14th May 2007 16:54
Annual General Meeting - voting results and proxy appointments At the Centrica plc annual general meeting held earlier today (14 May 2007) thefollowing resolutions were proposed by the Chairman and passed by shareholderson a show of hands. Proxies were received by the Company from shareholders priorto the meeting as follows: Resolution 1: Report and Accounts To receive the Accounts and Reports of the Directors and the Auditors for theCompany for the year ended 31 December 2006. \* TFor: 99.70% of votes castAgainst: 0.13% of votes castWithheld: 0.17% of votes castTotal proxy votes cast: 60.95% of shares in issue\* T Resolution 2: Remuneration Report To approve the Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December 2006. \* TFor: 94.89% of votes castAgainst: 4.99% of votes castWithheld: 0.12% of votes castTotal proxy votes cast: 60.95% of shares in issue\* T Resolution 3: Dividend To approve a final dividend of 8.0 pence per ordinary share to thoseshareholders on the register of members at close of business on 27 April 2007. \* TFor: 99.72% of votes castAgainst: 0.04% of votes castWithheld: 0.24% of votes castTotal proxy votes cast: 60.95% of shares in issue\* T Resolution 4: Re-election of Director To re-elect Phil Bentley as a Director of the Company. \* TFor: 99.56% of votes castAgainst: 0.34% of votes castWithheld: 0.10% of votes castTotal proxy votes cast: 60.95% of shares in issue\* T Resolution 5: Election of Director To re-elect Roger Carr as a Director of the Company. \* TFor: 99.41% of votes castAgainst: 0.49% of votes castWithheld: 0.10% of votes castTotal proxy votes cast: 60.95% of shares in issue\* T Resolution 6: Election of Director To elect Sam Laidlaw as a Director of the Company. \* TFor: 98.80% of votes castAgainst: 1.09% of votes castWithheld: 0.11% of votes castTotal proxy votes cast: 60.95% of shares in issue\* T Resolution 7: Election of Director To elect Nick Luff as a Director of the Company. \* TFor: 99.41% of votes castAgainst: 0.46% of votes castWithheld: 0.13% of votes castTotal proxy votes cast: 60.95% of shares in issue\* T Resolution 8: Reappointment of Auditors To reappoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Auditors of the Company, to holdoffice until the conclusion of the next General Meeting at which accounts arelaid. \* TFor: 99.77% of votes castAgainst: 0.15% of votes castWithheld: 0.08% of votes castTotal proxy votes cast: 60.95% of shares in issue\* T Resolution 9: Auditors' Remuneration To authorise the Directors to determine the Auditors' remuneration. \* TFor: 99.49% of votes castAgainst: 0.40% of votes castWithheld: 0.11% of votes castTotal proxy votes cast: 60.95% of shares in issue\* T Resolution 10: Political donations and expenditure Authority for the Company to make donations to European Union politicalorganisations not exceeding £125,000 in total and to incur EU politicalexpenditure, not exceeding £125,000 in total. \* TFor: 94.91% of votes castAgainst: 3.53% of votes castWithheld: 1.56% of votes castTotal proxy votes cast: 60.95% of shares in issue\* T Resolution 11: Electronic Communications That the Company serve any notice or send or supply any other document orinformation to a member by making the notice, document or information availableon a website. \* TFor: 99.45% of votes castAgainst: 0.28% of votes castWithheld: 0.27% of votes castTotal proxy votes cast: 60.95% of shares in issue\* T Resolution 12: Authority to allot shares Authority under Section 80 of the Companies Act 1985, for the Directors of theCompany to allot unissued shares up to a nominal value of £48,869,957. \* TFor: 97.84% of votes castAgainst: 0.46% of votes castWithheld: 1.70% of votes castTotal proxy votes cast: 60.95% of shares in issue\* T Resolution 13: Authority to disapply pre-emption rights Authority under the Company's Articles of Association for the Directors to allotunissued share capital without first offering shares to existing shareholders inproportion to their existing holdings. \* TFor: 97.74% of votes castAgainst: 2.07% of votes castWithheld: 0.19% of votes castTotal proxy votes cast: 60.95% of shares in issue\* T Resolution 14: Authority to purchase own shares Authority for the Company to purchase its own shares, subject to a limit of 10%of the present issued share capital. \* TFor: 99.61% of votes castAgainst: 0.26% of votes castWithheld: 0.13% of votes castTotal proxy votes cast: 60.95% of shares in issue\* T Note to the disclosure Any proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Chairman have been includedin the "for" total. Copyright Business Wire 2007Related Shares:
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