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 +44 (0) 7506 642 348

Notes

Legal Entity Identifier: 213800A8IQEMY8PA5X34

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

 

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