Randgold Resources: Final Dividend for 2013, Election for Sterling Dividend, and Results of Annual General Meeting
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM--(Marketwired - May 6, 2014) - Rangold Resources (
Randgold Resources Ltd.
Incorporated in Jersey, Channel Islands
Reg. No. 62686
LSE Trading Symbol: RRS
NASDAQ Trading Symbol: GOLD
("Randgold Resources" or the "Company")
FINAL DIVIDEND FOR 2013, ELECTION FOR STERLING DIVIDEND, AND RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Randgold Resources confirms that at the Company's Annual General Meeting held earlier today the shareholders approved a final dividend for the year ended 31 December 2013 of US$0.50 per share. The dividend payment will be made on Friday 30 May 2014 to shareholders on the register as at Friday 14 March 2014. The ex-dividend date was Wednesday 12 March 2014.
The exchange rate for payment to those shareholders who have elected to receive the final dividend for the year ended 31 December 2013 in Pounds Sterling is: £1 = US$1.6880.
At the Annual General Meeting shareholders also approved the Company's scrip dividend scheme which is conditional upon admission of the new ordinary shares being allotted to the Official List of the Financial Conduct Authority and to trading on London's Stock Exchange plc's market for listed securities
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 | 78 699 316 | 99.99 | 3 654 | 0.01 | 312 795 | ||||||
| 2. | Declaration of Dividend | 78 620 966 | 99.99 | 4 413 | 0.01 | 390 386 | ||||||
| 3. | Directors' Remuneration Report | 70 520 612 | 89.94 | 7 888 083 | 10.06 | 607 064 | ||||||
| 4. | Directors' Remuneration Policy Report | 77 035 811 | 97.92 | 1 636 213 | 2.08 | 343 741 | ||||||
| 5. | Re-election of Mark Bristow | 78 690 990 | 99.99 | 10 493 | 0.01 | 314 282 | ||||||
| 6. | Re-election of Norborne Cole Jr | 78 581 706 | 99.85 | 118 463 | 0.15 | 315 596 | ||||||
| 7. | Re-election of Christopher Coleman | 78 056 029 | 99.18 | 642 329 | 0.82 | 317 407 | ||||||
| 8. | Re-election of Kadri Dagdelen | 78 689 824 | 99.99 | 10 067 | 0.01 | 315 874 | ||||||
| 9. | Re-election of Jemal-ud-din Kassum | 78 686 540 | 99.98 | 13 509 | 0.02 | 315 716 | ||||||
| 10. | Re-election of Jeanine Mabunda Lioko | 78 688 362 | 99.99 | 11 747 | 0.01 | 315 656 | ||||||
| 11. | Re-election of Andrew Quinn | 78 648 796 | 99.94 | 49 594 | 0.06 | 317 375 | ||||||
| 12. | Re-election of Graham Shuttleworth | 78 690 376 | 99.99 | 9 543 | 0.01 | 315 846 | ||||||
| 13. | Re-election of Karl Voltaire | 78 649 444 | 99.94 | 49,679 | 0.06 | 316 642 | ||||||
| 14. | Re-appointment of Auditors | 78 700 615 | 99.99 | 5 208 | 0.01 | 309 942 | ||||||
| 15. | Auditors' Remuneration | 78 690 795 | 99.98 | 14 710 | 0.02 | 310 260 | ||||||
| Special Resolution | ||||||||||||
| 16. | Increase Authorised Share Capital | 77 478 379 | 98.44 | 1 225 417 | 1.56 | 311 969 | ||||||
| Ordinary Resolutions | ||||||||||||
| 17. | Authority to Allot Shares | 78 432 253 | 99.66 | 268 455 | 0.34 | 315 057 | ||||||
| 18. | Awards of Shares to Non-Executive Directors | 78 524 420 | 99.78 | 176 650 | 0.22 | 314 695 | ||||||
| 19. | Variation of Directors' Powers | 77 180 341 | 99.63 | 284 308 | 0.37 | 652 139 | ||||||
| Special Resolutions | ||||||||||||
| 20. | Authority to Disapply Pre-Emption Rights | 76 740 668 | 97.51 | 1 956 049 | 2.49 | 319 048 | ||||||
| 21. | Authority for the Company to Purchase its Own Shares | 78 694 870 | 99.98 | 12 244 | 0.02 | 308 651 | ||||||
| 22. | Amend Articles of Association | 78 674 909 | 99.98 | 16 555 | 0.02 | 324 301 | ||||||
| Ordinary Resolutions | ||||||||||||
| 23. | Scrip Dividend | 78 651 284 | 99.95 | 38 494 | 0.05 | 325 987 | ||||||
| 24. | Electronic Communications | 78 677 849 | 99.98 | 16 806 | 0.02 | 321 110 | ||||||
Contact
Randgold Resources Enquiries:
Chief Executive
Dr Mark Bristow
+44 788 071 1386
+44 779 775 2288
Finance Director
Graham Shuttleworth
+44 779 771 1338
+44 1534 735 333
Investor & Media Relations
Kathy du Plessis
+44 20 7557 7738
Email: randgold@dpapr.com
Website: www.randgoldresources.com
