2nd Aug 2013 07:00
2 August 2013
Vedanta Resources plc
("the Company")
Result of Annual General Meeting
The annual general meeting ('AGM') of the Company was held on 1 August 2013 at 3pm.
A poll was conducted on each resolution proposed at the meeting and the results are detailed below:
Type of resolution | For | Against | Total votes cast | Votes withheld1 | ||||
Resolution (Full text of resolutions is set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting) | Special/ Ordinary | No. of votes | % | No. of votes | % | No. of votes | % of ISC voted | No. of votes |
1. To receive the 2013 Report and Accounts | Ordinary | 215,054,139 | 99.81 | 406,886 | 0.19 | 215,461,025 | 80.86 | 2,306,904 |
2. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report | Ordinary | 168,599,957 | 77.49 | 48,980,191 | 22.51 | 217,580,148 | 81.65 | 187,876 |
3. To approve the final dividend
| Ordinary | 217,560,828 | 99.91 | 200,471 | 0.09 | 217,761,299 | 81.72 | 6,629 |
4. To elect D Parekh as a Director | Ordinary | 210,600,500 | 97.59 | 5,200,787 | 2.41 | 215,801,287 | 80.98 | 1,966,643 |
5. To re-elect A Agarwal as a Director | Ordinary | 212,970,205 | 98.48 | 3,284,140 | 1.52 | 216,254,345 | 81.15 | 1,513,585 |
6. To re-elect N Agarwal as a Director | Ordinary | 217,109,341 | 99.70 | 652,138 | 0.30 | 217,761,479 | 81.72 | 6,451 |
7. To re-elect E Macdonald as a Director | Ordinary | 199,927,434 | 92.00 | 17,379,985 | 8.00 | 217,307,419 | 81.55 | 460,511 |
8. To re-elect A Mehta as a Director | Ordinary | 193,349,074 | 89.66 | 22,287,810 | 10.34 | 215,636,884 | 80.92 | 2,130,806 |
9. To re-elect MS Mehta as a Director | Ordinary | 217,159,643 | 99.79 | 448,492 | 0.21 | 217,608,135 | 81.66 | 5,950 |
10. To re-elect G Green as a Director | Ordinary | 212,665,022 | 97.96 | 4,421,225 | 2.04 | 217,086,247 | 81.47 | 458,519 |
11. To re-appoint Deloitte LLP as auditors | Ordinary | 215,973,699 | 99.19 | 1,758,216 | 0.81 | 217,731,915 | 81.71 | 36,013 |
12. To authorise the directors to agree the auditors' remuneration | Ordinary | 217,454,052 | 99.87 | 275,334 | 0.13 | 217,729,386 | 81.71 | 38,442 |
13. To authorise the directors to allot shares | Ordinary | 217,196,563 | 99.84 | 341,335 | 0.16 | 217,537,898 | 81.64 | 6,968 |
14. To disapply pre-emption rights | Special
| 217,498,916 | 99.88 | 257,294 | 0.12 | 217,756,210 | 81.72 | 11,819 |
15. To authorise the Company to make market purchases of own shares | Special | 217,754,391 | 100 | 6,787 | 0.00 | 217,761,178 | 81.72 | 6,851 |
16. To authorise a general meeting to be called on not less than 14 days' notice | Special | 211,700,929 | 97.22 | 6,061,094 | 2.78 | 217,762,023 | 81.72 | 6,001 |
1. A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of votes validly cast for or against a resolution.
All resolutions put to the meeting as set out in the Notice of Meeting were carried.
A copy of the resolutions passed as special business at the AGM have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do.
Deepak Kumar
Company Secretary
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