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Results of Annual General Meeting

Published: 2022-07-26 13:45:34 ET
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     Bytes Technology Group plc
     (Incorporated in England and Wales)
     (Registered number: 12935776)
     LEI: 213800LA4DZLFBAC9O33
     Share code: BYI
     ISIN: GB00BMH18Q19
     (“BTG”, “the Company”)

     26 July 2022

                                      Results of Annual General Meeting

     BTG announces that at its Annual General Meeting ("AGM") held today, 26 July 2022, all resolutions
     set out in the Notice of the AGM were passed by the requisite majority of votes. A poll was taken on the
     resolutions put to the meeting.

     The results of the poll for each resolution, incorporating proxy votes lodged in advance of the meeting,
     were as follows:

                    VOTES FOR     %          VOTES        %         TOTAL            % OF          VOTES
                                             AGAINST                SHARES           ISSUED        WITHHELD
                                                                    VOTED            SHARE
                                                                                     CAPITAL
                                                                                     VOTED
ORDINARY
RESOLUTIONS
1. Receipt of the   212,390,948   100.00%    1,301        0.00%     212,392,249      88.69%        146,159
2022 Annual
Report and
Accounts
2. Approval of      198,457,278   93.38%     14,066,374   6.62%     212,523,652      88.74%        14,756
the Directors’
Remuneration
Report
3. To pay a final   212,522,352   100.00%    1,301        0.00%     212,523,653      88.74%        14,755
dividend
4. To pay a         212,518,352   100.00%    5,301        0.00%     212,523,653      88.74%        14,755
special dividend
5. To elect         211,678,343   99.60%     844,847      0.40%     212,523,190      88.74%        15,218
Andrew Holden
as a Director
6. To elect Erika   211,835,944   99.68%     687,245      0.32%     212,523,189      88.74%        15,219
Schraner as a
Director
7. To re-elect      189,306,879   92.09%     16,268,220   7.91%     205,575,099      85.84%        6,963,309
Patrick De
Smedt as a
Director
8. To re-elect      211,744,941   99.63%     778,249      0.37%     212,523,190      88.74%        15,218
Neil Murphy as
a Director
9. To re-elect      211,446,390   99.53%     1,002,726    0.47%     212,449,116      88.71%        89,292
Mike Phillips as
a Director
10. To re-elect     211,520,464   99.53%     1,002,726    0.47%     212,523,190      88.74%        15,218
Alison Vincent
as a Director
11. To re-elect     210,698,887    99.32%     1,443,744     0.68%     212,142,631      88.58%         395,777
David Maw as a
Director
12. Authority to    212,513,509    100.00%    2,144         0.00%     212,515,653      88.74%         22,755
re-appoint Ernst
& Young LLP as
auditor
13.                 212,521,009    100.00%    2,144         0.00%     212,523,153      88.74%         15,255
Remuneration of
the auditor
14. Authority to    194,483,840    91.52%     18,031,850    8.48%     212,515,690      88.74%         22,718
allot new shares
15. Authority to    201,104,020    94.66%     11,340,767    5.34%     212,444,787      88.71%         93,621
make political
donations
SPECIAL
RESOLUTIONS
16.                 211,879,783    99.70%     643,407       0.30%     212,523,190      88.74%         15,218
Disapplication of
pre-emption
rights
17.                 208,964,189    98.33%     3,559,001     1.67%     212,523,190      88.74%         15,218
Disapplication of
pre-emption
rights for
purposes of
acquisitions and
other capital
investment
18. Authority for   212,156,012    99.97%     71,972        0.03%     212,227,984      88.62%         310,424
the company to
purchase its
ordinary
shares
19. Notice          208,247,081    98.39%     3,406,572     1.61%     211,653,653      88.38%         884,755
period for
general
meetings other
than annual
general
meetings

     Notes:

     -   Proxy appointments giving discretion to the Chair of the meeting have been included in the "For"
         total.
     -   A vote "Withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes "For" or
         "Against" a resolution.
     -   The Company's total ordinary shares in issue (total voting rights) as at 22 July 2022, being the record
         date at which a person had to be registered in the Company's register of members in order to vote
         at the AGM, was 239,482,333 ordinary shares of £0.01 each. Ordinary shareholders are entitled to
         one vote per ordinary share held.

     In compliance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, a copy of the resolutions passed at the AGM will be submitted
     to the Financial Conduct Authority via the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available
     for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

     A copy of this announcement will be available at: https://www.bytesplc.com/investors/shareholder-
     information/
Enquiries

  WK Groenewald                                                         Tel: +44 (0)1372 418992
  Group Company Secretary
  Bytes Technology Group plc

The Company has a primary listing on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange and a secondary
listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.

Sponsor
RAND MERCHANT BANK (A division of FirstRand Bank Limited)