Moneysupermarket.com Group PLC
7 May 2020
Moneysupermarket.com Group PLC ("Company")
Annual General Meeting 2020
Voting Results
In accordance with the arrangements announced on 24 April 2020, the Company held its Annual General Meeting ("AGM") at 11.00am today, Thursday 7 May 2020.
The meeting took place, reduced to the minimum necessary quorum of two shareholders (facilitated by the Company) and all resolutions were passed on a show of hands. The following is a summary of the Forms of Proxy received by the Registrars, appointing the Chair of the AGM as proxy:
No. |
Resolution |
Votes For/Discretion |
% |
Votes Against |
% |
Votes Withheld |
1 |
To receive and adopt the report and accounts |
400,550,716 |
99.99 |
56,686 |
0.01 |
2,166,684 |
2 |
To approve the Remuneration Report (excluding Policy) |
395,829,329 |
98.36 |
6,606,079 |
1.64 |
338,679 |
3 |
To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy |
355,091,953 |
92.38 |
29,305,323 |
7.62 |
18,376,810 |
4 |
To declare a final dividend |
401,722,833 |
99.82 |
715,063 |
0.18 |
336,191 |
5 |
To re-elect Robin Freestone as a Director |
398,814,390 |
99.67 |
1,311,499 |
0.33 |
2,648,198 |
6 |
To re-elect Mark Lewis as a Director |
401,838,832 |
99.85 |
596,436 |
0.15 |
338,819 |
7 |
To re-elect Sally James as a Director |
401,838,832 |
99.85 |
596,436 |
0.15 |
338,819 |
8 |
To re-elect Sarah Warby as a Director |
401,838,832 |
99.85 |
596,436 |
0.15 |
338,819 |
9 |
To re-elect Scilla Grimble as a Director |
401,503,854 |
99.77 |
931,414 |
0.23 |
338,819 |
10 |
To elect Caroline Britton as a Director |
401,838,832 |
99.85 |
596,436 |
0.15 |
338,819 |
11 |
To elect Supriya Uchil as a Director |
402,432,916 |
100 |
0 |
0 |
341,171 |
12 |
To elect James Bilefield as a Director |
402,432,916 |
100 |
0 |
0 |
341,171 |
13 |
To re-appoint KPMG LLP as auditors |
401,558,538 |
99.78 |
873,283 |
0.22 |
342,265 |
14 |
To authorise the Audit Committee to fix the remuneration of the auditors |
402,435,268 |
100 |
0 |
0 |
338,819 |
15 |
To approve the authority to allot shares |
389,171,722 |
96.81 |
12,836,532 |
3.19 |
765,833 |
16 |
To approve the authority to disapply pre-emption rights* |
397,430,999 |
99.75 |
1,013,020 |
0.25 |
4,330,068 |
17 |
To approve the authority to disapply pre-emption rights in connection with an acquisition or capital investment* |
396,612,950 |
99.54 |
1,831,068 |
0.46 |
4,330,068 |
18 |
To approve an authority to purchase the Company's own shares* |
401,171,846 |
99.61 |
1,562,839 |
0.39 |
39,331 |
19 |
To authorise the payment of political donations and to incur political expenditure |
400,770,961 |
99.59 |
1,664,746 |
0.41 |
338,380 |
20 |
To permit the holding of General Meetings at 14 days' notice* |
391,115,746 |
97.19 |
11,301,493 |
2.81 |
356,848 |
21 |
To approve the rules and trust deed of the Group's Share Incentive Plan* |
402,738,960 |
99.99 |
28,187 |
0.01 |
6,940 |
*Passed as a special resolution
The number of ordinary shares in issue at 7 May was 536,658,480 . Shareholders are entitled to one vote per share. A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes validly cast. The total % of issued ordinary share capital represented by proxy is 75%.
A copy of the Resolutions passed as Special Business at the AGM is being submitted to the UK Listing Authority and will shortly be available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism document viewing facility at:
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
Katherine Bellau
Company Secretary