NEW YORK - Wednesday, May 4th 2011 [ME NewsWire]
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- At the Company’s annual stockholders’ meeting held on April 28, 2011, NYSE Euronext (NYX) shareholders:
* Elected the full slate of 16 director nominees to the Company’s Board of Directors, with an average approval rate of 80% of votes cast,
* Ratified the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for 2011,
* Did not approve a Company proposal to adopt a simple majority vote requirement to amend or repeal certain provisions in the Company’s charter,
* Approved on an advisory, non-binding basis, the Company’s executive compensation,
* Approved on an advisory, non-binding basis, a frequency of every one year for holding the non-binding, advisory vote on executive compensation,
* Approved a stockholder proposal regarding the power of stockholders to call special meetings, and
* Approved a stockholder proposal regarding stockholder action by written consent.
To be approved, the proposal to adopt a simple majority vote requirement to amend or repeal certain provisions in the Company’s charter required the affirmative vote of at least 80% of the shares of our outstanding stock entitled to be voted at the meeting. The proposal received the support of 94.66% of the shares of our outstanding stock actually voted but only 75.45% the shares of our outstanding stock entitled to be voted, and therefore the proposal was not approved.
Among the 16 elected directors is Dominique Cerutti, the Company’s president and deputy chief executive officer and head of Global Technology, who is a newly elected member of the Board. Mr. Cerutti has considerable experience in leading the business operations of a global technology company, where he served in several senior leadership roles. Prior to joining NYSE Euronext, Mr. Cerutti served as general manager of IBM Southwest Europe from 2005 until 2009. For more details click here: http://www.nyse.com/corpgovernance/1261133696939.html
The Company’s Inspector of Elections, MacKenzie Partners, Inc., informed the Company of the following shareholder vote results:
* The shareholders elected the following persons to the Board of Directors:
Director
For
Against
Abstain
Jan-Michiel Hessels (Chairman)
133,851,068
28,845,125
706,663
Marshall N. Carter (Deputy Chairman)
135,322,647
27,441,975
638,234
Duncan L. Niederauer (Chief Executive Officer)
134,981,604
27,783,480
637,772
Dominique Cerutti (President & Deputy Chief Executive Officer)
135,452,710
27,234,068
716,078
André Bergen
134,728,875
27,895,192
778,789
Ellyn L. Brown
134,821,425
27,872,308
709,123
Patricia M. Cloherty
134,730,990
27,934,712
737,154
Sir George Cox
134,668,398
28,016,805
717,653
Sylvain Hefes
134,832,508
27,856,717
713,631
Duncan M. McFarland
131,308,762
31,382,834
711,260
James J. McNulty
123,603,472
39,083,243
716,141
Ricardo Salgado
131,064,187
31,617,031
721,638
Robert G. Scott
134,913,723
27,766,088
723,045
Jackson P. Tai
135,090,669
27,573,253
738,934
Rijnhard van Tets
134,593,133
28,088,299
721,424
Sir Brian Williamson
130,923,333
31,766,376
713,147
* The following table lists the vote results for the remaining proposals, other than the proposal to determine the frequency of the advisory vote on executive compensation:
Proposal
For
Against
Abstain
Ratification of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for 2011
202,018,332
4,963,590
1,217,298
Company proposal to adopt a simple majority vote requirement to amend or repeal certain provisions in the Company’s charter.
197,088,940
10,309,853
800,427
Non-binding advisory vote on a Company proposal to approve executive compensation
135,777,181
26,248,587
1,377,088
Stockholder proposal regarding the power of stockholders to call special meetings
119,834,600
42,955,869
612,387
Stockholder proposal regarding stockholder action by written consent
129,280,999
33,137,009
984,848
* The following table lists the vote results of the non-binding, advisory vote on a Company proposal to determine the frequency of the advisory vote on executive compensation:
Every 1 year
Every 2 years
Every 3 years
Abstain
126,809,533
2,015,090
22,411,816
2,688,242
About NYSE Euronext
NYSE Euronext (NYX) is a leading global operator of financial markets and provider of innovative trading technologies. The company's exchanges in Europe and the United States trade equities, futures, options, fixed-income and exchange-traded products. With approximately 8,000 listed issues (excluding European Structured Products), NYSE Euronext's equities markets – the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE Euronext, NYSE Amex, NYSE Alternext and NYSE Arca – represent one-third of the world's equities trading, the most liquidity of any global exchange group. NYSE Euronext also operates NYSE Liffe, one of the leading European derivatives businesses and the world's second-largest derivatives business by value of trading. The company offers comprehensive commercial technology, connectivity and market data products and services through NYSE Technologies. NYSE Euronext is in the S&P 500 index, and is the only exchange operator in the Fortune 500. For more information, please visit: http://www.nyx.com.
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