Result of AGM

Bellway PLC

12 December 2024

 

BELLWAY p.l.c. (the 'Company')

Results of Annual General Meeting ('AGM')

12 December 2024

The Company is pleased to announce that at the AGM held earlier today, shareholders passed each of the ordinary and special resolutions by the requisite majorities on a poll.  The full text of each resolution is contained in the Notice of AGM, which is available on the Company's website, www.bellwayplc.co.uk

The total number of votes cast for each resolution is set out in the table below. Resolutions 1 to 16 (inclusive) are ordinary resolutions and resolutions 17 to 20 (inclusive) are special resolutions.

Resolution	Total proxy votes cast	Proxy cards received	In favour *		Against		Withheld
			Votes	%	Votes	%	Shares
1.  To receive and adopt the Accounts, the Directors' Report and the Auditor's Report thereon, and the auditable part of the Remuneration Report.	92,523,139	351	92,431,534	99.97	23,954	0.03	67,651
2. To approve the Remuneration Report.	92,523,138	365	91,360,391	98.77	1,141,354	1.23	21,393
3. To approve the Remuneration Policy.	92,523,138	369	87,537,093	94.62	4,976,549	5.38	9,496
4. To declare final dividend.	92,523,139	348	92,522,465	99.99	347	0.01	327
5. To re-elect Mr J Tutte as a director of the Company.	92,523,138	382	86,617,485	93.62	5,898,243	6.38	7,410
6. To re-elect Mr J M Honeyman as a director of the Company.	92,523,139	360	91,887,886	99.32	632,883	0.68	2,370
7. To re-elect Mr K D Adey as a director of the Company.	92,523,139	359	91,728,166	99.14	792,603	0.86	2,370
8. To elect Mr S Scougall as a director of the Company.	92,523,139	362	90,624,205	98.91	999,784	1.09	899,150
9. To elect Mr S Doherty as a director of the Company.	92,523,139	362	91,077,083	98.44	1,443,686	1.56	2,370
10. To re-elect Ms J Caseberry as a director of the Company.	92,523,138	372	90,718,613	98.05	1,802,373	1.95	2,152
11. To re-elect Mr I McHoul as a director of the Company.	92,523,138	372	91,158,133	98.53	1,362,623	1.47	2,382
12. To re-elect Ms S Whitney as a director of the Company.	92,523,138	381	89,254,968	96.47	3,266,006	3.53	2,164
13. To elect Ms C Davis as a director of the Company.	92,523,138	354	92,511,547	99.99	9,439	0.01	2,152
14. To appoint Ernst & Young LLP as the auditor of the Company.	92,523,139	364	91,122,538	98.49	1,399,980	1.51	621
15. To authorise the Audit Committee to agree the auditor's remuneration.	92,523,139	359	91,985,534	99.42	537,278	0.58	327
16. To authorise the directors to allot shares.	92,523,139	365	91,202,925	98.57	1,319,800	1.43	414
17. To exclude the application of pre-emption rights to the allotment of equity securities.	92,523,139	367	89,054,676	96.25	3,465,067	3.75	3,396
18. Subject to the approval of Resolution 16 to further exclude the application of pre-emption rights to the allotment of equity securities.	92,523,138	379	82,862,406	89.56	9,657,336	10.44	3,396
19. To authorise market purchases of the Company's own ordinary shares.	92,523,139	358	91,463,074	99.01	915,654	0.99	144,411
20. To allow the Company to hold general meetings (other than AGMs) at 14 days' notice.	92,523,139	363	90,482,473	97.79	2,040,274	2.21	392

The percentage of votes cast exclude Withheld votes.  *Votes in favour include votes at Chair's discretion.

The total number of votes cast: 92,523,139.

Number of shares in issue and therefore the total number of voting rights: 118,982,479.

Number of shareholders at meeting date: 2,127.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2 copies of the resolutions (other than those resolutions comprising ordinary business) passed by the Company at its AGM have been uploaded to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism

Name of contact and telephone number for queries:

Simon Scougall

Chief Commercial Officer and Company Secretary

Bellway p.l.c.

Tel: [phone]

 

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