Result of AGM

RNS Number : 3043G

National Express Group PLC

10 May 2011

 

NATIONAL EXPRESS GROUP PLC ("the Company")

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING - VOTING RESULTS

At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 10 May 2011 all of the resolutions proposed in the Notice of Meeting were passed by shareholders by means of a poll vote.  The votes cast were as follows:

	Resolution	For/Discretionary	Against	Withheld	Total
1.	To receive the reports of the Directors and the financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2010.	436,831,038	245,201	168,993	437,076,239
2.	To approve the Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December 2010.	430,237,085	5,140,644	1,872,988	435,377,729
3.	To declare a final dividend of 6 pence per ordinary share.	436,895,475	100,642	114,518	436,996,117
4.	To re-elect Roger Devlin as a director.	428,189,733	7,514,581	1,543,295	435,704,314
5.	To re-elect Jez Maiden as a   Director.	431,642,822	4,157,355	1,449,941	435,800,177
6.	To re-appoint Ernst & Young as Auditors of the Company.	427,094,809	8,590,877	1,561,799	435,685,686
7.	To authorise the Directors to fix the Auditors' remuneration.	430,622,815	5,585,273	1,041,497	436,208,088
8.	To confer on the Directors a general authority to allot shares.	433,629,950	1,874,635	1,745,970	435,504,585
9.*	To disapply statutory pre-emption rights relating to ordinary shares allotted under the authority granted by resolution 8.	430,769,551	5,938,918	540,818	436,708,469
10.*	To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own shares.	435,611,186	676,908	961,377	436,288,094
11.	To authorise political donations under the Companies Act 2006.	433,361,263	3,303,726	585,066	436,664,989
12.*	To renew authority to hold general meetings other than AGMs on not less than 14 clear days' notice.	430,169,552	6,761,680	319,323	436,931,232

*     Special Resolution

As announced earlier today, Elliott Advisors (UK) Ltd withdrew its request for three additional resolutions to be put before the Annual General Meeting and accordingly these resolutions were not put to the vote.

The number of shares in issue at the date of this announcement was 510,057,338 (excluding treasury shares).

In accordance with the UK Listing Authority, copies of resolutions 9, 10 and 12 will shortly be available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism, which is located at www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do.

Tony McDonald

Company Secretary

Telephone [phone]

10 May 2011

 

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