Result of AGM
Restaurant Group PLC
16 May 2007
The Restaurant Group
Results of AGM
At the Company's Annual General Meeting held on 16 May 2007, 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 Against Votes Withheld
1. To adopt the Accounts for the year 128,759,615 2,488,207 0
ended 31 December 2006.
2. To approve the Director's remuneration 119,717,341 5,069,605 6,460,876
report for the year ended 31 December 2006
3. To approve a final dividend of 4.95p 131,240,711 7,111 0
per share for the year ended 31
December 2006
4. To re-elect Kevin J. Bacon as a 131,036,992 201,011 9,819
Director of the Company
5. To re-elect Patricia A. Corzine as a 131,031,865 205,250 10,707
Director of the Company
6. To re-elect John E. Jackson as a 124,382,773 3,537,625 3,327,424
Director of the Company
7. To elect David H. Richardson as a 131,179,038 60,519 8,265
Director of the Company
8. To re-appoint the Auditors and to 130,585,196 660,643 1,983
authorise the Directors to determine their
remuneration
9. To authorise the allotment of shares 130,874,578 369,691 3,553
up to a maximum nominal amount of
£18,983,936
10. To give the Directors powers pursuant to 131,216,214 27,699 3,909
Section 95 of the Companies Act 1985
11. To authorise the Company to purchase its 131,218,459 27,475 1,888
own shares
Notes:
1) The total number of shares in issue at 16 May 2007 is 196,006,827
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) It should be noted that the appointment of a proxy is not an
unequivocally precise indicator of the way that shareholder would have voted on
a poll; it reflects their intention at the time the instruction was given.
Voting instructions can be given at any time prior to a poll being completed,
and a shareholder may lodge a proxy vote and still attend the meeting and vote
as they see fit.
4) Certified copies of the special resolutions (numbers 9 to 11) have been
delivered to the UKLA in accordance with LR 9.6.2 for placing on its Document
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For further information please contact:
Robert Morgan, Company Secretary, The Restaurant Group plc, 0845 612 5001
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