The Restaurant Group
Results of AGM
At the Company's Annual General Meeting held on 6 May 2009, 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 ended 28 December 2008 |
110,538,297 |
307,142 |
3,087,737 |
2. To approve the Director's remuneration report for the year ended 28 December 2008 |
62,929,290 |
34,700,692 |
16,303,194 |
3. To approve a final dividend of 6.3p per share for the year ended 28 December 2008 |
113,933,176 |
0 |
0 |
4. To re-elect Alan Jackson as a Director of the Company |
109,564,195 |
2,193,396 |
2,175,585 |
5. To re-elect John Jackson as a Director of the Company |
105,743,073 |
6,606,310 |
1,583,793 |
6. To re-appoint the Auditors and to authorise the Directors to determine their remuneration |
113,623,953 |
293,138 |
16,085 |
7. To authorise the allotment of shares up to a maximum nominal amount of £18,444,266 |
113,869,188 |
48,168 |
15,820 |
8. To give the Directors powers pursuant to Section 95 of the Companies Act 1985 |
113,848,956 |
63,116 |
21,104 |
9. To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares |
109,562,508 |
4,356,472 |
14,196 |
Notes:
The total number of shares in issue at 6 May 2009 is 197,203,838.
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.
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.
Certified copies of ordinary resolution 7 and the special resolutions (numbers 8 and 9) have been delivered to the UKLA in accordance with LR 9.6.2 for placing on its Document Viewing Facility
6 May 2009
For further information please contact:
Robert Morgan, Company Secretary, The Restaurant Group plc, 0845 612 5001