10th Jun 2016 10:30
For immediate release 10 June 2016
Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc ("Morrisons" or the "Company")
AGM announcement
Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc announces that at its Annual General Meeting held on 9 June 2016 at Hilmore House, Gain Lane, Bradford, BD3 7DL, each of the resolutions submitted to the meeting (as set out in the Notice of Meeting dated 6 May 2016) was proposed and passed by the appropriate majority on a poll.
Accordingly, the following matters were approved:
1. The Report and Accounts for the 52 weeks ended 31 January 2016 were approved and adopted;
2. The Directors' Remuneration Report was approved;
3. The final dividend of 3.5p per ordinary share was approved;
4. Rooney Anand, Neil Davidson, Irwin Lee, Belinda Richards and Paula Vennells were each appointed to the Board;
5. Andrew Higginson, David Potts and Trevor Strain were each reappointed to the Board;
6. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP were reappointed as auditors;
7. The Directors were authorised to fix the auditors' remuneration;
8. The Directors were authorised to make market purchases by the Company of its own shares;
9. The Directors were granted allotment authorities in respect of up to £77,839,219 of the Company's capital and allotment authorities for cash on a non pre-emptive basis in respect of up to £11,675,882 of the Company's capital; and
10. The arrangements for holding General Meetings were approved in the manner set out in the notice of meeting.
The poll votes on each resolution were as follows:
RESOLUTIONS | FOR | %age FOR | AGAINST | %age AGAINST | WITHHELD | TOTAL |
1. Approval of Strategic Report, Directors' Report and Audited Financial Statements | 1,700,462,100 | 100.00 | 70,929 | 0.00 | 1,500,555 | 1,702,033,584 |
2. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the 52 weeks ended 31 Jan 2016 | 1,371,795,348 | 83.04 | 280,146,204 | 16.96 | 50,092,032 | 1,702,033,584 |
3. To declare a final dividend | 1,700,691,096 | 100.00 | 80,568 | 0.00 | 1,261,920 | 1,702,033,584 |
4. To re-elect Andrew Higginson | 1,675,117,379 | 98.50 | 25,481,541 | 1.50 | 1,434,664 | 1,702,033,584 |
5. To re-elect David Potts | 1,688,864,116 | 99.31 | 11,740,114 | 0.69 | 1,429,354 | 1,702,033,584 |
6. To re-elect Trevor Strain | 1,688,673,171 | 99.30 | 11,868,801 | 0.70 | 1,491,611 | 1,702,033,583 |
7. To elect Rooney Anand | 1,698,270,600 | 99.87 | 2,286,469 | 0.13 | 1,476,515 | 1,702,033,584 |
8. To elect Neil Davidson | 1,690,266,367 | 99.40 | 10,229,912 | 0.60 | 1,536,518 | 1,702,032,797 |
9. To elect Irwin Lee | 1,688,932,180 | 99.32 | 11,580,678 | 0.68 | 1,520,726 | 1,702,033,584 |
10.To elect Belinda Richards | 1,690,020,657 | 99.38 | 10,480,228 | 0.62 | 1,532,699 | 1,702,033,584 |
11. To elect Paula Vennells | 1,689,278,326 | 99.34 | 11,187,732 | 0.66 | 1,567,526 | 1,702,033,584 |
12. To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors of the Company | 1,601,063,761 | 95.01 | 84,163,161 | 4.99 | 16,806,662 | 1,702,033,584 |
13. To authorise the Directors to fix the remuneration of the auditors | 1,613,291,831 | 95.75 | 71,687,895 | 4.25 | 17,053,858 | 1,702,033,584 |
14. To authorise the Company to make market purchases of the Company's shares pursuant to s.701 of the Companies Act 2006 | 1,683,367,086 | 98.99 | 17,197,139 | 1.01 | 1,469,359 | 1,702,033,584 |
15. To authorise the Directors to allot securities pursuant to s.551 of the Companies Act 2006 | 1,466,364,415 | 86.23 | 234,091,000 | 13.77 | 1,578,169 | 1,702,033,584 |
16. To authorise the Directors to allot securities otherwise than in accordance with s.561 of the Companies Act 2006 | 1,611,331,110 | 94.70 | 90,164,483 | 5.30 | 537,991 | 1,702,033,584 |
17. To approve general meetings (other than annual general meetings) to be held on not less than 14 clear days' notice. | 1,517,172,847 | 89.21 | 183,518,799 | 10.79 | 1,341,149 | 1,702,032,795 |
Resolutions 1 to 13 and Resolution 15 were ordinary resolutions. Resolutions 14, 16 and 17 were special resolutions.
Votes 'For' include votes at the discretion of the Chairman. Votes withheld are not counted in the count of the total votes or the calculations of the percentages For or Against each resolution. Percentages are rounded to two decimal places. Total shares in issue at the time of the meeting were 2,335,203,487.
A copy of resolutions 14 to 17 (as set out in the notice of Annual General Meeting), being the resolutions passed at the Annual General Meeting not concerning ordinary business, will be submitted today to the Financial Conduct Authority's national storage mechanism.
Mark Amsden
Group General Counsel and Company Secretary
Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc
Tel: 0845 611 6902
Registered Office:
Hilmore House
Gain Lane
Bradford
BD3 7DL
Company Number: 358949
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