British American Tobacco Regulatory News (BATS)

26 Apr 2007 16:41

British American Tobacco PLC26 April 2007 British American Tobacco p.l.c. Results of Voting at the 2007 Annual General Meeting and Share Buy-Back -Whitewash Approved British American Tobacco p.l.c. ("BAT") announces that at the Annual GeneralMeeting held on 26 April 2007 (the "AGM") all the Resolutions as set out in theNotice of Meeting dated 26 March 2007 were approved by the shareholders,including an ordinary resolution (the "Whitewash Resolution") (Resolution 9)which approved the waiver by the Takeover Panel of any obligation which mightotherwise fall on R & R Holdings S.A. ("R & R") to make a general offer to theshareholders of the Company pursuant to Rule 9 of the City Code on Takeovers andMergers as a result of the Company making purchases of its own shares pursuantto the buy-back authority granted at the AGM, which permitted BAT to purchase upto approximately 10 per cent of its issued ordinary share capital. Assuming no sales of ordinary shares by R & R, full use by BAT of the buy-backauthority granted at the AGM and no other person converting any convertiblesecurity or exercising any options or other rights to subscribe in ordinaryshares, the maximum potential shareholding of R & R would represent 32.63 percent of the Company's issued voting share capital. The results of voting at the AGM are as follows: Resolution For Against Withheld Votes TotalResolution 1:Receipt of the 2006 Report and Accounts 1,458,142,936 35,425,618 35,308,100 1,528,876,654 Resolution 2:Approval of the 2006 Remuneration Report 1,477,747,256 50,879,972 247,968 1,528,875,196 Resolution 3:Declaration of the final dividend for 2006 of 1,526,714,506 2,150,582 11,566 1,528,876,65440.2p per share Resolution 4:Reappointment of the PricewaterhouseCoopers 1,473,873,914 42,871,788 12,127,343 1,528,873,045LLP as Auditors Resolution 5:Authority for the Directors to agree the 1,519,581,998 6,561,256 2,732,737 1,528,875,991Auditors' remuneration Resolution 6a:Reappointment of Paul Adams as a Director 1,523,940,342 4,733,798 196,649 1,528,870,789 Resolution 6b:Reappointment of Robert Lerwill as a Director 1,469,017,469 39,348,942 20,505,059 1,528,871,470 Resolution 6c:Reappointment of Sir Nicholas Scheele as a 1,525,379,816 3,278,341 212,950 1,528,871,107Director Resolution 6d:Reappointment of Thys Visser as a Director 1,468,329,752 60,334,503 207,494 1,528,871,749 Resolution 7:Renewal of the Directors' authority to allot 1,518,440,293 10,262,491 165,194 1,528,867,978shares Resolution 8 (Special Resolution):Renewal of the Directors' authority to 1,521,959,299 6,682,977 226,939 1,528,869,215disapply pre-emption rights Resolution 9:Approval of waiver of offer obligation 1,014,161,925 413,113 644,496 1,015,219,534 Resolution 10 (Special Resolution):Authority for the Company to purchase its own 1,528,121,489 668,163 81,376 1,528,871,028shares Resolution 11:Authority to establish the British American 1,451,232,626 54,309,822 23,332,309 1,528,874,757Tobacco 2007 Long Term Incentive Plan Resolution 12:Approval of the extension of the British 1,524,387,301 4,298,820 188,376 1,528,874,497American Tobacco Sharesave Scheme Resolution 13 (Special Resolution):Ratification and confirmation of the 2006 1,526,692,405 112,418 275,763 1,527,080,586interim dividend and matters relating thereto Resolution 14 (Special Resolution):Adoption of new articles of association 1,527,092,890 1,027,965 752,644 1,528,873,499 Shares in issue: 2,054,605,407 In accordance with Listing Rules 9.6.2R and 9.6.3R, two copies of each of theresolutions numbered 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 will shortly be forwarded tothe Document Viewing Facility of the FSA. A copy of the resolutions may also beobtained from the Notice of Meeting which is available on the Company's websiteat www.bat.com/agm Further, in accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.1R, two copies of the Company'snewly adopted articles of association (Resolution 14) will shortly be forwardedto the Document Viewing Facility of the FSA. A copy of the Company's newarticles of association may also be found on the Company's website atwww.bat.com/agm G C W Cunnington Deputy Secretary, British American Tobacco p.l.c. 26 April 2007 ENQUIRIES British American Tobacco Press Office: David Betteridge/Kate Matrunola +44 (0)20 7845 2888 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange