1st May 2025 14:28
1 May 2025
AIB GROUP PLC (the "Company")
RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2025
The Company announces that at its Annual General Meeting ("AGM"), held today at 10 Molesworth Street, Dublin 2, resolutions 1-14, all of which were recommended by the Board, were duly passed on a poll. Resolution 15, which was proposed by a shareholder for the appointment of Philip John Hobbs as a Director, was rejected by shareholders on the poll.
Resolutions 1 to 7 (inclusive), resolution 13, and resolution 14 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 8 to 12 (inclusive) and were passed as special resolutions.
The full text of each resolution, together with explanatory notes, are set out in the Notice of AGM which was circulated to Shareholders on 31 March 2025 and made available on the Company's website at www.aib.ie/investorrelations.
The results of the voting on the resolutions are as follows:
Resolution | Votes For | % | Votes Against | % | Total Votes Cast | Votes Withheld | |
1 | To receive and consider the financial statements for the year together with the reports of the Directors and the Auditor thereon | 1,750,187,293 | 99.98% | 351,847 | 0.02% | 1,750,539,140 | 2,586,273 |
2 | To declare a final dividend of 36.984 euro cents per share payable on 9 May 2025 | 1,753,073,829 | 100.00% | 15,867 | 0.00% | 1,753,089,696 | 35,793 |
3 | To authorise the Directors to determine the remuneration of the Auditor | 1,729,714,982 | 98.67% | 23,398,221 | 1.33% | 1,753,113,203 | 12,261 |
4 | To consider the continuation in office of PricewaterhouseCoopers as Auditor | 1,729,858,125 | 98.67% | 23,252,968 | 1.33% | 1,753,111,093 | 14,371 |
5 | To re-appoint the following Directors: | ||||||
(a) | Anik Chaumartin | 1,744,944,510 | 99.54% | 8,119,247 | 0.46% | 1,753,063,757 | 61,925 |
(b) | Donal Galvin | 1,733,757,473 | 98.90% | 19,309,295 | 1.10% | 1,753,066,768 | 58,893 |
(c) | Basil Geoghegan | 1,738,281,012 | 99.16% | 14,782,380 | 0.84% | 1,753,063,392 | 62,276 |
(d) | Tanya Horgan | 1,752,131,751 | 99.95% | 932,852 | 0.05% | 1,753,064,603 | 61,065 |
(e) | Colin Hunt | 1,734,256,366 | 98.93% | 18,826,577 | 1.07% | 1,753,082,943 | 42,725 |
(f) | Sandy Kinney Pritchard | 1,751,585,515 | 99.92% | 1,478,655 | 0.08% | 1,753,064,170 | 61,484 |
(g) | Elaine MacLean | 1,710,138,652 | 97.55% | 42,926,018 | 2.45% | 1,753,064,670 | 60,988 |
(h) | Andrew Maguire | 1,738,278,250 | 99.16% | 14,785,174 | 0.84% | 1,753,063,424 | 62,234 |
(i) | Brendan McDonagh | 1,721,457,750 | 98.20% | 31,605,634 | 1.80% | 1,753,063,384 | 62,274 |
(j) | Ann O'Brien | 1,747,936,687 | 99.71% | 5,127,584 | 0.29% | 1,753,064,271 | 61,387 |
(k) | Fergal O'Dwyer | 1,737,871,136 | 99.13% | 15,192,302 | 0.87% | 1,753,063,438 | 62,251 |
(l) | James Pettigrew | 1,720,743,325 | 98.16% | 32,320,384 | 1.84% | 1,753,063,709 | 61,980 |
(m) | Jan Sijbrand | 1,733,248,052 | 98.87% | 19,815,270 | 1.13% | 1,753,063,322 | 62,367 |
(n) | Raj Singh | 1,733,242,302 | 98.87% | 19,820,999 | 1.13% | 1,753,063,301 | 62,366 |
6 | To consider the Directors' Remuneration Report | 1,725,698,928 | 98.91% | 19,103,740 | 1.09% | 1,744,802,668 | 8,323,021 |
7 | To authorise the Directors to allot relevant securities | 1,703,477,855 | 97.17% | 49,587,966 | 2.83% | 1,753,065,821 | 59,868 |
8(a) | Limited authorisation for the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights | 1,747,773,029 | 99.70% | 5,288,240 | 0.30% | 1,753,061,269 | 64,420 |
8(b) | Limited authorisation for the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights for an acquisition or specified capital event | 1,739,041,928 | 99.20% | 14,019,121 | 0.80% | 1,753,061,049 | 64,639 |
9 | To authorise the purchase by the Company of its own shares | 1,751,259,502 | 99.96% | 719,459 | 0.04% | 1,751,978,961 | 1,146,727 |
10 | To determine the re-issue price range at which any treasury shares held may be re-issued off-market | 1,752,340,374 | 99.96% | 727,605 | 0.04% | 1,753,067,979 | 57,701 |
11 | To authorise the Directors to convene general meetings on 14 days' notice | 1,667,237,419 | 95.10% | 85,829,186 | 4.90% | 1,753,066,605 | 59,084 |
12 | To approve the terms of the Directed Buyback Contract with the Minister for Finance and authorise the making of off-market purchases of ordinary shares | 1,518,251,321 | 97.24% | 43,146,896 | 2.76% | 1,561,398,217 | 191,727,472 |
13 | To approve the Company's entry into the Transaction as a as a related party transaction under the Companies Act | 1,486,410,180 | 99.94% | 863,989 | 0.06% | 1,487,274,169 | 265,851,520 |
14 | To authorise the establishment of the AIB Group (ROI) and AIB Group (UK) Save as You Earn Plans | 1,748,403,191 | 99.73% | 4,712,219 | 0.27% | 1,753,115,410 | 10,254 |
15 | To appoint Mr Philip John Hobbs as a Director | 6,416,189 | 0.37% | 1,744,789,368 | 99.63% | 1,751,205,557 | 1,920,131 |
Notes:
1. A "Vote Withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes "For" and "Against" a resolution.
2. The total number of ordinary shares in issue as at Sunday, 27 April 2025 was 2,328,438,575.
In accordance with Listing Rule 6.1.60 of Euronext Dublin and Listing Rule 9.6.2 of the Financial Conduct Authority, copies of all resolutions, other than those concerning ordinary business, passed at the AGM today have been submitted to Euronext Dublin and the UK National Storage Mechanism and will be shortly available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.
-ENDS-
Contact details:
Conor Gouldson | Niamh Hore | Paddy McDonnell |
Group Company Secretary | Head of Investor Relations | Head of Media Relations |
AIB Molesworth Street | AIB Molesworth Street | AIB Molesworth Street |
Dublin 2 | Dublin 2 | Dublin 2 |
Tel: +353-1-7720030 | Tel: +353-1-6411817 | Tel: +353-87-7390743 |
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