Alliance Trust PLC : Result of AGM

Alliance Trust PLC

Annual General Meeting

Alliance Trust PLC announces the results of voting on the resolutions proposed at the Annual General Meeting, held earlier today in Dundee.  Resolutions 14, 15 and 16 which had been requisitioned by Elliott Advisers and proposed that Anthony Brooke, Peter Chambers and Rory Macnamara be elected as Directors of the Company were withdrawn prior to the meeting.

A summary of the votes cast in respect of the resolutions is set out below. Each of the resolutions was passed with the required majority.

	Resolution	Votes for	%	Votes against	%	Percentage of issued share capital voted	Votes withheld
1	Report & Accounts	266,509,692	99.19	2,182,559	0.81	48.65	7,571,257
2	Directors' remuneration report (excluding remuneration policy)	248,045,822	93.29	17,849,548	6.71	48.14	11,406,508
3	Re-election of Mrs Karin Forseke	253,613,423	97.17	7,380,897	2.83	47.25	15,516,197
4	Re-election of Mrs Katherine Garrett-Cox	251,793,989	96.82	8,264,950	3.18	47.08	16,225,497
5	Re-election of  Mr John Hylands	255,538,258	98.26	4,526,074	1.74	47.08	16,298,389
6	Re-election of  Mr Alastair Kerr	254,964,824	97.98	5,256,008	2.02	47.11	16,168,897
7	Re-election of Mrs Susan Noble	255,500,382	98.22	4,626,994	1.78	47.10	16,375,135
8	Election of Gregor Stewart	255,365,943	98.21	4,643,504	1.79	47.07	16,501,095
9	Re-election of Mr Alan Trotter	252,508,601	98.02	5,112,997	1.98	46.64	16,116,161
10	Re-appointment of Deloitte LLP as Auditor	265,671,435	99.15	2,277,609	0.85	48.51	8,575,127
11	Remuneration of the Auditor	267,653,398	99.67	881,946	0.33	48.62	8,097,574
12	Authority to purchase Company shares	265,249,991	98.75	3,352,608	1.25	48.63	8,029,280
13	Authority to hold meetings at 14 days notice	258,949,666	96.48	9,438,527	3.52	48.59	8,207,207

NOTES

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, the full text of resolutions 12 and 13, which were special resolutions, passed by the Company at its Annual General Meeting has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at
http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM

Evan Bruce-Gardyne
Alliance Trust PLC
Telephone: [phone] or 07501 500 243

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Source: Alliance Trust PLC via Globenewswire

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