AI assistant
Spectris PLC — Proxy Solicitation & Information Statement 2021
Apr 7, 2021
4698_agm-r_2021-04-07_dcb854cd-cbb8-465f-9d4a-0c223eb5c782.pdf
Proxy Solicitation & Information Statement
Open in viewerOpens in your device viewer
Form of proxy
Spectris plc 2021 Annual General Meeting to be held on Friday, 14 May 2021 at 12.00pm. Please read the notes overleaf before completing this form.
112-295-868
Meeting ID Pin: First two and last two digits of your SRN Shareholder Reference Number (SRN)
I/We
being registered holder(s) of ordinary shares of Spectris plc (the 'Company') hereby appoint the Chairman of the meeting/the
following person* as my/our proxy to exercise all of my/our rights to attend, speak and vote for me/us and on my/our behalf at the Company's Annual General Meeting to be held at Heritage House, Church Road, Egham, TW20 9QD on Friday, 14 May 2021 at 12.00pm and at any adjournment thereof on the resolutions set out below.
* You may appoint one or more proxies of your own choice if you are unable to attend the meeting but would like to vote. If another person is to be your proxy, delete "the Chairman of the meeting" and insert the name of the person to be appointed. If you require additional forms of proxy, please contact the registrars of the Company, Equiniti, on 0371 384 2586. An Equiniti overseas helpline number is also available on +44 121 415 7047. Lines are open 8.30am to 5.30pm, Monday to Friday.
If applicable, please mark this box to indicate that this proxy appointment is one of multiple appointments being made (see note 2). The proxy will vote on the under-mentioned resolutions as indicated. The proxy will vote at his or her discretion, or abstain from voting on any resolution listed below, if no instruction is given regarding that resolution and on any other business transacted at the meeting.
If this proxy appointment is one of multiple appointments, please enter the number of shares in relation to which this proxy appointment is authorised to act. For the full wording of the resolutions below, please refer to the Notice of Annual General Meeting.
Please indicate with ticks in the spaces below how you wish your votes to be cast.
| Ordinary resolutions: | For | Against | Vote Withheld |
For | Against | Vote Withheld |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | To receive the Annual Report and Accounts of the Company for the financial year ended |
11. | To re-elect Mark Williamson as a Non-executive Director of the Company |
||||||
| 31 December 2020 | 12. | To re-appoint Deloitte LLP | |||||||
| 2. | To approve the Directors' | as auditor of the Company | |||||||
| Remuneration Report set out on pages 78 to 97 of the Annual Report |
13. | To authorise the Directors to agree the auditor's remuneration |
|||||||
| and Accounts for the year ended | 14. | To authorise the Directors to allot | |||||||
| 31 December 2020 | ordinary shares | ||||||||
| 3. | To declare a final dividend of 46.5p | ||||||||
| per Ordinary Share for the financial year ended 31 December 2020 to be |
Special resolutions: | ||||||||
| paid on 30 June 2021 to those Shareholders on the register at the |
15. | To empower the Directors to allot ordinary shares for cash on a non |
|||||||
| close of business on 14 May 2021 | pre-emptive basis | ||||||||
| 4. | To re-elect Karim Bitar as a Non executive Director of the Company |
16. | To empower the Directors to allot ordinary shares for cash on a non |
||||||
| 5. | To re-elect Derek Harding as an | pre-emptive basis for purposes of | |||||||
| Executive Director of the Company | acquisitions or capital investments | ||||||||
| 6. | To re-elect Andrew Heath as an | of up to 5% of the issued share | |||||||
| Executive Director of the Company | capital of the Company | ||||||||
| 7. | To re-elect Ulf Quellmann as a Non-executive Director of |
17. | To authorise the Company to make market purchases of shares |
||||||
| the Company | 18. | To allow the period of notice for | |||||||
| 8. | To re-elect William (Bill) Seeger | general meetings of the Company | |||||||
| as a Non-executive Director of | (other than annual general | ||||||||
| 9. | the Company To re-elect Cathy Turner as a |
meetings) to be not less than 14 clear days' notice |
|||||||
| Non-executive Director of the | 19. | To adopt new Articles of Association | |||||||
| Company | in place of and in substitution for the | ||||||||
| 10. | To re-elect Kjersti Wiklund as | existing Articles of Association | |||||||
| a Non-executive Director of the Company |
|||||||||
| Signature(s) Date |
This form should be returned by 12.00pm on Wednesday, 12 May 2021.
