FDM Group (Holdings) PLC

AGM Information • Apr 27, 2017

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RNS Number : 5643D

FDM Group (Holdings) plc

27 April 2017

27 April 2017

FDM Group (Holdings) plc

Result of AGM

The board of directors of FDM Group (Holdings) plc (the "Company" or "FDM") announces that, at the Company's 2017 annual general meeting held earlier today, all resolutions were duly passed on a show of hands.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2(R), a copy of the resolutions passed at the Annual General Meeting will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

As at the date of the meeting, there were 107,517,506 ordinary shares with voting rights in issue. The following proxies were received by the Company from shareholders prior to the meeting:

RESOLUTION		FOR		AGAINST		WITHHELD
VOTES	% OF VOTES CAST*	VOTES	% OF VOTES CAST*	VOTES
1	Receive the Company's Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2016 together with the reports of the directors and shareholders.	93,087,893	100.00	0	0.00	28,862
2	Approve the Directors' Remuneration Report (other than the part containing the Directors' Remuneration Policy) for the year ended 31 December 2016.	91,753,254	98.54	1,363,501	1.46	0
3	Declare a final ordinary dividend for the year ended 31 December 2016 of 10.3 pence for each ordinary share in the capital of the Company.	93,116,755	100.00	0	0.00	0
4	Re-elect Ivan Martin as a director of the Company	93,108,155	99.99	8,600	0.01	0
5	Re-elect Andrew Brown as a director of the Company	93,116,755	100.00	0	0.00	0
6	Re-elect Sheila Flavell as a director of the Company	93,116,755	100.00	0	0.00	0
7	Re-elect Michael McLaren as a director of the Company	93,116,755	100.00	0	0.00	0
8	Re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company's auditors	93,082,469	99.96	34,286	0.04	0
9	Authorise the directors to agree the remuneration of the auditors	93,116,755	100.00	0	0.00	0
10	Authorise the directors to allot securities pursuant to section 551 of the Companies Act 2006 (the "Act")	92,391,770	99.22	724,985	0.78	0
11	Special Resolution: Disapply pre-emption rights pursuant to section 570 of the Act	93,114,800	99.99	1,955	0.01	0
12	Special Resolution: Disapply pre-emption rights pursuant to section 570 of the Act in connection with financing an acquisition or specified capital investment	91,891,035	98.68	1,225,720	1.32	0
13	Special Resolution: Authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own shares pursuant to section 701 of the Act	93,080,514	99.96	36,241	0.04	0
14	Special Resolution: That a general meeting (other than an AGM) may be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice	91,837,462	98.63	1,279,293	1.37	0

*Excludes votes withheld

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For further information please contact:

FDM Group (Holdings) plc	Rod Flavell - CEO Mike McLaren - CFO	020 7067 0000 (today) 0203 056 8240 (thereafter)
Weber Shandwick (financial PR)	Nick Oborne / Tom Jenkins	020 7067 0000

About FDM

FDM is an international professional services provider with a focus on IT. Operating from offices in Europe, North America and Asia, FDM specialises in recruiting, training and deploying its own permanent IT Consultants ("Mounties") across a number of service areas including: development, testing, project management, data analysis, application support, infrastructure, business analysis and compliance.

With a large number of blue chip clients across its operational territories, FDM meets the demands of its customers through the provision of highly-trained and geographically flexible Mounties that are employed by FDM. FDM offers a high-value, low risk proposition to both trainees and clients and looks principally to recruit:

•           Graduates local to each of the territories in which it operates, typically but not exclusively training them in-territory and then placing them onto client sites within the same territory; and

•           Ex-military personnel local to each of the territories in which it operates, training them as IT or business Consultants in that territory and placing them on client sites in the same territory.

•           Individuals who have a background in IT and/or finance who, having taken a career break, are keen to return to their career.

FDM strongly supports the recruitment of women into the IT industry and actively encourages their advancement through their global 'Women in IT' initiative.

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