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21 July 2020
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (the "Company")
Results of the 2020 Annual General Meeting
The Company held its Annual General Meeting on Tuesday 21 July 2020. All the resolutions put to shareholders were duly passed on a poll. Resolutions 1 to 13 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 14 to 17 were passed as special resolutions.
The results of the poll were as follows:
Resolutions | For and at discretion | Against | Votes Withheld
| Total | ||
Number | % | Number | % | |||
1. To receive the audited accounts of the Company for the year ended 29 February 2020, together with the Report of the Directors and the report of the Auditor thereon.
| 49,191,971
| 99.96
| 17,753 | 0.04 | 30,314 | 49,209,724 |
2. To approve the Annual Statement by the Chair of the Remuneration Committee and the Annual Report on Directors' Remuneration for the year ended 29 February 2020.
| 47,974,060 | 97.48 | 1,242,678 | 2.52 | 23,302 | 49,216,738 |
3. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy.
| 47,009,932 | 95.52 | 2,204,768 | 4.48 | 25,340 | 49,214,700 |
4. To authorise the Directors to settle the intended final dividend for the year ended 29 February 2020 of 6.89 pence per share by way of a bonus issue of new Ordinary Shares.
| 49,210,030 | 99.98 | 10,374 | 0.02 | 19,635 | 49,220,404 |
5. To re-appoint Steven Hall as a Director of the Company.
| 49,201,552 | 99.98 | 11,426 | 0.02 | 27,061 | 49,212,978 |
6. To re-appoint Sir Richard Lambert as a Director of the Company.
| 49,159,686 | 99.91 | 42,538 | 0.09 | 37,814 | 49,202,224 |
7. To re-appoint Nigel Newton as a Director of the Company.
| 49,136,267 | 99.85 | 75,957 | 0.15 | 27,814 | 49,212,224 |
8. To re-appoint Leslie-Ann Reed as a Director.
| 49,124,036 | 99.82 | 88,189 | 0.18 | 27,814 | 49,212,225 |
9. To re-appoint Penny Scott-Bayfield as a Director.
| 49,125,109 | 99.82 | 87,116 | 0.18 | 27,814 | 49,212,225 |
10. To re-appoint John Warren as a Director.
| 49,190,060 | 99.98 | 12,165 | 0.02 | 37,814 | 49,202,225 |
11. To re-appoint KPMG LLP as Auditor of the Company.
| 48,182,363 | 97.89 | 1,036,498 | 2.11 | 21,178 | 49,218,861 |
12. To authorise the Directors to determine the auditors' remuneration.
| 49,206,966 | 99.98 | 11,728 | 0.02 | 21,345 | 49,218,694 |
13. To authorise the Directors to allot shares.
| 49,089,273 | 99.74 | 129,378 | 0.26 | 21,388 | 49,218,651 |
14. To authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights.
| 48,778,530 | 99.11 | 439,954 | 0.89 | 21,555 | 49,218,484 |
15. To authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights regarding acquisition/investment.
| 48,774,994 | 99.11 | 437,349 | 0.89 | 27,695 | 49,212,343 |
16. To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares.
| 49,159,659 | 99.92 | 40,472 | 0.08 | 39,907 | 49,200,131 |
17. To adopt the new Articles of Association in substitution for the existing Articles of Association.
| 46,768,677 | 95.04 | 2,442,139 | 4.96 | 29,222 | 49,210,816 |
NOTES:
1. The 'For' vote includes those giving discretion to the Chair of the Meeting.
2. A 'Vote Withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes 'For' and 'Against' a resolution.
3. As at Friday 17 July 2020, there were 79,094,998 ordinary shares of 1.25 pence in issue.
4. The full text of each of the resolutions is set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting which is available at the National Storage Mechanism https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism and on the Company's website at www.bloomsbury-ir.co.uk.
5. In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of the resolutions passed at the meeting other than those considered as ordinary business, will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.
Maya Abu-DeebGroup General Counsel & Company SecretaryBloomsbury Publishing PlcTelephone: +44(0)20 7631 5600
Email: maya.abu-deeb@bloomsbury.com