Results of the 2021 Annual General Meeting

RNS Number : 0407G

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

21 July 2021

 

21 July 2021

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (the "Company")

Results of the 2021 Annual General Meeting

The Company held its Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 21 July 2021. All the resolutions put to shareholders were duly passed on a show of hands. Resolutions 1 to 13 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 14 to 16 were passed as special resolutions.

Details of shareholders' proxy votes lodged in advance of the Annual General Meeting for each resolution are shown in the table below:

Resolutions	For and at discretion		Against		Votes Withheld	Total
	Number	%	Number	%
1. To receive the audited accounts of the Company for the year ended 28 February 2021, together with the Report of the Directors and the report of the Auditor thereon.	53,967,112	99.99	75	0.01	24,016	53,967,187
2. To approve the Annual Statement by the Chair of the Remuneration Committee and the Annual Report on Directors' Remuneration for the year ended 28 February 2021.	52,831,777	98.96	556,752	1.04	602,674	53,388,529
3. To approve a special dividend of 9.78p per Ordinary share	53,977,716	99.99	3,170	0.01	10,317	53,980,886
4. To declare a final dividend of 7.58p per Ordinary share	53,977,716	99.99	3,170	0.01	10,317	53,980,886
5. To re-appoint Steven Hall as a Director of the Company.	53,963,049	99.98	9,151	0.02	19,003	53,972,200
6. To re-appoint Sir Richard Lambert as a Director of the Company.	53,931,321	99.92	45,103	0.08	14,779	53,976,424
7. To re-appoint Nigel Newton as a Director of the Company.	53,906,012	99.88	65,412	0.12	19,779	53,971,424
8. To re-appoint Leslie-Ann Reed as a Director.	53,946,992	99.95	25,832	0.05	18,379	53,972,824
9. To re-appoint Penny Scott-Bayfield as a Director.	53,954,288	99.97	18,536	0.03	18,379	53,972,824
10. To appoint Baroness Lola Young of Hornsey as a Director.	53,961,157	99.97	16,667	0.03	13,379	53,977,824
11. To re-appoint KPMG LLP as Auditor of the Company.	53,961,744	99.97	17,028	0.03	12,431	53,978,772
12. To authorise the Directors to determine the auditors' remuneration.	53,962,025	99.98	11,894	0.02	17,284	53,973,919
13. To authorise the Directors to allot shares.	53,870,936	99.80	107,105	0.20	13,162	53,978,041
14. To authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights.	53,954,576	99.96	23,465	0.04	13,162	53,978,041
15. To authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights regarding acquisition/investment.	53,708,576	99.51	266,370	0.49	16,257	53,974,946
16. To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares.	52,379,300	99.96	18,979	0.04	1,592,924	52,398,279

NOTES:

1.  The 'For' vote includes those giving discretion to the Chair of the Meeting.

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.  As at Monday 19 July 2021, there were 81,608,672 ordinary shares of 1.25 pence in issue.

4.  The full text of each of the resolutions is set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting which is available at the National Storage Mechanism https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism and on the Company's website at www.bloomsbury-ir.co.uk.

5.  In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of the resolutions passed at the meeting other than those considered as ordinary business, will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism. 

Maya Abu-Deeb
Group General Counsel & Company Secretary
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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