Result of AGM

RNS Number : 9445G

Tate & Lyle PLC

29 July 2021

 

Tate & Lyle PLC

Result of Annual General Meeting 2021

Tate & Lyle PLC (the 'Company') announces that at its Annual General Meeting ('AGM') held earlier today, all resolutions contained in the Notice of Annual General Meeting 2021 were duly passed.

For those shareholders who were unable to attend the AGM, an audiocast is available giving shareholders an opportunity to hear a presentation from our Chair, Gerry Murphy and our Chief Executive, Nick Hampton. You can listen to the audiocast from this link or from our website www.tateandlyle.com/investors/agm . The audiocast is available to watch on the above link until 26 August 2021.

The results of the poll held at the AGM are as follows:

Resolution		Total For(1)		Total Against		Votes withheld(2)
		No. of votes	% of vote	No. of votes	% of vote	No. of votes
1.	Report and Accounts	347,540,646	99.97	113,384	0.03	1,261,743
2.	Directors' Remuneration Report	334,425,571	96.48	12,211,637	3.52	1,704,959
3.	Approve final dividend	345,956,034	99.32	2,369,008	0.68	17,125
4.	Re-elect Dr Gerry Murphy	335,150,385	96.57	11,900,487	3.43	1,291,295
5.	Re-elect Nick Hampton	348,059,703	99.93	245,863	0.07	36,601
6.	Elect Vivid Sehgal	346,634,301	99.52	1,657,384	0.48	50,482
7.	Elect John Cheung	299,938,029	87.44	43,087,098	12.56	5,317,040
8.	Elect Patrícia Corsi	348,234,655	99.98	58,989	0.02	48,523
9.	Re-elect Paul Forman	344,732,967	98.98	3,560,755	1.02	48,445
10.	Re-elect Lars Frederiksen	344,582,972	98.93	3,709,419	1.07	49,776
11.	Re-elect Kimberly Nelson	345,107,718	99.08	3,194,031	0.92	40,418
12.	Re-elect Sybella Stanley	340,183,352	97.67	8,110,188	2.33	48,627
13.	Re-elect Warren Tucker	339,096,919	98.92	3,713,319	1.08	5,531,929
14.	Appoint Ernst & Young LLP	347,931,317	99.73	928,587	0.27	55,340
15.	Approve auditors' remuneration	348,819,680	99.99	35,112	0.01	60,981
16.	Authority to make political donations and incur political expenditure	343,985,657	98.62	4,829,813	1.38	100,303
17.	Authority to allot shares	335,877,125	96.28	12,974,085	3.72	64,563
18.	Authority to disapply pre-emption rights	345,689,683	99.12	3,076,162	0.88	149,928
19.	Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights for an acquisition or specified capital investment	331,374,436	95.01	17,390,401	4.99	150,936
20.	Authority to purchase own shares	346,618,937	99.52	1,663,454	0.48	633,382
21.	Authority in respect of notices for general meetings	333,375,519	95.56	15,500,828	4.44	39,426

⁽¹⁾ Includes discretionary votes.

⁽²⁾ A 'vote withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes 'For' or 'Against' a resolution.

On 27 July 2021, there were 468,489,901 ordinary shares and 2,394,000 preference shares (which have limited voting rights) in issue.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of the resolutions passed as special business at the AGM will shortly be available to view via the National Storage Mechanism at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism .

Claire-Marie O'Grady

Company Secretary

29 July 2021

 

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