles as a director
31,252,254
0
61,500
651
(ordinary resolution)
7
To re-elect Rhona Driggs as a director
31,314,405
0
0
0
(ordinary resolution)
8
To re-elect Tim Anderson as a director
31,313,754
0
0
651
(ordinary resolution)
9
To re-appoint BDO LLP as auditor
31,314,405
0
0
0
(ordinary resolution)
10
To authorise the directors to determine the
31,314,405
0
0
0
auditor's remuneration (ordinary resolution)
Special Business
11
To authorise the directors to allot relevant
31,301,588
0
12,817
0
securities (ordinary resolution)
12
To enable the directors to allot shares for cash
31,237,873
0
76,532
0
without first offering them to existing
shareholders (special resolution)
13
To authorise the Company to purchase its own
31,301,588
0
12,817
0
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 11 May 2021, the issued share capital of the Company consisted of 49,019,132 ordinary shares. The Company held 160,000 Ordinary Shares in treasury. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company as at 11 May 2021 was 48,859,132. Votes cast as a percentage of the issued share capital was approximately 64.09%.
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Empresaria Group plc is a United Kingdom-based specialist staffing company. The Company is engaged in delivering staffing and supplying recruitment solutions. It offers a range of services including temporary and contract staffing, permanent placement, executive search, offshore recruitment services (ORS) and recruitment process outsourcing (RPO). The Company operates in approximately 19 countries across six diversified sectors, including professional; information technology (IT); healthcare; property, construction and engineering; commercial, and offshore recruitment services.
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