Company Announcements

Result of AGM

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RIT Capital Partners PLC
02 May 2024
 

2 May 2024

RIT CAPITAL PARTNERS PLC (LEI: P31Q1NLTW35JJGHA4667) 

RESULT OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING - (ALL RESOLUTIONS PASSED)

 

The Annual General Meeting of RIT Capital Partners plc ('Company') was held on Thursday 2 May 2024.

All resolutions as set out in the Notice of Meeting dated 25 March 2024 were passed and prints of the items of special business passed will shortly be available for inspection on the National Storage Mechanism.

 

The proxy votes cast on each resolution were as follow:

RESOLUTION

For/

Discretionary

%

Against

%

Withheld

ORDINARY BUSINESS:

 

1.

Approval of the Directors' Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2023

68,741,746

99.98%

14,035

 

0.02%

 

13,096

 

2.

Approval of the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December 2023

68,565,497

99.84%

112,370

 

0.16%

 

91,010

 

3.

Re-election of Sir James Leigh-Pemberton as a Director

67,476,277

98.17%

1,254,802

 

1.83%

 

37,797

 

4.

Re-election of Philippe Costeletos as a Director

67,976,213

98.91%

750,920

 

1.09%

 

41,743

 

5.

Re-election of André Perold as a Director

68,190,100

99.22%

538,176

 

0.78%

 

40,601

 

6.

Re-election of Hannah Rothschild as a Director

67,982,626

98.90%

753,997

 

1.10%

 

32,253

 

7.

Re-election of Vikas Karlekar as a Director

68,651,372

99.89%

77,254

 

0.11%

 

40,251

 

8.

Re-election of Cecilia McAnulty as a Director

68,677,679

99.92%

51,666

 

0.08%

 

39,532

 

9.

Re-election of Jutta af Rosenborg as a Director

68,678,162

99.93%

51,145

 

0.07%

 

39,570

 

10.

Re-appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as auditors

68,671,051

99.93%

49,742

 

0.07%

 

48,084

 

11.

To authorise the Directors to fix the remuneration of the auditors

68,703,954

99.95%

33,352

0.05%

31,571

SPECIAL BUSINESS:

 

12.

To renew the power to allot equity securities

68,050,515

99.01%

677,384

 

0.99%

 

40,978

 

13.

To authorise the Directors to allot equity securities for cash

68,067,388

99.05%

651,598

 

0.95%

 

42,114

 

14.

To renew the authority to repurchase up to 14.99 per cent. of the Company's issued share capital

68,714,986

99.98%

13,615

 

0.02%

 

32,499

 

15.

To change the notice period for general meetings other than annual general meetings to 14 days

68,545,985

99.72%

193,497

0.28%

21,618

 

Resolutions 1 to 12 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 13 to 15 were passed as special resolutions. 

 

For more information:

J. Rothschild Capital Management (Manager):

T: 020 7647 8565

E: investorrelations@ritcap.co.uk

 

Numis (Joint Broker):

David Benda

T: 020 7260 1000

 

JP Morgan Cazenove (Joint Broker):

William Simmonds

T: 020 3493 8000

 

Brunswick Group LLP (Media enquiries):

Nick Cosgrove, Tom Burns

T: 020 7404 5959
E: 
RIT@BrunswickGroup.com 

 

 

 

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