Result of AGM

RNS Number : 8632F

Severn Trent PLC

17 July 2019

 

 

LEI: 213800RPBXRETY4A4C59

Severn Trent Plc

(the "Company")

Results of the Annual General Meeting held on 17 July 2019

at the Ricoh Arena, Phoenix Way, Coventry CV6 6GE

The Directors are pleased to announce that the shareholders of Severn Trent Plc passed all the resolutions that were proposed at this year's Annual General Meeting, as set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting dated 20 May 2019.

All of the Resolutions were passed at the Meeting on a poll.  The total number of votes received for each resolution is set out below in Appendix A.

Resolutions 1 to 17 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 18 to 21 were passed as special resolutions.

The Meeting was attended by 72 shareholders.

In accordance with Listing Rules 9.6.1 and 9.6.2, a copy of the resolutions passed at the Meeting, other than resolutions concerning ordinary business, will be submitted to the UK Listing Authority and will shortly be available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism, located at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/.

In total, 74.91% of the issued share capital, excluding shares held in treasury, was voted and the percentages shown below are rounded to two decimal places.

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Appendix A

	RESOLUTION	VOTES FOR	% OF VOTES CAST	VOTES AGAINST	% OF VOTES CAST	VOTES CAST IN TOTAL	TOTAL VOTES CAST AS A % OF ISSUED SHARE CAPITAL	VOTES WITHHELD
1	Receive the Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2019	178,122,197	99.98	32,997	0.02	178,155,194	74.90%	125,014
2	Approve the Directors' Remuneration Report	176,315,760	99.32	1,203,205	0.68	177,518,965	74.63%	762,069
3	Approve changes to the Severn Trent Plc Long Term Incentive Plan 2014	176,682,196	99.24	1,348,533	0.76	178,030,729	74.84%	251,525
4	Approve the extension of the Severn Trent Sharesave Scheme by an additional period of ten years	177,608,656	99.68	568,594	0.32	178,177,250	74.91%	103,975
5	Declare a final ordinary dividend in respect of the year ended 31 March 2019	178,141,487	99.95	86,975	0.05	178,228,462	74.93%	53,353
6	Reappoint Kevin Beeston	177,258,007	99.50	888,197	0.50	178,146,204	74.89%	133,432
7	Reappoint James Bowling	177,309,395	99.53	836,317	0.47	178,145,712	74.89%	137,056
8	Reappoint John Coghlan	177,207,815	99.47	940,189	0.53	178,148,004	74.89%	134,416
9	Reappoint Andrew Duff	175,430,673	98.47	2,725,688	1.53	178,156,361	74.90%	125,120
10	Reappoint Olivia Garfield	177,678,524	99.73	486,117	0.27	178,164,641	74.90%	116,725
11	Reappoint Dominique Reiniche	177,555,550	99.66	598,282	0.34	178,153,832	74.90%	128,322
12	Reappoint Philip Remnant CBE	176,774,800	99.23	1,373,581	0.77	178,148,381	74.89%	134,106
13	Reappoint Dame Angela Strank	177,561,876	99.67	588,779	0.33	178,150,655	74.90%	130,517
14	Reappoint Deloitte LLP as Auditor of the Company	177,046,184	99.36	1,146,470	0.64	178,192,654	74.91%	89,869
15	Authorise the Audit Committee to determine the remuneration of the Auditor	178,042,971	99.92	151,047	0.08	178,194,018	74.91%	87,861
16	Authorise the Company and all companies which are subsidiaries of the Company to make political donations not exceeding £50,000 in total	164,625,111	99.29	1,179,096	0.71	165,804,207	69.70%	12,478,143
17	Renew the Company's authority to allot shares	175,666,553	98.59	2,510,266	1.41	178,176,819	74.91%	105,499
18	Disapply pre-emption rights on up to five per cent of the issued share capital	177,915,636	99.89	202,553	0.11	178,118,189	74.88%	164,298
19	Disapply pre-emption rights on up to an additional five per cent of the issued share capital in connection with an acquisition or specified capital investment	176,056,725	98.84	2,065,699	1.16	178,122,424	74.88%	159,645
20	Authorise the Company to make market purchases of its Ordinary Shares	177,326,544	99.54	820,982	0.46	178,147,526	74.89%	134,512
21	Authorise general meetings of the Company, other than Annual General Meetings, to be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice	169,628,639	95.59	7,832,351	4.41	177,460,990	74.61%	821,206

Notes

1. Any proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Chairman have been included in the "for" total.

2. A "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes "for" and "against" a resolution.

3.  Issued ordinary share capital (excluding shares held in treasury) at 15 July 2019: 237,866,618 shares.

 

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