AGM Information • May 18, 2016
AGM Information
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Special Business of the Company passed at the Annual General Meeting held on 18 May 2016
To approve the Directors' Remuneration policy, the full text of which is contained in the Directors remuneration report for the year ended 31 December 2015, as set out on pages 58 to 62 of the Annual Report, which will take effect at the conclusion of this meeting.
To approve an amendment to article 86 of the Company's articles of association, so as to increase the aggregate fees capable of being paid to directors to an amount not exceeding £300,000 per annum in aggregate from its previous limit of an amount not exceeding £200,000 per annum.
To approve proposed amendments to the 2007 Xaar plc Long Term Incentive Plan rules: to increase the limit on the market value of the shares that may be granted under performance share award to an employee in a financial year from 100% to 175% of base salary in such financial year, and to give the Remuneration Committee the ability to flex the weighting of EPS and TSR measures in performance conditions applicable to awards in the event of early vesting as a result of a change of control, as set out in the amended rules available for inspection.
That the Company be generally and unconditionally authorised for the purposes of section 701 of the Companies Act 2006 (the 'Act') to make one or more market purchases (within the meaning of section 693(4) of the Act) of ordinary shares of 10p in the capital of the Company (ordinary shares) provided that:
That, in substitution for all existing authorities including the authority conferred on the Directors by Article 4 (B) of the Company's Articles of Association, in accordance with section 551 of the Act the Directors be and they are generally and unconditionally authorised to exercise all powers of the Company to allot equity securities (within the meaning of section 560 of the Act), or grant rights to subscribe for, or convert any security into, shares in the Company:
(a) up to an aggregate nominal amount of £5,179,388.40 (such amount to be reduced by the nominal amount of any equity securities allotted pursuant to the authority in Resolution 17(b)) in connection with a rights issue (as defined in the Listing Rules issued by the Financial Conduct Authority pursuant to Part VI of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000), to holders of equity securities, in proportion to their respective entitlements to such equity securities, but subject to such exclusions or other arrangements as the Directors may deem necessary or expedient in relation to treasury shares, fractional entitlements, record dates, legal or practical problems in or under the laws of any territory or the requirements of any regulatory body or stock exchange; and
(b) otherwise up to an aggregate nominal amount of £2,589,694.30 (such amount to be reduced by the nominal amount of any equity securities allotted pursuant to the authority in Resolution 17(a)),
provided that this authority shall expire on the conclusion of the Company's Annual General Meeting in 2017, or, if earlier, at the close of business on 18 August 2017, save that the Company may before such expiry make an offer or agreement which would or might require equity securities to be allotted after such expiry and the Directors may allot such equity securities in pursuance of such an offer or agreement as if the authority conferred by this resolution had not expired.
Subject to the passing of Resolution 17 of the notice of meeting, that, in substitution for all existing authorities, including the authority conferred on the Directors by Article 4(c) of the Company's Articles of Association:
provided that this authority shall expire on the conclusion of the Company's Annual General Meeting in 2017, or, if earlier, at the close of business on 18 August 2017, save that the Company may before such expiry make an offer or agreement which would or might require equity securities to be allotted after such expiry and the Directors may allot equity securities in pursuance of such an offer or agreement as if the authority conferred by this resolution had not expired.
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