Result of AGM

RNS Number : 1013V

Marston's PLC

25 January 2017

 

Result of AGM

25 January 2017

Marston's PLC (the "Company") is pleased to announce that at its Annual General Meeting, held on 24 January 2017, all the resolutions proposed in the Notice of Meeting were passed on a poll.  Full details of the total number of votes received for each resolution are set out below and will also be made available on the Company's website: www.marstons.co.uk

A copy of the resolutions passed at the AGM that the Company considers to be non-routine business will be submitted to the UK Listing Authority's National Storage Mechanism and will be available to view at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

Resolution		Votes for	% of votes cast	Votes against	% of votes cast	Total votes cast	Total votes cast as a % of issued share capital	Votes withheld
1	Receive the Annual Report and Accounts	83,756,166	99.88%	102,882	0.12%	83,859,048	49.27%	29,932
2	Approve the Directors' remuneration policy	80,921034	97.88%	1,753,514	2.12%	82,674,548	48.57%	1,214,429
3	Approve the Annual Report on Remuneration	82,129,038	99.26%	608,771	0.74%	82,737,809	48.61%	1,151,170
4	Declare a final dividend	83,867,640	100.00%	1,732	0.00%	83,869,372	49.27%	19,610
5	Re-elect Andrew Andrea	82,454,106	99.57%	355,707	0.43%	82,809,813	48.65%	1,079,074
6	Re-elect Nicholas Backhouse	82,565,987	99.71%	243,604	0.29%	82,809,591	48.65%	1,079,298
7	Re-elect Carolyn Bradley	82,672,015	99.84%	134,770	0.16%	82,806,785	48.65%	1,082,104
8	Re-elect Peter Dalzell	82,629,502	99.78%	179,516	0.22%	82,809,018	48.65%	1,079,871
9	Re-elect Roger Devlin	82,560,245	99.70%	244,544	0.30%	82,804,789	48.65%	1,084,097
10	Re-elect Ralph Findlay	78,170,623	94.40%	4,641,514	5.60%	82,812,137	48.65%	1,076,749
11	Re-elect Catherine Glickman	81,631,566	99.72%	231,877	0.28%	81,863,443	48.10%	2,025,444
12	Re-elect Robin Rowland	82,673,904	99.84%	135,860	0.16%	82,809,764	48.65%	1,079,124
13	Re-appoint Auditors	81,831,577	97.65%	1,966,850	2.35%	83,798,427	49.23%	90,551
14	Authorise Auditors' remuneration	83,485,597	99.55%	379,877	0.45%	83,865,474	49.27%	23,506
15	Approve amendments to the 2014 Long Term Incentive Plan	82,481,120	99.76%	202,573	0.24%	82,683,693	48.58%	1,205,288
16	Authority to allot shares	83,306,102	99.38%	520,161	0.62%	83,826,263	49.25%	62,716
17	Disapplication of pre-emption rights	79,458,664	94.79%	4,365,407	5.21%	83,824,071	49.25%	64,908
18	Authority to make market purchases of own shares	82,290,196	98.11%	1,582,652	1.89%	83,872,848	49.28%	16,131
19	Adopt new Articles of Association	82,238,621	99.81%	155,210	0.19%	82,393,831	48.41%	1,495,148
20	Short notice of general meetings	81,680,283	97.40%	2,179,497	2.60%	83,859,780	49.27%	29,194

Notes:

(i)         Resolutions 1 to 16 were ordinary resolutions, requiring more than 50% of shareholder votes to be 'for' the resolutions.

(ii)         Resolutions 17 to 20 were special resolutions, requiring not less than 75% of shareholder votes to be 'for' the resolutions.

(iii)        Any proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Chairman have been included in the 'for' total.

(iv)        A 'vote withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes 'for' and 'against' a resolution.

 

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