Result of AGM

RNS Number : 6641T

British Land Co PLC

21 July 2015

 



Result of Annual General Meeting

The British Land Company PLC (the 'Company') announces that all resolutions were passed by shareholders at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) held earlier today. The results of the polls are outlined in the table below and will also be available on the Company's website: www.britishland.com/investors/shareholder-information/agm/2015

Votes were cast by poll for a total of 751,858,072 ordinary shares of the Company, representing 73.66 per cent of the total number of votes capable of being cast at the AGM.

Copies of the resolutions passed have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM. 

RESOLUTION	VOTES				Withheld1
	For	As % of votes cast	Against	As % of votes cast
1. To receive the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2015	703,865,831	99.18	5,800,108	0.82	42,192,133
2. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report	680,540,864	97.53	17,257,841	2.47	54,059,367
3. To elect Lynn Gladden as a Director	709,953,604	99.99	98,522	0.01	41,805,946
4. To elect Laura Wade-Gery as a Director	709,982,286	99.99	76,981	0.01	41,798,805
5. To re-elect Aubrey Adams as a Director	707,649,483	99.68	2,278,094	0.32	41,930,495
6. To re-elect Lucinda Bell as a Director	707,557,446	99.65	2,511,028	0.35	41,789,598
7. To re-elect Simon Borrows as a Director	708,731,173	99.81	1,338,936	0.19	41,787,963
8. To re-elect John Gildersleeve as a Director	691,630,215	97.40	18,436,383	2.60	41,791,474
9. To re-elect Chris Grigg as a Director	708,519,015	99.78	1,551,760	0.22	41,787,297
10. To re-elect William Jackson as a Director	706,247,159	99.46	3,821,207	0.54	41,789,706
11. To re-elect Charles Maudsley as a Director	707,588,862	99.65	2,478,794	0.35	41,790,416
12. To re-elect Tim Roberts as a Director	707,561,152	99.65	2,507,104	0.35	41,789,816
13. To re-elect Tim Score as a Director	707,237,215	99.60	2,827,926	0.40	41,792,931
14. To re-elect Lord Turnbull as a Director	702,802,513	98.98	7,257,792	1.02	41,797,767
15. To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the auditor of the Company	704,986,764	99.78	1,536,085	0.22	45,335,223
16. To authorise the Directors to agree the auditor's remuneration	709,399,824	99.90	701,643	0.10	41,756,605
17. To authorise the Company to make limited political donations and political expenditure of not more than £20,000 in total	703,507,743	99.11	6,307,197	0.89	42,043,132
18. To affirm two leasehold transactions	709,308,410	99.97	210,472	0.03	42,364,189
19. To authorise the Directors to allot shares up to a limited amount	632,943,038	89.92	70,940,669	10.08	47,974,365
20. To authorise the Directors to allot shares and sell treasury shares, for cash, without making a pre-emptive offer to shareholders.2	704,433,053	99.81	1,334,515	0.19	46,090,504
21. To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares2	707,912,608	99.69	2,193,979	0.31	41,751,485
22. To authorise the calling of general meetings (not being an AGM) by notice of not less than 14 clear days2	574,951,495	80.98	135,007,756	19.02	41,898,820

Notes: 1: A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes for and against each resolution. 2: These resolutions were proposed as Special Resolutions. Enquiries:
Company Secretariat Silvana Glibota-Vigo, British Land	020 7467 3387

 

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