Result of AGM

RNS Number : 7964Y

Balfour Beatty PLC

19 May 2016

 

AGM Results

 

Balfour Beatty plc (the "Company") announces that, at its Annual General Meeting ("AGM") held earlier today, the resolutions set out in the Notice of AGM dated 11 April 2016 were passed following a poll on each resolution.

The results of the polls were as follows:

	For	Against	Votes Withheld
Resolution 1: To adopt the Directors' Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2015	512,786,832  (99.93%)	371,876 (0.07%)	9,444,352
Resolution 2: To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December 2015	505,921,427 (96.83%)	16,545,062 (3.17%)	136,870
Resolution 3: To elect Mr P S Aiken AM as a Director	512,721,237 (98.57%)	7,455,288 (1.43%)	2,426,534
Resolution 4: To elect Dr S R Billingham as a Director	521,096,748 (99.73%)	1,410,075 (0.27%)	96,237
Resolution 5: To re-elect Mr S J Doughty CMG as a Director	521,034,973  (99.72%)	1,456,590  (0.28%)	111,497
Resolution 6: To re-elect Mr I G T Ferguson CBE as a Director	521,042,021 (99.72%)	1,457,050  (0.28%)	103,289
Resolution 7: To elect Mr P J Harrison as a Director	521,136,851 (99.74%)	1,367,993 (0.26%)	98,216
Resolution 8: To re-elect Mrs V M Kempston Darkes as a Director	521,008,098 (99.71%)	1,494,374 (0.29%)	100,588
Resolution 9: To re-elect Mr L M Quinn as a Director	503,233,546 (96.31%)	19,270,329 (3.69%)	99,185
Resolution 10: To re-elect Mr G C Roberts as a Director	521,104,456 (99.73%)	1,399,737 (0.27%)	98,867
Resolution 11: To appoint KPMG LLP as auditor	521,411,384 (99.80%)	1,039,915 (0.20%)	151,761
Resolution 12: To authorise the Audit and Risk Committee of the Board to determine the remuneration of the auditor	521,473,757 (99.80%)	1,054,756 (0.20%)	74,847
Resolution 13: To authorise the Company and its UK subsidiaries to incur political expenditure	519,674,186 (99.53%)	2,439,192 (0.47%)	489,982
Resolution 14: To authorise the Directors to allot shares	517,004,322 (98.95%)	5,490,213 (1.05%)	108,825
Resolution 15: To authorise the Directors to allot shares for cash*	522,046,600 (99.92%)	426,021 (0.08%)	130,739
Resolution 16: To renew the authority for the Company to purchase its own ordinary and preference shares*	516,570,206 (98.86%)	5,932,604 (1.14%)	100,549
Resolution 17: To authorise the Company to hold meetings, other than an Annual General Meeting, on 14 clear days' notice*	489,761,488 (93.78%)	32,471,638 (6.22%)	370,234

* Special resolution

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 votes "For" and

 "Against" a resolution.

3.       The total number of Ordinary Shares of 50p each in the Company in issue at 6.00 pm on 17 May

 2016 was 689,739,619, each carrying one vote. 

4.       Resolutions 15 to 17 were each passed as Special Resolutions.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2R, copies of each of Resolutions 13 to 17 will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

19 May 2016

 

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