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Fresnillo PLC
23 May 2023
 

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21 Upper Brook Street

London W1K 7PY

United Kingdom

www.fresnilloplc.com

 

 

23 May 2023

 

FRESNILLO PLC - RESULT OF AGM

 

The Board is pleased to announce that all of the resolutions put to shareholders at today's Annual General Meeting were passed by means of a poll, including the ordinary resolutions (resolutions 1 to 19) and special resolutions (resolutions 20 to 23) as set out in the Company's notice of AGM dated 19 April 2023. The votes cast for resolutions 10 to 16 relating to the re-election and election of the independent Directors were duly passed by both a majority of the votes cast by the independent shareholders as well as by a majority of votes cast by all shareholders. These votes have been calculated separately and are shown below (independent shareholder votes cast being marked **)

 

The final voting figures are shown below.

 

Resolution

Total Votes Cast

For (*)

Against (*)

Withheld

Number

%

Number

%

1: Presentation of the report and accounts

674,898,465

674,845,133

99.99

53,332

0.01

2,872,574

2: To approve the final dividend

677,768,368

677,309,467

99.93

458,901

0.07

2,671

3: To approve the Annual Report on Remuneration

677,753,546

667,414,110

98.47

10,339,436

1.53

17,493

4. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy,

677,018,935

637,400,310

94.15

39,618,625

5.85

752,104

5: To re-elect Mr Alejandro Baillères

677,749,840

600,029,855

88.53

77,719,985

11.47

21,199

6: To re-elect Mr Juan Bordes

677,750,533

660,036,750

97.39

17,713,783

2.61

20,506

7: To re-elect Mr Arturo Fernández

673,518,233

647,539,084

96.14

25,979,149

3.86

4,252,806

8: To re-elect Mr Fernando Ruiz

673,518,233

660,755,712

98.11

12,762,521

1.89

4,252,806

9: To re-elect Mr Eduardo Cepeda

677,750,534

638,656,022

94.23

39,094,512

5.77

20,505

10: To re-elect Mr Charles Jacobs

677,749,839

673,307,580

99.34

4,442,259

0.66

21,200

125,154,648**

120,712,389

96.45

4,442,259

3.55

21,200

11: To re-elect Ms Bárbara Garza Lagüera

677,755,770

670,809,355

98.98

6,946,415

1.02

15,269

125,160,579**

118,214,164

94.45

6,946,415

5.55

15,269

12: To re-elect Mr Alberto Tiburcio

677,750,033

665,585,772

98.21

12,164,261

1.79

20,506

125,154,842**

112,990,581

90.28

12,164,261

9.72

20,506

13: To re-elect Dame Judith Macgregor

677,751,415

677,505,331

99.96

246,084

0.04

19,124

125,156,224**

124,910,140

99.80

246,084

0.20

19,124

14: To re-elect Ms Georgina Kessel

677,744,842

677,097,936

99.90

646,906

0.10

25,697

125,149,651**

124,502,745

99.48

646,906

0.52

25,697

15: To re-elect Ms Guadalupe De la Vega

677,744,559

676,831,929

99.87

912,630

0.13

25,980

125,149,368**

124,236,738

99.27

912,630

0.73

25,980

16: To re-elect Mr Hector Rangel

677,749,916

676,967,517

99.88

782,399

0.12

20,623

125,154,725**

124,372,326

99.37

782,399

0.63

20,623

17: To re-appoint the auditors

677,759,512

673,210,202

99.33

4,549,310

0.67

11,027

18: To authorise the audit committee to determine the auditors' remuneration

677,760,720

675,714,595

99.70

2,046,125

0.30

10,319

19: To give authority to Directors allot shares

677,762,120

673,212,223

99.33

4,549,897

0.67

8,419

20: To disapply pre-emption rights

676,531,200

672,035,379

99.34

4,495,821

0.66

1,239,339

21: To disapply pre-emption rights in in connection with an acquisition or other capital investment

677,760,379

674,000,824

99.45

3,759,555

0.55

10,160

22: To authorise purchase of own shares

677,741,715

671,939,579

99.14

5,802,136

0.86

29,324

23: Notice of general meetings

677,762,734

675,944,975

99.73

1,817,759

0.27

8,305

 

(*) = Includes discretionary votes

(**) =Votes cast by the independent shareholders

 

As at the date of the AGM, the number of issued shares and total voting rights of the Company was 736,893,589 shares in issue. The Company's Articles of Association set out that every member who is present in person or by proxy shall have one vote for every share of which he is the holder on a poll. The scrutineer of the poll was Equiniti Limited.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, Fresnillo plc has submitted a copy of the resolutions dealing with the special business put to shareholders at the AGM today to the National Storage Mechanism, which will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism

 

ENDS

 

 



 

 

For further information, please visit our website www.fresnilloplc.com or contact:

 

FRESNILLO PLC     

London Office                        

Gabriela Mayor, Head of Investor Relations

Mark Mochalski

 

Tel: +44 (0)20 7399 2470

Mexico City Office

Ana Belem Zárate

Tel: +52 55 52 79 3206

 

POWERSCOURT

Peter Ogden

 

 

Tel: +44 (0)7793 858 211

 

ABOUT FRESNILLO PLC

 

Fresnillo plc is the world's largest primary silver producer and Mexico's largest gold producer, listed on the London and Mexican Stock Exchanges under the symbol FRES.

Fresnillo plc has eight operating mines, all of them in Mexico - Fresnillo, Saucito, Juanicipio, Ciénega, Herradura, Soledad-Dipolos1, Noche Buena and San Julián (Veins and Disseminated Ore Body), one development project - the Pyrites Plant at Fresnillo, which has been completed and tied-in to the national electricity grid, and four advanced exploration projects - Orisyvo, Rodeo, Guanajuato and Tajitos as well as a number of other long term exploration prospects.

Fresnillo plc has mining concessions and exploration projects in Mexico, Peru and Chile.

Fresnillo plc has a strong and long tradition of exploring, mining, a proven track record of mine development, reserve replacement, and production costs in the lowest quartile of the cost curve for silver.

Fresnillo plc's goal is to maintain the Group's position as the world's largest primary silver company and Mexico's largest gold producer.

1 Operations at Soledad-Dipolos are currently suspended.

 

FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS

Information contained in this announcement may include 'forward-looking statements'. All statements other than statements of historical facts included herein, including, without limitation, those regarding the Fresnillo Group's intentions, beliefs or current expectations concerning, amongst other things, the Fresnillo Group's results of operations, financial position, liquidity, prospects, growth, strategies and the silver and gold industries are forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainty because they relate to future events and circumstances. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and the actual results of the Fresnillo Group's operations, financial position and liquidity, and the development of the markets and the industry in which the Fresnillo Group operates, may differ materially from those described in, or suggested by, the forward-looking statements contained in this document. In addition, even if the results of operations, financial position and liquidity, and the development of the markets and the industry in which the Fresnillo Group operates are consistent with the forward-looking statements contained in this document, those results or developments may not be indicative of results or developments in subsequent periods. A number of factors could cause results and developments to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements including, without limitation, general economic and business conditions, industry trends, competition, commodity prices, changes in regulation, currency fluctuations (including the US dollar and Mexican Peso exchanges rates), the Fresnillo Group's ability to recover its reserves or develop new reserves, including its ability to convert its resources into reserves and its mineral potential into resources or reserves, changes in its business strategy and political and economic uncertainty.

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