Randgold Resources: Result of AGM
JERSEY, CHANNEL ISLANDS -- (Marketwired) -- 05/03/16 -- Randgold Resources (LSE: RRS) (NASDAQ: GOLD)
RANDGOLD RESOURCES LIMITED Incorporated in Jersey, Channel Islands Reg. No. 62686 LSE Trading Symbol: RRS NASDAQ Trading Symbol: GOLD ("Randgold Resources" or the "Company")
FINAL DIVIDEND FOR 2015, ELECTION FOR STERLING DIVIDEND, AND RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Jersey, Channel Islands, 3 May 2016 - Randgold Resources confirms that at the Company's Annual General Meeting held earlier today the shareholders approved a final dividend for the year ended 31 December 2015 of US$0.66 per share. The dividend payment will be made on Friday 27 May 2016 to shareholders on the register as at Friday 18 March 2016. The ex-dividend date was Thursday 17 March 2016.
The exchange rate for payment to those shareholders who have elected to receive the final dividend for the year ended 31 December 2015 in Pounds Sterling is: � 1 = US$1.4675.
The Company also announces that at the Company's Annual General Meeting all of the resolutions were passed on a poll. Copies of all the resolutions passed have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do.
A summary of the votes cast in respect of each resolution is set out below (a "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes for and against the resolution):
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Resolution In Favour Against Withheld ------------------------------------------------ No. of % of No. of % of No. of votes votes votes votes votes ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ordinary Resolutions ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Report and Accounts 80 059 440 100.00 235 76 036 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Declaration of Dividend 80 063 309 100.00 1 499 70 903 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Directors' Remuneration Report 78 211 539 97.69 1 848 261 2.31 75 900 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Directors' Remuneration Policy 78 176 791 97.65 1 884 261 2.35 73 968 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. Re-election of Safiatou Ba-N'Daw 80 057 604 99.99 7 726 0.01 70 370 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. Re-election of Mark Bristow 79 273 983 99.99 6 168 0.01 855 849 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. Re-election of Norborne Cole Jr 79 782 563 99.65 282 617 0.35 785 329 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8. Re-election of Christopher Coleman 79 786 171 99.65 279 008 0.35 70 521 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9. Re-election of Kadri Dagdelen 80 014 891 99.94 50 277 0.06 70 532 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10. Re-election of Jemal-ud- din Kassum 80 055 672 99.99 9 546 0.01 70 482 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11. Re-election of Jeanine Mabunda Lioko 80 056 083 99.99 9 196 0.01 70 421 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12. Re-election of Andrew Quinn 79 987 106 99.90 78 323 0.10 70 271 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13. Re-election of Graham Shuttleworth 79 982 701 99.90 82 372 0.10 70 627 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14. Re-appointment of Auditors 79 855 312 99.74 210 242 0.26 70 157 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15. Auditors' Remuneration 80 089 912 99.99 6 454 0.01 39 345 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ordinary Resolutions ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16. Authority to Allot Shares 78 614 567 99.99 11 131 0.01 1 510 013 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17. Awards of Shares to Non- Executive Directors (other than the Senior Independent Director and the Chairman) 78 117 180 99.63 287 995 0.37 1 730 536 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18. Award of Shares to Senior Independent Director 78 118 346 99.63 287 191 0.37 1 730 174 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19. Award of Shares to Chairman 78 116 596 99.63 288 483 0.37 1 730 632 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Resolutions ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20. Authority to Disapply Pre-Emption Rights 78 547 436 99.91 72 984 0.09 1 515 291 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 21. Authority for the Company to Purchase its Own Shares 77 967 360 99.16 660 289 0.84 1 508 062 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
RANDGOLD RESOURCES ENQUIRIES: Chief Executive Mark Bristow +44 788 071 1386 +44 779 775 2288 Financial Director Graham Shuttleworth +44 779 771 1338 +44 153 4735 333 Investor & Media Relations Kathy du Plessis +44 20 7557 7738 [email protected] Website: www.randgoldresources.com
Source: Randgold Resources
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