Result of AGM

RNS Number : 6204V

Britvic plc

31 January 2017

 

-31 January 2017

Britvic plc ("the Company")

AGM Voting Results

At the 2017 Annual General Meeting of the Company held today at RSA House, Durham House Street (off The Strand), London WC2N 6HG 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 53 weeks ended 2 October 2016	200,404,377	100.00	5,972	0.00	347,267
2.	Declare a final dividend of 17.5p per share	200,430,105	99.99	26,997	0.01	300,514
3.	Consider and approve the directors' remuneration report for 53 weeks ended 2 October 2016	187,437,492	94.02	11,921,615	5.98	1,398,509
4.	Election of Sue Clark as a Director	200,302,518	99.93	146,714	0.07	308,384
5.	Election of Euan Sutherland as a director	200,298,489	99.93	147,534	0.07	309,349
6.	Re-election of Joanne Averiss as a director	199,568,037	99.56	882,783	0.44	306,796
7.	Re-election of Gerald Corbett as a director	181,019,539	99.06	1,710,675	0.94	18,023,402
8.	Re-election of John Daly as a director	200,005,828	99.78	443,810	0.22	307,978
9.	Re-election of Mathew Dunn as a Director	199,966,284	99.76	483,536	0.24	307,796
10.	Re-election of Ben Gordon as a director	200,266,303	99.91	184,517	0.09	306,796
11.	Re-election of Simon Litherland as a director	200,099,492	99.82	353,877	0.18	304,247
12.	Re-election of Ian McHoul as a director	199,701,476	99.86	279,559	0.14	776,581
13.	Re-appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as auditors	199,016,891	99.28	1,434,983	0.72	305,742
14.	Authority to Audit Committee to determine the auditor's remuneration	200,175,644	99.86	275,964	0.14	306,008
15.	Authority to directors to make political donations and incur political expenditure	197,248,704	98.32	3,374,208	1.68	134,704
16.	Authority to directors to allot     shares	177,400,449	88.69	22,632,909	11.31	724,258
Special Resolutions
17.	Authority to directors to issue shares for cash	197,056,154	98.94	2,103,973	1.06	1,597,489
18.	Authority to directors to issue shares for cash in relation to an acquisition or other capital investment	181,515,880	91.14	17,641,985	8.86	1,599,751
19.	Authority to Company to purchase own shares	199,397,044	99.42	1,165,530	0.58	195,042
20.	Notice period for general meetings	175,384,056	87.50	25,064,394	12.50	309,166

The Company's issued share capital at 31 January 2017 was 263,452,322. Proxy appointments appointing the Chairman of the meeting were received from shareholders of 200,735,462 shares representing 76.19% 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

Clare Thomas

General Counsel & Company Secretary

Britvic plc

 

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