RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD ON 22 MAY 2013
Legal & General Group Plc announces that at its Annual General Meeting held today at The Honourable Artillery Company, Armoury House, City Road, London EC1Y 2BQ, all of the resolutions proposed in the Notice of the Meeting were passed by shareholders by means of a poll vote. All Board Directors were in attendance.
The votes cast were as follows:
Resolution |
For 1 |
Against |
Votes Withheld 2 |
||
No. of shares1 |
% |
No. of shares |
% |
||
Resolution 1 Receipt of financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2012 |
4,114,348,603 |
99.99 |
321,145 |
0.01 |
68,562,627 |
Resolution 2 Declaration of a final dividend of 5.69p per ordinary share |
4,178,263,005 |
100 |
126,611 |
0.00 |
4,851,809 |
Resolution 3 Election of Mark Zinkula as a Director |
4,153,524,727 |
99.43 |
24,014,266 |
0.57 |
5,692,432 |
Resolution 4 Election of Lindsay Tomlinson as a Director |
4,164,286,860 |
99.68 |
13,283,425 |
0.32 |
5,653,424 |
Resolution 5 Re-election of Stuart Popham as a Director |
4,165,408,189 |
99.71 |
12,185,009 |
0.29 |
5,630,411 |
Resolution 6 Re-election of Julia Wilson as a Director |
4,161,273,653 |
99.61 |
16,329,132 |
0.39 |
5,620,824 |
Resolution 7 Re-election of Mike Fairey as a Director |
4,160,592,607 |
99.59 |
17,038,325 |
0.41 |
5,592,677 |
Resolution 8 Re-election of Mark Gregory as a Director |
4,152,382,125 |
99.40 |
25,256,252 |
0.60 |
5,593,248 |
Resolution 9 Re-election of Rudy Markham as a Director |
4,155,581,404 |
99.47 |
22,077,120 |
0.53 |
5,565,085 |
Resolution 10 Re-election of John Pollock as a Director |
4,152,514,726 |
99.40 |
25,201,983 |
0.60 |
5,514,916 |
Resolution 11 Re-election of Nicholas Prettejohn as a Director |
4,159,830,974 |
99.58 |
17,730,081 |
0.42 |
5,662,554 |
Resolution 12 Re-election of John Stewart as a Director |
4,163,028,219 |
99.65 |
14,695,746 |
0.35 |
5,499,644 |
Resolution 13 Re-election of Nigel Wilson as a Director |
4,165,353,314 |
99.70 |
12,420,530 |
0.30 |
5,475,581 |
Resolution 14 Re-appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors |
4,020,518,377 |
98.54 |
59,621,660 |
1.46 |
103,093,572 |
Resolution 15 To authorise the Director's to fix the Auditors' remuneration |
4,092,092,070 |
98.75 |
51,961,759 |
1.25 |
39,187,096 |
Resolution 16 Approval of Remuneration Report |
4,009,276,082 |
99.14 |
34,764,807 |
0.86 |
139,185,561 |
Resolution 17 Authority to allot equity securities |
4,158,173,491 |
99.54 |
19,420,397 |
0.46 |
5,646,726 |
Resolution 18 Authority to make Political donations |
4,152,401,962 |
99.42 |
24,111,251 |
0.58 |
6,716,242 |
Resolution 19* Disapplication of pre-emption rights |
4,160,492,829 |
99.60 |
16,884,480 |
0.40 |
5,852,046 |
Resolution 20* Authority to purchase own shares |
4,171,799,919 |
99.85 |
6,404,881 |
0.15 |
5,032,525 |
Resolution 21* Authority to call general meetings (other than an AGM) on not less than 14 clear days' notice |
3,837,663,779 |
91.85 |
340,427,683 |
8.15 |
5,149,962 |
Notes:
1 The 'for' votes include those giving the Chairman discretion.
2 A vote 'withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes 'for' and 'against' each resolution.
3 Votes 'for' and 'against' are expressed as a percentage of the votes received.
4 Voting was conducted by poll.
5 The total number of proxy votes cast was 4,181,363,954 representing 70.69% of voting capital as at 20 May 2013. At the close of business on 20 May 2013, the issued share capital of the Company was 5,914,612,797 ordinary shares (no shares are held in Treasury).
* Denotes a Special Resolution.
The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual of General Meeting which is available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism http://www.hemscott.com/nsm.do and also on the Company's website at http://investor.legalandgeneral.com/agm.cfm?ShowYear=2013
In accordance with Listing Rules 9.6.3(1) and 9.6.18 a copy of the resolutions passed (other than those concerning ordinary business) will shortly be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will also be available for inspection at http://www.hemscott.com/nsm.do
Name of person making notification: |
Claire Singleton |
Contact number: |
020 3124 2149 |
Date of notification: |
22 May 2013 |