Result of Annual General Meeting
The Company is pleased to announce that all resolutions, as set out in the Notice of Meeting dated 26th August 2011, proposed at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held today at 10.30am were duly passed by the shareholders. Further details of the results of the Annual General Meeting are set out below
Annual General Meeting
At the Annual General Meeting Resolutions 1-6 were passed as Ordinary Resolutions and 7-9 were passed as Special Resolutions.
Details of the votes cast in respect of the Ordinary and Special Resolutions were as follows:
Ordinary Resolutions
1. To receive and adopt the Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2010.
|
Number of Ordinary Shares voted |
Percentage of Ordinary Shares voted |
| FOR |
2,136,686,765 |
99.99% |
| AGAINST |
5000 |
0.01%
|
| VOTE WITHHELD |
Nil |
N/A |
2. To re-appoint Mr. Khalifa Jassim M.A. Al-Kuwari as Chairman who has been appointed since the last Annual General Meeting.
|
Number of Ordinary Shares voted |
Percentage of Ordinary Shares voted |
| FOR |
2,136,643,305 |
99.99% |
| AGAINST |
28,500 |
0.01% |
| VOTE WITHELD |
19,960 |
N/A |
3. To re-appoint Mr. Adel Mohammed Tayyeb Mustafawi as Non-Executive Director who has been appointed since the last Annual General Meeting.
|
Number of Ordinary Shares voted |
Percentage of Ordinary Shares voted |
| FOR |
2,136,643,305 |
99.99% |
| AGAINST |
28,500 |
0.01% |
| VOTE WITHHELD |
19,960 |
N/A |
4. To re-appoint Mr. Jamal Abdullah Al-Jamal as Non-Executive Director who has been appointed since the last Annual General Meeting.
|
Number of Ordinary Shares voted |
Percentage of Ordinary Shares voted |
| FOR |
2,136,643,305 |
99.99% |
| AGAINST |
28,500 |
0.01% |
| VOTE WITHELD |
19,960 |
N/A |
5. To re-appoint KPMG Audit PLC as Auditors of the Company to hold office until the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting and authorise the Directors to fix their remuneration.
|
Number of Ordinary Shares voted |
Percentage of Ordinary Shares voted |
| FOR |
2,136,679,765 |
99.99% |
| AGAINST |
8,000 |
0.01% |
| VOTE WITHELD |
4,000 |
N/A |
6. That, the board be and it is hereby generally and unconditionally authorised pursuant to section 551 of the Companies Act 2006 (the “2006 Act”) (in substitution for any existing authority to allot shares) to allot shares in the Company and to grant rights to subscribe for or to convert any security into shares in the Company up to an aggregate nominal amount of £40,000,000 provided that such authority shall expire on the fifth anniversary from the date of the passing of this resolution, save that the Company may before such expiry make an offer or agreement which would or might require such shares to be allotted or rights to subscribe for or convert securities into shares to be granted after such expiry, and the board may allot shares and grant rights to subscribe or convert securities into shares in pursuance of such offer or agreement as if the authority conferred by this resolution had not expired.
|
Number of Ordinary Shares voted |
Percentage of Ordinary Shares voted |
| FOR |
2,136,637,345 |
99.99% |
| AGAINST |
47,570 |
0.01% |
| VOTE WITHELD |
6,850 |
N/A |
Special Resolutions
7. That, subject to the passing of resolution 6 as set out in the notice of this meeting, the board be empowered pursuant to section 570 of the 2006 Act to allot equity securities (within the meaning of section 560 of the said Act) for cash pursuant to the general authority conferred by resolution 6 as set out in the notice of this meeting as if section 561(1) of the said Act did not apply to such allotment, provided that this power shall:
(i) be limited to the allotment of equity securities up to an aggregate nominal amount of £40,000,000; and
(ii) expire on the fifth anniversary of the date from the passing of this resolution, save that the Company may before such expiry make an offer or agreement which would or might require equity securities to be allotted after such expiry, and the board may allot equity securities in pursuance of such an offer or agreement as if the power conferred by this resolution had not expired.
|
Number of Ordinary Shares voted |
Percentage of Ordinary Shares voted |
| FOR |
2,136,629,235 |
99.99% |
| AGAINST |
16,070 |
0.01% |
| VOTE WITHELD |
46,460 |
N/A |
8. That, the regulations in the form of the print produced to the meeting and initialled for identification by the chairman of the meeting be adopted as the new Articles of Association of the Company to replace in their entirety the existing Articles of Association of the Company.
|
Number of Ordinary Shares voted |
Percentage of Ordinary Shares voted |
| FOR |
2,136,625,449 |
99.99% |
| AGAINST |
17,550 |
0.01% |
| VOTE WITHELD |
48,766 |
N/A |
9. That, the Company may send or supply any document or information that is required or authorised to be sent or supplied to a member or any other person by the Company by a provision of the Companies Acts (as defined in section 2 of the 2006 Act) or pursuant to the Company’s Articles of Association or to any other rules or regulations to which the Company may be subject, by making it available on a website, and the provisions of the 2006 Act which apply to sending or supplying a document or information required or authorised to be sent or supplied by the Companies Acts (as defined in section 2 of the 2006 Act) by making it available on a website shall, the necessary changes having been made, also apply to sending or supplying any document or information required or authorised to be sent by the Company’s Articles of Association or any other rules or regulations to which the Company may be subject by making it available on a website and this resolution shall supersede any provision in the Company’s Articles of Association to the extent that it is inconsistent with this resolution.
|
Number of Ordinary Shares voted |
Percentage of Ordinary Shares voted |
| FOR |
2,136,649,144 |
99.99% |
| AGAINST |
26,070 |
0.01% |
| VOTE WITHELD |
16,551 |
N/A |