Result of AGM

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Smiths News PLC

23 January 2014

 



23 January 2014

Smiths News PLC

Result of 2014 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 2013	126,193,741	99.79	264,892	0.21	470,837
2	To approve the directors' remuneration report	107,538,074	92.90	8,220,966	7.10	11,170,429
3	To declare a final dividend of 6.3p per share	126,459,786	99.99	988	0.00	468,697
4	To re-elect Dennis Millard	124,434,866	98.41	2,014,792	1.59	479,813
5	To re-elect Mark Cashmore	125,777,964	99.47	672,937	0.53	478,570
6	To re-elect Jonathan Bunting	125,769,505	99.46	679,339	0.54	480,627
7	To re-elect Nick Gresham	125,762,175	99.46	680,990	0.54	486,306
8	To re-elect Andrew Brent	124,433,750	98.41	2,010,830	1.59	484,891
9	To re-elect Anthony Cann	124,351,154	98.37	2,062,354	1.63	515,963
10	To re-elect John Worby	123,536,104	97.70	2,905,582	2.30	487,785
11	To re-appoint the auditor	115,156,381	91.07	11,292,175	8.93	480,914
12	To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the auditor's remuneration	117,298,090	92.76	9,156,924	7.24	472,956
13	Authority to make political donations	124,279,877	99.09	1,147,498	0.91	1,502,095
14	To approve the amended rules of the Smiths News LTIP	122,740,536	97.77	2,802,774	2.23	1,386,160
15	Authority to allot shares	105,657,260	83.57	20,772,958	16.43	499,253
16	Authority to disapply pre-emption rights*	106,816,259	84.48	19,620,800	15.52	492,412
17	Authority to make market purchases of ordinary shares*	126,311,065	99.89	139,947	0.11	478,459
18	Authority to call general meetings (other than the AGM) on 14 clear days' notice*	119,258,088	94.34	7,161,089	5.66	510,294

* 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 total number of shares in issue at 6pm on 21 January 2014 = 188,992,394. Votes were cast in respect of 67.16% of the issued share capital.

In accordance with the UK Listing Authority's Listing Rule 9.6.2, a copy of the resolutions passed as special business at the AGM, being resolutions 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18, has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

Colin White

Deputy Company Secretary

 

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