AGM Information • Jun 13, 2012
AGM Information
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At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 13 June 2012 at The Lincoln Centre, 18 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3ED, all resolutions put before the meeting were duly passed on a show of hands. On the date of the meeting, SOCO's capital consisted of 340,954,315 ordinary shares of £0.05 each with voting rights; 9,072,268 shares were in Treasury and therefore, the total number of voting rights was 331,882,047. The proxy votes lodged in advance of the AGM were as follows:
| Resolution | Votes in Favour | Votes Against | Total Votes (excluding votes withheld) |
Votes Withheld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To receive and adopt the Directors' Report and Accounts for the financial year ended 31 December 2011. |
178,959,590 | 2,536,605 | 181,496,195 | 2,979,171 |
| 2 | To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report included in the Annual Report and Accounts for the financial year ended 31 December 2011. |
172,203,889 | 3,293,267 | 175,497,156 | 8,978,210 |
| 3 | To reappoint Rui C de Sousa, who is Chairman of the Nominations Committee, as a Director. |
174,735,319 | 5,829,930 | 180,565,249 | 3,910,117 |
| 4 | To reappoint Edward T Story as a Director. | 182,522,083 | 1,578,320 | 184,100,403 | 374,964 |
| 5 | To reappoint Roger D Cagle as a Director. | 183,898,722 | 209,981 | 184,108,703 | 366,664 |
| 6 | To reappoint Olivier M G Barbaroux, as a Director. |
178,006,797 | 5,798,978 | 183,805,775 | 669,591 |
| 7 | To reappoint Robert M Cathery, as a Director. |
180,942,066 | 2,863,709 | 183,805,775 | 669,591 |
| 8 | To reappoint Ettore P M Contini as a Director. |
177,990,297 | 5,798,278 | 183,788,575 | 686,791 |
| 9 | To reappoint John C Norton, who is the Chairman of the Audit Committee, as a Director. |
161,161,435 | 21,938,005 | 183,099,440 | 1,375,926 |
| 10 | To reappoint António V M Monteiro, who is a member of the Audit, Remuneration and Nominations Committees, as a Director. |
183,487,604 | 361,899 | 183,849,503 | 625,864 |
| 11 | To reappoint Michael J Watts, who is a member of the Audit, Remuneration and Nominations Committees, as a Director. |
183,334,804 | 531,899 | 183,866,703 | 608,664 |
| 12 | To reappoint Michael C Johns, who is the Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and a member of the Audit and Nominations Committees, as a Director. |
183,385,804 | 457,656 | 183,843,460 | 631,907 |
| 13 | To reappoint Deloitte LLP as auditors to hold office until the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting at which accounts are laid before the Company. |
183,748,104 | 337,356 | 184,085,460 | 389,907 |
| 14 | To authorise the Directors to agree the auditors' remuneration. |
183,332,979 | 752,481 | 184,085,460 | 389,907 |
| 15 | To authorise the Directors to allot securities (s.551 of the Companies Act 2006). |
181,907,166 | 1,760,724 | 183,667,890 | 807,477 |
| 16 | To disapply pre-emption rights (s.570(1) and s.573 of the Companies Act 2006). |
183,819,668 | 23,792 | 183,843,460 | 631,907 |
| 17 | To authorise the Company to repurchase its own Shares (s.701 of the Companies Act 2006). |
183,643,391 | 170,000 | 183,813,391 | 661,976 |
| 18 | To authorise Directors to call general meetings of the Company (other than an annual general meeting) on not less than 14 clear days' notice. |
178,143,567 | 5,703,893 | 183,847,460 | 627,907 |
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