9th Jun 2016 15:25
AA plc
9 June 2016
For immediate release
AA plc (the "Company")
Results of 2016 Annual General Meeting
The Company announces that:
(1) In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.3(1) R and 9.6.18 R, copies of the resolutions (other than those resolutions comprising ordinary business) passed by the Company at its Annual General Meeting ("AGM") held on 9 June 2016 have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and are available for inspection at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do;
(2) Voting on the resolutions put to the Company's AGM was as follows and it is noted that all the resolutions were passed:
Resolution | Proxy Votes For (incl. Chairman's discretion) | % | Proxy Votes Against | % | Total Proxy Votes Cast (excluding votes withheld) | Proxy Votes Withheld* | |
ORDINARY BUSINESS | |||||||
ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS | |||||||
1. | Accounts and the report | 511,094,767 | 99.95 | 249,884 | 0.05 | 511,344,951 | 35,794 |
2. | Directors' Remuneration Report | 467,912,638 | 96.36 | 17,672,249 | 3.64 | 485,585,187 | 25,795,557 |
3. | Final Dividend | 511,254,070 | 99.98 | 119,197 | 0.02 | 511,373,567 | 7,178 |
4. | Elect Suzi Williams | 511,257,071 | 99.98 | 103,208 | 0.02 | 511,360,579 | 20,166 |
5.
| Re-elect Bob Mackenzie | 489,387,924 | 96.20 | 19,354,930 | 3.80 | 508,743,154 | 2,637,591 |
6.
| Re-elect Martin Clarke | 511,247,903 | 99.98 | 115,582 | 0.02 | 511,363,785 | 16,960 |
7.
| Re-elect John Leach | 509,206,893 | 99.59 | 2,078,472 | 0.41% | 511,285,665 | 95,080 |
8.
| Re-elect Andrew Miller | 510,405,246 | 99.81 | 954,165 | 0.19 | 511,359,711 | 21,034
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9. | Elect Andrew Blowers
| 510,731,224 | 99.88 | 629,915 | 0.12 | 511,361,439 | 19,306 |
10. | Elect Simon Breakwell | 510,924,593
| 99.91 | 435,390 | 0.09 | 511,360,283 | 20,462 |
11. | Re-appointment of auditors | 507,541,439 | 99.27 | 3,754,025 | 0.73 | 511,295,764 | 84,981 |
12. | Remuneration of auditors | 509,617,307 | 99.67 | 1,679,677 | 0.33 | 511,297,284 | 83,461 |
13. | Political donations | 509,536,319 | 99.68 | 1,654,924 | 0.32 | 511,191,543 | 189,202 |
14. | Authorise directors to allot shares | 420,269,716 | 82.19 | 91,097,667 | 17.81 | 511,367,683 | 13,062 |
SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS | |||||||
15. | Disapplication of pre-emption rights | 418,305,408 | 81.80 | 93,037,313 | 18.19 | 511,351,021 | 29,724 |
16. | Authority to purchase own shares | 509,261,164 | 99.59 | 2,108,401 | 0.41 | 511,369,865 | 10,880 |
17. | Reduced notice for general meetings (other than annual general meetings) | 497,768,502 | 97.34 | 13,606,815 | 2.66 | 511,375,617 | 5,127 |
SPECIAL BUSINESS | |||||||
ORDINARY RESOLUTION | |||||||
18. | Approve Irish Employee Profit Share Scheme | 492,995,198 | 96.41 | 18,370,468 | 3.59 | 511,365,966 | 14,779 |
* 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.
The issued share capital as at 9 June 2016 was 608,706,065. The total number of proxy votes cast was 511,375,617, which represents 84.01 % of the issued share capital of the Company.
AA plc
Mark Millar
Company Secretary
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