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. 

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	184,613,904	98.78	2,281,019	1.22	36.18	458,174
2	Directors' remuneration report (excluding remuneration policy)	180,793,307	97.44	4,752,612	2.56	35.92	1,800,624
3	Approval of Remuneration Policy	182,111,330	98.29	3,164,092	1.71	35.87	2,039,521
4	Election of Lord Smith of Kelvin	184,734,646	98.95	1,967,208	1.05	36.14	578,690
5	Election of  Mr Anthony Brooke	183,698,485	98.50	2,792,027	1.50	36.10	823,798
6	Election of  Mr Rory Macnamara	183,768,724	98.53	2,739,585	1.47	36.11	797,578
7	Election of  Mr Christopher Samuel	184,044,672	98.67	2,476,753	1.33	36.11	867,693
8	Election of  Mr Karl Sternberg	183,468,551	98.37	3,040,131	1.63	36.11	858,477
9	Re-election of Gregor Stewart	183,771,853	98.48	2,838,275	1.52	36.12	723,905
10	Re-appointment of Deloitte LLP as Auditor	183,784,212	98.78	2,271,461	1.22	36.02	979,680
11	Remuneration of the Auditor	186,036,879	99.73	498,447	0.27	36.11	745,330
12	Authority to purchase Company shares	183,952,144	98.40	2,994,781	1.60	36.19	251,440
13	Authority to disapply pre-emption rights	181,950,898	97.85	3,996,712	2.15	36.00	1,370,726
14	Authority to hold meetings at 14 days notice	178,882,099	95.92	7,605,382	4.08	36.10	755,227

NOTES

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, the full text of resolutions 12,13 and 14, 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

George Renouf
Alliance Trust PLC
Telephone: [phone] or 07841 781051

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Source: Alliance Trust PLC via Globenewswire

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