Result of AGM

RNS Number : 0035Z

St. James's Place PLC

14 May 2019

 

St. James's Place plc ("SJP plc")

Result of Annual General Meeting ("AGM")

SJP's AGM was held at 11:30am on Tuesday, 14 May 2019 at The Royal Aeronautical Society, 4 Hamilton Place, London, W1J 7BQ.

The results of polls on all 16 resolutions are set out below.  The Board is also pleased to announce that Baroness Wheatcroft has today been appointed as its Non-executive for workforce engagement.

	Resolution	Total votes validly cast	Percentage of relevant shares in issue (%)	For	For (% of shares voted)	Against	Against (% of shares voted)	Votes withheld
1	To receive the Company's annual accounts and reports of the Directors and auditors thereon for the year ended 31 December 2018.	436,738,075	82.26	436,733,462	100	4,613	0	344,389
2	To declare a final dividend of 29.73 pence per ordinary share for the year ended 31 December 2018.	437,067,332	82.32	435,614,591	99.67	1,452,741	0.33	15,132
3	To re-elect Iain Cornish as a Director.	429,862,481	80.96	409,756,189	95.32	20,106,292	4.68	7,219,982
4	To re-elect Andrew Croft as a Director.	436,681,672	82.25	434,536,884	99.51	2,144,788	0.49	400,792
5	To re-elect Ian Gascoigne as a Director.	436,661,775	82.25	432,585,236	99.07	4,076,539	0.93	420,689
6	To re-elect Simon Jeffreys as a Director.	437,058,260	82.32	432,320,811	98.92	4,737,449	1.08	24,204
7	To re-elect Patience Wheatcroft as a Director.	437,061,016	82.32	435,436,470	99.63	1,624,546	0.37	21,448
8	To re-elect Roger Yates as a Director.	437,058,760	82.32	433,368,188	99.16	3,690,572	0.84	23,704
9	To re-elect Craig Gentle as a Director.	436,682,100	82.25	433,145,887	99.19	3,536,213	0.81	400,364
10	To approve the Directors' remuneration report for the year ended 31 December 2018	436,430,494	82.20	424,140,433	97.18	12,290,061	2.82	651,639
11	To re-appoint PwC as the auditors of the Company to hold office until the conclusion of the next General Meeting at which accounts are laid before the Company.	433,815,831	81.71	433,259,364	99.87	556,467	0.13	3,266,632
12	To authorise the Directors to determine the remuneration of the auditors of the Company.	437,061,961	82.32	436,831,149	99.95	230,812	0.05	20,503
13	To renew the authority and power conferred on the Directors by Article 8.2 of the Company's Articles of Association.	437,022,996	82.31	432,576,137	98.98	4,446,859	1.02	58,637
14	To renew the authority and power conferred on the Directors by Article 8.3 of the Company's Articles of Association.	437,019,439	82.31	436,398,015	99.86	621,424	0.14	63,025
15	That the Company be generally and unconditionally authorised for the purposes of Section 701 of the Companies Act 2006 to make market purchases.	436,854,450	82.28	432,082,983	98.91	4,771,467	1.09	228,013
16	That a General Meeting of the Company, other than an Annual General Meeting of the Company, may be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice.	437,063,650	82.32	419,509,602	95.98	17,554,048	4.02	18,814

The number of Ordinary Shares in issue on 14 May 2019 was 530,924,219.  Shareholders are entitled to one vote per share.  A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes validly cast.

Resolutions 1 to 13 were passed as Ordinary Resolutions and Resolutions 14 to 16 were passed as Special Resolutions.

In accordance with paragraph 9.6.2R of the Listing Rules, SJP plc has submitted a copy of the Resolutions passed at the meeting (other than Resolutions concerning ordinary business) to the UK Listing Authority via the National Storage Mechanism. These documents will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm.  

The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Meeting, which is available on the Company's website at www.sjp.co.uk/shareholders/shareholder-meetings.

Jonathan Dale

Deputy Company Secretary
Tel: [phone]
14 May 2019

Neither the contents of the Company's website nor the contents of any website accessible from hyperlinks on this announcement (or any other website) is incorporated into, or forms part of, this announcement.

 

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