Endeavour Announces Results of Annual General Meeting
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ENDEAVOUR ANNOUNCES RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
London, 11 May 2023 – Endeavour Mining plc (LSE:EDV, TSX:EDV, OTCQX:EDVMF) (“the Company”) is pleased to announce that all resolutions at today’s annual general meeting (“AGM”) were duly passed by shareholders. All resolutions were taken by poll and the results for the resolutions voted upon at the AGM are set out below:
RESOLUTION VOTES % VOTES % TOTAL % OF ISC VOTES FOR FOR AGAINST AGAINST VOTES VOTED WITHHELD ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS
1. To receive the 2022 Annual Report 187,923,986 99.95% 93,426 0.05% 188,017,412 75.97% 12,609
2. To re-elect Alison Baker as a 179,693,465 95.57% 8,331,744 4.43% 188,025,209 75.97% 4,812 Director
3. To re-elect Ian Cockerill as a 185,256,886 98.53% 2,769,134 1.47% 188,026,020 75.97% 4,001 Director
4. To re-elect Livia Mahler as a 185,232,631 98.51% 2,794,790 1.49% 188,027,421 75.97% 2,600 Director
5. To re-elect Sébastien de 187,920,079 99.94% 106,016 0.06% 188,026,095 75.97% 3,926 Montessus as a Director
6. To re-elect Naguib Sawiris as a 187,691,243 99.82% 333,846 0.18% 188,025,089 75.97% 4,932 Director
7. To re-elect Srinivasan 184,795,123 98.28% 3,230,698 1.72% 188,025,821 75.97% 4,201 Venkatakrishnan as a Director
8. To re-elect Tertius Zongo as a 186,769,297 99.33% 1,254,893 0.67% 188,024,190 75.97% 5,832 Director
9. To elect Sakhila Mirza as a 187,986,494 99.98% 40,733 0.02% 188,027,227 75.97% 2,794 Director
10. To elect Patrick Bouisset as a 187,647,962 99.80% 376,072 0.20% 188,024,034 75.97% 5,988 Director
11. To reappoint BDO LLP as auditors 190,365,099 99.95% 100,984 0.05% 190,466,083 76.96% 11,041
12. To authorise the Audit Committee to fix the remuneration 187,981,676 99.98% 41,404 0.02% 188,023,080 75.97% 6,940 of the auditors of the Company
13. To amend the Directors’
Remuneration Policy in respect of 184,713,113 98.24% 3,308,181 1.76% 188,021,294 75.97% 8,728 the pension
14. To approve the Directors’
Remuneration Report set out on 183,472,827 97.58% 4,544,052 2.42% 188,016,879 75.97% 13,143 pages 141 to 156 in the 2022 Annual Report
15. Authority to allot shares or grant rights to subscribe for or to convert 187,444,217 99.72% 528,602 0.28% 187,972,819 75.95% 57,202 any securities into shares
SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS
16. General authority to disapply 177,671,688 94.93% 9,497,758 5.07% 187,169,446 75.63% 860,576 pre-emption rights
17. Additional authority to disapply 176,078,174 93.66% 11,925,372 6.34% 188,003,546 75.97% 26,476 pre-emption rights
18. Authority to purchase own 187,869,972 99.92% 154,349 0.08% 188,024,321 75.97% 5,701 shares
19. Authority to call general meetings on not less than 14 clear 187,257,219 99.60% 761,349 0.40% 188,018,568 75.97% 11,453 days’ notice As at the UK record date for the AGM (9 April 2023) the total number of issued ordinary shares of the Company was 247,486,570 ordinary shares and there were no shares held in treasury. The total number of voting rights for the ordinary shares was therefore 247,486,570.
A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes ‘for’ or ‘against’ a resolution.
Copies of the resolutions passed at the AGM, other than resolutions concerning ordinary business, will shortly be uploaded to the FCA’s National Storage Mechanism in accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2 and will be available to view at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Martino De Ciccio Brunswick Group LLP in London
Deputy CFO & Head of Investor Relations Carole Cable, Partner +44 203 640 8665 +44 7974 982 458 [email protected] [email protected]
ABOUT ENDEAVOUR MINING PLC
Endeavour Mining is one of the world’s senior gold producers and the largest in West Africa, with operating assets across Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso and a strong portfolio of advanced development projects and exploration assets in the highly prospective Birimian Greenstone Belt across West Africa.
A member of the World Gold Council, Endeavour is committed to the principles of responsible mining and delivering sustainable value to its employees, stakeholders and the communities where it operates. Endeavour is admitted to listing and to trading on the London Stock Exchange and the Toronto Stock Exchange, under the symbol EDV.
For more information, please visit www.endeavourmining.com.