At the Company's Annual General Meeting held on 6 May 2010, all of the resolutions put to the meeting were duly passed.
The proxy votes received on each resolution were as follows:
Resolution |
Votes For |
% Votes For |
Votes Against |
Votes Withheld |
1. To adopt the Accounts for the year ended 27 December 2009 |
119,033,699 |
100% |
26,143 |
2,630 |
2. To approve the Director's remuneration report for the year ended 27 December 2009 |
118,903,697 |
100% |
89,775 |
69,000 |
3. To approve a final dividend of 0.3p per share for the year ended 27 December 2009 |
119,060,365 |
100% |
775 |
1,332 |
4. To re-elect Trish Corzine as a Director of the Company |
117,593,305 |
99% |
1,460,605 |
8,562 |
5. To elect Simon Cloke as a Director of the Company |
118,802,145 |
100% |
251,366 |
8,961 |
6. To re-appoint the Auditors and to authorise the Directors to determine their remuneration |
118,408,364 |
99% |
651,622 |
2,486 |
7. To authorise the allotment of shares up to a maximum nominal amount of £18,690,289 |
118,998,298 |
100% |
48,903 |
15,271 |
8. To waive pre-emption rights in certain circumstances |
118,981,129 |
100% |
55,232 |
26,111 |
9. To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares |
119,009,090 |
100% |
37,917 |
15,465 |
Notes:
1) The total number of shares in issue at 6 May 2010 is 199,373,084
2) Where shareholders have appointed the Chairman of the meeting as their proxy with discretion as to voting, those votes have been cast in favour of the resolutions and are included in the total of those votes for
3) Certified copies of ordinary resolution 7 and the special resolutions (numbers 8 and 9) have been delivered to the UKLA in accordance with LR 9.6.2 for placing on its Document Viewing Facility
4) Votes For% has been rounded to the nearest whole percentage
For further information please contact:
Robert Morgan, Company Secretary, The Restaurant Group plc, 0845 612 5001
6 May 2010