Final Dividend for 2016, Election for Sterling Dividend, and Results of Annual General Meeting
JERSEY, CHANNEL ISLANDS--(Marketwired - May 2, 2017) - Randgold Resources (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")
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 2016 of US$1.00 per share. The dividend payment will be made on Friday 26 May 2017 to shareholders on the register as at Friday 17 March 2017. The ex-dividend date was Thursday 16 March 2017.
The exchange rate for payment to those shareholders who have elected to receive the final dividend for the year ended 31 December 2016 in Pounds Sterling is: $1 = £0.7743.
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 | 78 994 540 | 99.9953 | 3 676 | 0.0047 | 80 652 | |||||
| 2. | Declaration of Dividend | 79 068 373 | 99.9987 | 1 026 | 0.0013 | 9 469 | |||||
| 3. | Directors' Remuneration Report | 76 730 580 | 97.8444 | 1 690 404 | 2.1556 | 657 883 | |||||
| 4. | Directors' Remuneration Policy | 72 836 976 | 92.1365 | 6 216 317 | 7.8635 | 25 574 | |||||
| 5. | Re-election of Safiatou Ba-N'Daw | 78 941 205 | 99.8553 | 114 387 | 0.1447 | 23 276 | |||||
| 6. | Re-election of Mark Bristow | 78 885 583 | 99.7808 | 173 303 | 0.2192 | 19 982 | |||||
| 7. | Re-election of Christopher Coleman | 78 650 833 | 99.4826 | 409 035 | 0.5174 | 19 000 | |||||
| 8. | Re-election of Jemal-ud-din Kassum | 78 861 504 | 99.7546 | 193 979 | 0.2454 | 23 385 | |||||
| 9. | Election of Olivia Kirtley | 79 052 915 | 99.9922 | 6 191 | 0.0078 | 19 762 | |||||
| 10. | Re-election of Jeanine Mabunda Lioko | 78 944 625 | 99.8569 | 113 163 | 0.1431 | 21 080 | |||||
| 11. | Re-election of Andrew Quinn | 78 328 415 | 99.0755 | 730 875 | 0.9245 | 19 578 | |||||
| 12. | Re-election of Graham Shuttleworth | 78 712 981 | 99.5609 | 347 156 | 0.4391 | 18 731 | |||||
| 13. | Re-appointment of Auditors | 77 728 299 | 98.3133 | 1 333 540 | 1.6867 | 17 028 | |||||
| 14. | Auditors' Remuneration | 79 041 622 | 99.9834 | 13 112 | 0.0166 | 24 134 | |||||
| Ordinary Resolutions | |||||||||||
| 15. | Authority to Allot Shares | 78 951 705 | 99.8787 | 95 906 | 0.1213 | 31 257 | |||||
| 16. | Awards of Shares to Non-Executive Directors (other than the Senior Independent Director and the Chairman) | 78 700 159 | 99.5488 | 356 712 | 0.4512 | 21 997 | |||||
| 17. | Award of Shares to Senior Independent Director | 78 701 802 | 99.5509 | 355 038 | 0.4491 | 22 028 | |||||
| 18. | Award of Shares to Chairman | 78 702 377 | 99.5509 | 355 038 | 0.4491 | 21 453 | |||||
| Special Resolutions | |||||||||||
| 19. | Authority to Disapply Pre-Emption Rights | 78 511 021 | 99.3184 | 538 828 | 0.6816 | 29 019 | |||||
| 20. | Authority for the Company to Purchase its Own Shares | 78 294 776 | 99.0344 | 763 394 | 0.9656 | 20 697 | |||||
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
Contact
RNS
Customer Services
0044-207797-4400
rns@londonstockexchange.com
http://www.rns.com
