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	87,718,259	99.45	488,304	0.55	25.91	225,593
2	Directors' remuneration report (excluding remuneration policy)	84,318,041	97.16	2,464,482	2.84	25.49	1,590,561
3	Re-election of Lord Smith of Kelvin	82,588,788	95.63	3,775,647	4.37	25.37	2,061,040
4	Re-election of  Mr Anthony Brooke	86,608,585	98.59	1,238,707	1.41	25.80	578,302
5	Re-election of  Mrs Clare Dobie	86,778,553	98.79	1,062,316	1.21	25.80	600,392
6	Re-election of  Mr Christopher Samuel	86,925,064	98.99	890,680	1.01	25.79	622,319
7	Re-election of  Mr Karl Sternberg	82,198,633	93.57	5,650,018	6.43	25.80	583,332
8	Re-election of Gregor Stewart	83,966,632	95.54	3,917,028	4.46	25.81	554,484
9	Re-appointment of Deloitte LLP as Auditor	86,251,310	98.17	1,608,631	1.83	25.81	534,842
10	Remuneration of the Auditor	87,386,202	99.37	553,589	0.63	25.83	513,602
11	Authority to purchase Company shares	86,349,659	98.01	1,757,607	1.99	25.88	347,967
12	Authority to disapply pre-emption rights	84,969,082	96.91	2,708,777	3.09	25.75	769,833
13	Authority to hold meetings at 14 days notice	83,919,004	95.37	4,071,872	4.63	25.85	420,961

NOTES

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, the full text of resolutions 11,12 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

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