Result of AGM

RNS Number : 7103R

Land Securities Group PLC

07 July 2022

 

7 July 2022

Land Securities Group PLC (the "Company")

Voting results of Annual General Meeting

The Company announces the voting results of its Annual General Meeting ("AGM") held earlier today as a hybrid meeting at 80 Victoria Street, London, SW1E 5JL. All resolutions, as set out in the Notice of Meeting dated 7 June 2022, were passed with the requisite majority by means of a poll.

Resolutions 1 to 17 were passed as Ordinary Resolutions and resolutions 18 to 20 were passed as Special Resolutions.

	RESOLUTION	VOTES FOR*	% FOR	VOTES AGAINST	TOTAL VOTES FOR / AGAINST	VOTES WITHHELD**
1.	To receive the 2022 Annual Report	554,580,636	100.00	10,041	554,590,677	2,007,504
2.	To approve the Annual Report on Remuneration	500,096,016	89.87	56,349,255	556,445,271	152,910
3.	To declare a final dividend of 13p per ordinary share	556,495,217	100.00	12,151	556,507,368	90,813
4.	To re-elect Mark Allan as a Director	554,746,390	99.98	132,679	554,879,069	1,714,555
5.	To re-elect Vanessa Simms as a Director	555,756,414	99.87	711,242	556,467,656	125,968
6.	To re-elect Colette O'Shea as a Director	555,844,268	99.89	623,373	556,467,641	125,983
7.	To re-elect Edward Bonham Carter as a Director	548,000,396	98.48	8,468,913	556,469,309	124,315
8.	To re-elect Nicholas Cadbury as a Director	549,697,458	98.78	6,772,873	556,470,331	123,293
9.	To re-elect Madeleine Cosgrave as a Director	554,633,406	99.67	1,836,264	556,469,670	123,954
10.	To re-elect Christophe Evain as a Director	541,917,682	97.38	14,551,842	556,469,524	123,939
11.	To re-elect Cressida Hogg as a Director	544,243,860	97.80	12,231,382	556,475,242	118,381
12.	To re-elect Manjiry Tamhane as a Director	556,346,504	99.98	121,856	556,468,360	125,264
13.	To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP as auditor	553,624,508	99.48	2,867,172	556,491,680	106,501
14.	To authorise the Directors to determine the remuneration of the auditor	555,206,658	99.77	1,291,538	556,498,196	99,985
15.	To authorise the Company to make political donations	555,596,138	99.82	987,089	556,583,227	14,954
16.	To authorise the Directors to allot securities	518,513,141	93.17	37,991,087	556,504,228	93,952
17.	To approve the Company's Sharesave Plan 2022	556,058,161	99.92	423,395	556,481,556	116,625
18.	To authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights	542,900,494	98.49	8,303,850	551,204,344	5,393,837
19.	To authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights for the purposes of acquisitions or capital investments	532,751,315	96.65	18,453,029	551,204,344	5,393,837
20.	To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own shares	554,785,793	99.70	1,663,833	556,449,626	148,555

The Company held the hybrid Annual General Meeting at the Company's registered office with the requisite amount of shareholders in attendance as required to form a quorum under the Company's articles of association. All valid proxy votes and voting instructions (whether submitted electronically or in hard copy form) were included in the poll taken at the meeting.

* Includes discretionary votes

**A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is therefore not included in the calculation of total votes For/Against

· Total voting rights at 7 July 2022:  741,498,619 Ordinary shares of 10^2/3p each

· Number of votes per share:  One

· Total number of votes cast:  556,583,227 Ordinary shares (i.e 75.06% turnout)

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of the resolutions passed as special business will shortly be available for inspection on the National Storage Mechanism at   https://www.fca.org.uk/markets/primary-markets/regulatory-disclosures/national-storage-mechanism

A copy of the voting results shown above is also available on the Company's website at https://landsec.com/investors/shareholders-equity-investors/annual-general-meeting  

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For further information, please contact:

Land Securities Group PLC 

Leigh McCaveny

Interim Company Secretary

Tel: [phone]

7 July 2022

 

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