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| Date | 28 May 2025 |
| Time | 11:50:25 |
| Category | AGMs and other meetings |
| ID | 4459K |
28 May 2025
Aptitude Software plc
("Aptitude", the "Company" or the "Group")
Result of Annual General Meeting
Aptitude (LSE: APTD), a market-leading provider of finance transformation software solutions, specialising in delivering fully autonomous finance, held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) at 9:30 am today. All Resolutions, as set out in the Notice of Meeting dated 25 April 2025, were duly passed.
The table below shows the proxy position for all Resolutions:
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RESOLUTION |
FOR |
AGAINST |
WITHHELD |
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VOTES |
% OF VOTES CAST* |
VOTES |
% OF VOTES CAST* |
VOTES |
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1 |
Receive and adopt the Company's Annual Report & Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2024 together with the Strategic Report and the reports of the Directors and Auditors thereon. |
35,325,664 |
100 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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2 |
Approve Part B of the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December 2024. |
34,509,274 |
97.69 |
816,390 |
2.31 |
0 |
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3 |
Declare a final dividend of 3.6 pence per ordinary share. |
35,325,414 |
100 |
0 |
0 |
250 |
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4 |
Re-elect Alex Curran as a Director of the Company. |
35,319,980 |
99.98 |
5,684 |
0.02 |
0 |
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5 |
Re-elect Ivan Martin as a Director of the Company. |
33,892,626 |
95.94 |
1,433,038 |
4.06 |
0 |
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6 |
Re-elect Sara Dickinson as a Director of the Company. |
34,719,908 |
98.29 |
605,756 |
1.71 |
0 |
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7 |
Re-appoint RSM UK Audit LLP as auditors of the Company. |
35,317,279 |
99.98 |
7,203 |
0.02 |
1,182 |
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8 |
Authorise the Audit Committee to agree the auditors' remuneration. |
35,324,279 |
99.99 |
1,385 |
0.01 |
0 |
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9 |
Authorise the Directors to allot securities pursuant to section 551 of the Companies Act 2006 (the "Act"). |
35,314,088 |
99.97 |
11,576 |
0.03 |
0 |
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10 |
Special Resolution: Disapply pre-emption rights under section 561 of the Act within the stated limits. |
35,255,999 |
99.8 |
69,665 |
0.2 |
0 |
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11 |
Special Resolution: Disapply pre-emption rights under section 561 of the Act in additional limited circumstances. |
35,255,999 |
99.8 |
69,665 |
0.2 |
0 |
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12 |
Special Resolution: Authorise the Company to make purchases of its own shares pursuant to section 701 of the Act. |
35,325,664 |
100 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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13 |
Special Resolution: Authorise the holding of a general meeting (other than an AGM) on not less than 14 clear days' notice. |
35,276,627 |
99.86 |
49,037 |
0.14 |
0 |
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Note: the 'For' votes include those giving the Chairman discretion.
Note: the full text of each of the resolutions is contained in the Notice of Annual General Meeting which is available on the Company's website at https://www.aptitudesoftware.com/investor-relations/reports-presentations/
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Aptitude Software Group plc |
020-3687-3200 |
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Alex Curran, Chief Executive Officer Ivan Martin, Chairman |
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Canaccord Genuity Limited |
020-7523-8000 |
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Simon Bridges / Andrew Potts |
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Alma Strategic Communications |
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Caroline Forde / Hilary Buchanan / Will Ellis Hancock |
020-3405-0205 |
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About Aptitude Software
Aptitude Software provides software solutions that deliver fully autonomous finance to enable its clients to drive growth, efficiency and sustainability. Fynapse is Aptitude's intelligent finance data management and accounting platform designed to increase productivity and lower costs for finance teams globally. Fynapse provides a single view of finance and business data, unparalleled performance and automation, faster and better insights, user-friendly functionality and market-leading total cost of ownership.