Result of AGM

Britvic plc

25 January 2024

 

Britvic plc

LEI: 635400L3NVMYD4BVCI53

25 January 2024

Result of Annual General Meeting

Britvic plc (the "Company") announces that the following resolutions were duly passed at the Company's Annual General Meeting which was held at 11:00am on Thursday 25 January 2024 at Linklaters LLP, One Silk Street, London EC2Y 8HQ. The results of the poll are as follows:

No.	Resolution	Total For (1)	%	Total Against	%	Votes Withheld (2)
Ordinary Resolutions
1.	Receive the Company's Annual Report for year ended 30 September 2023	208,416,633	100.00	4,028	0.00	731,488
2.	Declare a final dividend of 22.6p per share	209,134,706	100.00	7,420	0.00	10,023
3.	Approve the Directors' remuneration report for year ended 30 September 2023	187,105,431	89.55	21,838,111	10.45	208,607
4.	Election of Ian Durant as a Director	207,473,641	99.21	1,642,107	0.79	36,401
5.	Election of Rebecca Napier as a Director	207,849,363	99.39	1,266,847	0.61	35,939
6.	Election of Sue Clark as a Director	200,401,026	95.83	8,715,490	4.17	35,443
7.	Re-election of William Eccleshare as a Director	197,916,944	94.65	11,195,873	5.35	39,142
8.	Re-election of Emer Finnan as a Director	200,723,236	95.99	8,392,774	4.01	34,169
9.	Re-election of Hounaïda Lasry as a Director	197,916,421	94.65	11,195,885	5.35	39,653
10.	Re-election of Simon Litherland as a Director	208,682,436	99.97	64,001	0.03	405,712
11.	Withdrawn	-	-	-	-	-
12.	Appointment of Deloitte LLP as auditors	209,103,162	99.99	27,782	0.01	21,205
13.	Authority to Audit Committee to fix the remuneration of the auditors	209,109,485	99.99	14,392	0.01	28,082
14.	Authority to make political donations and incur political expenditure	207,572,077	99.26	1,541,670	0.74	38,402
15.	Authority to Directors to allot shares	193,686,341	92.62	15,442,819	7.38	22,799
Special Resolutions
16.	Authority to Directors to issue shares for cash	199,392,024	95.35	9,734,054	4.65	25,881
17.	Authority to issue shares for cash in relation to an acquisition or other capital investment	192,286,146	92.09	16,505,878	7.91	359,935
18.	Authority to company to purchase own shares	208,550,827	99.73	571,306	0.27	29,826
19.	Adopt revised articles of association	192,392,796	92.01	16,714,154	7.99	45,009
20.	Authority to hold general meetings (other than AGMs) on 14 clear days' notice	192,034,029	91.83	17,094,630	8.17	23,490

The Company's issued share capital as at 25 January 2024 was 249,478,964 shares of 20 pence each. 83.83% of the issued share capital was instructed. 

(1)     Includes those votes giving the Chairman discretion

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

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of the resolutions passed that do not constitute ordinary business at an annual general meeting will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for viewing at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

The results will also be made available on the Company's website at www.britvic.com/agm.

Mollie Stoker

Company Secretary

 

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