Result of AGM

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Smiths News PLC

24 January 2013

 



24 January 2013

Smiths News PLC

Result of 2013 Annual General Meeting

Smiths News PLC is pleased to announce that at its AGM held at 11.30am today, all resolutions put to the meeting were duly passed. All resolutions were voted on by way of a poll and the results of the poll for each resolution are shown below:

Resolution		For		Against		Withheld
		No. of votes	%	No. of votes	%	No. of votes
1	To receive the Annual Report and Accounts 2012	122,703,964	99.76	297,345	0.24	321,133
2	To approve the directors' remuneration report	117,824,479	95.90	5,043,079	4.10	453,979
3	To declare a final dividend of 5.8p per share	123,316,692	99.99	2,494	0.00	2,351
4	To re-elect Dennis Millard	122,677,298	99.50	615,795	0.50	28,444
5	To re-elect Mark Cashmore	123,021,329	99.77	287,508	0.23	12,700
6	To re-elect Jonathan Bunting	123,020,864	99.77	288,109	0.23	12,564
7	To re-elect Nick Gresham	123,014,626	99.76	293,117	0.24	13,794
8	To re-elect Andrew Brent	123,266,849	99.97	36,449	0.03	18,239
9	To re-elect Anthony Cann	123,174,029	99.92	93,610	0.08	53,898
10	To re-elect John Worby	120,784,113	97.96	2,518,234	2.04	19,190
11	To re-appoint the auditor	118,234,674	96.98	3,675,618	3.02	1,411,245
12	To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the auditor's remuneration	118,817,808	97.47	3,087,137	2.53	1,416,592
13	Authority to make political donations	119,734,053	98.10	2,321,106	1.90	1,266,378
14	Authority to allot shares	95,975,996	77.85	27,308,249	22.15	37,292
15	Authority to disapply pre-emption rights*	96,521,025	78.33	26,706,429	21.67	94,083
16	Authority to make market purchases of ordinary shares*	122,628,413	99.71	361,273	0.29	331,851
17	Authority to call general meetings (other than the AGM) on 14 clear days' notice*	117,640,382	95.44	5,620,975	4.56	60,180

* Special resolution

Notes:

1.   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.

2.   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.

3.   The Company has 183,926,542 shares in issue with voting rights.

In accordance with paragraph 9.6.2 of the Listing Rules, a copy of the resolutions passed as special business at the AGM, being resolutions 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17, has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do.

Colin White

Deputy Company Secretary

 

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