Result of 2022 Annual General Meeting

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Smiths News PLC

20 January 2022

 

20 January 2022

 

SMITHS NEWS PLC

Result of 2022 Annual General Meeting

Smiths News plc announces that at its Annual General Meeting (AGM) held at 11.30am today all resolutions put to the meeting were duly passed by shareholders by way of a poll.  The voting results are shown below.

Resolution		For		Against		Withheld
		No. of votes	%	No. of votes	%	No. of votes
1	To receive the Annual Report and Accounts for the 52 week period ended 28 August 2021	152,002,867	99.99%	17,970	0.01%	84,865
2	To approve the directors' remuneration report for the 52 week period ended 28 August 2021	132,872,601	87.43%	19,099,963	12.57%	133,138
3	To declare a final dividend	127,656,537	83.94%	24,432,976	16.06%	16,189
4	To re-elect David Blackwood	126,938,472	99.70%	378,798	0.30%	24,788,432
5	To re-elect Jonathan Bunting	151,795,153	99.81%	287,767	0.19%	22,782
6	To re-elect Denise Collis	151,882,550	99.87%	200,704	0.13%	22,448
7	To re-elect Michael Holt	151,884,167	99.87%	199,095	0.13%	22,440
8	To re-elect Mark Whiteling	151,698,933	99.75%	384,257	0.25%	22,512
9	To elect Paul Baker	151,851,493	99.85%	227,293	0.15%	26,916
10	To re-appoint the auditor	151,969,516	99.93%	111,657	0.07%	24,529
11	To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the auditor's remuneration	151,952,145	99.92%	121,733	0.08%	31,824
12	Authority to make political donations	115,207,694	81.11%	26,827,237	18.89%	10,070,771
13	Authority to allot shares	129,903,508	85.43%	22,158,411	14.57%	43,783
14	Authority to partially disapply pre-emption rights*	151,062,644	99.39%	932,623	0.61%	110,435
15	Authority to make market purchases of ordinary shares*	151,871,832	99.86%	214,232	0.14%	19,638
16	Authority to call general meetings (other than the AGM) on 14 clear days' notice*	151,759,263	99.79%	322,860	0.21%	23,579

* Special resolution requiring 75% majority of those votes cast at the meeting.

 

Notes:

1.  Percentages are rounded to two decimal places.

2.  Where shareholders appointed the Chairman as their proxy with discretion as to voting, their votes were cast in favour of the resolutions and have been included in the "For" total.

3.  A "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the percentages of the votes cast for and against a resolution.

4.  The number of votes validly cast were in respect of 152,105,702 shares, representing 61.41% of the 247,659,200 issued share capital of the Company, being the total number of shares in issue at 6.30pm on 19^th January 2022.

5.  The full text of all of the resolutions is set out in the Notice of AGM dated 6 December 2021 which is available on the Company's website.  Resolutions 14, 15 and 16 were special resolutions, requiring 75% majority of those votes cast at the meeting. 

6.  In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, a copy of the special business passed at the AGM, being resolutions 13, 14, 15 and 16, has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism  

7.  The results of the AGM voting will also be made available on the Company's website at www.corporate.smithsnews.co.uk/investors

 

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