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ARIX BIOSCIENCE PLC — AGM Information 2018
May 17, 2018
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Arix Bioscience Plc
Results of Annual General Meeting
LONDON, 17 May, 2018: Arix Bioscience plc (LSE: ARIX) ("Arix Bioscience" or the "Company"), a global healthcare and life science company supporting medical innovation, announces that its Annual General Meeting (the "Meeting") was held on Thursday 17 May 2018 at 11am (BST). At the Meeting, the ordinary and special resolutions set out in the Notice of the Annual General Meeting dated 20 April 2018 (the "Notice of AGM"), were proposed and passed by way of a poll. Resolutions 1 to 15 were passed as ordinary resolutions. Resolutions 16 to 19 were passed as special resolutions.
Full details of the poll results are set out below and will also be available on the Company's website www.arixbioscience.com.
| No | RESOLUTION | VOTES FOR |
% | VOTES AGAINST |
% | TOTAL VOTES |
% of ISC VOTED |
VOTES WITHHELD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To receive the Directors' report and the accounts for the Company for the year ended 31 December 2017 |
56,584,402 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 56,584,402 | 41.99% | 0 | ||
| 2 | To approved the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December 2017 |
50,988,886 | 90.12 | 5,591,495 | 9.88 56,580,381 | 41.98% | 4,020 | |
| 3 | To re‐elect Dr Joseph Anderson as a Director | 56,584,402 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 56,584,402 | 41.99% | 0 | ||
| 4 | To re‐elect Professor Sir Christopher Evans as a Director | 56,584,402 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 56,584,402 | 41.99% | 0 | ||
| 5 | To re‐elect Dr Franz Humer as a Director | 51,655,214 | 91.29 | 4,929,188 | 8.71 56,584,402 | 41.99% | 0 | |
| 6 | To re‐elect Lord John Hutton of Furness as a Director | 54,810,619 | 96.87 | 1,773,783 | 3.13 56,584,402 | 41.99% | 0 | |
| 7 | To re‐elect Professor Trevor Jones as a Director | 56,584,402 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 56,584,402 | 41.99% | 0 | ||
| 8 | To re‐elect Jonathan Peacock as a Director | 54,526,217 | 96.36 | 2,058,185 | 3.64 56,584,402 | 41.99% | 0 | |
| 9 | To re‐elect James Rawlingson as a Director | 56,584,402 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 56,584,402 | 41.99% | 0 | ||
| 10 | To re‐elect David U'Prichard as a Director | 55,183,865 | 97.53 | 1,399,000 | 2.47 56,582,865 | 41.99% | 1,537 | |
| 11 | To elect Meghan FitzGerald as a Director | 56,584,402 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 56,584,402 | 41.99% | 0 | ||
| 12 | To elect Giles Kerr as a Director | 56,582,865 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 56,582,865 | 41.99% | 1,537 | ||
| 13 | To re‐appoint PwC LLP as auditors of the Company | 55,185,402 | 97.53 | 1,399,000 | 2.47 56,584,402 | 41.99% | 0 | |
| 14 | To authorise the Audit & Risk Committee of the Company to fix the remuneration of the auditors |
56,584,402 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 56,584,402 | 41.99% | 0 | ||
| 15 | To authorise the Directors to allot shares | 55,618,631 100.00 | 2,198 | 0.00 55,620,829 | 41.27% | 963,573 | ||
| 16 | To authorise the Directors to disapply statutory pre‐ emption rights in respect of 5% of the Company's issued share capital |
53,013,611 | 95.32 | 2,605,020 | 4.68 55,618,631 | 41.27% | 965,771 | |
| 17 | To authorise the Directors to disapply statutory pre‐ emption rights in respect of an additional 5% of the Company's issued share capital |
51,614,611 | 92.80 | 4,004,020 | 7.20 55,618,631 | 41.27% | 965,771 | |
| 18 | To authorise the Company to buy back shares | 54,215,987 | 97.48 | 1,403,929 | 2.52 55,619,916 | 41.27% | 964,486 | |
| 19 To authorise the Directors to call a general meeting other than an annual general meeting on not less than 14 clear days' notice |
56,581,832 100.00 | 2,570 | 0.00 56,584,402 | 41.99% | 0 |
Notes:
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A "Vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the percentage of shares voted "For" or "Against" any resolution.
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The number of voting shares in issue at 6:00 p.m. on 15 May 2018 was 134,764,018 (the "Share Capital"). The Company does not hold any shares in treasury.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of resolutions passed at the Meeting concerning items other than ordinary business will shortly be available for inspection on the National Storage Mechanism, which can be accessed at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do
1. Any proxy arrangement which gave discretion to the Chairman has been included in the "for" totals.