Result of AGM

Unite Group PLC (The)

18 May 2023

 

18 May 2023

THE UNITE GROUP PLC (the "Company")

RESULTS OF THE 2023 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The Unite Group plc announces that all resolutions put to the Annual General Meeting held today, 18 May 2023, were passed on a poll.  The results for each resolution are detailed below:

		For		Against
	Resolution	Votes1	% Votes Cast	Votes	% Votes Cast	Votes Withheld 2
Ordinary Resolutions
1	Receive Annual Reports and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2022	359,154,662	100.00	12,575	0.00	395,791
2	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report contained in the Annual Report and Accounts	352,941,199	98.64	4,856,647	1.36	1,765,182
3	Declare 2022 final dividend	359,428,377	99.96	129,719	0.04	4,932
4	Re-elect Richard Huntingford	307,592,548	86.34	48,668,551	13.66	3,301,929
5	Re-elect Richard Smith	331,942,516	92.77	25,855,582	7.23	1,764,930
6	Re-elect Joseph Lister	353,393,206	98.77	4,404,892	1.23	1,764,930
7	Re-elect Ross Paterson	350,109,792	97.85	7,688,306	2.15	1,764,930
8	Re-elect Ilaria del Beato	352,612,413	98.55	5,185,685	1.45	1,764,930
9	Re-elect Dame Shirley Pearce	352,613,562	98.55	5,184,536	1.45	1,764,930
10	Re-elect Thomas Jackson	343,222,423	95.93	14,575,675	4.07	1,764,930
11	Re-elect Professor Sir Steve Smith	350,521,018	97.97	7,277,080	2.03	1,764,930
12	Elect Nicola Dulieu	353,283,248	98.74	4,514,850	1.26	1,764,930
13	Re-appoint Deloitte LLP as Auditor	358,449,242	100.00	3,683	0.00	1,110,103
14	Auditor's Remuneration	359,555,664	100.00	2,439	0.00	4,925
15	Authority to Allot Shares	324,364,955	90.66	33,433,170	9.34	1,764,903
Special Resolutions
16	Dis-apply Pre-emption Rights (General)	339,019,410	94.75	18,778,349	5.25	1,765,269
17	Dis-apply Pre-emption Rights (Acquisition or Specified Capital Investment)	310,618,713	87.29	45,218,009	12.71	3,726,306
18	Allow General Meeting on 14 days' notice	319,396,093	89.54	37,297,571	10.46	2,869,364

¹ Includes those votes giving the Chairman discretion.

² A "Vote Withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of "For" and "Against" a resolution.

Maximum number of shares represented by proxy: 359,563,028 shares.

Number of ordinary shares in issue as at the date of the AGM (no shares held in treasury): 400,346,797.

Resolutions 1 to 15 were passed as ordinary resolutions and Resolutions 16 to 18 were passed as special resolutions.

Pursuant to UK Listing Rule 9.6.2R, copies of all resolutions, other than those concerning ordinary business, adopted at the AGM will be shortly submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection at:

https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

The full text of the resolutions passed at the AGM can be found in the Notice of AGM, which is available alongside the AGM results on the Company's website at http://www.unitegroup.com.

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For further information, please contact:

Unite Students Christopher Szpojnarowicz, Company Secretary	Tel: [phone]

 

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