Result of AGM - amendment

RNS Number : 6139D

Britvic plc

01 February 2018

 

1 February 2018

Britvic plc ("the Company")

The following replaces the result of AGM announcement released yesterday at 13.09 under RNS no. 5051D.

The amendment is to replace the word "policy" with the word "report" in Resolution 4.

The full amended text appears below.

AGM Voting Results

At the 2018 Annual General Meeting of the Company held today at Linklaters LLP, One Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8HQ at 11.00am, all resolutions were passed on a poll. The polling results for each resolution are set out below:

No.	Resolution	For *	%	Against	%	Votes Withheld **
Ordinary Resolutions
1.	Receive the Annual Report for 52 weeks ended 1 October 2017	197,494,192	99.99	20,494	0.01	11,281
2.	Declare a final dividend of 19.3p per share	197,482,843	99.98	33,734	0.02	9,390
3.	Consider and approve the directors' remuneration policy for 52 weeks ended 1 October 2017	172,687,645	87.51	24,644,840	12.49	193,481
4.	Consider and approve the directors' remuneration report for 52 weeks ended 1 October 2017	187,072,865	95.43	8,960,245	4.57	1,492,855
5.	Election of Suniti Chauhan as a Director	197,074,332	99.78	436,299	0.22	15,336
6.	Election of William Eccleshare as a director	194,423,047	98.44	3,088,303	1.56	14,617
7.	Re-election of Sue Clark as a director	195,771,117	99.12	1,743,583	0.88	11,267
8.	Re-election of John Daly as a director	196,651,231	99.56	861,658	0.44	13,078
9.	Re-election of Mathew Dunn as a director	196,912,218	99.70	602,389	0.30	11,360
10.	Re-election of Simon Litherland as a director	196,948,409	99.71	567,009	0.29	10,549
11.	Re-election of Ian McHoul as a director	196,878,659	99.68	627,117	0.32	20,191
12.	Re-election of Euan Sutherland as a director	197,085,512	99.79	420,264	0.21	20,191
13.	Re-appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as auditors	196,274,015	99.37	1,243,568	0.63	8,383
14.	Authority to Audit Committee to fix the remuneration of the auditors	197,477,024	99.98	43,312	0.02	5,631
15.	Authority to make political donations and incur political expenditure	194,374,217	98.42	3,125,515	1.58	26,235
16.	Authority to directors to allot     shares	169,227,139	85.68	28,283,329	14.32	15,499
Special Resolutions
17.	Authority to directors to issue shares for cash	189,650,268	99.05	1,827,045	0.95	6,048,654
18.	Authority to issue shares for cash in relation to an acquisition or other capital investment	170,488,385	89.04	20,995,336	10.96	6,042,245
19.	Authority to company to purchase own shares	196,309,378	99.45	1,091,411	0.55	125,177
20.	Authority to hold general meetings (other than AGMs) on 14 clear days' notice	169,444,957	85.79	28,068,318	14.21	12,692

The Company's issued share capital at 31 January 2018 was 264,315,498. Proxy appointments appointing the Chairman of the meeting were received from shareholders of 197,509,749 shares representing 74.72% of the issued share capital.

*	Includes those votes giving the Chairman discretion
**	A 'vote withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted towards the votes cast 'for' or 'against' a resolution

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2 copies of all the resolutions passed, other than ordinary business, will be submitted to the UK Listing Authority ("UKLA") and will be available for inspection via the National Storage Mechanism website at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm and also via the Company's website at www.britvic.com

Jonathan Adelman

Acting General Counsel & Company Secretary

Britvic plc

 

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