Annual General Meeting 2020 Results

RNS Number : 6762N

Ibstock PLC

21 May 2020

 

Ibstock plc

Annual General Meeting 2020 Results

The 2020 Annual General Meeting of Ibstock plc (the "Company") was held at the registered office of Ibstock plc at Leicester Road, Ibstock, Leicestershire, LE67 6HS on Thursday, 21 May 2020 at 11:00am

All of the resolutions were voted upon by poll and were passed by shareholders. The total number of ordinary shares in issue was 409,559,785 shares.

The full text of each resolution is contained in the notice of Annual General Meeting, which is available on the Company's website www.ibstockplc.com/investors (with each resolution number below corresponding to the resolution number in the Notice).

The number of votes for and against each of the resolutions put before the Annual General Meeting and the number of votes withheld were as follows:

Resolution		Votes For		Votes Against		Total Votes cast (excluding Withheld)	Votes Withheld*
		No of shares	% of shares voted	No of shares	% of shares voted		No of shares
1	To receive the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended   31 December 2019.	334,742,687	100.00%	0	0.00%	334,742,687	589,459
2	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December 2019.	331,749,727	99.67%	1,095,305	0.33%	332,845,032	2,487,114
3	To re-elect Jonathan Nicholls as a Director.	332,508,954	99.16%	2,811,735	0.84%	335,320,689	11,457
4	To elect Louis Eperjesi as a Director.	333,640,401	99.50%	1,680,288	0.50%	335,320,689	11,457
5	To re-elect Tracey Graham as a Director.	333,645,520	99.50%	1,679,788	0.50%	335,325,308	6,838
6	To elect Claire Hawkings as a Director.	333,648,460	99.50%	1,676,848	0.50%	335,325,308	6,838
7	To re-elect Joe Hudson as a Director.	328,201,491	97.88%	7,121,275	2.12%	335,322,766	9,380
8	To elect Chris McLeish as a Director	328,202,432	97.88%	7,118,698	2.12%	335,321,130	11,016
9	To re-elect Justin Read as a Director.	333,640,401	99.50%	1,680,288	0.50%	335,320,689	11,457
10	To elect Kate Tinsley as a Director.	328,203,347	97.88%	7,120,777	2.12%	335,324,124	8,022
11	To re-appoint Deloitte LLP as the Company's auditor.	335,321,865	99.99%	8,781	0.01%	335,330,646	1,500
12	To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the remuneration of the auditor.	335,317,826	99.99%	12,320	0.01%	335,330,146	2,000
13	To authorise the Company to make political donations.	331,683,413	98.91%	3,642,386	1.09%	335,325,799	6,347
14	To authorise the Directors to allot shares.	328,945,510	98.10%	6,378,857	1.90%	335,324,367	7,779
Special Business
15	General authority to disapply pre-emption rights.**	335,291,909	99.99%	35,453	0.01%	335,327,362	4,784
16	Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights (acquisitions/capital investments)**	332,826,306	99.25%	2,501,056	0.75%	335,327,362	4,784
17	To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own shares.**	332,136,693	99.22%	2,608,370	0.78%	334,745,063	587,083
18	That a general meeting (other than an Annual General Meeting) may be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice.**	327,167,281	97.57%	8,162,854	2.43%	335,330,135	2,011

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2 copies of the resolutions, other than those relating to ordinary business, will shortly be available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism, which is located at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm .

Notes:

* Votes 'withheld' are not votes under English law and so have not been included in the calculation of  whether a resolution is carried. Percentages have been rounded to two decimal places.

** Special resolution.

For further information contact:

Ibstock plc

Nick Giles, Company Secretary

+ 44 (0)1530 257 211

Citigate Dewe Rogerson	+ 44 (0)20 7638 9571
Kevin Smith
Nick Hayns

 

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