Randgold Resources: Result of AGM and Final Dividend for 2014
JERSEY, CHANNEL ISLANDS--(Marketwired - May 5, 2015) - Randgold Resources (LSE: RRS) (NASDAQ: GOLD)
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 2014, 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 2014 of US$0.60 per share. The dividend payment will be made on Friday 29 May 2015 to shareholders on the register as at Friday 13 March 2015. The ex-dividend date was Thursday 12 March 2015.
The exchange rate for payment to those shareholders who have elected to receive the final dividend for the year ended 31 December 2014 in Pounds Sterling is: £1 = US$1.5134.
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 | 78 985 415 | 99.998% | 1 325 | 0.002% | 47 137 | ||||
| 2. | Declaration of Dividend | 78 983 382 | 99.999% | 712 | 0.001% | 49 783 | ||||
| 3. | Directors' Remuneration Report | 77 316 166 | 97.904% | 1 655 617 | 2.096% | 62 093 | ||||
| 4. | Directors' Remuneration Policy | 76 990 141 | 98.063% | 1 520 619 | 1.937% | 523 116 | ||||
| 5. | Re-election of Mark Bristow | 78 974 573 | 99.988% | 9 166 | 0.012% | 50 138 | ||||
| 6. | Re-election of Norborne Cole Jr | 78 889 426 | 99.880% | 94 734 | 0.120% | 49 717 | ||||
| 7. | Re-election of Christopher Coleman | 78 548 645 | 99.454% | 431 046 | 0.546% | 54 185 | ||||
| 8. | Re-election of Kadri Dagdelen | 78 927 511 | 99.931% | 54 619 | 0.069% | 50 571 | ||||
| 9. | Re-election of Jemal-ud-din Kassum | 78 914 268 | 99.914% | 67 863 | 0.086% | 50 570 | ||||
| 10. | Re-election of Jeanine Mabunda Lioko | 78 971 611 | 99.987% | 10 530 | 0.013% | 50 560 | ||||
| 11. | Re-election of Andrew Quinn | 78 969 809 | 99.984% | 12 524 | 0.016% | 50 368 | ||||
| 12. | Re-election of Graham Shuttleworth | 78 940 068 | 99.947% | 42 164 | 0.053% | 50 469 | ||||
| 13. | Re-election of Karl Voltaire | 78 954 740 | 99.965% | 27 492 | 0.035% | 50 469 | ||||
| 14. | Election of Safiatou Ba-N'Daw | 78 967 933 | 99.982% | 14 028 | 0.018% | 50 740 | ||||
| 15. | Re-appointment of Auditors | 78 351 083 | 99.853% | 115 613 | 0.147% | 564 004 | ||||
| 16. | Auditors' Remuneration | 78 942 284 | 99.959% | 32 248 | 0.041% | 58 169 | ||||
| Ordinary Resolutions | ||||||||||
| 17. | Authority to Allot Shares | 77 323 677 | 99.746% | 197 250 | 0.254% | 1 511 774 | ||||
| 18. | Awards of Shares to Non-Executive Directors (other than the Senior Independent Director and the Chairman) | 76 992 661 | 99.437% | 436 071 | 0.563% | 1 603 969 | ||||
| 19. | Award of Shares to Senior Independent Director | 76 959 412 | 99.394% | 469 371 | 0.606% | 1 603 918 | ||||
| 20. | Award of Shares to Chairman | 76 960 218 | 99.395% | 468 515 | 0.605% | 1 603 968 | ||||
| Special Resolutions | ||||||||||
| 21. | Authority to Disapply Pre-Emption Rights | 76 004 360 | 98.047% | 1 514 263 | 1.953% | 1 514 078 | ||||
| 22. | Authority for the Company to Purchase its Own Shares | 77 487 076 | 99.949% | 39 856 | 0.051% | 1 505 769 | ||||
Contact
RANDGOLD RESOURCES ENQUIRIES:
Chief Executive
Mark Bristow
+44 788 071 1386
+44 779 775 2288
Financial Director
Graham Shuttleworth
+44 779 771 1338
+44 153 4735 333
Investor & Media Relations
Kathy du Plessis
+44 20 7557 7738
randgold@dpapr.com
Website: www.randgoldresources.com
