18 June 2024
Blackbird
plc
(the
"Company")
Result of Annual General
Meeting
Blackbird plc (AIM:BIRD), the
technology licensor, developer and seller of market-leading cloud
native video editing platform, Blackbird, and developer of the
multiplayer editor in a browser, elevate.io, announces that at the
Company's Annual General Meeting ("AGM") held earlier today, all
resolutions were duly passed on a show of hands.
The proxy votes received from
shareholders on each resolution are set out below:
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FOR*
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AGAINST
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Total votes cast (excluding
votes withheld)
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No. of votes
withheld
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No. of votes
for
|
% of total votes
cast
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No. of votes
against
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% of total votes
cast
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ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS
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|
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1. To
receive the Company's annual reports and accounts for the year
ended 31 December 2023
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187,553,227
|
99.86%
|
257,000
|
0.14%
|
187,810,227
|
8,048
|
|
2. In
accordance with the 2023 QCA Code, advisory vote to approve the
directors' remuneration and benefits for the year ended 31 December
2023.
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174,892,929
|
93.13%
|
12,906,498
|
6.87%
|
187,799,427
|
18,848
|
|
3. To
reappoint Moore Kingston Smith LLP as
auditors of the Company
|
187,549,283
|
99.86%
|
260,944
|
0.14%
|
187,810,227
|
8,048
|
|
4. To
reappoint Andrew Bentley as a Director
|
174,673,509
|
93.01%
|
13,136,718
|
6.99%
|
187,810,227
|
8,048
|
|
5. To
reappoint Ian McDonough as a Director
|
187,504,838
|
99.84%
|
305,389
|
0.16%
|
187,810,227
|
8,048
|
|
6. To
reappoint Stephen White as a Director
|
175,552,125
|
99.57%
|
758,102
|
0.43%
|
176,310,227
|
11,508,048
|
|
7. To
reappoint Stephen Streater as a Director
|
187,502,125
|
99.84%
|
308,102
|
0.16%
|
187,810,227
|
8,048
|
|
8. To
reappoint Anne de Kerckhove as a Director
|
187,052,125
|
99.60%
|
758,102
|
0.40%
|
187,810,227
|
8,048
|
|
9. To renew
the authority of the Directors to allot shares
|
187,464,710
|
99.82%
|
345,517
|
0.18%
|
187,810,227
|
8,048
|
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SPECIAL RESOLUTION
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10. To renew the
disapplication of pre-emption rights
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174,986,409
|
93.18%
|
12,817,018
|
6.82%
|
187,803,427
|
14,848
|
|
11. To approve the extension
of the Company's Long Term Incentive Plan 2019
|
187,373,329
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99.77%
|
436,898
|
0.23%
|
187,810,227
|
8,048
|
*Includes Chairman's and Third Party
discretionary votes.
Further to the Company's
announcement on 28 May 2024, following the conclusion of the AGM,
Anne de Kerckhove is now Chair of the board of the
Company.
Contacts:
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Blackbird plc
Ian McDonough, Chief Executive
Officer
Stephen White, Chief Operating and
Financial Officer
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Tel: +44 (0)20 8879 7245
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Allenby Capital Limited (Nominated Adviser and Broker)
Nick Naylor / Piers Shimwell
(Corporate Finance)
Amrit Nahal / Guy McDougall (Equity
Sales and Corporate Broking)
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Tel: +44 (0)20 3328 5656
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About Blackbird plc
Blackbird plc operates in the
fast-growing SaaS, Media and Entertainment and content creation
markets. Blackbird plc's patented technology allows for frame
accurate navigation, playback, viewing and editing in the cloud and
it has two products.
BlackbirdⓇ a market leading suite of
cloud-native computing applications, is used by rights holders,
broadcasters, sports and news video specialists, live events and
content owners, post production houses, other mass market digital
video channels and corporations.
elevate.io, currently in general
release, is the company's new collaborative content creation tool
in a web browser aimed at professional teams and the Creator
Economy.
Blackbird plc also licences its core
video technology under its 'Powered by Blackbird' licensing model.
Enabling video companies to accelerate their path to true cloud
business models, licensees benefit from power and carbon
reductions, cost and time savings, less hardware and bandwidth
requirements and easy scalability.
www.blackbird.video
www.linkedin.com/company/blackbird-cloud
www.twitter.com/blackbirdcloud
www.facebook.com/blackbirdplc
www.youtube.com/c/blackbirdcloud
www.elevate.io