Notes
-
- You may appoint one or more proxies of your choice. If you wish to appoint a proxy other than the Chairman of the meeting, delete the words "the Chairman of the meeting", add the name of the proxy you wish to appoint and initial the alteration. The proxy need not be a member of the Company and is entitled to vote on any other business which may properly come before the meeting. If the proxy is being appointed in relation to less than your full voting entitlement, please enter in the box next to the proxy holder's name the number of shares in relation to which he or she is authorised to act as your proxy. If this box is left blank, your proxy will be deemed to be authorised in respect of your full voting entitlement. Please consider the advice provided in the Notice of Meeting in respect of the ability of any shareholder or proxy attending the AGM in person in 2021, in light of the restrictions in place due to COVID-19.
-
- To appoint more than one proxy (an) additional proxy form(s) may be obtained by contacting Equiniti Limited on 0371 384 2586. An Equiniti overseas helpline number is also available on +44 121 415 7047. Lines are open 8.30am to 5.30pm, Monday to Friday. Alternatively, you may copy this form. Please indicate in the box next to the proxy holder's name the number of shares in relation to which he or she is authorised to act as your proxy. Please also indicate by marking the box provided if the proxy instruction is one of multiple instructions being given. All forms must be signed and should be returned together in the same envelope.
-
- CREST members who wish to appoint a proxy or proxies via the CREST electronic proxy appointment service should refer to note 5 of the Notice of Meeting for instructions on how to do so.
-
- A corporation must execute this form of proxy with two signatures from the directors and secretary, or have it signed by a duly authorised officer or attorney.
-
- The completion and return of a form of proxy does not preclude shareholders from attending and voting in person at the meeting, or at any adjournment thereof, should they wish to do so.
-
- Unless it is indicated how the proxy should vote, the proxy may vote or abstain from voting as he/she thinks fit, as the proxy may on any other issue arising at the meeting.
-
- Shareholders may direct their proxy to vote either for or against a resolution or to withhold their vote. A 'vote withheld' is not a vote in law and will not be counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes for and against a resolution.
-
- To be valid, this form of proxy, together with any power of attorney or other authority under which it is signed, must reach the Company's registrar, Equiniti Limited, at the address given on the reply-paid envelope not less than 48 hours before the time of the meeting.
-
- If two or more persons are jointly entitled to a share conferring the right to vote, any one of them may vote at the meeting either in person or by proxy, but if more than one joint holder is present at the meeting either in person or by proxy, the one who stands first in the register of members in respect of the joint holding shall alone be entitled to vote in respect thereof. In any event, the names of all joint holders should be stated on the form of proxy.
-
- By submitting this proxy, a corporate representative who is the designated corporate representative for a shareholder casts (or withholds) the total number of votes he is directed to cast (or withhold) by any other corporate representatives for that shareholder as shown in, and in accordance with, the directions card submitted (or via the electronic handsets used) by them before the close of the poll in addition to casting (or withholding) any votes specified in this proxy.
-
- Any alteration made to this form of proxy must be initialled by the signatory.
-
Please refer to the Notice of meeting for full details of accessing the AGM.
If you would like to listen to the meeting online, please follow the instructions set out on page 12 of the Notice of Meeting. You will require the following details:
Meeting ID: 112-295-868
Username: Shareholder Reference Number (SRN)
PIN: First and last two digits of your SRN