Babcock Group PLC, 18 July 2019
Boatman Capital Research Activism
The Company has been subject to criticism in two reports by Boatman Capital Research (Boatmann). The first report in October 2018 claimed that the Company had been systematically misleading investors by burying bad news about its performance, should overhaul its leadership, and has a poor relationship with its largest customer, the UKns Ministry of Defence. The second report in May 2019 claimed that the Company should write down the value of its Defence Support Group subsidiary, should overhaul its executive team, and called the Companyns corporate structure, mopaque, needlessly complex, needlessly expensive and prone to errorsn Please see the attached report for further details.
Rejected Takeover by Serco
On 17 June 2019, following media speculation, the Company announced that on 23 January 2019 it had received man unsolicited and highly preliminary proposaln from Serco Group plc mSercon regarding a potential all-share combination between the two companies, and confirmed that no further proposal has been received. Item 2: Approve the Remuneration Report The structure is satisfactory. The quantum is not excessive and payout appears to be aligned with performance. In addition, pay is sufficiently weighted toward the long term, though the maximum LTI award will be reduced to only 10% more than STI for the coming year only. On balance, we recommend that shareholders support this resolution.
Babcock International Group is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. operates in four sectors: Marine, which provides an array of marine and naval engineering services; Land, which provides fleet management and training for customer-owned defense, emergency services, global airport and commercial vehicle fleets, as well as engineering services and technical training for customers worldwide; Aviation, which delivers an array of engineering services to defense and civil customers; and Cavendish Nuclear, which delivers nuclear engineering on nuclear decommissioning programs and projects across the U.K., as well as nuclear engineering services in training and operation support.
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