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20 July 2022
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (the "Company")
Results of the 2022 Annual General Meeting
The Company held its Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 20 July 2022. All the resolutions put to shareholders were duly passed on a show of hands. Resolutions 1 to 12 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 13 to 15 were passed as special resolutions.
Details of shareholders' proxy votes lodged in advance of the Annual General Meeting for each resolution are shown in the table below:
Resolutions | For and at discretion | Against | Votes Withheld
| Total | ||
Number | % | Number | % | |||
1. To receive the audited accounts of the Company for the year ended 28 February 2022, together with the Report of the Directors and the report of the Auditor thereon.
| 54,397,707 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 14,270 | 54,397,707 |
2. To approve the Annual Statement by the Chair of the Remuneration Committee and the Annual Report on Directors' Remuneration for the year ended 28 February 2022.
| 53,340,868 | 98.92 | 584,006 | 1.08 | 487,103 | 53,924,874 |
3. To declare a final dividend of 9.40p per Ordinary share. | 54,408,882 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 3,095 | 54,408,882 |
4. To elect John Bason as a Director of the Company. | 44,220,429 | 95.94 | 1,871,976 | 4.06 | 8,319,572 | 46,092,405 |
5. To re-elect Sir Richard Lambert as a Director of the Company. | 54,148,793 | 99.53 | 258,140 | 0.47 | 5,044 | 54,406,933 |
6. To re-elect Nigel Newton as a Director of the Company. | 54,103,875 | 99.44 | 303,058 | 0.56 | 5,044 | 54,406,933 |
7. To re-elect Leslie-Ann Reed as a Director. | 53,847,339 | 98.97 | 559,594 | 1.03 | 5,044 | 54,406,933 |
8. To re-elect Penny Scott-Bayfield as a Director. | 54,403,677 | 99.99 | 3,256 | 0.01 | 5,044 | 54,406,933 |
9. To re-elect Baroness Lola Young of Hornsey as a Director. | 54,159,612 | 99.55 | 247,321 | 0.45 | 54,406,933 | |
10. To appoint Crowe U.K. LLP as Auditor of the Company. | 54,400,784 | 99.99 | 5,935 | 0.01 | 54,406,719 | |
11. To authorise the Directors to determine the auditors' remuneration. | 54,403,622 | 99.99 | 3,311 | 0.01 | 54,406,933 | |
12. To authorise the Directors to allot shares. | 54,370,405 | 99.94 | 34,624 | 0.06 | 54,405,029 | |
13. To authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights. | 54,370,755 | 99.93 | 36,474 | 0.07 | 54,407,229 | |
14. To authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights regarding acquisition/investment. | 54,125,755 | 99.48 | 280,474 | 0.52 | 54,406,229 | |
15. To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares. | 53,009,479 | 99.98 | 13,199 | 0.02 | 53,022,678 | |
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 Monday 18 July 2022, there were 81,608,672 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.
For further information, please contact:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc | |
Maya Abu-Deeb, Group General Counsel & Company Secretary | maya.abu-deeb@bloomsbury.com |
Hudson Sandler | +44 (0) 20 7796 4133 |
Dan de Belder / Hattie Dreyfus | bloomsbury@hudsonsandler.com |