23 April 2024
GlobalData Plc
(AIM: DATA, GlobalData, the Company)
Results of Annual General Meeting ("AGM")
GlobalData Plc, a leading provider of industry intelligence, announces that at the Company's Annual General Meeting held earlier today (23 April 2024) all resolutions were duly passed.
A description on the subject matter of the poll and details on the votes are set out below.
| Resolution | In Favour | Against | Total validly | % of issued share capital | Number of votes withheld | |||
| Number of votes | % | Number of votes | % | |||||
| Ordinary resolutions | ||||||||
| 1 | To receive the financial statements of the Company for the year ended 31 December 2023 together with the Reports of the Directors and Auditors. | 671,777,638 | 100.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 671,777,638 | 79.50% | 3,000 |
| 2 | To declare a final dividend of 3.2 pence per ordinary share in respect of the year ended 31 December 2023, payable on 26 April 2024 to the holders of ordinary shares at close of business on 22 March 2024. | 671,777,638 | 100.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 671,777,638 | 79.50% | 3,000 |
| 3 | To re-elect Murray Legg as a Director of the Company. | 653,747,902 | 99.79% | 1,355,988 | 0.21% | 655,103,890 | 77.52% | 16,676,748 |
| 4 | To re-elect Michael Danson as a Director of the Company. | 670,713,134 | 99.84% | 1,064,504 | 0.16% | 671,777,638 | 79.50% | 3,000 |
| 5 | To re-elect Graham Lilley as a Director of the Company. | 671,777,638 | 100.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 671,777,638 | 79.50% | 3,000 |
| 6 | To re-elect Annette Barnes as a Director of the Company. | 662,365,144 | 98.60% | 9,412,494 | 1.40% | 671,777,638 | 79.50% | 3,000 |
| 7 | To re-elect Andrew Day as a Director of the Company. | 670,713,134 | 99.84% | 1,064,504 | 0.16% | 671,777,638 | 79.50% | 3,000 |
| 8 | To re-elect Peter Harkness as a Director of the Company. | 669,677,638 | 99.69% | 2,100,000 | 0.31% | 671,777,638 | 79.50% | 3,000 |
| 9 | To re-elect Catherine Birkett as a Director of the Company. | 671,777,638 | 100.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 671,777,638 | 79.50% | 3,000 |
| 10 | To re-elect Julien Decot as a Director of the Company. | 670,993,134 | 99.88% | 784,504 | 0.12% | 671,777,638 | 79.50% | 3,000 |
| 11 | To approve the reappointment of Deloitte LLP as Auditors of the Company. | 671,777,638 | 100.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 671,777,638 | 79.50% | 3,000 |
| 12 | To authorise the Audit Committee to fix the remuneration of the Company's Auditors. | 671,777,638 | 100.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 671,777,638 | 79.50% | 3,000 |
| 13 | To receive and approve the Directors' remuneration report contained on pages 72 to 82 of the Company's report and accounts for the year ended 31 December 2023. | 658,421,723 | 98.32% | 11,253,915 | 1.68% | 669,675,638 | 79.25% | 2,105,000 |
| 14 | To authorise the Directors to allot ordinary shares in the Company. | 671,777,638 | 100.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 671,777,638 | 79.50% | 3,000 |
| Special resolutions | ||||||||
| 15 | To renew the Directors' power to allot shares or grant rights to subscribe for, or convert securities into, shares or sell treasury shares where they propose to do so for cash (other than pursuant to an employee share scheme) otherwise than to existing shareholders pro rata to their holdings (i.e. non pre-emptively), as permitted by the Articles. | 659,528,438 | 98.18% | 12,249,200 | 1.82% | 671,777,638 | 79.50% | 3,000 |
| 16 | To give the Directors power to make non-pre-emptive issues of ordinary shares in connection with acquisitions and other capital investments as contemplated by the Pre-emption Principles. | 658,168,934 | 97.97% | 13,608,704 | 2.03% | 671,777,638 | 79.50% | 3,000 |
| 17 | To renew the Company's authority to make market purchases of up to 84,502,770 ordinary shares (being 10% of the Company's total issued ordinary share capital as at the date of this notice), either for cancellation or for placing into treasury at the determination of the Directors. | 671,775,638 | 100.00% | 2,000 | 0.00% | 671,777,638 | 79.50% | 3,000 |
Notes:
1. A 'vote withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation proportion of the votes "for" or "against" a resolution.
2. A copy of the AGM results will be available on the Company's website at www.globaldata.com.
3. Issued share capital as at 23 April 2024 is 845,027,700 ordinary shares of 1/100 pence each in the capital of the Company.
ENQUIRIES
| GlobalData Plc | |
| Mike Danson, Chief Executive Officer | 0207 936 6400 |
| Graham Lilley, Chief Financial Officer | |
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| J.P. Morgan Cazenove (Nomad and Joint Broker) | 0203 493 8000 |
| Bill Hutchings | |
| Mose Adigun | |
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| Panmure Gordon (Joint Broker) | 0207 886 2500 |
| Rupert Dearden | |
| Dougie McLeod | |
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| Numis Securities (Joint Broker) Nick Westlake Iqra Amin
| 0207 260 1000 |
| FTI Consulting (Financial PR) | 0203 727 1000 |
| Edward Bridges | |
| Dwight Burden | |
| Emma Hall | |
LEI: 2138005I669UO6PJXM24
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