8th May 2015 13:30
RSA Insurance Group plc
Results of Annual General Meeting
8 May 2015
RSA Insurance Group plc (the “Company”) held its Annual General Meeting for shareholders at 11.00am today. All resolutions were put to the meeting on a poll.
The issued share capital as at 6 May 2015 was 1,016,757,458.
The total number of votes received on each resolution is as follows:
Resolution | For | % of votes cast | Against | % of votes cast | Votes cast as % of Issued Share Capital | Votes Withheld 1 | |||||||
1. To receive the 2014 Annual Report and Accounts | 723,155,320 | 99.93 | 518,732 | 0.07 | 71.17% | 479,009 | |||||||
2. To declare a final dividend | 723,710,057 | 100.00 | 25,113 | 0.00 | 71.18% | 420,641 | |||||||
3. To approve the Directors’ Remuneration Report | 477,230,039 | 83.95 | 91,223,968 | 16.05 | 55.91% | 155,701,802 | |||||||
4. To re-elect Martin Scicluna as a Director | 715,075,970 | 98.88 | 8,102,873 | 1.12 | 71.13% | 976,967 | |||||||
5. To re-elect Stephen Hester as a Director | 723,335,198 | 99.96 | 302,962 | 0.04 | 71.17% | 517,651 | |||||||
6. To re-elect Alastair Barbour as a Director | 671,005,052 | 92.76 | 52,371,404 | 7.24 | 71.15% | 779,354 | |||||||
7. To re-elect Kath Cates as a Director | 723,380,719 | 99.96 | 287,195 | 0.04 | 71.17% | 487,897 | |||||||
8. To elect Enrico Cucchiani as a Director | 723,331,139 | 99.96 | 279,602 | 0.04 | 71.17% | 545,070 | |||||||
9. To re-elect Hugh Mitchell as a Director | 598,394,926 | 82.69 | 125,225,677 | 17.31 | 71.17% | 535,207 | |||||||
10. To re-elect Jos Streppel as a Director | 722,094,235 | 99.79 | 1,550,195 | 0.21 | 71.17% | 511,381 | |||||||
11. To re-elect Johanna Waterous as a Director | 624,893,887 | 86.35 | 98,766,422 | 13.65 | 71.17% | 495,502 | |||||||
12. To re-appoint KPMG LLP as the auditor | 717,194,363 | 99.10 | 6,478,983 | 0.90 | 71.17% | 482,464 | |||||||
13. To determine the auditor’s remuneration | 723,259,227 | 99.94 | 411,716 | 0.06 | 71.17% | 484,868 | |||||||
14. To give authority for the Group to make donations to political parties, independent election candidates and political organisations and to incur political expenditure | 714,399,711 | 98.73 | 9,218,544 | 1.27 | 71.17% | 537,556 | |||||||
15. To permit the Directors to allot further shares | 660,372,809 | 91.27 | 63,193,531 | 8.73 | 71.16% | 589,470 | |||||||
16. To relax the restrictions which normally apply when ordinary shares are issued for cash | 722,677,258 | 99.88 | 888,388 | 0.12 | 71.16% | 590,165 | |||||||
17. To give authority for the Company to buy back up to 10% of issued ordinary shares | 723,475,575 | 99.97 | 227,589 | 0.03 | 71.18% | 452,647 | |||||||
18. To approve the notice period for general meetings | 671,291,559 | 92.76 | 52,423,391 | 7.24 | 71.18% | 440,861 |
Notes
1 A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes for or against a resolution.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, a copy of all resolutions passed other than resolutions concerning ordinary business will shortly be submitted to the UK Listing Authority via the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm.
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Elinor Bell, Deputy Group Company Secretary
Tel: +44 (0)20 7111 7000
Fax: +44 (0)20 7111 7616
Louise Shield
Director of External Communications
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Mob: +44 (0) 7786 114 662
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