AGM Voting Results

RNS Number : 8892Z

Britvic plc

27 January 2022

 

-Britvic plc

LEI: 635400L3NVMYD4BVCI53

27 January 2022

Result of Annual General Meeting

Britvic plc (the "Company") announces that the following resolutions were duly passed at the Company's Annual General Meeting which was held at 11:00am on 27 January 2022 at Linklaters LLP, One Silk Street, London EC2Y 8HQ. The results of the poll are as follows:

No.	Resolution	Total For (1)	%	Total Against	%	Votes Withheld (2)
Ordinary Resolutions
1.	Receive the Company's Annual Report for year ended 30 September 2021	225,976,807	100.00	3,549	0.00	307,617
2.	Declare a final dividend of 17.7p per share	226,265,748	100.00	7,131	0.00	17,443
3.	Consider and approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy	206,798,781	91.65	18,847,778	8.35	639,791
4.	Approve the Directors' remuneration report for year ended 30 September 2021	152,427,246	68.29	70,782,829	31.71	3,077,898
5.	Re-election of John Daly as a Director	215,119,025	99.19	1,755,986	0.81	9,411,339
6.	Re-election of Sue Clark as a Director	218,978,363	96.78	7,276,873	3.22	32,737
7.	Re-election of William Eccleshare as a Director	210,749,371	93.15	15,502,113	6.85	34,866
8.	Re-election of Simon Litherland as a Director	226,226,988	99.99	32,772	0.01	28,213
9.	Re-election of Ian McHoul as a Director	181,359,327	85.54	30,660,931	14.46	14,266,092
10.	Re-election of Euan Sutherland as a Director	224,571,939	99.26	1,680,295	0.74	34,386
11.	Re-election of Joanne Wilson as a Director	224,391,571	99.18	1,860,972	0.82	33,807
12.	Election of Emer Finnan as a Director	226,206,295	99.98	36,538	0.02	43,517
13.	Re-appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as auditors	222,188,891	98.20	4,081,694	1.80	15,765
14.	Authority to Audit Committee to fix the remuneration of the auditors	225,394,940	99.62	856,121	0.38	36,912
15.	Authority to make political donations and incur political expenditure	224,548,697	99.25	1,697,904	0.75	41,372
16.	Authority to Directors to allot shares	178,101,097	85.70	29,726,826	14.30	18,460,050
Special Resolutions
17.	Authority to Directors to issue shares for cash	222,976,526	98.57	3,244,187	1.43	65,637
18.	Authority to issue shares for cash in relation to an acquisition or other capital investment	208,429,041	92.13	17,795,534	7.87	63,398
19.	Authority to company to purchase own shares	225,679,629	99.74	579,039	0.26	27,682
20.	Authority to hold general meetings (other than AGMs) on 14 clear days' notice	200,069,800	88.42	26,201,198	11.58	17,701

The Company's issued share capital as at 27 January 2022 was 267,689,262 shares of 20 pence each. 84.53% of the issued share capital was instructed. 

(1)  Includes those votes giving the Chairman discretion

(2)  A 'vote withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of votes 'For' or 'Against' a resolution.

The Britvic plc Board confirms that all the resolutions were passed at today's Annual General Meeting - and is most grateful for the support of our shareholders. As a company, we always take the utmost care to engage with our shareholders and all key stakeholders in our business, and the views of all our shareholders are very important to us. In this regard, we note that we received a number of votes against Resolution 4 on the Directors' Remuneration Report. With this in mind, we will now re-engage with those institutions that voted against this resolution, to better understand their position. We will share the actions undertaken by the company in this respect within the next few months.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of the resolutions passed that do not constitute ordinary business at an annual general meeting will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for viewing at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism .

The results will also be made available on the Company's website at www.britvic.com/agm .

Clare Thomas

Company Secretary

For further information please contact:

Investors:
Joanne Wilson (Chief Financial Officer)	[phone]
Steve Nightingale (Director of Investor Relations)	[phone]
Media:
Kathryn Partridge (Director of Corporate Affairs)	[phone]
Stephen Malthouse (Headland)	[phone]

 

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