Result of AGM

RNS Number : 1613L

National Express Group PLC

11 May 2022

 

NATIONAL EXPRESS GROUP PLC

Result of AGM - 11 May 2022

National Express Group PLC (the "Company") held its Annual General Meeting ("AGM") today at Glaziers Hall, 9 Montague Close, London Bridge, London SE1 9DD at 2.00pm. All resolutions at the AGM were put to the meeting on a poll and were passed with the requisite majority. The full results are detailed below.

As at 6.30pm on Monday 9 May 2022, the time by which shareholders who wanted to vote at the AGM must have been entered on the Company's register of members, there were 614,086,377 ordinary shares of 5 pence each in issue.  Shareholders are entitled to one vote per share on a poll. 

Resolution		VOTES FOR		VOTES AGAINST		% of ISC voted	Number of votes withheld
		No. of shares	%	No. of shares	%
1.	To receive the accounts of the Company for the year ended 31 December 2021 and the Directors' and Auditors' Reports thereon	496,298,521	99.98	75,327	0.02	80.83%	18,955,154
2.	To approve the Annual Report on Remuneration (advisory vote only)	484,316,579	94.33	29,105,007	5.67	83.61%	1,907,416
3.	To re-elect Sir John Armitt as a Director	490,688,182	95.23	24,600,408	4.77	83.91%	40,412
4.	To re-elect Jorge Cosmen as a Director	507,409,950	98.47	7,886,997	1.53	83.91%	32,034
5.	To re-elect Matthew Crummack as a Director	509,260,812	98.83	6,028,220	1.17	83.91%	39,970
6.	To re-elect Chris Davies as a Director	514,220,021	99.79	1,079,265	0.21	83.91%	29,716
7.	To elect Carolyn Flowers as a Director	513,814,075	99.71	1,481,069	0.29	83.91%	33,858
8.	To re-elect Ignacio Garat as a Director	514,380,862	99.82	912,118	0.18	83.91%	36,022
9.	To re-elect Karen Geary as a Director	494,036,687	95.88	21,252,534	4.12	83.91%	39,760
10.	To re-elect Ana de Pro Gonzalo as a Director	510,991,034	99.17	4,298,209	0.83	83.91%	39,759
11.	To re-elect Mike McKeon as a Director	514,357,364	99.82	935,934	0.18	83.91%	35,704
12.	To re-appoint Deloitte LLP as the Company's auditor	436,068,024	84.63	79,212,371	15.37	83.91%	48,607
13.	To authorise the Directors to fix the auditor's remuneration	455,333,645	88.36	59,959,149	11.64	83.91%	34,337
14.	To authorise political donations and expenditure	514,852,261	99.92	436,510	0.08	83.91%	40,231
15.	To authorise the Directors to allot shares	503,647,133	97.74	11,645,669	2.26	83.91%	36,200
16.	To give the Directors power to disapply pre-emption rights - general	513,504,586	99.69	1,575,167	0.31	83.88%	249,249
17.	To give the Directors power to disapply pre-emption rights - specific	443,138,669	86.03	71,938,326	13.97	83.88%	251,986
18.	To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares	496,534,755	96.37	18,713,698	3.63	83.90%	80,549
19.	To call General Meetings (other than AGMs) on 14 clear days' notice	502,297,271	97.48	12,983,381	2.52	83.91%	20,076
20.	To adopt New Articles of Association of the Company	514,710,165	99.89	556,631	0.11	83.91%	62,206

NOTES: 

 1.  The 'For' vote includes those giving the Chairperson discretion.

2.  Votes 'Withheld' are not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes 'For' or 'Against' a resolution.

3.  Resolutions 1 to 15 were ordinary resolutions which required a majority of votes cast to be in favour. 

4.  Resolutions 16 to 20 were special resolutions which required at least 75% of votes cast to be in favour. 

5.  In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2R, copies of the resolutions passed as special business will shortly be available for inspection on the National Storage Mechanism at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism

6.  The voting results shown above are also available on the Company's website at https://www.nationalexpressgroup.com/investors/agm

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Company contacts:

Gillian Saunderson, Interim Company Secretary

Telephone [phone]

Notes

Legal Entity Identifier: 213800A8IQEMY8PA5X34

Classification: 3.1 (with reference to DTR6 Annex 1R)

 

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