8th Sep 2017 15:09
GREENE KING PLC
RESULTS OF AGM
The annual general meeting of Greene King plc was held at the Millennium Grandstand, Rowley Mile Racecourse Conference Centre, Newmarket on Friday 8 September 2017. All resolutions put to the members were passed on a show of hands, resolutions 1 to 14 as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 15 to 18 as special resolutions.
Copies of all resolutions passed at the meeting, other than those resolutions concerning ordinary business, are being submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.
The results of the proxy votes lodged in advance of the meeting are set out below.
Resolution | Votes for | Percentage | Votes Against | Percentage | Votes Withheld
|
To receive and adopt the report of the accounts | 208,589,009 | 99.37 | 1,326,931 | 0.63 | 21,401 |
To approve the directors' remuneration policy report | 193,815,607 | 93.10 | 14,371,168 | 6.90 | 1,747,247 |
To approve the directors' remuneration report | 208,476,541 | 99.93 | 151,172 | 0.07 | 1,304,797 |
To declare a final dividend
| 209,899,751 | 99.98 | 35,620 | 0.02 | 1,970 |
To re-elect Rooney Anand as a director | 209,408,346 | 99.75 | 522,900 | 0.25 | 4,175 |
To re-elect Mike Coupe as a director | 209,439,118 | 99.76 | 493,648 | 0.24 | 3,405 |
To re-elect Kirk Davis as a director | 209,105,747 | 99.61 | 825,499 | 0.39 | 4,175 |
To re-elect Rob Rowley as a director | 209,306,435 | 99.70 | 624,710 | 0.30 | 5,026 |
To re-elect Lynne Weedall as a director | 209,445,460 | 99.77 | 484,372 | 0.23 | 6,339 |
To re-elect Philip Yea as a director | 199,379,249 | 96.57 | 7,083,121 | 3.43 | 3,473,051 |
To elect Gordon Fryett as a director | 209,423,316 | 99.76 | 495,078 | 0.24 | 13,098 |
To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP as auditors | 206,923,871 | 99.00 | 2,091,491 | 1.00 | 921,665 |
To authorise the directors to determine the remuneration of the auditors | 209,812,186 | 99.95 | 114,688 | 0.05 | 10,467 |
To renew the directors' allotment authority | 152,884,142 | 72.91 | 56,794,534 | 27.09 | 257,210 |
To authorise non-pre-emptive issues of ordinary shares up to 5% of share capital* | 208,757,068 | 99.44 | 1,169,685 | 0.56 | 9,817 |
To renew the authority for market purchases* | 209,164,561 | 99.63 | 767,989 | 0.37 | 4,200 |
To cease entitlement of shareholders to receive company documents if post returned twice* | 209,036,921 | 99.99 | 27,463 | 0.01 | 871,680 |
To allow the company to hold general meetings on 14 days' notice* | 203,426,656 | 97.30 | 5,643,792 | 2.70 | 866,785 |
* Special resolutions
Note: Any proxy appointments which gave discretion to the chairman have been included in the "For" total.
For further information please contact:
Lindsay Keswick
Company Secretary
Tel: 01284 763222
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