Result of AGM
McBride PLC
12 November 2007
12 November 2007
McBride plc
Result of AGM
All of the Resolutions proposed at McBride's Annual General Meeting held on 30
October 2007 at 10.30 am were duly approved by shareholders. Proxies were
received in respect of 138.7m McBride shares, representing 76.6% of McBride's
shares in issue.
For information, the proxy votes received prior to the meeting on each
resolution, were as follows:
Votes against Chairman's Votes
No. Resolution Votes for discretion withheld*
1 Receive and approve accounts 138,550,233 985 183,689 34,914
2 Approve directors' remuneration report 136,544,547 577,193 186,862 1,461,219
3 Declare final dividend 138,578,711 1,637 183,880 4,796
4 Elect John (Iain) Grant Napier 138,345,211 206,125 198,586 19,899
5 Re-elect Miles Roberts 138,330,598 227,923 195,525 15,775
6 Re-elect Christine Bogdanowicz-Bindert 138,342,828 207,973 195,790 23,230
7 Re-elect Robert Lee 138,344,057 205,416 198,448 21,900
8 Re-elect Colin Smith 138,342,250 204,508 196,587 26,476
9 Re-elect Henri Talerman 138,119,568 429,108 200,587 20,558
10 Re-appoint auditors 137,680,868 783,348 189,392 116,212
11 Authorise directors to determine auditors' 138,548,034 20,062 189,861 11,864
remuneration
12 Allotment of securities 138,502,892 60,928 188,657 17,344
13 Dis-apply pre-emption rights 138,488,512 62,459 189,361 29,489
14 Authorise purchase of own shares 138,521,948 51,635 183,610 12,628
15 Approve amended articles of association 134,756,328 266,749 193,973 3,552,771
* A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in calculating votes
for or against a resolution.
Number of shareholders - 3,870
Issued share capital - 180,986,749 ordinary shares of 10p each
Number of votes per share - one
Number of proxies lodged - 771
In accordance with Listing Rules 9.6.2 R and 9.6.3 R, two copies of the
resolutions passed as special business (comprising both ordinary and special
resolutions) have been forwarded to the Financial Services Authority and are
available for inspection at the UK Listing Authority's Document Viewing
Facility, which is situated at:
Financial Services Authority
25 The North Colonnade
Canary Wharf
London E14 5HS
Tel: 020 7066 1000
The documents forwarded to the Financial Services Authority are also available
from the company's registered office at McBride House, Penn Road, Beaconsfield,
Buckinghamshire HP9 2FY.
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