Result of AGM

RNS Number : 2105A

Mitchells & Butlers PLC

27 January 2011

 



Mitchells & Butlers plc (the "Company")

Result of Annual General Meeting

Mitchells & Butlers plc announces that the results of the voting at the Company's Annual General Meeting on 27 January 2011 held at the International Convention Centre, Birmingham at 11am.

 All Board Directors were in attendance. 

Each of the resolutions were voted on by way of a poll and the results of each resolution are shown below.  Resolutions 1 to 12, 15, 16 and 18 were duly approved and Resolutions 13, 14 & 17 were not approved.

John Lovering, Michael Balfour, Jeremy Blood and Simon Burke were re-elected by a majority of shareholders excluding Piedmont Inc..

Resolutions	For1		Against		Number of votes witheld2
	No. of shares1	%	No. of shares	%
1. Receipt of financial statements	318,527,852	99.66	1,073,619	0.34	32,195
2. Approval of remuneration report	218,008,150	97.34	5,952,667	2.66	95,672,847
3.Re-election of Adam Fowle	312,668,647	99.49	1,589,028	0.51	59,895
4. Re-election of John Lovering	308,885,824	98.96	3,261,222	1.04	7,486,619
5.Re-election of Michael Balfour	308,363,640	98.60	4,366,905	1.40	6,903,120
6.Re-election of Jeremy Blood	308,391,211	98.61	4,339,223	1.39	6,903,231
7.Re-election of Simon Burke	308,632,068	98.69	4,095,859	1.31	6,905,738
8. Re-election of Ron Robson	294,174,794	97.95	6,167,120	2.05	19,291,751
9. Election of Douglas McMahon	294,109,368	97.93	6,210,877	2.07	19,313,420
10.Election of Tim Jones	319,184,117	99.89	351,063	0.11	98,486
11.Re-appointment of Auditors	313,863,557	98.22	5,698,559	1.78	71,549
12. Auditors' Remuneration	316,359,824	99.00	3,194,700	1.00	79,142
13. Authority to allot equity securities	111,479,886	35.23	204,929,675	64.77	3,224,104
14. Disapplication of Pre-Emption Rights***	123,597,076	38.68	195,943,422	61.32	93,168
15. Authority to Purchase Own Shares***	316,833,166	99.89	342,611	0.11	2,457,888
16. Political Donations	316,109,173	98.96	3,332,934	1.04	191,558
17. Amendments to Articles of Association***	131,632,969	41.20	187,902,526	58.80	98,171
18. Notice of Meetings***	315,765,747	98.81	3,808,488	1.19	59,431

NOTES:

¹The "For" vote includes those giving the Chairman discretion.

²A vote "withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes "For" or "Against" the resolution.

³Votes "For" and "Against" are expressed as a percentage of votes received.

⁴Voting was conducted by poll. 

⁵The number of shares in issue at 11am on Tuesday 25 January 2011 was 409,075,717 excluding shares held in Treasury.  78.14% of voting capital was instructed.

*** Denotes Special Resolutions

The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual of General Meeting, which is available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism http://www.hemscott.com/nsm.do and also on the Company's website at www.mbplc.com

 A copy of the resolutions passed under special business (as defined by the listing rules of the UK Listing Authority) will shortly be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will also be available for inspection at http://www.hemscott.com/nsm.do

Denise Burton

Deputy Company Secretary

 

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