20 Jul 2016 09:23
Dairy Crest Group plc
Results of Annual General Meeting held on 19 July 2016
Dairy Crest Group plc announces that at its Annual General Meeting held today at One Wood Street, London EC2V 7WS, all of the resolutions proposed in the Notice of the Meeting were passed by shareholders by means of a poll vote.
The votes cast were as follows:
Resolution | For1 | Against | Votes Withheld2 | |||
No. of shares | % | No. of shares | % | |||
1 | Receive & adopt Report & Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2016 | 75,787,143 | 99.99 | 5,630 | 0.01 | 528,531 |
2 | Approval of Directors' Remuneration Report | 69,996,972 | 92.31 | 5,835,040 | 7.69 | 489,292 |
3 | Declare final dividend of 16 pence per ordinary share | 76,129,656 | 99.81 | 148,719 | 0.19 | 42,929 |
4 | Re-elect Mark Allen as a Director | 76,205,122 | 99.93 | 51,316 | 0.07 | 64,866 |
5 | Re-elect Tom Atherton as a Director | 75,906,697 | 99.54 | 350,634 | 0.46 | 63,973 |
6 | Re-elect Stephen Alexander as a Director | 75,629,260 | 99.78 | 165,992 | 0.22 | 526,052 |
7 | Re-elect Andrew Carr-Locke as a Director | 76,098,056 | 99.79 | 159,389 | 0.21 | 63,859 |
8 | Re-elect Sue Farr as a Director | 75,919,921 | 99.56 | 336,313 | 0.44 | 65,070 |
9 | Re-elect Richard Macdonald as a Director | 73,634,132 | 96.55 | 2,630,298 | 3.45 | 56,874 |
10 | Re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP as auditors | 76,012,750 | 99.66 | 256,400 | 0.34 | 52,154 |
11 | Authorise Directors to determine Auditor's remuneration | 76,043,242 | 99.7 | 228,104 | 0.3 | 49,958 |
12* | Allow general meetings to be called on at least 14 days' notice | 71,721,157 | 94.03 | 4,555,396 | 5.97 | 44,751 |
13 | Authorise incurring political expenditure | 72,772,226 | 95.47 | 3,452,355 | 4.53 | 96,723 |
14 | Authorise allotment of equity securities | 76,010,652 | 99.67 | 248,004 | 0.33 | 62,648 |
15* | Disapplication of pre-emption rights (1st 5%) | 76,135,875 | 99.81 | 145,839 | 0.19 | 39,590 |
16* | Disapplication of pre-emption rights (2nd 5%) | 73,979,755 | 97.04 | 2,256,041 | 2.96 | 85,508 |
17* | Authorise the Company to Purchase Its Own Shares | 75,668,802 | 99.26 | 565,913 | 0.74 | 86,589 |
Notes:
1 The 'for' votes include those giving the Chairman discretion.
2 A vote 'withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes 'for' and 'against' each resolution.
3 Votes 'for' and 'against' are expressed as a percentage of the votes received.
4 Voting was conducted by poll.
5 * Denotes a Special Resolution.
The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual of General Meeting which is available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism http://www.hemscott.com/nsm.do 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.hemscott.com/nsm.do
For further enquiries please contact:
Robin Miller, Company Secretary +44 (0)1372 472252