Result of AGM

RNS Number : 1233U

Tate & Lyle PLC

28 July 2022

 

Tate & Lyle PLC

Result of Annual General Meeting 2022

Tate & Lyle PLC (the 'Company') announces that at its Annual General Meeting ('AGM') held earlier today, all resolutions contained in the Notice of Annual General Meeting 2022 were duly passed.

The results of the poll held at the AGM are as follows:

Resolution		Total For(1)		Total Against		Votes withheld(2)
		No. of votes	% of vote	No. of votes	% of vote	No. of votes
1.	Report and Accounts	295,738,757	99.77	689,253	0.23	1,234,485
2.	Directors' Remuneration Report	278,320,960	94.33	16,741,412	5.67	1,924,527
3.	Approve final dividend	296,912,825	99.98	59,237	0.02	14,837
4.	Re-elect Dr Gerry Murphy	295,286,357	99.44	1,659,312	0.56	41,230
5.	Re-elect Nick Hampton	296,918,365	99.99	34,830	0.01	33,704
6.	Elect Dawn Allen	295,867,928	99.64	1,075,613	0.36	43,358
7.	Re-elect John Cheung	255,228,616	86.17	40,967,788	13.83	790,495
8.	Re-elect Patrícia Corsi	296,816,855	99.96	124,849	0.04	45,195
9.	Elect Dr Isabelle Esser	296,889,298	99.98	53,540	0.02	44,061
10.	Re-elect Paul Forman	296,892,880	99.98	44,972	0.02	37,391
11.	Re-elect Lars Frederiksen	296,803,371	99.95	139,883	0.05	44,373
12.	Re-elect Kimberly Nelson	296,895,482	99.98	48,763	0.02	43,382
13.	Re-elect Sybella Stanley	291,408,744	98.22	5,295,223	1.78	283,660
14.	Re-elect Warren Tucker	296,829,223	99.96	122,329	0.04	36,075
15.	Re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP	296,176,166	99.52	1,441,391	0.48	45,666
16.	Approve auditors' remuneration	296,534,082	99.63	1,101,618	0.37	27,523
17.	Authority to make political donations	293,259,956	98.57	4,245,100	1.43	158,167
18.	Authority to allot ordinary shares	280,314,977	94.18	17,315,336	5.82	32,910
19.	Authority to disapply pre-emption rights	287,155,215	97.06	8,683,858	2.94	1,824,150
20.	Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights for an acquisition or specified capital investment	280,433,534	94.79	15,415,908	5.21	1,813,781
21.	Authority to purchase own shares	296,313,131	99.68	947,499	0.32	390,475
22.	Approve reduction of share capital - Preference Shares	297,549,892	99.99	41,906	0.01	58,568
23.	Approve adoption of new Articles of Association	297,546,773	99.98	53,779	0.02	49,814
24.	Authority in respect of shorter notices for general meetings	287,567,506	96.63	10,043,439	3.37	39,421

⁽¹⁾ Includes discretionary votes.

⁽²⁾ A 'vote withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes 'For' or 'Against' a resolution.

On 26 July 2022, there were 401,609,061 ordinary shares and 2,394,000 preference shares (which have limited voting rights) in issue.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of the resolutions passed as special business at the AGM will shortly be available to view via the National Storage Mechanism at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism .

Claire-Marie O'Grady

Company Secretary

28 July 2022

 

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