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Provident Financial PLC
07 May 2020
Provident Financial plc ("the Company")
Results of Annual General Meeting and Notice of Trading
Update
Notice of Trading Update
The Company wishes to inform the market that it intends to
publish its Q1 trading statement (covering the first three months
of the year) on Wednesday 27 May 2020. The statement will provide
shareholders and analysts with an update as to how the Group is
adapting its lending and collections activities for the COVID-19
restrictions currently in place.
Results of Annual General Meeting
The Company announces the results of the voting by poll on the
resolutions put to its annual general meeting (AGM) today, Thursday
7 May 2020.
A poll was held on each of the resolutions set out in the notice
of AGM (with the exception of resolution 3) and the results of the
poll are set out below. All of the resolutions voted on at the AGM
were duly passed.
As announced by the Company on 27 March 2020 and in light of the
evolving coronavirus outbreak, the Board withdrew its
recommendation for resolution 3 relating to the 2019 final dividend
of 16.0p per share and the resolution was not proposed at the
AGM.
Number of % of Number of votes % of Number Total
votes cast votes cast "Against" votes of votes votes
"For" cast cast Withheld cast
"For" "Against" as a
% of
Issued
Share
Register
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RESOLUTION
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Directors' and
auditor's reports
and the financial
1. statements 195,708,941 99.98 31,412 0.02 194,571 77.18
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Approval of the
annual statement
by the chairman
of the remuneration
committee and
the annual report
2. on remuneration 186,927,706 95.53 8,747,218 4.47 260,000 77.15
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3. That a final --- --- --- --- --- ---
dividend of 16.0p
per share be
declared*
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Re-election of
Andrea Blance
4. as a Director 195,825,067 99.95 96,162 0.05 13,696 77.25
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Re-election of
Elizabeth Chambers
5. as a Director 195,717,937 99.90 203,292 0.10 13,696 77.25
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Election of Robert
6. East as a Director 195,900,160 99.99 20,918 0.01 13,847 77.25
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Re-election of
Paul Hewitt as
7. a Director 195,859,053 99.97 62,176 0.03 13,696 77.25
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Election of Neeraj
8. Kapur as a Director 195,634,539 99.85 285,289 0.15 15,097 77.25
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Re-election of
Angela Knight
9. as a Director 195,401,584 99.73 519,645 0.27 13,696 77.25
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Re-election of
Malcolm Le May
10. as a Director 195,843,819 99.96 77,410 0.04 13,696 77.25
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Election of Graham
Lindsay as a
11. Director 195,856,209 99.97 63,619 0.03 15,097 77.25
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Re-election of
Patrick Snowball
12. as a Director 195,842,162 99.96 79,067 0.04 13,696 77.25
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Reappointment
of Deloitte LLP
as the Auditor
13. of the Company 193,174,945 99.99 5,891 0.01 2,754,089 76.17
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Audit committee
to determine
the Auditor's
14. Remuneration 195,760,529 99.92 159,450 0.08 14,946 77.25
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Company granted
authority to
make political
15. donations 195,586,227 99.83 331,367 0.17 17,331 77.25
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Directors authorised
16. to allot shares 195,348,453 99.71 572,776 0.29 13,696 77.25
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Company authorised
to purchase its
17. own shares 193,097,997 98.58 2,785,669 1.42 51,258 77.24
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Company authorised
to disapply pre-emption
18. rights 195,726,943 99.90 188,100 0.10 19,882 77.25
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Company authorised
to disapply pre-emption
rights (in relation
to acquisitions
and specified
19. capital investments) 192,969,263 98.49 2,952,215 1.51 13,446 77.25
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Convening of
a general meeting
on not less than
14 days' notice
20. authorised 192,465,036 98.24 3,456,193 1.76 13,696 77.25
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Notes
1. Votes "For" and "Against" are expressed as a percentage of votes received.
2. A "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is therefore not
counted towards the proportion of votes "For" or "Against" a
resolution.
3. As at 6.30pm on Tuesday 5 May 2020, the time by which
shareholders who wanted to vote at the AGM must have been entered
on the Company's register of members, there were 253,615,794
ordinary shares in issue and 77.25% of the voting capital was
instructed. Shareholders are entitled to one vote per share.
* As per the Company's Announcement dated 27 March 2020, the
Resolution regarding the payment of a final dividend of 16.0p per
share was withdrawn.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2R, copies of all the
resolutions passed other than resolutions concerning ordinary
business have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and
will shortly be available for inspection at
www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM .
Name of contact and telephone number for AGM queries:
Charley Davies
Company Secretary
0203 620 3689
Name of contacts and contact details for Investor Relations:
Vicki Turner / Owen Jones
01274 351 900
investors@providentfinancial.com
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