| Custodian REIT plc (CREI)
Custodian REIT plc : Results of Annual General Meeting
25-Aug-2021 / 16:02 GMT/BST
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25 August 2021
Custodian REIT plc
("Custodian REIT" or "the Company")
Results of Annual General Meeting
Custodian REIT (LSE: CREI), the UK commercial real estate investment company, is pleased to announce that following the Annual General Meeting of the Company held earlier today, all resolutions were approved on a poll. A summary of the results of the poll are set out below:
| |
Resolution |
Votes for |
% of votes cast |
Votes against |
% of votes cast |
Votes withheld* |
| ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS |
| 1 |
To receive and adopt the Company's report and accounts for the financial year ended 31 March 2021 |
97,900,810 |
100 |
0 |
0 |
252,245 |
| 2 |
To approve the directors' remuneration report for the year ended 31 March 2021 |
97,764,095 |
99.99 |
6,753 |
0.01 |
382,207 |
| 3 |
THAT annual Directors' remuneration paid in 2020 and 2021 in excess of the £175,000 aggregate remuneration limit be confirmed, ratified and approved |
98,080,232 |
99.99 |
253 |
0.01 |
72,570 |
| 4 |
To elect Chris Ireland as a director |
98,153,055 |
100 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| 5 |
To elect Elizabeth McMeikan as a director |
97,982,550 |
99.83 |
170,505 |
0.17 |
0 |
| 6 |
To re-elect Hazel Adam as a director |
97,422,856 |
99.26 |
730,199 |
0.74 |
0 |
| 7 |
To re-elect David Ian Hunter as a director |
77,927,130 |
79.39 |
20,225,925 |
20.61 |
0 |
| 8 |
To re-elect Ian Thomas Mattioli as a director |
81,118,074 |
82.64 |
17,034,981 |
17.36 |
0 |
| 9 |
To re-elect Matthew Wadman John Thorne as a director |
97,422,881 |
99.26 |
730,174 |
0.74 |
0 |
| 10 |
To re-appoint Deloitte LLP as auditor to the Company |
98,153,055 |
100 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| 11 |
To authorise the directors to agree and fix the auditor's remuneration |
98,153,055 |
100 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| 12 |
To grant the directors authority to allot ordinary shares in the capital of the Company |
95,894,490 |
97.7 |
2,258,565 |
2.3 |
0 |
| SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS |
| 13 |
To disapply statutory pre-emption rights on the allotment of ordinary shares in the capital of the Company |
87,871,616 |
89.53 |
10,281,439 |
10.47 |
0 |
| 14 |
To further disapply the statutory pre-emption rights on the allotment of Ordinary Shares |
84,629,886 |
86.56 |
13,145,761 |
13.44 |
377,408 |
| 15 |
To authorise the Company to make market purchases of ordinary shares of £0.01 each in the capital of the Company |
98,085,519 |
99.99 |
200 |
0.01 |
67,336 |
| 16 |
That a general meeting, other than an annual general meeting, may be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice |
91,502,718 |
93.22 |
6,650,337 |
6.78 |
0 |
| 17 |
That the Articles produced to the meeting be adopted in substitution for, and to the exclusion of, the existing Articles of the Company |
95,152,109 |
96.94 |
3,000,946 |
3.06 |
0 |
*NB: The percentage of votes cast for and against excludes withheld votes.
The votes received against resolution 7 to re-elect David Hunter as a Director of the Company comprised 4.8% of shareholders and were predominantly made by indices. UK proxy voting agencies supported the resolution but, where possible, the Investment Manager will continue to seek feedback on the underlying issues through regular engagement with shareholders.
The Company confirms that copies of all resolutions passed at the Annual General Meeting will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism (NSM) at marketoversight.fca.org.uk and will shortly be available for viewing.
- Ends -
For further information, please contact:
| Custodian Capital Limited |
|
| Richard Shepherd-Cross / Ed Moore / Ian Mattioli MBE |
Tel: +44 (0)116 240 8740 |
| |
www.custodiancapital.com |
| Numis Securities Limited |
|
| Hugh Jonathan/Nathan Brown |
Tel: +44 (0)20 7260 1000 |
| |
www.numiscorp.com |
| Camarco |
|
| Ed Gascoigne-Pees |
Tel: +44 (0)20 3757 4984 |
| |
www.camarco.co.uk |
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