Result of AGM
6 May 2011
Rolls-Royce Group plc
RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND COURT MEETING HELD ON 6MAY 2011
On 10 February 2011, Rolls-Royce Group plc (the "Company" or "Rolls-Royce
Group") announced proposals to introduce, by means of a scheme of arrangement
under Part 26 of the Companies Act 2006, Rolls-Royce Holdings plc as the new
group holding company (the "Scheme"). A circular (the "Scheme Circular") was
made available to shareholders on 22 March 2011 containing, amongst other
things, the terms of the Scheme, notices convening the Annual General Meeting
and the requisite Court Meeting and the details of the action to be taken by
shareholders.
At the Annual General Meeting held earlier today, the Company's shareholders
passed each of the special and ordinary resolutions by the requisite majorities
on a poll. The full text of each resolution is contained in the Notice of
Annual General Meeting.
The total number of votes cast for each resolution is set out in the table
below. There were 237 shareholders at the meeting. The Company's issued share
capital as at today is 1,872,185,651 and the number of votes per share is one.
FOR AGAINST TOTAL VOTES WITHHELD
No. of votes % of No. of votes % of No. of
vote vote votes
Resolution
1 1,307,021,938 99.96 515,615 0.04 1,307,537,553 142,395
2 1,269,028,588 98.68 16,976,181 1.32 1,286,004,769 21,635,861
3 1,297,549,494 99.24 9,947,042 0.76 1,307,496,536 193,337
4 1,291,480,165 99.06 12,292,111 0.94 1,303,772,276 3,917,407
5 1,304,864,104 99.80 2,595,467 0.20 1,307,459,571 231,643
6 1,295,130,762 99.06 12,332,729 0.94 1,307,463,491 226,825
7 1,304,704,893 99.79 2,745,438 0.21 1,307,450,331 236,247
8 1,190,779,136 91.98 103,823,467 8.02 1,294,602,603 13,089,252
9 1,292,991,419 98.89 14,469,644 1.11 1,307,461,063 233,769
10 1,278,826,882 98.07 25,155,091 1.93 1,303,981,973 3,712,210
11 1,304,730,431 99.79 2,719,973 0.21 1,307,450,404 239,922
12 1,294,851,113 99.04 12,582,195 0.96 1,307,433,308 201,395
13 1,294,894,489 99.04 12,520,518 0.96 1,307,415,007 228,531
14 1,304,595,165 99.78 2,833,705 0.22 1,307,428,870 212,307
15 1,294,860,056 99.04 12,592,682 0.96 1,307,452,738 187,193
16 1,306,005,420 99.89 1,496,180 0.11 1,307,501,600 132,325
17 1,304,967,859 99.81 2,451,979 0.19 1,307,419,838 221,278
18 1,307,442,715 99.99 76,848 0.01 1,307,519,563 115,135
19 1,294,106,987 99.13 11,353,445 0.87 1,305,460,432 2,116,995
20 1,295,934,552 99.12 11,443,843 0.88 1,307,378,395 251,685
21 1,294,427,440 99.01 12,938,062 0.99 1,307,365,502 279,736
22 1,293,996,369 98.99 13,262,863 1.01 1,307,259,232 378,928
23 1,262,387,945 96.94 39,820,152 3.06 1,302,208,097 5,476,109
24 1,235,487,508 94.50 71,893,572 5.50 1,307,381,080 292,354
25 1,253,579,644 96.14 50,324,927 3.86 1,303,904,571 3,786,040
26 1,302,946,216 99.68 4,169,084 0.32 1,307,115,300 521,945
27 1,286,265,187 99.49 6,593,283 0.51 1,292,858,470 14,778,969
28 1,306,874,030 99.97 438,159 0.03 1,307,312,189 319,398
The Company is pleased to announce that, at the Court Meeting also held earlier
today to approve the proposed Scheme, the resolution approving the Scheme was
passed by the requisite majority on a poll. The total number of votes cast for
the resolution is set out below:
No. of % of No. of % of % of issued
shareholders shareholders ordinary ordinary ordinary
voting voting shares voted shares voted shares
FOR 13,418 95.55% 1,277,761,649 99.96% 68.25%
AGAINST 625 4.45% 491,828 0.04% 0.03%
In addition, completion of the Scheme remains subject to the sanction of the
Court, the hearing in respect of which is expected to take place on 20 May
2011. Further details of the remaining expected timetable are set out below:
Friday 20 May 2011 Court hearing to sanction the Scheme and confirm
the Rolls-Royce Group reduction of capital
Friday 20 May 2011 Last day of dealings in, and for registration of
transfers of, Rolls-Royce Group Ordinary Shares
4.30 p.m. Friday 20 May 2011 Suspension of listing of, and dealings in,
Rolls-Royce Group Ordinary Shares
6:00 p.m. Friday 20 May 2011 Scheme Record Time
Monday 23 May 2011 Scheme Effective Date
8:00 a.m. Monday 23 May 2011 Admission and listing of Rolls-Royce Holdings
Ordinary Shares, crediting of Rolls-Royce
Holdings Ordinary Shares to CREST accounts and
commencement of dealings in Rolls-Royce Holdings
Ordinary Shares on the London Stock Exchange
24 May 2011 Court hearing to confirm the Rolls-Royce
Holdings Reduction of Capital
24 May 2011 Rolls-Royce Holdings Reduction of Capital
becomes effective
Unless otherwise stated, all references to times in this document are to London
time. These times and dates are indicative only.
Copies of the resolutions passed at the Court Meeting and the Annual General
Meeting will shortly be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and
available for inspection at www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do .
Capitalised terms used but not defined in this announcement have the meaning
given to them in the Scheme Circular.
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ENQUIRIES:
Paul Davies +44 (0)1332 245878
Deputy Company Secretary
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