Result of AGM

RNS Number : 2730E
BAE SYSTEMS PLC
08 May 2013
 



BAE SYSTEMS plc

 

POLL RESULTS FOR AGM 2013

 

BAE Systems plc announces that all resolutions were passed by the requisite majorities on a poll at the Company's Annual General Meeting held on 8 May 2013.

 

ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS

VOTES FOR

% VOTES FOR1

VOTES AGAINST

TOTAL VOTES VALIDLY CAST

% OF ISSUED SHARE CAPITAL VOTED1,2,3

VOTES WITHHELD2

Resolution 1:

Report and Accounts

2,441,251,854

99.98

544,350

2,441,796,204

75.34%

3,542,599

Resolution 2:

Directors' Remuneration Report

2,205,236,703

92.33

183,202,336

2,388,439,039

73.70%

56,898,372

Resolution 3:

Payment of final dividend

2,441,709,699

99.99

150,100

2,441,859,799

75.34%

3,476,464

Resolution 4:

Re-election of Paul Anderson

2,437,116,300

99.83

4,268,160

2,441,384,460

75.33%

3,951,516

Resolution 5:

Re-election of Harriet Green

2,436,329,526

99.79

5,046,725

2,441,376,251

75.33%

3,959,725

Resolution 6:

Re-election of Linda Hudson

2,416,079,432

98.96

25,375,249

2,441,454,681

75.33%

3,883,835

Resolution 7:

Re-election of Ian King

2,436,417,596

99.79

5,113,857

2,441,531,453

75.33%

3,805,440

Resolution 8:

Re-election of Peter Lynas

2,436,913,190

99.82

4,489,162

2,441,402,352

75.33%

3,933,624

Resolution 9:

Re-election of Lee McIntire

2,380,383,774

97.50

60,952,323

2,441,336,097

75.33%

3,999,879

Resolution 10:

Re-election of Richard Olver

2,411,890,241

98.89

27,121,561

2,439,011,802

75.26%

6,324,174

Resolution 11:

Re-election of Paula Rosput Reynolds

2,436,370,209

99.80

4,995,103

2,441,365,312

75.33%

3,970,124

Resolution 12:

Re-election of Nicholas Rose

2,352,182,434

96.34

89,248,898

2,441,431,332

75.33%

3,904,644

Resolution 13:

Re-election of Carl Symon

2,380,683,298

97.51

60,691,943

2,441,375,241

75.33%

3,960,579

Resolution 14:

Reappointment of Auditors

2,365,228,749

99.75

5,931,993

2,371,160,742

73.16%

74,177,356

Resolution 15:

Auditors' remuneration

2,394,744,741

99.82

4,426,121

2,399,170,862

74.03%

46,164,669

Resolution 16:

Political donations

2,388,833,288

97.88

51,626,511

2,440,459,799

75.30%

4,875,146

Resolution 17:

Authority to allot new shares

2,182,148,606

90.49

229,464,835

2,411,613,441

74.41%

33,722,510

 

SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS

VOTES FOR

% VOTES FOR1

VOTES AGAINST

TOTAL VOTES VALIDLY CAST

% OF ISSUED SHARE CAPITAL VOTED1,2,3

VOTES WITHHELD2

Resolution 18:

Disapplication of

pre-emption rights

2,438,798,164

99.91

2,170,297

2,440,968,461

75.32%

4,361,401

Resolution 19:

Authority to purchase own shares

2,421,892,778

99.76

5,738,202

2,427,630,980

74.90%

17,702,450

Resolution 20:

Notice of general meetings

2,251,747,970

92.22

189,895,521

2,441,643,491

75.34%

3,689,577

 

Notes: 

1.         The percentages above are rounded to two decimal places.

2.         A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes "for" and "against" a resolution. 

3.         The number of ordinary shares in issue on the share register at 6.00pm on 6 May 2013 was 3,571,299,960, of which the Total Voting Rights figure was 3,240,966,041.

 

Copies of resolutions 16 - 20, being resolutions other than resolutions concerning ordinary business passed by the Company at the above AGM, have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm

 

8 May 2013


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