Result of AGM

RNS Number : 6618L

Royal Mail PLC

20 July 2017

 

Royal Mail plc 

20 July 2017

Results of Annual General Meeting held on 20 July 2017

Royal Mail plc (the 'Company') (RMG.L) announces that at its Annual General Meeting (AGM) held earlier today, all the resolutions put to shareholders were passed by the requisite majorities. Resolutions 1 to 14 were passed as ordinary resolutions and Resolutions 15 to 18 were passed as special resolutions. The results of the polls, on which Equiniti, the Company's registrar, acted as scrutineer, are as follows:

	RESOLUTION	FOR	%	AGAINST	%	TOTAL	% OF ISSUED SHARE CAPITAL	WITHHELD
1.	Directors and Auditors' reports and audited accounts	622,424,025	99.99	85,031	0.01	622,509,056	62.25%	176,815
2.	Directors' Remuneration Report	548,642,126	91.47	51,145,932	8.53	599,788,058	59.98%	22,890,191
3.	Final dividend	622,094,531	99.92	486,342	0.08	622,580,873	62.26%	102,836
4.	Elect Rita Griffin	618,860,520	99.43	3,518,974	0.57	622,379,494	62.24%	276,793
5.	Re-elect Peter Long	533,615,404	92.02	46,261,339	7.98	579,876,743	57.99%	42,782,616
6.	Re-elect Moya Greene	618,609,475	99.38	3,853,526	0.62	622,463,001	62.25%	212,754
7.	Re-elect Cath Keers	618,970,262	99.45	3,419,575	0.55	622,389,837	62.24%	267,672
8.	Re-elect Paul Murray	619,103,079	99.47	3,285,556	0.53	622,388,635	62.24%	271,741
9.	Re-elect Orna Ni-Chionna	610,290,144	98.06	12,099,806	1.94	622,389,950	62.24%	269,036
10.	Re-elect Les Owen	619,103,821	99.47	3,268,031	0.53	622,371,852	62.24%	264,833
11.	Re-appoint KPMG LLP	621,859,334	99.90	620,512	0.10	622,479,846	62.25%	181,630
12.	Auditors' remuneration	621,728,462	99.88	751,645	0.12	622,480,107	62.25%	180,251
13.	Political donations	609,803,128	98.43	9,697,102	1.57	619,500,230	61.95%	3,181,308
14.	Allotment of shares	595,139,193	95.61	27,299,458	4.39	622,438,651	62.24%	229,326
15.	Disapplication of pre-emption rights (cash)	620,938,389	99.78	1,390,417	0.22	622,328,806	62.23%	329,672
16.	Disapplication of pre-emption rights (acquisition)	607,675,845	97.65	14,643,659	2.35	622,319,504	62.23%	331,725
17.	Purchase of own shares	615,163,955	98.87	7,010,381	1.13	622,174,336	62.22%	496,314
18.	Notice of general meeting	573,311,484	92.54	46,189,989	7.46	619,501,473	61.95%	3,156,751

As at 6.30pm on Tuesday 18 July 2017, the number of issued shares in the Company was 1,000,000,000 ordinary shares, which was the total number of shares entitling the holders to attend and vote for or against all the resolutions at the AGM.  In accordance with the Company's Articles of Association, on a poll every member present in person or by proxy has one vote for every share held.

There were no restrictions on shareholders to cast votes on any of the resolutions proposed at the AGM. Votes withheld are not votes in law and therefore have not been counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes for or against a resolution.

Pursuant to UK Listing Rule 9.6.2R, copies of all resolutions, other than those concerning ordinary business, passed at the AGM today have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available to view at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM 

The AGM results are also available to view on the Company's website at http://www.royalmailgroup.com/investors/shareholder-communications/annual-general-meetings

Contacts

Company Secretariat
Kulbinder Dosanjh
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Media
Peter Tilley

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Royal Mail press office out of hours: 020 3338 1007

Investor Relations
Catherine Nash
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