22nd Jun 2011 14:15
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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