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Gulf Marine Services PLC announced that all 12 resolutions proposed at its Annual General Meeting, held on 29 May 2025, were duly passed. These resolutions included the approval of the Annual Report and Accounts for the financial year ended 31 December 2024, the re-appointment of five directors, and the re-appointment of KPMG as Auditor. Shareholders also authorized the Company to make market purchases of its own shares with 99.97% of votes cast in favour, and approved its Long Term Incentive Plan.
| Date | 29 May 2025 |
| Time | 13:03:48 |
| Category | AGMs and other meetings |
| ID | 6501K |
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE |
29 May 2025 |
Gulf Marine Services PLC
('Gulf Marine Services', 'GMS', the 'Company' or the 'Group')
Results of Annual General Meeting ("AGM")
The Company announces that at its Annual General Meeting held at Gulf Marine Services WLL, Office 403, International Tower, 24th (Karama) Street, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates at 2.30pm (UAE time) today, all resolutions put before the meeting were duly passed.
Voting was conducted on a poll, the results of which are shown in the table below and will shortly be available on the Company's website, www.gmsplc.com.
|
Resolution |
Votes in Favour (including discretionary)1 |
% |
Votes Against |
% |
Total Votes |
Votes Withheld2 |
|
1. To receive the Annual Report and Accounts for the financial year ended 31 December 2024. |
565,965,422 |
99.99 |
30,916 |
0.01 |
565,996,338 |
1,034,028 |
|
2. To receive and approve the Directors' Remuneration Report included in the Annual Report and Accounts for the financial year ended 31 December 2024. |
565,141,734 |
99.77 |
1,325,142 |
0.23 |
566,466,876 |
563,490 |
|
3. To re-appoint Mansour Al Alami as a Director. |
488,380,584 |
96.26 |
18,962,974 |
3.74 |
507,343,558 |
59,686,808 |
|
4. To re-appoint Lord Anthony St John of Bletso as a Director. |
559,763,765 |
98.78 |
6,905,805 |
1.22 |
566,669,570 |
360,796 |
|
5. To re-appoint Charbel El Khoury as a Director. |
523,531,017 |
99.05 |
5,025,945 |
0.95 |
528,556,962 |
38,473,404 |
|
6. To re-appoint Jyrki Koskelo as a Director. |
560,034,393 |
98.83 |
6,635,177 |
1.17 |
566,669,570 |
360,796 |
|
7. To re-appoint Haifa Al Mubarak as a Director. |
556,827,917 |
98.71 |
7,270,653 |
1.29 |
564,098,570 |
2,931,796 |
|
8. To re-appoint KPMG as Auditor. |
566,481,648 |
99.97 |
188,813 |
0.03 |
566,670,461 |
359,905 |
|
9. To authorise the Audit and Risk Committee, for and on behalf of the Directors, to agree the Auditor's remuneration. |
566,565,466 |
99.98 |
121,645 |
0.02 |
566,687,111 |
343,255 |
|
10. To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own shares (s.701 of the Companies Act 2006).3 |
566,582,270 |
99.97 |
146,146 |
0.03 |
566,728,416 |
301,950 |
|
11. To approve the Company's Long Term Incentive Plan (the "LTIP"), the rules of which are summarised in Appendix III to the Notice of 2025 Annual General Meeting, and to authorise the Directors of the Company to do all such things as may be necessary to establish and carry the LTIP into effect. |
565,208,388 |
99.76 |
1,364,913 |
0.24 |
566,573,301 |
457,065 |
|
12. To authorise the Directors to call general meetings of the Company (other than an annual general meeting) on not less than 14 clear days' notice.3 |
565,243,935 |
99.74 |
1,456,737 |
0.26 |
566,700,672 |
329,694 |
Notes:
1) Any proxy appointments giving discretion to the Chairman of the Meeting have been included in the "For" totals above.
2) A vote "Withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes "For" or "Against" a resolution.
3) Indicates special resolutions requiring a 75% majority of votes cast in favour to be passed.
The Company's total ordinary shares in issue (total voting rights) as at 29 May 2025 were 1,129,946,314 ordinary shares of 2 pence each. Ordinary shareholders are entitled to one vote per ordinary share held. No shares were held in treasury.
In accordance with UKLR 6.4.2R, copies of all resolutions passed at the AGM concerning items other than ordinary business have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: https://www.fca.org.uk/markets/primary-markets/regulatory-disclosures/national-storage-mechanism.
Enquiries:
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Gulf Marine Services PLC Mansour Al Alami Executive Chairman
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Tel: +44 (0)20 7603 1515
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Celicourt Communications Mark Antelme Philip Dennis Ali AlQahtani |
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7770 6424 |
Notes to Editors:
Gulf Marine Services PLC, a company listed on the London Stock Exchange, was founded in Abu Dhabi in 1977 and has become a world-leading provider of advanced self-propelled self-elevating support vessels (SESVs). The fleet serves the offshore energy industries from its offices in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Kingdom. The Group's assets are capable of serving clients' requirements across the globe, including those in the Middle East, Europe, South East Asia, West Africa, North and South America, and the Gulf of Mexico.
The GMS fleet of 14 SESVs is amongst the youngest in the industry. The vessels support GMS's clients in a broad range of offshore platform refurbishment and maintenance activities, well intervention work, and offshore wind turbine maintenance work (which are opex-led activities), as well as offshore platform installation and decommissioning and offshore wind turbine installation (which are capex-led activities).
The SESVs are categorised by size - K-Class (Small), S-Class (Mid), and E-Class (Large) - with these capable of operating in water depths of 45m to 80m depending on leg length. The vessels are four-legged and are self-propelled, which means they do not require tugs or similar support vessels for moves between locations in the field; this makes them significantly more cost-effective and time-efficient than conventional offshore support vessels without self-propulsion. They have a large deck space, crane capacity, and accommodation facilities (for up to 300 people) that can be adapted to the requirements of the Group's clients.
Gulf Marine Services PLC's Legal Entity Identifier is 213800IGS2QE89SAJF77 www.gmsplc.com
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