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A.G. BARR p.l.c. (the "Company")
25 June 2020
The Company announces that at its Annual General Meeting (the "AGM") held earlier today, all resolutions set out in the Notice of AGM put to the AGM were passed by the requisite majority. Each of the resolutions put to the Annual General Meeting was voted on by way of a poll and the results are set out below.
RESOLUTIONS | VOTES FOR | % | VOTES AGAINST | % | VOTES TOTAL | % OF ISC | VOTES WITHHELD |
1. To receive and approve the audited accounts of the group and the Company for the year ended 25 January 2020. | 71,555,775 | 98.65% | 979,235 | 1.35% | 72,535,010 | 64.75 | 168,078 |
2. To approve the directors' remuneration policy. | 64,446,704 | 91.20% | 6,216,945 | 8.80% | 70,663,649 | 63.08 | 2,039,440 |
3. To receive and approve the annual statement by the chairman of the remuneration committee and the directors' remuneration report. | 69,796,581 | 98.36% | 1,161,738 | 1.64% | 70,958,319 | 63.34 | 1,744,770 |
4. To re-elect Mr John Ross Nicolson as a director of the Company. | 68,311,330 | 94.19% | 4,217,012 | 5.81% | 72,528,342 | 64.74 | 174,747 |
5. To re-elect Mr Roger Alexander White as a director of the Company. | 72,514,912 | 99.86% | 98,101 | 0.14% | 72,613,013 | 64.82 | 90,076 |
6. To re-elect Mr Stuart Lorimer as a director of the Company. | 72,517,815 | 99.85% | 105,359 | 0.15% | 72,623,174 | 64.83 | 79,915 |
7. To re-elect Mr Jonathan David Kemp as a director of the Company. | 72,508,993 | 99.86% | 103,799 | 0.14% | 72,612,792 | 64.82 | 90,297 |
8. To re-elect Mr William Robin Graham Barr as a director of the Company. | 71,585,139 | 98.58% | 1,027,874 | 1.42% | 72,613,013 | 64.82 | 90,076 |
9. To re-elect Ms Susan Verity Barratt as a director of the Company. | 72,478,032 | 99.81% | 137,420 | 0.19% | 72,615,452 | 64.82 | 87,637 |
10. To re-elect Ms Pamela Powell as a director of the Company. | 72,479,727 | 99.81% | 135,504 | 0.19% | 72,615,231 | 64.82 | 87,858 |
11. To re-elect Mr David James Ritchie as a director of the Company. | 70,812,540 | 97.53% | 1,791,486 | 2.47% | 72,604,026 | 64.81 | 99,062 |
12. To re-elect Mr Nicholas Barry Edward Wharton as a director of the Company. | 72,449,661 | 99.78% | 158,530 | 0.22% | 72,608,191 | 64.81 | 94,897 |
13. To re-appoint Deloitte LLP as the Company's auditor and to authorise the audit and risk committee of the board of directors of the Company to fix their remuneration. | 72,592,014 | 99.96% | 27,660 | 0.04% | 72,619,674 | 64.82 | 83,415 |
14. To renew the directors' authority to allot shares. | 72,368,720 | 99.66% | 245,233 | 0.34% | 72,613,953 | 64.82 | 89,136 |
15. \* To approve the disapplication of statutory pre-emption rights. | 72,561,315 | 99.93% | 52,917 | 0.07% | 72,614,232 | 64.82 | 88,857 |
16. \* To authorise the Company to make market purchases of ordinary shares in the capital of the Company. | 72,398,055 | 99.69% | 224,356 | 0.31% | 72,622,411 | 64.82 | 80,677 |
Notes:
(1) * denotes a special resolution.
(2) Proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Chairman of the Annual General Meeting have been included in the "For" total of the appropriate resolution.
(3) A "Vote Withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes "For" or "Against" any resolution, nor in the calculation of the proportion of "Percentage of Issued Share Capital" for any resolution.
(4) The percentage of votes "For" and "Against" any resolution is expressed as a percentage of votes validly cast for that resolution. The total number of shares in issue at 6.00 p.m. on Wednesday 24 June 2020 was 112,028,871 ordinary shares of 4 1/6 pence each.
(5) In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, a copy of resolutions that do not constitute ordinary business at an annual general meeting will be submitted as soon as practicable to the FCA's National Storage Mechanism and available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism .