Result of AGM

RNS Number : 7145S

Smiths Group PLC

17 November 2021

 

17 NOVEMBER 2021

SMITHS GROUP PLC

RESULT OF AGM

Smiths Group plc (the 'Company') announces that a poll was held on each of the resolutions proposed at the Annual General Meeting ('AGM') on 17 November 2021. The results of the poll are:

		VOTES FOR	%	VOTES AGAINST	%	VOTES TOTAL	% of ISC VOTED	VOTES WITHHELD
1	Adoption of Annual Report FY2021	323,714,210	99.98	65,426	0.02	323,779,636	81.66%	5,938,783
2	Approval of the Directors' Remuneration Policy	282,034,458	86.69	43,312,009	13.31	325,346,467	82.05%	4,371,952
3	Approval of Directors' Remuneration Report	315,633,416	95.86	13,615,338	4.14	329,248,754	83.04%	469,665
4	Declaration of a final dividend	326,663,076	99.10	2,981,109	0.90	329,644,185	83.14%	74,234
5	Election of Paul Keel as a director	329,604,991	99.99	23,109	0.01	329,628,100	83.13%	90,319
6	Re-election of Sir George Buckley as a director	298,607,930	98.80	3,637,996	1.20	302,245,926	76.23%	27,472,493
7	Re-election of Pam Cheng as a director	329,591,125	99.99	33,369	0.01	329,624,494	83.13%	93,925
8	Re-election of Dame Ann Dowling as a director	329,592,493	99.99	38,264	0.01	329,630,757	83.13%	87,662
9	Re-election of Tanya Fratto as a director	321,300,847	98.63	4,475,693	1.37	325,776,540	82.16%	3,941,879
10	Re-election of Karin Hoeing as a director	329,039,826	99.82	588,955	0.18	329,628,781	83.13%	89,638
11	Re-election of William Seeger as a director	327,425,706	99.33	2,192,198	0.67	329,617,904	83.13%	100,515
12	Re-election of Mark Seligman as a director	319,053,210	96.79	10,568,476	3.21	329,621,686	83.13%	96,733
13	Re-election of John Shipsey as a director	326,622,636	99.09	3,000,294	0.91	329,622,930	83.13%	95,489
14	Re-election of Noel Tata as a director	268,556,922	85.45	45,737,513	14.55	314,294,435	79.27%	15,423,984
15	Re-appointment of KPMG LLP as auditors	328,589,066	99.68	1,048,102	0.32	329,637,168	83.14%	81,251
16	Auditors' remuneration	329,612,761	100.00	15,813	0.00	329,628,574	83.13%	89,845
17	Authority to allot shares	291,772,135	88.60	37,537,166	11.40	329,309,301	83.05%	33,599
18	Authority to disapply pre-emption rights	309,035,762	93.74	20,637,509	6.26	329,673,271	83.14%	45,148
19	Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights	302,828,403	91.86	26,844,210	8.14	329,672,613	83.14%	45,806
20	Authority to make market purchases of shares	327,668,684	99.54	1,526,061	0.46	329,194,745	83.02%	523,674
21	Authority to call general meetings on short notice	290,972,031	88.27	38,666,668	11.73	329,638,699	83.14%	77,170
22	Authority to make political donations and expenditure	315,315,440	97.58	7,812,685	2.42	323,128,125	81.49%	6,587,744

Notes

As at 6.30 p.m. on 15 November 2021, the Company's issued share capital consisted of 396,505,049 ordinary shares of 37.5p. The Company does not hold any ordinary shares in the capital of the Company in treasury, and therefore, the total voting rights in the Company as at the voting record time were 396,505,049.

Shareholders are entitled to one vote per share. Votes withheld are not a vote in law and are therefore not counted in the calculation of the percentages of the votes cast for and against a resolution. Where shareholders appointed the Chairman as their proxy with discretion as to voting, their votes were cast in favour of the resolutions and their shares have been included in the "votes for" column.

Resolutions 1 to 17 and 22 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 18 to 21 were passed as special resolutions.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2 copies of the resolutions (other than those resolutions comprising ordinary business) approved by shareholders will be uploaded to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk .

Enquiries:

Matthew Whyte, Company Secretary

Smiths Group plc

[phone]

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About Smiths Group

For over 170 years, Smiths Group has been pioneering progress by improving the world through smarter engineering. We serve millions of people every year, to help create a safer, more efficient and better-connected world, across four major global markets:  Energy, General Industry, Security & Defence, and Aerospace. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, Smiths employs c.22,000 colleagues in over 50 countries. For more information visit  www.smiths.com .

Smiths Group plc's LEI number is: 213800MJL6IPZS3ASA11

 

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