AGM Results

RNS Number : 9244I

Whitbread PLC

22 June 2011

 

Whitbread PLC - AGM Resolutions			22 June 2011
Whitbread PLC announces that all 20 resolutions at the Annual General Meeting held yesterday were
passed on a poll.  The results are as follows:
AGM Resolutions	For	Against	Withheld
			For information only
1. To receive the Annual Report and	106,482,678	40,401	10,980
Accounts for the year ended 3 March 2011
2. To approve the Remuneration Report	101,629,364	3,520,933	1,384,576
3. To declare a final dividend of 33.25p per	106,396,593	2,956	134,039
ordinary share
4. To elect Ian Cheshire as a director	105,964,438	524,848	45,241
5. To elect Andy Harrison as a director	106,199,392	296,000	37,053
6. To re-elect Richard Baker as a director	106,191,003	310,393	32,282
7. To re-elect Wendy Becker as a director	106,157,859	347,679	29,434
8. To re-elect Patrick Dempsey as a director	106,008,861	292,323	206,422
9. To re-elect Anthony Habgood as a director	106,080,442	422,259	32,121
10. To re-elect Simon Melliss as a director	104,455,065	398,456	1,679,685
11. To re-elect Christopher Rogers as a director	106,195,060	304,048	32,712
12. To re-elect Stephen Williams as a director	106,199,872	297,878	32,780
13. To re-appoint the auditor	105,529,912	985,459	14,393
14. To authorise the Board to set the auditor's	105,882,135	501,764	148,229
remuneration
15. To renew the authority given to the Board	95,220,904	10,796,301	515,914
to allot shares
16. To approve the Whitbread Sharesave	105,713,296	651,922	168,452
Scheme (2011) and to authorise the Board to do all acts and things necessary to establish and carry it into effect
17.  To authorise the Board to establish a further	105,895,708	454,228	183,541
employee share scheme (or schemes) for the benefit of Whitbread Group employees based outside the UK
18. To renew the authority for disapplication of	106,141,536	331,808	49,280
pre-emption rights.
19. To give the Company authority to purchase	104,157,742	710,686	1,664,945
its ordinary shares
20. To authorise the Company to call general	101,899,109	4,600,212	23,916
meetings other than an Annual General Meeting
on reduced notice

A copy of all the resolutions passed, other than those concerning ordinary business, has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: http://www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do.'

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Contact:  Daren Lowry, Head of Secretariat & Risk Management, 01582 889346

 

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