Result of AGM

RNS Number : 6038D

Restaurant Group PLC

17 May 2012

 



The Restaurant Group

Results of AGM

At the Company's Annual General Meeting held on 17 May 2012, 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 1 January 2012	140,030,107	100%	268,188	391,644
2.   To approve the Director's remuneration report for the year ended 1 January 2012	128,533,796	91%	10,260,410	1,895,733
3.   To approve a final dividend of 6.5p per share for the year ended 1 January 2012	140,297,499	100%	1,440	391,000
4.   To re-elect Alan Jackson as a Director of the Company	136,505,268	97%	2,226,863	1,957,808
5.   To re-elect Andrew Page as a Director of the Company	137,369,164	98%	2,923,178	397,597
6.   To re-elect Stephen Critoph as a Director of the Company	138,327,408	98%	1,959,890	402,641
7.   To re-elect Trish Corzine as a Director of the Company	137,842,758	98%	2,449,584	397,597
8.   To re-elect Tony Hughes as a Director of the Company	127,649,217	91%	3,539,266	9,501,456
9.   To re-elect Simon Cloke as a Director of the Company	137,301,690	98%	2,983,299	404,950
10.  To re-appoint the Auditors and to authorise the Directors to determine their remuneration	137,557,046	98%	2,737,826	395,067
11.  To authorise the allotment of shares up to a maximum nominal amount of £18,773,553	140,203,915	100%	52,971	433,053
12.  To waive pre-emption rights in certain circumstances	140,103,188	100%	143,961	442,790
13.  To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares	139,735,087	99%	306,262	648,590

Notes:

1)   The total number of shares in issue at 17 May 2012 is 200,251,232.

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 the resolutions have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at:  www.morningstar.co.uk/UK/nsm. 

4)   Votes For % has been rounded to the nearest whole percentage

For further information please contact:

Robert Morgan, Company Secretary, The Restaurant Group plc, 020 3117 5001

 

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