17th Jul 2025 14:20
17th July 2025
Johnson Matthey Plc
(the Company)
Result of Annual General Meeting
The Company announces that at today's Annual General Meeting all resolutions were passed on a poll. The result of the poll is set out below.
Resolution | For | % For* | Against | % Against* | Votes Total | % of Issued Share Capital | Votes Withheld** |
1. To receive the Company's accounts for the year ended 31st March 2025. | 125,474,164 | 100.00 | 3,573 | 0.00 | 125,477,737 | 74.76 | 299,337 |
2. To approve the directors' remuneration report for the year ended 31st March 2025. | 124,682,730 | 99.46 | 675,327 | 0.54 | 125,358,057 | 74.69 | 419,017 |
3. To declare a final dividend of 55.00 pence per ordinary share. | 125,717,427 | 99.98 | 22,304 | 0.02 | 125,739,731 | 74.92 | 37,343 |
4. To elect Sinead Lynch as a director of the company. | 125,634,299 | 99.94 | 79,717 | 0.06 | 125,714,016 | 74.90 | 63,058 |
5. To elect Richard Pike as a director of the company. | 125,144,636 | 99.55 | 567,319 | 0.45 | 125,711,955 | 74.90 | 65,119 |
6. To re-elect Liam Condon as a director of the company. | 125,664,213 | 99.96 | 51,658 | 0.04 | 125,715,871 | 74.90 | 61,203 |
7. To re-elect Rita Forst as a director of the company. | 121,948,589 | 97.00 | 3,767,419 | 3.00 | 125,716,008 | 74.90 | 61,066 |
8. To re-elect Barbara Jeremiah as a director of the company. | 121,941,913 | 97.00 | 3,771,603 | 3.00 | 125,713,516 | 74.90 | 63,558 |
9. To re-elect Xiaozhi Liu as a director of the company. | 121,889,457 | 96.96 | 3,822,189 | 3.04 | 125,711,646 | 74.90 | 65,428 |
10. To re-elect John O'Higgins as a director of the company. | 121,851,667 | 96.92 | 3,868,298 | 3.08 | 125,719,965 | 74.91 | 57,109 |
11. To re-elect Doug Webb as a director of the company. | 121,893,706 | 96.96 | 3,817,302 | 3.04 | 125,711,008 | 74.90 | 66,066 |
12. To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditor for the forthcoming year. | 125,373,304 | 99.98 | 24,237 | 0.02 | 125,397,541 | 74.71 | 379,533 |
13. To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the remuneration of the auditor. | 125,732,779 | 99.98 | 24,926 | 0.02 | 125,757,705 | 74.93 | 19,369 |
14. To authorise the company and its subsidiaries to make political donations and incur political expenditure within certain limits. | 124,684,913 | 99.15 | 1,065,207 | 0.85 | 125,750,120 | 74.92 | 26,954 |
15. To authorise the directors to allot shares. | 123,841,042 | 98.48 | 1,909,401 | 1.52 | 125,750,443 | 74.92 | 26,631 |
16. To renew the JM Share Incentive Plan | 125,665,377 | 99.95 | 64,810 | 0.05 | 125,730,187 | 74.91 | 46,887 |
17. To disapply the statutory pre-emption rights attaching to shares.*** | 121,168,659 | 96.37 | 4,570,518 | 3.63 | 125,739,177 | 74.92 | 37,897 |
18. To disapply the statutory pre-emption rights attaching to shares in connection with an acquisition or other capital investment.*** | 119,467,352 | 95.01 | 6,276,618 | 4.99 | 125,743,970 | 74.92 | 33,104 |
19. To authorise the company to make market purchases of its own shares.*** | 123,298,268 | 98.12 | 2,357,219 | 1.88 | 125,655,487 | 74.87 | 121,587 |
20. To authorise the company to call general meetings other than annual general meetings on not less than 14 clear days' notice.*** | 123,336,160 | 98.07 | 2,422,257 | 1.93 | 125,758,417 | 74.93 | 18,657 |
* Figures shown are percentages of total votes cast 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
*** Special Resolutions
The total number of voting rights was 167,838,789 Ordinary Shares of 11049/53 pence.
Copies of our announcements are available on our website: https://matthey.com/investors/regulatory-news
In accordance with UK Listing Rule 6.4.2, a copy of all resolutions passed as special business will shortly be available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism document viewing facility at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.
ENDS
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Johnson Matthey Plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange (JMAT)
Registered Office: 5th Floor, 2 Gresham Street, London EC2V 7AD
Registered in England & Wales number: 00033774 Legal Entity Identifier number: 2138001AVBSD1HSC6Z10
ISIN number: GB00BZ4BQC70
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