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Ascential plc
Result of Annual General Meeting ("AGM")
All 22 resolutions considered at the 2021 Annual General Meeting were passed on a poll.
The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of AGM dated 1 April 2021. The total number of votes received for each resolutions is set out below. The Company's issued share capital as at 6 May 2021 was 402,929,204 with voting rights. The Company does not hold any shares in Treasury at the date of this disclosure.
Resolution no. | Shares For | % | Shares Against | % | Shares marked as Votes Withheld/ Abstentions |
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1. To receive the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2020 | 375,993,599 | 99.73 | 1,026,924 | 0.27 | 2,658,470 |
2. Resolution withdrawn | n/a |
| n/a |
| n/a |
3. To approve the Annual Report on Remuneration contained in the Annual report and Accounts | 359,267,886 | 95.39 | 17,373,098 | 4.61 | 3,038,009 |
4. Resolution withdrawn | n/a |
| n/a |
| n/a |
5. To elect Rita Clifton as a Director of the Company | 374,317,475 | 98.59 | 5,361,518 | 1.41 | 0 |
6. To elect Scott Forbes as a Director of the Company | 375,488,082 | 99.52 | 1,802,901 | 0.48 | 2,388,010 |
7. To elect Mandy Gradden as a Director of the Company | 379,678,993 | 100.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
8. To elect Paul Harrison as a Director of the Company | 379,678,993 | 100.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
9. To elect Gillian Kent as a Director of the Company | 322,690,504 | 85.04 | 56,758,474 | 14.96 | 230,015 |
10. To elect Duncan Painter as a Director of the Company | 379,676,766 | 100.00 | 2,227 | 0.00 | 0 |
11. To elect Judy Vezmar as a Director of the Company | 347,244,738 | 91.46 | 32,434,255 | 8.54 | 0 |
12. To elect Suzanne Baxter as a Director of the Company | 379,678,993 | 100.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
13. To elect Joanne Harris as a Director of the Company | 379,678,993 | 100.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
14. To elect Funke Ighodaro as a Director of the Company | 378,409,892 | 99.67 | 1,269,101 | 0.33 | 0 |
15. To elect Charles Song as a Director of the Company | 379,656,614 | 99.99 | 22,379 | 0.01 | 0 |
16. To re-appoint KPMG LLP as auditor of the Company | 373,830,220 | 98.46 | 5,848,773 | 1.54 | 0 |
17. To authorise the Board to determine the remuneration of the auditor | 377,245,154 | 99.36 | 2,433,839 | 0.64 | 0 |
18. To authorise the Company to make political donations | 344,310,102 | 90.68 | 35,368,891 | 9.32 | 0 |
19. To authorise the Company to allot relevant securities | 362,316,563 | 95.43 | 17,362,430 | 4.57 | 0 |
20. To authorise the Company to disapply pre-emption rights as per resolution 20 in the Notice of AGM | 379,678,993 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 |
21. To authorise the Company to additionally disapply pre-emption rights as per resolution 21 in the Notice of AGM | 372,143,701 | 98.02 | 7,535,292 | 1.98 | 0 |
22. To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares | 376,262,169 | 99.13 | 3,284,459 | 0.87 | 132,365 |
23. To authorise the Company to call any general meeting of the Company other than an AGM) on not less than 14 clear days' notice | 366,285,896 | 96.47 | 13,393,097 | 3.53 | 0 |
24. To approve amended Articles of Association | 379,678,993 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 |
Notes
1. AGM Resolutions 1, 3 and 5-19 were passed as ordinary resolutions. Resolutions 20 to 24 were passed as special resolutions.
2. Resolution 2 pertaining to the Directors' Remuneration Policy and Resolution 4 pertaining to the proposed Ten-Year Equity Plan received a majority of shareholder support ahead of the meeting but not to a level that satisfied the Board. As a consequence, the Board elected to withdraw the resolutions and continue to operate under the remuneration policy approved by shareholders in 2020.
3. The number of shares 'For' includes discretionary votes.
4. 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