Result of AGM

RNS Number : 7102E

Standard Life plc

14 May 2013

 



Standard Life plc

Results of Annual General Meeting 

The Board of Standard Life plc is pleased to announce that all the resolutions put to its Annual General Meeting earlier today, 14 May 2013, were duly passed.  The results of the polls were as follows:

	For	% For	Against	Total Votes Validly Cast	% of Issued Share Capital Voted	Votes Withheld
Resolution 1: To receive and consider the Annual Report and Accounts for 2012	947,399,033	99.86	1,298,834	948,697,867	40.23	10,069,296
Resolution 2: To approve the Directors' remuneration report	882,413,708	95.94	37,372,850	919,786,558	39.01	38,980,605
Resolution 3: To declare a final dividend for 2012	957,531,200	99.96	337,034	957,868,234	40.62	898,929
Resolution 4: To declare a special dividend	956,704,043	99.90	990,182	957,694,225	40.61	1,072,938
Resolution 5: To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors	937,568,584	99.12	8,326,218	945,894,802	40.11	12,872,361
Resolution 6: To authorise the Directors to set the auditors' fees	950,304,465	99.55	4,259,645	954,564,110	40.48	4,193,526
Resolution 7A: To re-elect Gerald Grimstone as a Director	943,834,205	98.76	11,847,689	955,681,894	40.53	3,085,012
Resolution 7B: To re-elect Colin Buchan as a Director	949,158,613	99.34	6,321,649	955,480,262	40.52	3,286,644
Resolution 7C: To re-elect Pierre Danon as a Director	948,551,902	99.30	6,692,690	955,244,592	40.51	3,522,314
Resolution 7D: To re-elect Crawford Gillies as a Director	948,462,938	99.26	7,055,857	955,518,795	40.52	3,248,111
Resolution 7E: To re-elect David Grigson as a Director	929,251,998	97.26	26,194,633	955,446,631	40.52	3,320,275
Resolution 7F: * To re-elect Jacqueline Hunt as a Director	-	-	-	-	-	-
Resolution 7G: To re-elect David Nish as a Director	949,495,133	99.37	5,988,599	955,483,732	40.52	3,283,431
Resolution 7H: To re-elect John Paynter as a Director	949,215,346	99.37	6,002,132	955,217,478	40.51	3,539,892
Resolution 7I: To re-elect Lynne Peacock as a Director	949,129,547	99.34	6,287,648	955,417,195	40.52	3,349,248
Resolution 7J: To re-elect Keith Skeoch as a Director	949,252,541	99.36	6,081,732	955,334,273	40.51	3,426,024
Resolution 8: To elect Noel Harwerth as a Director	947,829,353	99.28	6,913,250	954,742,603	40.49	4,009,532
Resolution 9: To authorise the Directors to issue further shares	945,700,229	98.95	10,057,183	955,757,412	40.53	3,009,751
Resolution 10 (Special): To disapply share pre-emption rights	945,278,255	99.18	7,824,191	953,102,446	40.42	5,664,717
Resolution 11 (Special): To give authority for the Company to buy back up to 10% of its issued ordinary shares	951,211,559	99.50	4,819,751	956,031,310	40.54	2,735,853
Resolution 12: To provide limited authority to the Company and its subsidiaries to make political donations and to incur political expenditure	900,330,978	94.42	53,179,542	953,510,520	40.44	5,242,083
Resolution 13 (Special): To allow the Company to call general meetings on 14 days' notice	867,583,700	90.74	88,534,438	956,118,138	40.55	2,648,300

*     As Jacqueline Hunt resigned from the Company on 26 April 2013, this resolution was not proposed at the Annual General Meeting

As previously announced, we confirm that Sheelagh Whittaker did not seek re-election, and resigned from the Board at the conclusion of the meeting.

The total number of shares in issue at 6pm on Monday 13 May was 2,358,117,965 ordinary shares of 10 pence each.

Votes withheld are not a vote in law and have not been counted in the calculation of the votes for and against each resolution, the total votes validly cast or the calculation of the proportion of issued share capital voted.

Copies of all resolutions are available for inspection in the AGM Guide previously submitted to the UK Listing Authority's Document Viewing Facility, via the National Storage Mechanism www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of the resolutions that do not constitute ordinary business at an annual general meeting will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will then be available for inspection www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM 

The AGM Guide and the voting results are also available on the Standard Life plc website at www.standardlife.com 

14 May 2013

Enquiries:

Kenneth Gilmour, Group Secretariat  0131 245 0751 / 0773 497 4073

Lorraine Rees, Investor Relations  0207 872 4124 / 0773 830 0878

Barry Cameron, Media Relations  0131 245 6165 / 0771 248 6463

Nicola McGowan, Media Relations  0131 245 4016 / 0787 219 1341

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