CAYCE, S.C., Sept. 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- SCANA
Corporation (NYSE: SCG) announced that the Company's 2018 Annual
Meeting of Shareholders was held today in Columbia, South Carolina, with Chairman of the
Board of Directors Maybank Hagood,
and Chief Executive Officer Jimmy
Addison, presiding.
During the meeting, shareholders re-elected the following Class
I Directors to SCANA's Board – James A.
Bennett, Lynne M. Miller,
James W. Roquemore, and Maceo K. Sloan. Terms of the Class I
Directors will expire at the Annual Meeting in 2021, with the
exception of Maceo K. Sloan whose
term will expire at the Annual Meeting in 2019, as a result of his
reaching the mandatory retirement age. Additionally,
shareholders elected the following Class II Directors to SCANA's
Board – John E. Bachman and
Patricia D. Galloway. Their
terms will expire at the Annual Meeting in 2019.
In other business, shareholders approved the following - the
appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as SCANA's independent
registered public accounting firm to audit the Company's 2018
financial statements. Shareholders also approved a
non-binding advisory proposal on executive compensation.
Board-proposed amendments to declassify the Board of Directors and
provide for the annual election of all directors did not receive
the votes required to amend the Articles of Incorporation.
Additionally, the shareholder proposal regarding an assessment of
the impact of public policies and technological advances consistent
with limiting global warming was withdrawn prior to the
meeting.
PROFILE
SCANA Corporation, headquartered in
Cayce, SC, is an energy-based
holding company principally engaged, through subsidiaries, in
electric and natural gas utility operations and other
energy-related businesses. Information about SCANA and its
businesses is available on the company's website at
www.scana.com.
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