Result of AGM
Restaurant Group PLC
07 May 2008
The Restaurant Group
Results of AGM
At the Company's Annual General Meeting held on 7 May 2008, all of the
resolutions put to the meeting were duly passed.
The proxy votes received on each resolution were as follows:
Resolution Votes For Votes Against Votes Withheld
1. To adopt the Accounts for the year 103,225,263 711 84,105
ended 30 December 2007
2. To approve the Director's remuneration 95,785,693 2,787,792 4,736,593
report for the year ended 30 December 2007
3. To approve a final dividend of 5.99p 103,306,970 711 2,398
per share for the year ended 30 December 2007
4. To re-elect Andrew Page as a Director 103,244,441 45,516 20,122
of the Company
5. To re-elect Stephen Critoph as a 103,239,862 50,024 20,193
Director of the Company
6. To re-elect John Jackson as a Director 95,907,743 7,314,865 87,470
of the Company
7. To elect Tony Hughes as a Director of 103,261,280 27,317 21,482
the Company
8. To re-appoint the Auditors and to 100,422,870 27,929 2,832,709
authorise the Directors to determine their
remuneration
9. To authorise the allotment of shares 103,192,432 87,678 29,969
up to a maximum nominal amount of £18,979,354
10. To give the Directors powers pursuant to 103,203,174 69,709 37,196
Section 95 of the Companies Act 1985
11. To authorise the Company to purchase its 103,254,592 32,785 22,702
own shares
12. To adopt the new Articles of Association 103,249,833 30,126 30,120
Notes:
1) The total number of shares in issue at 7 May 2008 is 196,646,033.
2) Where shareholders have appointed the Chairman of the meeting as their
proxy with discretion as to voting, those votes have been cast in favour of the
resolutions and are included in the total of those votes for.
3) It should be noted that the appointment of a proxy is not an
unequivocally precise indicator of the way that shareholder would have voted on
a poll; it reflects their intention at the time the instruction was given.
Voting instructions can be given at any time prior to a poll being completed,
and a shareholder may lodge a proxy vote and still attend the meeting and vote
as they see fit.
4) Certified copies of ordinary resolution 9 and the special resolutions
(numbers 10 to 12) have been delivered to the UKLA in accordance with LR 9.6.2
for placing on its Document Viewing Facility
For further information please contact:
Robert Morgan, Company Secretary, The Restaurant Group plc, 0845 612 5001
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