Result of AGM

RNS Number : 7739U

Standard Life plc

19 May 2008

 

Standard Life plc

Results of Annual General Meeting 

The Board of Standard Life plc is pleased to announce that all the resolutions put to its Annual General Meeting earlier today were duly passed. The results of the polls are as follows:

	For	Against	Votes Withheld
Resolution 1: To receive the 2007 Annual Report and Accounts	624,040,085	2,300,958	703,686
Resolution 2: To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report	603,619,154	20,950,924	2,459,770
Resolution 3: To declare a final dividend for 2007	626,491,112	314,570	245,628
Resolution 4: To reappoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors	615,443,069	3,294,312	8,292,231
Resolution 5: To authorise the Directors to set the auditors' fees	622,770,505	3,306,404	968,124
Resolution 6A: To re-elect Lord Blackwell as a Director	619,706,106	5,509,397	1,805,273
Resolution 6B: To re-elect Mr Keith Skeoch as a Director	620,621,893	4,595,551	1,825,257
Resolution 7: To elect Mr Colin Buchan as a Director	619,877,908	4,049,321	2,010,603
Resolution 8: To authorise the Directors to issue further shares	616,453,064	9,143,793	1,427,539
Resolution 9 (Special Resolution): To disapply share pre-emption rights	617,373,408	6,272,739	3,387,638
Resolution 10 (Special Resolution): To give authority for the Company to buy back shares	622,205,287	3,552,739	1,211,623
Resolution 11: To provide limited authority to make political donations and to incur political expenditure	599,172,984	24,783,557	2,998,683
Resolution 12 (Special Resolution): To adopt new articles of association	619,551,088	4,458,403	3,035,742

The total number of shares in issue is 2,177,426,803 ordinary shares of 10 pence each.

Votes withheld are not a vote in law, and have not been counted in the calculation of the votes for and against each resolution.

The Board confirms that, as previously announced, Hugh Stevenson retired from the Board at the conclusion of the AGM and Lord Blackwell was appointed Senior Independent Director.

Copies of all resolutions are available for inspection in the AGM Guide previously submitted to the Financial Services Authority at their Document Viewing Facility at:

25 The North Colonnade

Canary Wharf

London

E14 5HS  

The AGM Guide and the Voting Results are also available on the Standard Life plc website at www.standardlife.com 

19 May 2008

Enquiries:

Julie Durie, Group Secretariat 0131 245 6772

Gordon Aitken, Investor Relations 0131 245 6799

Barry Cameron, Media Relations 0131 245 6165

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