18 Jul 2018 09:54
Dairy Crest Group plc
Results of Annual General Meeting held on 17 July 2018
Dairy Crest Group plc announces that at its Annual General Meeting held on 17 July 2018 at One Wood Street, London EC2V 7WS, all of the resolutions proposed in the Notice of Meeting were passed by shareholders by means of a poll vote.
The votes cast were as follows:
Resolution | VOTESFOR | % | VOTESAGAINST | % | |
1 | Receive & adopt Report & Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2018 | 85,263,448 | 99.99 | 11,732 | 0.01 |
2 | Approval of Directors' Remuneration Policy | 86,559,318 | 99.70 | 258,753 | 0.30 |
3 | Declare final dividend of 16.3 pence per ordinary share | 87,424,106 | 99.99 | 1,289 | 0.01 |
4 | Re-elect Mark Allen as a Director | 87,192,621 | 99.75 | 220,663 | 0.25 |
5 | Re-elect Tom Atherton as a Director | 87,165,395 | 99.72 | 248,839 | 0.28 |
6 | Re-elect Adam Braithwaite as a Director | 87,197,836 | 99.76 | 207,908 | 0.24 |
7 | Elect Moni Mannings as a Director | 87,367,920 | 99.95 | 45,396 | 0.05 |
8 | Elect John Gibney as a Director | 87,395,111 | 99.98 | 20,380 | 0.02 |
9 | Re-elect Stephen Alexander as a Director | 86,801,803 | 99.38 | 538,188 | 0.62 |
10 | Re-elect Sue Farr as a Director | 87,037,375 | 99.58 | 367,649 | 0.42 |
11 | Re-elect Richard Macdonald as a Director | 87,078,794 | 99.63 | 326,425 | 0.37 |
12 | Appoint Deloitte LLP as Auditor of the Company | 87,387,995 | 99.97 | 29,377 | 0.03 |
13 | Authorise the Directors to determine Deloitte LLP's remuneration | 87,390,778 | 99.96 | 30,801 | 0.04 |
14* | Allow general meetings to be called on at least 14 clear days' notice | 85,714,827 | 98.06 | 1,698,944 | 1.94 |
15 | Authorise incurring political expenditure | 78,719,902 | 90.07 | 8,680,496 | 9.93 |
16 | Authorise the renewal of the Directors' authority to allot shares | 84,863,344 | 97.09 | 2,546,795 | 2.91 |
17* | Authorise allotment of equity securities and disapply pre-emption rights (1st 5%) | 87,328,430 | 99.90 | 83,772 | 0.10 |
18* | Authorise allotment of equity securities and disapply pre-emption rights (2nd 5%) | 85,703,365 | 98.05 | 1,708,341 | 1.95 |
19* | Authorise the Company to purchase its own shares | 86,444,815 | 98.90 | 957,375 | 1.10 |
Notes:
1 The 'for' votes include those giving the Chairman discretion
2 Votes 'for' and 'against' are expressed as a percentage of the votes received
3 Voting was conducted by a poll
* Denotes a Special Resolution
The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual General Meeting which is available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm and also on the Company's website at http://www.dairycrest.co.uk/investors
In accordance with Listing Rules 9.6.3(1) and 9.6.18 a copy of the resolutions passed (other than those concerning ordinary business) will shortly be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will also be available for inspection at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm
For further enquiries please contact:
Robin Miller, Company Secretary +44 (0) 1372 472252