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%.
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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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