Result of AGM

RNS Number : 1642E

Standard Life plc

25 May 2012

 



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, 25 May 2012, 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 2011	910,647,085	99.87	1,179,049	911,826,134	38.67	2,497,156
Resolution 2: To approve the Directors' remuneration report	830,502,406	95.39	40,117,120	870,619,526	36.93	43,700,143
Resolution 3: To declare a final dividend for 2011	912,210,076	99.95	485,052	912,695,128	38.71	1,624,541
Resolution 4: To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors	905,436,267	99.34	6,039,818	911,476,085	38.66	2,843,158
Resolution 5: To authorise the Directors to set the auditors' fees	907,166,092	99.55	4,129,827	911,295,919	38.65	3,023,750
Resolution 6A: To re-elect Gerald Grimstone as a Director	902,298,239	99.20	7,299,499	909,597,738	38.58	4,721,931
Resolution 6B: To re-elect Colin Buchan as a Director	902,313,672	99.23	7,012,566	909,326,238	38.57	4,993,431
Resolution 6C: To re-elect Crawford Gillies as a Director	901,894,161	99.19	7,388,617	909,282,778	38.57	5,036,891
Resolution 6D: To re-elect David Grigson as a Director	901,972,339	99.19	7,349,613	909,321,952	38.57	4,997,717
Resolution 6E: To re-elect Jacqueline Hunt as a Director	902,393,544	99.22	7,100,420	909,493,964	38.58	4,818,226
Resolution 6F: To re-elect David Nish as a Director	867,174,439	95.35	42,285,453	909,459,892	38.57	4,862,428
Resolution 6G: To re-elect Keith Skeoch as a Director	909,869,389	99.19	7,396,486	917,265,875	38.91	4,939,466
Resolution 6H: To re-elect Sheelagh Whittaker as a Director	902,105,502	99.19	7,338,178	909,443,680	38.57	4,886,258
Resolution 7A: To elect Pierre Danon as a Director	899,913,567	99.07	8,416,912	908,330,479	38.53	5,999,459
Resolution 7B: To elect John Paynter as a Director	900,945,570	99.19	7,396,483	908,342,053	38.53	5,986,639
Resolution 7C: To elect Lynne Peacock as a Director	901,039,349	99.18	7,444,987	908,484,336	38.53	5,847,957
Resolution 8: To authorise the Directors to issue further shares	895,524,087	98.33	15,184,347	910,708,434	38.63	3,620,298
Resolution 9 (Special): To disapply share pre-emption rights	891,320,196	98.66	12,109,644	903,429,840	38.32	10,900,098
Resolution 10 (Special): To give authority for the Company to buy back up to 10% of its issued ordinary shares	905,195,956	99.39	5,581,039	910,776,995	38.63	3,452,714
Resolution 11: To provide limited authority to the Company and its subsidiaries to make political donations and to incur political expenditure	843,481,510	93.24	61,116,993	904,598,503	38.37	9,719,920
Resolution 12 (Special): To allow the Company to call general meetings on 14 days' notice	827,007,220	91.19	79,925,424	906,932,644	38.47	7,387,025

The total number of shares in issue at 6pm on Thursday 24 May was 2,357,670,837 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.Hemscott.com/nsm.do).

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 at www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do .

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

25 May 2012

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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