8 Sep 2015 15:45
GREENE KING PLC
RESULTS OF AGM
The annual general meeting of Greene King plc was held at the Millennium Grandstand, Rowley Mile Racecourse Conference Centre, Newmarket on Wednesday 8 September 2015. All 18 resolutions put to the members were passed on a show of hands, resolutions 1 to 15 as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 16 to 18 as special resolutions.
Copies of all resolutions passed at the meeting, other than those resolutions concerning ordinary business, are being submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do.
The results of the proxy votes lodged in advance of the meeting are set out below.
Resolution | Votes for | Percentage | Votes Against | Percentage | Votes Withheld
|
To receive and adopt the report of the accounts | 219,991,833 | 99.9 | 210,841 | 0.1 | 110,896 |
To approve the directors' remuneration report | 209,030,752 | 99.1 | 1,916,795 | 0.9 | 9,342,342 |
To declare a dividend
| 220,229,419 | 99.99 | 552 | 0.01 | 83,599 |
To re-elect Tim Bridge as a director
| 207,847,270 | 94.8 | 11,431,066 | 5.2 | 1,035,233 |
To re-elect Rooney Anand as a director | 219,601,042 | 99.7 | 619,358 | 0.3 | 93,170 |
To re-elect Mike Coupe as a director | 217,795,844 | 99.7 | 649,822 | 0.3 | 1,867,904 |
To re-elect Ian Durant as a director
| 217,322,996 | 99.4 | 1,215,837 | 0.6 | 1,751,056 |
To re-elect Rob Rowley as a director | 219,558,313 | 99.7 | 649,760 | 0.3 | 105,497 |
To re-elect Lynne Weedall as a director | 219,699,245 | 99.8 | 516,085 | 0.2 | 98,322 |
To elect Kirk Davis as a director
| 219,589,095 | 99.7 | 614,305 | 0.3 | 110,170 |
To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP as auditors | 216,229,354 | 98.2 | 3,956,215 | 1.8 | 104,320 |
To authorise the directors to determine the remuneration of the auditors | 218,791,493 | 99.4 | 1,391,287 | 0.6 | 107,109 |
To increase the maximum ordinary remuneration of the directors to £600,000 per annum in aggregate | 219,685,812 | 99.8 | 419,114 | 0.2 | 208,644 |
To authorise the establishment of the Greene King Sharesave Scheme 2015 | 219,341,740 | 99.6 | 869,319 | 0.4 | 102,511 |
To renew the directors' allotment authority | 173,040,376 | 78.6 | 47,128,753 | 21.4 | 120,760 |
To authorise non-pre-emptive issues of ordinary shares in limited circumstances* | 219,650,094 | 99.8 | 517,031 | 0.2 | 146,445 |
To renew the authority for market purchases* | 219,968,771 | 99.9 | 241,408 | 0.1 | 103,391 |
To allow the company to hold general meetings on 14 days' notice* | 213,064,495 | 96.8 | 7,096,672 | 3.2 | 128,751 |
* Special resolutions
Note: Any proxy appointments which gave discretion to the chairman have been included in the "For" total.
For further information please contact:
Lindsay Keswick
Company Secretary
Tel: 01284 763222