Whitbread PLC - AGM Resolutions - 16th June 2009

Whitbread PLC - AGM Resolutions - 16 June 2009

Whitbread PLC announces that all 11 resolutions at today's Annual General Meeting were

passed on a show of hands. For information, the proxy votes received were as follows:

AGM Resolutions

For

Against

Abstained

1. To receive the Annual Report and 

106,517,598

341,068

29,287 

Accounts for the year ended 26 February 2009

2. To approve the Remuneration Report

96,907,497

4,538,235

5,442,220 

3. To declare a final dividend of 26.90p per 

106,838,671

1,870 

47,412 

ordinary share

4. To elect Patrick Dempsey as a director

106,428,517

400,304

59,018 

5. To elect Alan Parker as a director

104,819,884

2,004,769

63,300 

6. To re-appoint the auditor and to 

106,470,851

362,431

54,671 

authorise the directors to set the auditor's

remuneration

7. To renew the authority given to the directors

99,873,897

3,540,389

3,473,666 

to allot shares

8. To authorise the making of Scrip dividend

offers to shareholders.

106,284,134

518,881

85,008

9. To renew the authority given to the directors

to allot equity securities for cash other than on

a pro rata basis including authority to sell

treasury shares.

105,215,237

1,592,826

79,890

10. To give the Company authority to purchase

106,761,092

88,876

37,985 

its ordinary shares

11. To give the Company the ability to call a

Meeting on not less than 14 clear days' notice

105,222,002

1,590,909

75,042

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Contact:

Daren Lowry

Head of Secretariat & Risk Management 

Whitbread PLC - 01582 889346