Result of AGM

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InterContinental Hotels Group PLC

07 May 2021

 

INTERCONTINENTAL HOTELS GROUP PLC

Results of 2021 Annual General Meeting

The Annual General Meeting of InterContinental Hotels Group PLC was held on Friday 7 May 2021.

All resolutions set out in the Notice of Meeting were duly passed by way of a poll.  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	% of ISC	VOTES WITHHELD
1	Report and Accounts 2020	148,179,384	99.74	393,058	0.26	148,572,442	81.09%	439,317
2	Directors' Remuneration Report 2020	137,628,120	92.43	11,277,368	7.57	148,905,488	81.27%	106,271
3(a)	Election of Graham Allan as a Director	148,561,872	99.75	373,361	0.25	148,935,233	81.29%	75,751
3(b)	Election of Richard Anderson as a Director	148,739,481	99.86	203,976	0.14	148,943,457	81.29%	67,527
3(c)	Election of Daniela Barone Soares as a Director	148,898,446	99.97	38,052	0.03	148,936,498	81.29%	74,486
3(d)	Election of Duriya Farooqui as a Director	148,901,595	99.98	35,288	0.02	148,936,883	81.29%	74,101
3(e)	Election of Sharon Rothstein as a Director	148,900,900	99.98	36,414	0.02	148,937,314	81.29%	73,670
3(f)	Re-election of Keith Barr as a Director	148,923,035	99.98	23,589	0.02	148,946,624	81.30%	64,360
3(g)	Re-election of Patrick Cescau as a Director	147,056,794	99.53	699,530	0.47	147,756,324	80.65%	1,254,660
3(h)	Re-election of Arthur de Haast as a Director	148,897,007	99.97	38,906	0.03	148,935,913	81.29%	75,071
3(i)	Re-election of Ian Dyson as a Director	145,936,966	97.99	3,000,192	2.01	148,937,158	81.29%	73,826
3(j)	Re-election of Paul Edgecliffe-Johnson as a Director	148,874,662	99.95	70,995	0.05	148,945,657	81.29%	65,327
3(k)	Re-election of Jo Harlow as a Director	145,090,869	97.41	3,855,836	2.59	148,946,705	81.30%	64,279
3(l)	Re-election of Elie Maalouf as a Director	148,892,447	99.96	53,968	0.04	148,946,415	81.30%	64,569
3(m)	Re-election of Jill McDonald as a Director	148,493,319	99.70	444,057	0.30	148,937,376	81.29%	73,608
3(n)	Re-election of Dale Morrison as a Director	147,516,584	99.05	1,419,984	0.95	148,936,568	81.29%	74,416
4	Appointment of Auditor	147,544,568	99.05	1,410,880	0.95	148,955,448	81.30%	56,311
5	Remuneration of Auditor	148,717,214	99.84	238,599	0.16	148,955,813	81.30%	55,946
6	Political Donations	140,217,056	97.83	3,103,246	2.17	143,320,302	78.22%	5,691,457
7	Amendment to borrowing limit	146,152,398	98.15	2,757,820	1.85	148,910,218	81.28%	101,541
8	Allotment of shares	140,095,159	94.06	8,848,572	5.94	148,943,731	81.29%	68,028
9	Disapplication of pre-emption rights	148,537,383	99.88	177,904	0.12	148,715,287	81.17%	296,472
10	Further disapplication of pre-emption rights	146,605,702	98.58	2,109,439	1.42	148,715,141	81.17%	296,618
11	Authority to purchase own shares	148,362,912	99.62	571,823	0.38	148,934,735	81.29%	77,024
12	Notice of General Meetings	141,615,487	95.07	7,345,352	4.93	148,960,839	81.30%	50,920

Notes:

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

2.  Votes 'Withheld' are not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes 'For' or 'Against' a resolution.

3.  Resolutions 9 to 12 are special resolutions.

4.  IHG's total issued share capital consists of 187,717,720 ordinary shares of 20 ³⁴⁰/₃₉₉ pence each, of which 4,501,408 ordinary shares are held in treasury. The total number of voting rights in the Company is 183,216,312.

5.  Copies of the resolutions passed, other than resolutions concerning ordinary business, will be submitted to the UK Listing Authority via the National Storage Mechanism and will be available in due course for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism

Unless otherwise defined herein, terms used in this announcement shall have the meaning given to them in the Notice of Meeting.

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