AGM Information • Jul 17, 2025
AGM Information
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Helical is pleased to announce that at its one hundred and fifth Annual General Meeting ("Meeting") held earlier today, all resolutions set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting dated 16 June 2025 ("Notice") were passed by Shareholders on a poll. All valid proxy votes and voting instructions (whether submitted electronically or in hard copy form) were included in the poll taken at the Meeting.
| Resolution | For the Resolution1 |
% For | Against the Resolution |
% Against | Total Votes Validly Cast |
% of Voting Capital |
Votes Withheld2 |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To receive and consider the accounts of the Company for the financial year ended 31 March 2025 |
94,753,171 | 100.00% | 550 | 0.00% | 94,753,721 | 76.81 | 2,973 |
| 2 | To declare a final dividend of 3.50 pence per Ordinary Share in respect of year ended 31 March 2025 |
94,756,144 | 100.00% | 550 | 0.00% | 94,756,694 | 76.82 | 0 |
| 3 | To re-appoint R.R. Cotton as a Director of the Company |
82,958,742 | 95.95% | 3,503,802 | 4.05% | 86,462,544 | 70.09 | 8,294,150 |
| 4 | To re-appoint M. C. Bonning-Snook as a Director of the Company |
94,684,197 | 99.93% | 69,532 | 0.07% | 94,753,729 | 76.81 | 2,965 |
| 5 | To re-appoint S. J. Farr as a Director of the Company |
90,358,219 | 95.36% | 4,395,510 | 4.64% | 94,753,729 | 76.81 | 2,965 |
| 6 | To re-appoint R. T. Fowlds as a Director of the Company |
93,885,740 | 99.08% | 870,254 | 0.92% | 94,755,994 | 76.82 | 700 |
| 7 | To re-appoint A. A. Aldridge as a Director of the Company |
93,864,936 | 99.06% | 891,058 | 0.94% | 94,755,994 | 76.82 | 700 |
| 8 | To appoint J. R. Moss as a Director of the Company |
94,686,462 | 99.93% | 69,532 | 0.07% | 94,755,994 | 76.82 | 700 |
| 9 | To appoint RSM UK Audit LLP as the Company's auditor |
94,755,657 | 100.00% | 1,037 | 0.00% | 94,756,694 | 76.82 | 0 |
| 10 | To authorise the Audit and Risk Committee to determine the remuneration of the auditors for and on behalf of the Board |
94,755,444 | 100.00% | 550 | 0.00% | 94,755,994 | 76.82 | 700 |
| 11 | To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report |
89,521,344 | 95.72% | 4,003,269 | 4.28% | 93,524,613 | 75.82 | 1,232,081 |
| 12 | That the Directors be authorised to allot shares or grant rights to subscribe for or to convert any securities into shares |
91,921,213 | 97.01% | 2,835,081 | 2.99% | 94,756,294 | 76.82 | 400 |
| 13 | That the Directors be empowered to allot securities of the Company for cash3 |
93,241,457 | 98.40% | 1,514,837 | 1.60% | 94,756,294 | 76.82 | 400 |
The voting results for each resolution are detailed below:
| 14 | That the Directors be given the power to allot equity securities and/or sale of Treasury shares for cash3 |
79,707,749 | 84.23% | 14,919,807 | 15.77% | 94,627,556 | 76.71 | 129,138 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | That the Company is authorised to make one or more market purchases of its Ordinary Shares3 |
94,732,674 | 99.98% | 22,120 | 0.02% | 94,754,794 | 76.81 | 1,900 |
| 16 | To authorise the Directors to call a General Meeting of the Company (other than an Annual General Meetings) in not less than 14 clear days' notice3 |
93,761,706 | 98.95% | 993,088 | 1.05% | 94,754,794 | 76.81 | 1,900 |
Notes:
1 Includes discretionary votes.
2 A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes 'for' or 'against' a resolution.
3 Special Resolution which required at least 75% of votes in favour.
As at the date of the Meeting there were 123,335,197 ordinary shares of 1p each in issue.
Unless otherwise defined herein, terms used in this announcement shall have the meaning given to them in the Notice.
In accordance with Listing Rule 6.4.2, copies of resolutions other than those concerning ordinary business passed at the Meeting have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and can be viewed at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
The resolutions carried at the Meeting are set out in full in the Notice which can be found on the Company's website at www.helical.co.uk.
Eleanor Gavin Company Secretary
Helical plc Tel: 020 7629 0113 Address: 22 Ganton Street London
W1F 7FD Website: www.helical.co.uk
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