Result of AGM

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Smiths News PLC

27 January 2012

 



27 January 2012

Smiths News PLC

Result of 2012 Annual General Meeting

Smiths News PLC is pleased to announce that at its AGM held at 11.30am today, all resolutions put to the meeting were duly passed. All resolutions were voted on by way of a poll and the results of the poll for each resolution are shown below:

Resolution		For		Against		Withheld
		No. of votes	%	No. of votes	%	No. of votes
1	To receive the Annual Report and Accounts 2011	128,714,075	99.99	7,120	0.01	1,412,126
2	To approve the directors' remuneration report	124,167,808	98.21	2,257,734	1.79	3,707,779
3	To declare a final dividend of 5.4p per share	128,724,771	99.99	1,028	0.00	1,407,522
4	To re-elect Dennis Millard	125,916,833	97.83	2,790,060	2.17	1,426,428
5	To re-elect Mark Cashmore	128,402,949	99.76	305,010	0.24	1,425,362
6	To re-elect Jonathan Bunting	128,399,221	99.76	307,730	0.24	1,426,370
7	To re-elect Nick Gresham	128,400,716	99.76	308,035	0.24	1,424,570
8	To re-elect Andrew Brent	128,670,479	99.97	37,315	0.03	1,425,527
9	To re-elect Anthony Cann	128,662,591	99.96	45,203	0.04	1,425,527
10	To re-elect John Worby	128,667,653	99.97	40,141	0.03	1,425,527
11	To re-appoint the auditors	128,578,539	99.89	145,239	0.11	1,409,543
12	To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the auditors' remuneration	128,572,087	99.88	148,762	0.12	1,412,472
13	Authority to make political donations	127,097,694	98.82	1,524,104	1.18	1,511,523
14	Authority to allot shares	125,611,677	97.83	2,792,197	2.17	1,729,447
15	Authority to disapply pre-emption rights*	126,829,091	98.55	1,869,047	1.45	1,435,183
16	Authority to make market purchases of ordinary shares*	128,020,385	99.74	336,960	0.26	1,775,976
17	Authority to call general meetings (other than the AGM) on 14 clear days' notice*	125,508,302	97.53	3,176,492	2.47	1,448,527

* Special resolution

Notes:

1.   Where shareholders appointed the Chairman as their proxy with discretion as to voting, their votes were cast in favour of the resolutions and have been included in the "For" total.

2.   A "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the percentages of the votes cast for and against a resolution.

3.   The Company has 183,491,408 shares in issue with voting rights.

In accordance with paragraph 9.6.2 of the Listing Rules, a copy of the resolutions passed as special business at the AGM, being resolutions 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17, has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do

Colin White

Deputy Company Secretary

 

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