Result of AGM
Unilever PLC
11 May 2005
UNILEVER ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
All RESOLUTIONS APPROVED
Unilever PLC shareholders today approved all resolutions put to the annual
general meeting in London. Voting was by poll on each resolution and the results
are set out below.
All resolutions put to the annual general meeting in Rotterdam on 10 May 2005
were also approved.
All continuing directors stood for election and were duly re-elected. These were
Patrick Cescau, Kees van der Graaf, Rudy Markham, Antony Burgmans, The Rt. Hon
The Lord Brittan of Spennithorne QC, The Rt. Hon The Baroness Chalker of
Wallasey, Bertrand Collomb, Professor Wim Dik, Oscar Fanjul, Hilmar Kopper, The
Lord Simon of Highbury and Jeroen van der Veer. Ralph Kugler was proposed for
election for the first time and was duly elected.
Andre baron van Heemstra, Keki Dadiseth and Clive Butler retired as executive
directors at the meeting. Claudio X Gonzalez retired as a non-executive director
at the meeting.
POLL RESULTS
RESOLUTION FOR AGAINST ABSTAIN
% Votes % Votes Votes
1 Receive the Report and Accounts 99.90 1,677,118,736 0.10 1,674,575 35,710,998
2 Approve the Directors' Remuneration 87.88 1,081,598,001 12.12 149,168,801 483,746,671
Report
3 Declaration of a Dividend on the 99.99 1,711,195,281 0.01 124,321 3,190,753
Ordinary Shares
4 Re-election of PJ Cescau 99.33 1,698,497,428 0.67 11,376,301 4,627,980
5 Re-election of Mr CJ van der Graaf 99.58 1,702,515,357 0.42 7,123,079 4,737,628
6 Re-election of RHP Markham 99.62 1,703,284,344 0.38 6,492,048 4,730,015
7 Election of Mr RD Kugler 99.62 1,703,678,827 0.38 6,535,796 4,280,118
8 Re-election of Mr A Burgmans 98.33 1,587,532,403 1.67 26,993,651 99,969,351
9 Re-election of Lord Brittan of 99.61 1,698,731,440 0.39 6,635,210 9,085,598
Spennithorne
10 Re-election of Baroness Chalker of 99.66 1,703,924,228 0.34 5,820,407 4,743,638
Wallasey
11 Re-election of Mr B Collomb 98.76 1,641,093,181 1.24 20,579,501 52,694,983
12 Re-election of Professor W Dik 99.44 1,659,114,646 0.56 9,323,073 46,042,574
13 Re-election of O Fanjul 98.49 1,669,988,056 1.51 25,556,216 18,940,701
14 Re-election of Mr H Kopper 99.67 1,703,699,298 0.33 5,615,206 5,186,156
15 Re-election of The Lord Simon of 99.78 1,705,942,675 0.22 3,820,693 4,742,888
Highbury CBE
16 Re-election of Mr J van der Veer 99.81 1,705,969,369 0.19 3,234,254 5,163,579
17 Re-appointment of Auditors 99.38 1,686,737,590 0.62 10,543,962 17,230,477
18 Remuneration of Auditors 99.65 1,704,688,691 0.35 5,910,132 3,894,563
19 Authority to issue shares 99.71 1,705,849,060 0.29 5,017,178 3,627,383
20 Authority to disapply pre-emption 99.66 1,704,359,821 0.34 5,777,654 4,363,397
rights
21 Authority to purchase own shares 99.93 1,706,054,348 0.07 1,138,527 7,302,412
22 Articles in relation to appointment of 99.91 1,708,074,112 0.09 1,546,344 4,860,180
a Group Chief Executive
23 Articles in relation to Directors' 99.80 1,705,470,918 0.20 3,483,059 5,503,024
Indemnification
24 To approve The Unilever Global 96.48 1,618,802,285 3.52 59,077,437 36,602,455
Performance Share Plan 2005
25 To approve The Unilever PLC Sharesave 99.35 1,698,610,794 0.65 11,110,008 4,755,688
Plan
Votes cast as a percentage of issued share capital was approximately 58.88%.
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