Result of AGM

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BAE SYSTEMS PLC
09 May 2019
 

BAE SYSTEMS plc

 

POLL RESULTS FOR AGM 2019

 

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 9 May 2019.

 

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

2,415,813,460

99.14

20,996,802

2,436,810,262

76.10%

2,288,633

Resolution 2:

Directors' Remuneration Report

2,346,572,322

98.37

38,914,627

2,385,486,949

74.49%

53,611,945

Resolution 3:

Payment of final dividend

2,438,122,389

99.99

208,035

2,438,330,424

76.14%

768,471

Resolution 4:

Re-election of Revathi Advaithi

2,427,970,589

99.60

9,764,089

2,437,734,678

76.13%

1,364,216

Resolution 5:

Re-election of Sir Roger Carr

2,406,901,465

98.73

31,050,073

2,437,951,538

76.13%

1,147,357

Resolution 6:

Re-election of Elizabeth Corley

2,408,229,844

99.63

8,854,388

2,417,084,232

75.48%

22,014,663

Resolution 7:

Re-election of Jerry DeMuro

2,427,600,778

99.58

10,237,558

2,437,838,336

76.13%

1,260,559

Resolution 8:

Re-election of Harriet Green

2,371,200,305

97.27

66,530,603

2,437,730,908

76.13%

1,367,987

Resolution 9:

Re-election of Christopher Grigg

2,408,064,874

99.63

8,985,499

2,417,050,373

75.48%

22,048,522

Resolution 10:

Re-election of Peter Lynas

2,415,242,114

99.07

22,628,501

2,437,870,615

76.13%

1,228,280

Resolution 11:

Re-election of Paula Rosput Reynolds

2,426,126,583

99.52

11,589,055

2,437,715,638

76.13%

1,383,257

Resolution 12:

Re-election of Nicholas Rose

2,369,183,643

97.22

67,833,471

2,437,017,114

76.10%

2,081,781

Resolution 13:

Re-election of Ian Tyler

2,397,212,538

98.34

40,482,814

2,437,695,352

76.12%

1,403,543

Resolution 14:

Re-election of Charles Woodburn

2,408,036,993

98.77

29,877,566

2,437,914,559

76.13%

1,183,834

Resolution 15:

Re-appointment of Auditors

2,435,654,402

99.91

2,268,266

2,437,922,668

76.13%

1,176,227

Resolution 16:

Auditors' remuneration

2,435,428,749

99.90

2,460,068

2,437,888,817

76.13%

1,210,077

Resolution 17:

Political donations

2,389,796,903

98.45

37,682,339

2,427,479,242

75.81%

11,619,652

Resolution 18:

Authority to allot new shares

 

2,292,895,722

94.04

145,286,390

2,438,182,112

76.14%

910,430

 

SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS

VOTES FOR

% VOTES FOR1

VOTES AGAINST

TOTAL VOTES VALIDLY CAST

% OF ISSUED SHARE CAPITAL VOTED1,2,3

VOTES WITHHELD2

Resolution 19:

Disapplication of

pre-emption rights

2,313,052,455

94.89

124,679,989

2,437,732,444

76.13%

1,363,421

Resolution 20:

Authority to purchase own shares

2,402,156,907

98.60

34,181,633

2,436,338,540

76.08%

2,760,353

Resolution 21:

Amendments to Articles of Association

2,426,551,195

99.98

585,868

2,427,137,063

75.80%

11,961,831

Resolution 22:

Notice of general meetings

 

2,244,454,984

92.46

183,007,185

2,427,462,169

75.81%

11,636,725

 

 

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 6.30pm on   7 May 2019 was 3,467,440,044, of which the Total Voting Rights figure was 3,202,230,871.

 

Copies of resolutions 17 - 22, being resolutions other than resolutions concerning ordinary business passed by the Company at the above AGM, are being submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm

 

9 May 2019

 

 

 


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