Result of AGM

RNS Number : 3070T

Smiths Group PLC

13 November 2019

 

13 NOVEMBER 2019

SMITHS GROUP PLC

RESULT OF AGM

Smiths Group plc (the 'Company') announces that a poll was held on each of the resolutions proposed at the Annual General Meeting ('AGM') on 13 November 2019. The results of the poll are:

		VOTES FOR	%	VOTES AGAINST	%	VOTES TOTAL	% of ISC VOTED	VOTES WITHHELD
1	Adoption of Annual Report FY2019	305,838,467	100.00	7,941	0.00	305,846,408	77.20%	7,149,349
2	Approval of Directors' Remuneration Report	294,243,250	98.11	5,671,458	1.89	299,914,708	75.70%	13,080,429
3	Declaration of a final dividend	307,813,391	99.89	353,964	0.11	308,167,355	77.78%	4,828,402
4	Re-election of Bruno Angelici as a director	302,443,676	98.15	5,693,965	1.85	308,137,641	77.78%	4,858,115
5	Re-election of Olivier Bohuon as a director	307,605,376	99.83	532,065	0.17	308,137,441	77.78%	4,858,316
6	Re-election of Sir George Buckley as a director	300,999,884	97.88	6,523,091	2.12	307,522,975	77.62%	5,472,781
7	Re-election of Dame Ann Dowling as a director	308,121,299	99.99	21,595	0.01	308,142,894	77.78%	4,852,863
8	Re-election of Tanya Fratto as a director	306,701,884	99.53	1,436,427	0.47	308,138,311	77.78%	4,857,446
9	Re-election of William Seeger as a director	303,535,692	98.51	4,599,950	1.49	308,135,642	77.77%	4,860,114
10	Re-election of Mark Seligman as a director	298,568,593	96.90	9,567,329	3.10	308,135,922	77.77%	4,859,834
11	Re-election of John Shipsey as a director	306,401,803	99.44	1,738,348	0.56	308,140,151	77.78%	4,855,606
12	Re-election of Andrew Reynolds Smith as a director	307,776,212	99.88	364,189	0.12	308,140,401	77.78%	4,855,356
13	Re-election of Noel Tata as a director	282,942,318	92.72	22,230,412	7.28	305,172,730	77.03%	7,823,027
14	Appointment of KPMG LLP as auditors	307,484,143	99.78	670,608	0.22	308,154,751	77.78%	4,841,006
15	Auditors' remuneration	307,657,945	99.84	485,620	0.16	308,143,565	77.78%	4,852,192
16	Authority to issue shares	291,202,955	94.50	16,960,214	5.50	308,163,169	77.78%	4,832,588
17	Authority to disapply pre-emption rights	306,089,331	97.96	6,386,532	2.04	312,475,863	78.87%	519,894
18	Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights	289,947,874	92.79	22,527,532	7.21	312,475,406	78.87%	520,350
19	Authority to make market purchases of shares	305,084,528	99.04	2,962,545	0.96	308,047,073	77.75%	4,948,683
20	Authority to call general meetings on short notice	290,414,721	94.62	16,506,203	5.38	306,920,924	77.47%	6,074,833
21	Authority to make political donations and expenditure	301,427,324	98.23	5,427,735	1.77	306,855,059	77.45%	6,140,697

As at 11 November 2019 the Issued Share Capital of the Company was 396,190,187 ordinary shares of 37.5p.

Shareholders are entitled to one vote per share. Votes withheld are not a vote in law and are therefore not counted in the calculation of the percentages of the votes cast for and against a resolution. Where shareholders appointed the Chairman as their proxy with discretion as to voting, their votes were cast in favour of the resolutions and their shares have been included in the "votes for" column.

Resolutions 1 to 16 and 21 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 17 to 20 were passed as special resolutions.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2 copies of the resolutions (other than those resolutions comprising ordinary business) passed by the Company at its AGM will be uploaded to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM

Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 213800MJL6IPZS3ASA11

Enquiries:

Matthew Whyte

Deputy Company Secretary

[e-mail] 

[phone]

 

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