Results of AGM

Number

Resolution 

Type

For / Discretion1

Against1

Vote Withheld 1,2

1

To approve the Report and Accounts for the year ended 29 February 2012

Ordinary

237,830,115

1,128,741

58,028

2

To confirm and declare dividends

Ordinary

238,960,689

454

55,741

3

(a) To re-elect Sir Brian Stewart as a director

(b) To re-elect Stephen Glancey as a director

(c) To re-elect Kenny Neison as a director

(d) To re-elect John Burgess as a director

(e) To elect Stewart Gilliland as a director

(f) To re-elect John Hogan as a director

(g) To re-elect Richard Holroyd as a director

(h) To re-elect Philip Lynch as a director

(i) To re-elect Breege O'Donoghue as a director

(j) To elect Tony Smurfit as a director

Ordinary

Ordinary

Ordinary

Ordinary

Ordinary

Ordinary

Ordinary

Ordinary

Ordinary

Ordinary

268,813

21,761

5,871

502,758

12,059

3,924,333

2,797,292

5,709,465

23,231

2,818,271

84,011

64,436

74,261

64,568

75,251

65,645

64,436

78,893

78,893

66,578

4

To authorise the Directors to fix the auditors' remuneration

Ordinary

235,036,461

3,912,921

67,502

5

To receive and consider the Report of the Remuneration Committee on Directors' Remuneration

Ordinary

231,122,065

7,830,168

64,651

6

To authorise the Directors the allotment of shares 

Ordinary

232,814,689

6,144,321

57,874

7

To authorise the limited disapplication of pre-emption rights in certain circumstances

Special

232,591,068

6,357,563

68,253

8

To authorise the purchase by the Company of it's own shares

Special

238,920,068

31,193

65,623

9

To authorise the re-issue by the Company of its shares off-market.

Special

221,785,172

17,175,248

56,464

10

To authorise that a general meeting of the Company may be called on 14 days' notice.

Special

220,001,152

18,957,858

57,874

11

To extend the operation of, and amend the rules and conditions of, the all-employee Profit Sharing Scheme.

Ordinary

233,213,416

5,731,776

71,692

12

To amend the rules and conditions of the Long Term Incentive Plan

Ordinary

233,201,710

52,071

5,763,103

13

To amend the arrangements of the Joint Share Ownership Plan.

Ordinary

236,754,199

2,184,418

78,267