Result of AGM
Updated : 10:20
Result of AGM
27 January 2020
Marston's PLC (the "Company") is pleased to announce that at its Annual General Meeting, held on 24 January 2020, all the resolutions proposed in the Notice of Meeting were passed on a poll. Full details of the total number of votes received for each resolution are set out below and will also be made available on the Company's website: www.marstons.co.uk
A copy of the resolutions passed at the AGM that the Company considers to be non-routine business will be submitted to the UK Listing Authority's National Storage Mechanism and will be available to view at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.
Resolution
| Votes for | % of votes cast | Votes against | % of votes cast | Total votes cast | Total votes cast as a % of issued share capital | Votes withheld | |
1 | Receive the Annual Report and Accounts | 103,086,170 | 99.99% | 5,400 | 0.01% | 103,091,570 | 55.03% | 1,384,017 |
2 | Approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy | 89,792,873 | 86.05% | 14,551,016 | 13.95% | 104,343,889 | 55.70% | 131,691 |
3 | Approve the Annual Report on Remuneration | 100,094,860 | 95.92% | 4,253,359 | 4.08% | 104,348,219 | 55.70% | 127,364 |
4 | Declare a final dividend | 104,459,995 | 99.99% | 5,600 | 0.01% | 104,465,595 | 55.76% | 9,994 |
5 | Elect Bridget Lea | 104,358,685 | 99.95% | 54,182 | 0.05% | 104,412,867 | 55.73% | 62,719 |
6 | Elect Octavia Morley | 104,346,510 | 99.94% | 59,235 | 0.06% | 104,405,745 | 55.73% | 69,839 |
7 | Re-elect Andrew Andrea | 104,100,606 | 99.70% | 316,214 | 0.30% | 104,416,820 | 55.74% | 58,766 |
8 | Re-elect Carolyn Bradley | 104,373,023 | 99.96% | 45,539 | 0.04% | 104,418,562 | 55.74% | 57,024 |
9 | Re-elect Ralph Findlay | 100,279,910 | 96.98% | 3,120,401 | 3.02% | 103,400,311 | 55.19% | 1,075,273 |
10 | Re-elect Matthew Roberts | 104,374,050 | 99.95% | 47,861 | 0.05% | 104,421,911 | 55.74% | 53,675 |
11 | Re-elect William Rucker | 97,936,583 | 95.92% | 4,166,144 | 4.08% | 102,102,727 | 54.50% | 2,372,857 |
12 | Appoint KPMG as Auditors | 104,229,164 | 99.85% | 160,549 | 0.15% | 104,389,713 | 55.72% | 85,870 |
13 | Authorise Auditors' remuneration | 104,266,906 | 99.84% | 167,468 | 0.16% | 104,434,374 | 55.74% | 41,211 |
14 | Authority to allot shares | 97,686,444 | 93.54% | 6,741,624 | 6.46% | 104,428,068 | 55.74% | 47,516 |
15 | Disapplication of pre-emption rights | 99,023,877 | 94.87% | 5,359,397 | 5.13% | 104,383,274 | 55.72% | 92,308 |
16 | Authority to make market purchases of own shares | 103,094,868 | 98.81% | 1,237,701 | 1.19% | 104,332,569 | 55.69% | 143,015 |
17 | Short notice of general meetings | 100,062,450 | 95.79% | 4,393,327 | 4.21% | 104,455,777 | 55.76% | 19,803 |
Notes:
(i) Resolutions 1 to 14 were ordinary resolutions, requiring more than 50% of shareholder votes to be 'for' the resolutions.
(ii) Resolutions 15 to 17 were special resolutions, requiring not less than 75% of shareholder votes to be 'for' the resolutions.
(iii) Any proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Chairman have been included in the 'for' total.
(iv) 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.
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