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Coats Group PLC
19 May 2021
19 May 2021
Coats Group plc
('Coats' or the 'Company')
Results of the Annual General Meeting ("AGM")
Coats announces that at the AGM, held at the Company's
Registered Office on 19 May 2021, all the resolutions put to the
meeting were duly passed by way of a poll vote by the requisite
majority.
Proxy votes were received from shareholders in respect of 83% of
the issued share capital. The total number of ordinary shares in
issue in relation to the AGM is 1,452,570,385.
The following table shows the proxy votes cast on each
resolution:
Resolution Total Votes Total Votes Votes Withheld
For Against
% %
-------------------------- -------------- ------ ------------ ------ ---------------
Receipt of Annual
1 Report 2020 1,210,162,846 99.99 10,274 0.01 1,116,179
-------------------------- -------------- ------ ------------ ------ ---------------
Approval of
Remuneration
2 Report 1,207,472,012 99.98 281,590 0.02 3,535,697
-------------------------- -------------- ------ ------------ ------ ---------------
Approval of
3 dividend 1,210,197,106 99.91 1,092,193 0.09 0
-------------------------- -------------- ------ ------------ ------ ---------------
Re-election
of Nicholas
4 Bull 1,203,039,972 99.32 8,217,922 0.68 31,405
-------------------------- -------------- ------ ------------ ------ ---------------
Re-election
5 of Anne Fahy 1,011,791,193 86.98 151,426,419 13.02 48,071,687
-------------------------- -------------- ------ ------------ ------ ---------------
Re-election
6 of David Gosnell 1,200,749,119 99.32 8,203,631 0.68 2,336,549
-------------------------- -------------- ------ ------------ ------ ---------------
Re-election
of Hongyan Echo
7 Lu 1,203,024,467 99.32 8,207,262 0.68 57,570
-------------------------- -------------- ------ ------------ ------ ---------------
Re-election
8 of Fran Philip 1,203,036,704 99.32 8,226,484 0.68 26,111
-------------------------- -------------- ------ ------------ ------ ---------------
Re-election
9 of Rajiv Sharma 1,163,817,249 96.08 47,451,235 3.92 20,815
-------------------------- -------------- ------ ------------ ------ ---------------
Election of
10 Jacqueline Callaway 1,210,716,875 99.96 533,901 0.04 38,523
-------------------------- -------------- ------ ------------ ------ ---------------
Election of
11 Jakob Sigurdsson 1,203,020,861 99.32 8,248,265 0.68 20,173
-------------------------- -------------- ------ ------------ ------ ---------------
Reappointment
12 of Auditor 1,186,805,517 97.99 24,363,364 2.01 120,418
-------------------------- -------------- ------ ------------ ------ ---------------
Approval of
13 Auditor remuneration 1,190,626,305 98.29 20,658,460 1.71 4,534
-------------------------- -------------- ------ ------------ ------ ---------------
Authority to
allot relevant
14 securities 1,084,030,404 89.50 127,150,167 10.50 108,728
-------------------------- -------------- ------ ------------ ------ ---------------
Authority to
disapply pre-emption
15 rights 1,211,001,312 99.99 131,644 0.01 155,105
-------------------------- -------------- ------ ------------ ------ ---------------
Additional disapplication
of pre-emption
16 rights 1,124,844,200 92.88 86,288,814 7.12 156,285
-------------------------- -------------- ------ ------------ ------ ---------------
Authority to
purchase own
17 Shares 1,206,894,780 99.68 3,831,331 0.32 563,188
-------------------------- -------------- ------ ------------ ------ ---------------
Authority to
call general
meetings on
clear 14 days'
18 notice 1,190,061,714 98.25 21,224,480 1.75 3,105
-------------------------- -------------- ------ ------------ ------ ---------------
Approval and
adoption of
new Articles
19 of Association 1,211,170,351 99.99 97,040 0.01 21,908
-------------------------- -------------- ------ ------------ ------ ---------------
NB: Percentage of Votes cast excludes Withheld votes; rounded to
two decimal places. Any proxy appointments which gave discretion to
the Chairman have been included in the "for" column. A copy of the
resolutions other than those resolutions comprising ordinary
business passed at the AGM has been uploaded to the National
Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism .
Further details of the resolutions (including the text of the
resolutions) are given in the Notice of the 2021 Annual General
Meeting which is available on the Company's website.
Stuart Morgan
Company Secretary
19 May 2021
Enquiry details:
+44 (0)7880 471
Investors Victoria Huxster Coats Group plc 350
About Coats Group plc
Coats is the world's leading industrial thread company. At home
in some 50 countries, Coats has a workforce of 17,000 people across
six continents. Revenues in 2020 were US$1.2bn. Coats' pioneering
history and innovative culture ensure the company leads the way
around the world. It provides complementary and value added
products, services and software solutions to the apparel and
footwear industries. It applies innovative techniques to develop
high technology Performance Materials threads, yarns and fabrics in
areas such as Transportation, Telecommunications and Energy, and
Personal Protection. Headquartered in the UK, Coats is a FTSE 250
company, a constituent of the FTSE4Good Index Series, a participant
in the UN Global Compact and a member of the Ellen MacArthur
Foundation. It has also committed to developing a long-term target
to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, the highest level of ambition
on climate under the Science Based Target Initiative.
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