Spectris PLC

Declaration of Voting Results & Voting Rights Announcements • May 24, 2019

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RNS Number : 1758A

Spectris PLC

24 May 2019

Spectris plc

Results of the 2019 Annual General Meeting

At the Annual General Meeting of Spectris plc held earlier today, all resolutions were voted upon by poll and were passed by Shareholders.  The full text of each resolution is set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting, which is available on the Spectris plc website at www.spectris.com

The results of the poll for each resolution are as follows:

Resolutions		Votes For (including Discretionary votes)		Votes Against		Votes Cast		Votes Withheld
Number of shares	%	Number of shares	%	Number of shares	% of relevant shares in issue	Number of shares
1	Receive the 2018 Annual Report	95,178,524	100.00	60	0.00	95,178,584	82.11%	1,470,922
2	Approve Annual Remuneration Report	89,404,171	93.10	6,628,488	6.90	96,032,659	82.85%	617,297
3	Declaration of 2018 Final Dividend	96,648,750	100.00	88	0.00	96,648,838	83.38%	1,118
4	Elect Andrew Heath	96,603,269	99.99	9,516	0.01	96,612,785	83.35%	37,111
5	Elect Derek Harding	95,769,273	99.13	842,956	0.87	96,612,229	83.35%	37,667
6	Re-elect Mark Williamson	89,108,840	95.39	4,305,759	4.61	93,414,599	80.59%	3,235,297
7	Re-elect Karim Bitar	96,313,808	99.93	66,827	0.07	96,380,635	83.15%	269,261
8	Re-elect Russell King	96,139,024	99.50	479,198	0.50	96,618,222	83.35%	31,614
9	Re-elect Ulf Quellmann	96,555,012	99.94	57,623	0.06	96,612,635	83.35%	37,261
10	Re-elect William (Bill) Seeger	96,608,150	100.00	4,485	0.00	96,612,635	83.35%	37,261
11	Re-elect Kjersti Wiklund	96,549,293	99.93	63,342	0.07	96,612,635	83.35%	37,261
12	Re-elect Martha Wyrsch	96,603,654	100.00	3,481	0.00	96,607,135	83.34%	42,761
13	Re-appoint Auditor	96,639,489	99.99	8,703	0.01	96,648,192	83.38%	1,764
14	Auditors' remuneration	96,638,932	100.00	4,190	0.00	96,643,122	83.37%	6,774
15	Authority to allot shares	91,828,813	95.05	4,784,224	4.95	96,613,037	83.35%	36,859
16	Disapply pre-emption rights	96,588,148	99.98	22,319	0.02	96,610,467	83.35%	39,489
17	Disapply pre-emption rights for acquisition or capital investment	90,579,937	93.72	6,065,987	6.28	96,645,924	83.38%	4,032
18	Authority to purchase own shares	96,293,494	99.72	268,689	0.28	96,562,183	83.30%	87,773
19	Hold general meetings at 14 clear days' notice	94,378,065	97.65	2,270,667	2.35	96,648,732	83.38%	1,224
20	Adopt new Articles of Association	96,611,171	100.00	1,515	0.00	96,612,686	83.35%	37,270

The number of Ordinary shares in issue at the close of business on 22 May 2019 (excluding 5,263,234 Treasury shares) was 115,916,087.

Any vote that gave the Chairman discretion has been included in the 'For' votes. A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted towards the votes cast 'For' or 'Against' a resolution.

Resolutions 16 to 20 are special resolutions (75% majority required).  Copies of the resolutions passed as Special Business at the AGM (Resolutions 15 to 20, inclusive) will shortly be available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism document viewing facility at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM

A copy of the poll results will be shortly be available on the company's website at www.spectris.com

Name of contact and telephone number for queries:

Rebecca Dunn

Deputy Company Secretary

01784 470470

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