Beazley Group plc
London, 23rd April 2009
Beazley Group Plc - AGM Results
Beazley Group plc held its annual general meeting for shareholders at 4pm today and announces that all the resolutions were duly passed.
Full details of the resolutions passed as special business will be submitted to the UK Listing Authority for publication through the Listing Authority's Document and Viewing Facility.
The total number of votes received by the Chairman for use in a poll for each resolution is set out below. The number of 5p ordinary shares in issue and the number of voting rights on 21st April 2009 was 532,831,770.
Resolution |
Description |
For and Discretionary |
Against |
Withheld |
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1 Ordinary |
To receive and adopt the Directors' Remuneration Report |
382,063,319 |
1,440,069 |
14,790,368 |
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2 Ordinary |
To receive the Financial Statements |
388,965,576 |
3,988,114 |
5,340,066 |
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|
|
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3 Ordinary |
To declare a final dividend of 4.4p per ordinary share |
398,293,756 |
- |
- |
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|
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4 Ordinary |
To re-elect Jonathan Agnew as a Director |
395,814,459 |
2,479,297 |
- |
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|
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5 Ordinary |
To re-elect Andrew Horton as a Director |
396,264,659 |
2,029,097 |
- |
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6 Ordinary |
To re-elect Clive Washbourn as a Director |
392,170,982 |
6,122,774 |
- |
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7 Ordinary |
To re-elect Andrew Pomfret as a Director |
397,781,245 |
512,511 |
- |
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|
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8 Ordinary |
To re-appoint the Auditors |
391,375,090 |
2,887,367 |
4,031,299 |
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9 Ordinary |
To authorise the Directors to determine the auditors remuneration |
395,679,054 |
2,412,721 |
201,981 |
For further information, please contact:
Beazley Group plc
Arthur Manners
020 7674 7012