Randgold Resources Ltd - Result of AGM
Final Dividend for 2017, Election for Sterling Dividend, and Results of Annual General Meeting
JERSEY, CHANNEL ISLANDS / ACCESSWIRE / May 8, 2018 / Randgold Resources ("Randgold Resources" or the "Company")(NASDAQ: GOLD; LSE: RRS) confirms that at the Company's Annual General Meeting held earlier today the shareholders approved a final dividend for the year ended 31 December 2017 of US$2.00 per share. The dividend payment will be made on Friday 18 May 2018 to shareholders on the register as at Friday 23 March 2018. The ex-dividend date was Thursday 22 March 2018.
The exchange rate for payment to those shareholders who have elected to receive the final dividend for the year ended 31 December 2017 in Pounds Sterling is: $1 = £0.7395.
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 votes | % of votes | No. of votes | % of votes | No. of votes | ||
| Ordinary Resolutions | ||||||
| 1. | Report and Accounts | 80 671 630 | 99.9891 | 8 803 | 0.0109 | 53 551 |
| 2. | Declaration of Dividend | 80 719 561 | 99.9939 | 4 954 | 0.0061 | 9 469 |
| 3. | Directors' Remuneration Report | 74 483 095 | 92.2842 | 6 227 490 | 7.7158 | 23 398 |
| 4. | Directors' Remuneration Policy | 74 609 527 | 92.4410 | 6 100 896 | 7.5590 | 23 560 |
| 5. | Re-election of Safiatou Ba-N'Daw | 80 586 675 | 99.8432 | 126 574 | 0.1568 | 20 735 |
| 6. | Re-election of Mark Bristow | 80 146 858 | 99.2975 | 567 002 | 0.7025 | 20 124 |
| 7. | Re-election of Christopher Coleman | 77 792 910 | 97.1008 | 2 322 696 | 2.8992 | 618 378 |
| 8. | Re-election of Jemal-ud-din Kassum | 80 527 278 | 99.7682 | 187 094 | 0.2318 | 19 612 |
| 9. | Re-election of Olivia Kirtley | 80 564 797 | 99.8132 | 150 811 | 0.1868 | 18 376 |
| 10. | Re-election of Jeanine Mabunda Lioko | 80 590 480 | 99.8457 | 124 572 | 0.1543 | 18 932 |
| 11. | Re-election of Andrew Quinn | 80 166 834 | 99.3219 | 547 319 | 0.6781 | 19 831 |
| 12. | Re-election of Graham Shuttleworth | 80 051 219 | 99.1780 | 663 448 | 0.8220 | 19 317 |
| 13. | Re-appointment of Auditors | 79 145 477 | 98.0487 | 1 575 092 | 1.9513 | 13 414 |
| 14. | Auditors' Remuneration | 80 703 173 | 99.9802 | 16 019 | 0.0198 | 14 792 |
| Ordinary Resolutions | ||||||
| 15. | Authority to Allot Shares | 80 345 281 | 99.5432 | 368 728 | 0.4568 | 19 975 |
| 16. | Awards of Shares to Non-Executive Directors (other than the Senior Independent Director and the Chairman) | 79 488 646 | 99.4300 | 455 689 | 0.5700 | 789 649 |
| 17. | Award of Shares to Senior Independent Director | 79 486 512 | 99.4271 | 458 039 | 0.5729 | 789 333 |
| 18. | Award of Shares to Chairman | 79 486 450 | 99.4261 | 458 818 | 0.5739 | 788 716 |
| 19. | Approval of the Randgold Resources Ltd. Long Term Incentive Plan | 78 384 141 | 97.1257 | 2 319 653 | 2.8743 | 30 189 |
| Special Resolutions | ||||||
| 20. | Authority to Disapply Pre-Emption Rights | 80 305 805 | 99.5142 | 392 060 | 0.4858 | 36 119 |
| 21. | Authority for the Company to Purchase its Own Ordinary Shares and ADSs | 79 801 280 | 98.8689 | 912 984 | 1.1311 | 19 719 |
RANDGOLD RESOURCES ENQUIRIES:
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Website: www.randgoldresources.com
SOURCE: Randgold Resources
