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UNITED COMPANY RUSAL PLC
(Incorporated under the laws of
Jersey with limited liability)
(Stock Code: 486)
POLL RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD ON 9 JUNE 2010
The Board is pleased to announce that all proposed resolutions in the notice of the AGM were duly passed by way of poll at the AGM held on 9 June 2010.
The board ("Board?) of directors ("Directors?) of United Company RUSAL Plc ("Company?) is pleased to announce that at the annual general meeting ("AGM?) of the Company held on 9 June 2010, all proposed resolutions set out in the notice of AGM dated 29 April 2010 ("Notice?) were duly passed by the shareholders of the Company ("Shareholders?) by way of poll. Pursuant to the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, poll voting was required.
The poll results in respect of the resolutions proposed at the AGM were as follows:
| Resolutions proposed at the AGM | No. of Votes (Approx. %) | Total Votes | ||||||
| For | Against | |||||||
| 1. | To receive and consider the audited financial statements, the report of the Directors and the auditor's report of the Company, each for the year ended 31 December 2009. | 14,335,610,321 (100%) | 0 (0%) | 14,335,610,321 | ||||
| The resolution was duly passed as an ordinary resolution. | ||||||||
| 2. | (A) To reappoint Dmitry Afanasiev as a non-executive Director | 14,326,786,521 (99.78%) | 31,605,900 (0.22%) | 14,358,392,421 | ||||
| The resolution was duly passed as an ordinary resolution. | ||||||||
| (B) To reappoint Len Blavatnik as a non-executive Director | 14,327,139,321 (99.78%) | 31,253,100 (0.22%) | 14,358,392,421 | |||||
| The resolution was duly passed as an ordinary resolution. | ||||||||
| (C) To reappoint Igor Ermilin as a non-executive Director | 14,300,609,133 (99.60%) | 57,783,288 (0.40%) | 14,358,392,421 | |||||
| The resolution was duly passed as an ordinary resolution. | ||||||||
| (D) To reappoint Ivan Glasenberg as a non-executive Director | 14,326,786,521 (99.78%) | 31,605,900 (0.22%) | 14,358,392,421 | |||||
| The resolution was duly passed as an ordinary resolution. | ||||||||
| (E) To reappoint Vladimir Kiryukhin as a non-executive Director | 14,327,139,321 (99.78%) | 31,253,100 (0.22%) | 14,358,392,421 | |||||
| The resolution was duly passed as an ordinary resolution. | ||||||||
| (F) To reappoint Peter Nigel Kenny as an independent non-executive Director | 14,352,700,421 (99.96%) | 5,692,000 (0.04%) | 14,358,392,421 | |||||
| The resolution was duly passed as an ordinary resolution. | ||||||||
| 3. | To re-appoint KPMG as auditor and authorise the Directors to fix their remuneration for the year ending 31 December 2010 | 14,358,392,421 (100%) | 0 (0%) | 14,358,392,421 | ||||
| The resolution was duly passed as an ordinary resolution. | ||||||||
| 4. | To give a general mandate to the Directors to allot, issue, grant and deal with additional securities of the Company as set out in the ordinary resolution in item 4 of the Notice. | 14,268,189,333 (99.37%) | 90,203,088 (0.63%) | 14,358,392,421 | ||||
| The resolution was duly passed as an ordinary resolution. | ||||||||
| 5. | To give a general mandate to the Company and the Directors on behalf of the Company to repurchase securities of the Company as set out in the special resolution in item 5 of the Notice. | 14,358,392,421 (100%) | 0 (0%) | 14,358,392,421 | ||||
| The resolution was duly passed as a special resolution. | ||||||||
| 6. | To extend the general mandate granted to the Directors to allot, issue, grant and deal with additional securities of the Company under ordinary resolution 4 above by including the nominal amount of shares repurchased pursuant to the general mandate granted under resolution 5 above as set out in the ordinary resolution in item 6 of the Notice. | 14,271,065,333 (99.39%) | 87,327,088 (0.61%)
| 14,358,392,421 | ||||
| The resolution was duly passed as an ordinary resolution. | ||||||||
The total number of shares entitling the Shareholders to attend and vote for or against each and every resolution at the AGM was 15,193,014,862 shares, representing the entire issued share capital of the Company as at the date of the AGM. The Directors were not aware of any of the Shareholders or their associates having a material interest in any of the resolutions and therefore all Shareholders were entitled to attend and vote for or against all resolutions proposed at the AGM. There was no share entitling a Shareholder to attend and vote only against the resolutions at the AGM.
The Company's branch share registrar in Hong Kong, Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited, was appointed as the scrutineer at the AGM for the purpose of vote-taking.
By Order of the board of directors of | |
| United Company RUSAL Plc | |
Tatiana Soina | |
Director | |
10 June 2010
As at the date of this notice, our executive directors are Mr. Oleg Deripaska, Mr. Vladislav Soloviev, Mr. Petr Sinshinov, and Ms. Tatiana Soina, our non-executive directors are Mr. Victor Vekselberg (Chairman), Mr. Dmitry Afanasiev, Mr. Len Blavatnik, Mr. Ivan Glasenberg, Mr. Vladimir Kiryukhin, Mr. Alexander Popov, Mr. Dmitry Razumov, Mr. Jivko Savov, Mr. Igor Ermilin and Mr. Anatoly Tikhonov, and our independent non-executive directors are Mr. Peter Nigel Kenny, Mr. Philip Lader, Mr Barry Cheung Chun-Yuen and Ms. Elsie Leung Oi-sie.
All announcements and press releases published by United Company RUSAL plc are available on its website under the links http://www.rusal.ru/en/stock_fillings.aspx and http://www.rusal.ru/en/press-center.aspx, respectively.
United Company RUSAL Plc
