Result of AGM

St. James's Place PLC

15 May 2024

 

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

Result of Annual General Meeting ("AGM")

SJP plc's AGM was held on Wednesday, 15 May 2024 at 11.00am at Woburn House, Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9HQ.

The results of the polls on all resolutions put to the meeting are set out below.

	Resolution	Votes For	%	Votes Against	%	Total votes validly cast	% of relevant shares in issue	Votes Withheld
1	To receive the Company's annual accounts and reports of the Directors and auditors	436,680,697	99.92%	329,624	0.08%	437,010,321	79.66%	811,986
2	To declare a final dividend	437,023,419	99.84%	679,838	0.16%	437,703,257	79.78%	119,050
3	To receive and approve the Directors' Remuneration Report	409,172,609	93.58%	28,082,529	6.42%	437,255,138	79.70%	567,169
4	To re-elect Craig Gentle as a Director	428,387,842	97.80%	9,647,628	2.20%	438,035,470	79.85%	48,208
5	To re-elect Emma Griffin as a Director	424,786,828	97.02%	13,027,469	2.98%	437,814,297	79.81%	269,381
6	To re-elect Rosemary Hilary as a Director	425,019,142	97.08%	12,795,155	2.92%	437,814,297	79.81%	269,381
7	To re-elect John Hitchins as a Director	425,015,935	97.08%	12,795,675	2.92%	437,811,610	79.80%	272,068
8	To re-elect Lesley-Ann Nash as a Director	429,568,186	98.12%	8,246,114	1.88%	437,814,300	79.81%	269,378
9	To re-elect Paul Manduca as a Director	405,784,228	93.50%	28,212,839	6.50%	433,997,067	79.11%	4,086,611
10	To elect Mark FitzPatrick as a Director	436,106,526	99.57%	1,865,248	0.43%	437,971,774	79.83%	111,904
11	To elect Simon Fraser as a Director	436,872,443	99.78%	952,276	0.22%	437,824,719	79.81%	258,959
12	To re-appoint PwC as the Auditors of the Company	427,046,867	97.81%	9,579,495	2.19%	436,626,362	79.59%	1,195,945
13	To authorise the Group Audit Committee to determine the Auditors' remuneration	430,899,188	98.57%	6,259,671	1.43%	437,158,859	79.69%	662,295
14	To authorise the Directors to allot shares	420,726,569	96.11%	17,038,502	3.89%	437,765,071	79.80%	30,466
15	To authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights	404,655,674	92.55%	32,569,247	7.45%	437,224,921	79.70%	597,386
16	To authorise the Directors additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights	384,698,531	87.99%	52,524,341	12.01%	437,222,872	79.70%	599,435
17	To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares	434,372,066	99.35%	2,860,565	0.65%	437,232,631	79.70%	589,676
18	To authorise the calling of general meetings on 14 clear days' notice	408,562,743	93.44%	28,686,713	6.56%	437,249,456	79.70%	572,851

The number of Ordinary Shares in issue as at 6.00pm on 13 May 2024 was 548,604,794. 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 14 were passed as Ordinary Resolutions and Resolutions 15 to 18 were passed as Special Resolutions.

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.

In accordance with paragraph 9.6.2R of the Listing Rules, SJP plc will submit copies of the Resolutions passed at the meeting (other than Resolutions concerning ordinary business) to the FCA National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism

Jonathan Dale

Company Secretary
Tel: [phone]

15 May 2024

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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