Result of AGM

RNS Number : 7950M

Land Securities Group PLC

18 July 2014

 



18 July 2014

Land Securities Group PLC (the "Company")

Results of Annual General Meeting

The Company announces the results of voting at its Annual General Meeting ("AGM") held earlier today at The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London.  All resolutions, as set out in the Notice of the AGM dated 10 June 2014, were passed with the required majority by means of a poll.

Resolutions 1 to 17 were passed as Ordinary Resolutions and resolutions 18 and 19 were passed as Special Resolutions.

	Resolution	VOTES FOR*	% FOR	VOTES AGAINST	VOTES FOR / AGAINST TOTAL	VOTES WITHHELD**
1.	To receive the accounts of the Company for the year ended 31 March 2014 and the directors' and auditors' reports on such accounts	559,449,597	100.00	19,728	559,469,325	1,203,722
2.	To declare a Final Dividend of 7.9 pence per ordinary share	560,058,990	100.00	14,027	560,073,017	600,030
3.	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report - Policy Report for the year ended 31 March 2014	554,417,787	99.05	5,299,279	559,717,066	955,981
4.	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report - Annual Report on Remuneration for the year ended 31 March 2014	557,869,147	99.67	1,844,180	559,713,327	959,720
5.	To re-elect Dame Alison Carnwath as a director	550,361,085	98.69	7,282,639	557,643,724	3,029,323
6.	To re-elect Robert Noel as a director	559,924,219	99.98	100,092	560,024,311	648,736
7.	To re-elect Martin Greenslade as a director	559,927,042	99.98	99,866	560,026,908	646,139
8.	To re-elect Kevin O'Byrne as a director	559,900,604	99.98	123,627	560,024,231	648,816
9.	To re-elect Simon Palley as a director	559,884,587	99.97	141,640	560,026,227	646,820
10.	To re-elect Christopher Bartram as a director	559,885,574	99.98	138,741	560,024,315	648,732
11.	To re-elect Stacey Rauch as a director	559,910,307	99.98	112,088	560,022,395	650,652
12.	To elect Cressida Hogg CBE as a director	559,905,059	99.98	138,017	560,043,076	629,971
13.	To elect Edward Bonham Carter as a director	559,902,638	99.98	128,124	560,030,762	642,285
14.	To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP as auditors	559,976,462	99.99	83,677	560,060,139	612,908
15.	To authorise the directors to determine the remuneration of the auditors	559,205,021	99.88	665,784	559,870,805	802,242
16.	To authorise the Company to make political donations	557,364,623	99.56	2,461,610	559,826,233	846,814
17.	To authorise the directors to allot shares	509,074,638	91.49	47,372,984	556,447,622	4,225,425
18.	To authorise the limited disapplication of pre-emption rights	555,692,889	99.76	1,332,461	557,025,350	3,647,697
19.	To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares	559,147,305	99.84	914,783	560,062,088	610,959

*Includes discretionary votes

**A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes for or against a resolution

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2 copies of the resolutions passed as special business will shortly be available for inspection on the National Storage Mechanism at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM

Contact for further information:

Meg Ogunsola

Assistant Company Secretary

0207 024 5272

 

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