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Wood Group (John) Plc - Result of AGMWood Group (John) Plc - Result of AGM
PR Newswire
LONDON, United Kingdom, June 18
John Wood Group PLC
LEI: 549300PLYY6I10B6S323
Annual General Meeting - Voting Results
Issued share capital at meeting date: 691,839,369 Number of votes per share: 1 vote per share.
At the Annual General Meeting of John Wood Group PLC (the "Company") held on 18 June 2025 at 2.00pm, all resolutions put to shareholders were duly passed by way of a poll with the required majorities.
The full text of each resolution is contained in the Notice of Annual General Meeting, which is available on the Company's website: www.woodplc.com/investors/annual-general-meeting
Resolutions 10 to 13 (inclusive) were considered and passed as Special Resolutions.
The final vote received in respect of each resolution was as follows:
Resolutions
| Votes For (Including Discretionary) | % | Votes Against | % | Total Votes (excluding Votes Withheld) | Votes Withheld* | % of Issued Share Capital Voted ** | |
1 | To re-elect Brenda Reichelderfer as a Director of the Company | 228,661,973 | 86.21 | 36,576,249 | 13.79 | 265,238,222 | 1,658,767 | 38.34% |
2 | To re-elect Birgitte Brinch Madsen as a Director of the Company | 228,552,372 | 86.22 | 36,534,443 | 13.78 | 265,086,815 | 1,810,174 | 38.32% |
3 | To re-elect Adrian Marsh as a Director of the Company | 226,802,393 | 85.56 | 38,263,365 | 14.44 | 265,065,758 | 1,831,231 | 38.31% |
4 | To re-elect Nigel Mills as a Director of the Company | 228,212,282 | 86.11 | 36,822,701 | 13.89 | 265,034,983 | 1,862,006 | 38.31% |
5 | To re-elect Ken Gilmartin as a Director of the Company | 226,308,569 | 87.03 | 33,719,497 | 12.97 | 260,028,066 | 6,868,923 | 37.59% |
6 | To re-elect Roy A Franklin as a Director of the Company | 220,216,561 | 84.79 | 39,512,776 | 15.21 | 259,729,337 | 7,167,652 | 37.54% |
7 | To elect Iain Torrens as a Director of the Company | 233,583,535 | 88.60 | 30,056,368 | 11.40 | 263,639,903 | 3,257,086 | 38.11% |
8 | To authorise the Company and its subsidiaries to make political donations and incur political expenditure | 234,250,467 | 88.30 | 31,034,631 | 11.70 | 265,285,098 | 1,611,891 | 38.34% |
9 | To authorise the directors to allot shares | 229,455,612 | 86.81 | 34,851,634 | 13.19 | 264,307,246 | 2,589,743 | 38.20% |
10 | To authorise the directors to disapply pre-emption rights | 230,349,849 | 87.35 | 33,362,981 | 12.65 | 263,712,830 | 3,087,429 | 38.12% |
11 | To authorise the directors to disapply pre-emption rights for acquisitions and other capital investments | 228,459,631 | 86.54 | 35,534,834 | 13.46 | 263,994,465 | 2,902,524 | 38.16% |
12 | To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares | 245,104,177 | 92.69 | 19,318,288 | 7.31 | 264,422,465 | 2,474,524 | 38.22% |
13 | To authorise that general meetings of the Company, (other than an AGM) may be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice | 243,871,821 | 93.89 | 15,864,111 | 6.11 | 259,735,932 | 7,161,057 | 37.54% |
The percentages of votes "For" and "Against" each resolution are expressed as a percentage of the total of the votes "For" and votes "Against" the resolution (together the "Total Votes (excluding votes withheld").
* A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes "For" or "Against" a resolution.
** Votes withheld are excluded from the percentage of issued share capital voted calculation.
These votes are also available on the Company's website at: www.woodplc.com/investors/annual-general-meeting.
In accordance with the Financial Conduct Authority's UK Listing Rule 6.4.1R, copies of those resolutions passed other than resolutions concerning ordinary business at today's AGM which are required to be made available for inspection on the National Storage Mechanism ("NSM") have been submitted today to the NSM and will shortly be available to view on the NSM's website at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.
Notification authorised by:
John Habgood
Company Secretary
Related Shares:
Wood Group (J)