Result of AGM
British Land Co PLC
13 July 2007
13th July 2007
THE BRITISH LAND COMPANY PLC
RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
The Board of British Land announces the results of the polls taken at the Annual
General Meeting of the Company held earlier today. Votes (including votes
withheld) were cast for a total of 305,454,907 ordinary shares of the Company,
representing 59 per cent. of the total number of votes capable of being cast at
the meeting.
Full details of the results of the poll are set out in the Appendix to this
announcement.
Contacts
The British Land Company PLC
Laura de Vere
Corporate Communications Director 020 7486 4466
Finsbury:
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Appendix
RESOLUTION VOTES VOTES
For Against WITHHELD1
Shares As % of Shares As % of Shares
votes votes
cast1 cast1
1 To receive
the Report of
the Directors
and audited
Accounts for
the year ended
31 March 2007 305,190,946 99.91 263,479 0.09 482
2 To declare
a Final
Dividend for
the year ended
31 March 2007 305,100,067 99.90 292,566 0.10 62,274
3 To re-elect
Mr Bowden as a
Director 304,144,738 99.57 1,298,979 0.43 11,190
4 To re-elect
Mr Cowdery as
a Director 304,800,838 99.79 630,934 0.21 23,135
5 Resolution withdrawn following the death of Mr Travers
6 To
re-appoint
Deloitte &
Touche LLP as
Auditors 299,240,349 98.21 5,444,359 1.79 770,199
7 To
authorise the
Directors to
fix the
remuneration
of the
Auditors 299,393,564 99.22 2,338,770 0.78 3,722,573
8 To approve
the
Remuneration
Report and
policy set out
therein 257,665,842 88.71 32,807,591 11.29 14,981,474
9 To renew by
Ordinary
Resolution the
directors'
authority to
allot unissued
share capital
or convertible
securities
(Section 80
Companies Act
1985) 2 302,607,343 99.67 1,008,194 0.33 1,839,370
10 To renew
by Special
Resolution the
limited waiver
of pre-emption
rights
attaching to
future issues
of equity
securities for
cash.
(Section 89(1)
Companies Act
1985) 2 304,788,895 99.81 570,859 0.19 95,153
11 To grant
by Special
Resolution
authority to
the Company to
exercise its
power to
purchase its
own shares2 305,091,442 99.88 352,263 0.12 11,202
12 To approve
by Special
Resolution
amendments to
the Company's
Articles of
Association2 305,304,652 99.98 49,485 0.02 100,770
13 To approve
by Ordinary
Resolution the
use of
electronic
means to
communicate
with
shareholders2 305,351,406 99.98 64,627 0.02 38,874
14 To approve
by Ordinary
Resolution an
amendment to
The British
Land Long
Term Incentive
Plan2 259,077,889 85.91 42,480,348 14.09 3,896,670
Note 1: A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the
calculation of the proportion of the votes for and against each resolution.
Note 2: These resolutions were proposed as Special Business.
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