Voting results of Annual General Meeting

RNS Number : 4852U

Land Securities Group PLC

12 July 2018

 

12 July 2018

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 at 80 Victoria Street, London, SW1E 5JL. All resolutions, as set out in the Notice of Meeting dated 11 June 2018, were passed with the requisite majority by means of a poll.

Resolutions 1 to 18 were passed as Ordinary Resolutions and resolutions 19 to 21 were passed as Special Resolutions.

	RESOLUTION	VOTES FOR*	% FOR	VOTES AGAINST	TOTAL VOTES FOR / AGAINST	VOTES WITHHELD**
1.	To receive the accounts of the Company for the year ended 31 March 2018 and the Directors' and Auditors' Reports thereon	564,126,799	99.93	418,282	564,545,081	538,377
2.	To approve the Directors Remuneration Policy	561,169,530	99.42	3,262,536	564,432,066	651,391
3.	To approve the Annual Report on Remuneration	553,919,786	98.14	10,511,217	564,431,003	652,454
4.	To declare a final dividend of 14.65 pence per Ordinary share	564,570,902	100.00	10,580	564,581,482	501,976
5.	To elect Colette O'Shea as a Director	560,578,344	99.30	3,970,615	564,548,959	533,281
6.	To elect Scott Parsons as a Director	560,272,858	99.24	4,273,798	564,546,656	535,584
7.	To re-elect Robert Noel as a Director	560,743,930	99.33	3,805,170	564,549,100	533,140
8.	To re-elect Martin Greenslade as a Director	559,866,988	99.17	4,683,163	564,550,151	532,089
9.	To re-elect Christopher Bartram as a Director	559,521,373	99.11	5,028,861	564,550,234	532,099
10.	To re-elect Edward Bonham Carter as a Director	559,533,440	99.11	5,016,363	564,549,803	533,748
11.	To re-elect Nicholas Cadbury as a Director	563,114,530	99.75	1,434,128	564,548,658	533,675
12.	To re-elect Cressida Hogg CBE as a Director	557,206,659	98.70	7,354,004	564,560,663	522,888
13.	To re-elect Simon Palley as a Director	559,395,616	99.09	5,154,394	564,550,010	532,323
14.	To re-elect Stacey Rauch as a Director	559,826,946	99.16	4,723,505	564,550,451	531,882
15.	To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP as auditor	564,400,385	99.97	164,916	564,565,301	518,250
16.	To determine the remuneration of the auditor	564,030,710	99.91	483,600	564,514,310	569,241
17.	To make political donations	559,435,497	99.53	2,657,858	562,093,355	2,990,196
18.	To allot securities	502,417,392	89.00	62,097,524	564,514,916	568,634
19.	To disapply pre-emption rights	560,662,973	99.96	233,793	560,896,766	4,186,785
20.	To disapply pre-emption rights  for purposes of acquisitions or capital investments	526,142,339	93.80	34,753,414	560,895,753	4,187,797
21.	To purchase own shares	561,927,599	99.60	2,249,136	564,176,735	906,815

* 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 12 July 2018:    741,459,785  Ordinary Shares of 10 2/3 p each

·      Number of votes per share:              One

·      Total number of votes cast:               564,581,482  Ordinary Shares (i.e.76.14% 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 http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.  

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                           

Tim Ashby

Group General Counsel & Company Secretary

Tel: [phone]

 

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