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4 May 2018
Kerry Group
Regulatory Announcement
Result of Annual General Meeting
The Directors of the Company wish to announce that all resolutions put to the shareholders at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Company held on, Thursday 3 May 2018, were passed on a show of hands at the meeting.
The following table gives details of all the valid proxy votes received in advance of the meeting.
Details of the resolutions are contained in the Notice of Meeting which is available on the company's website: www.kerrygroup.com.
No. | Resolution | For | Against | Withheld |
1 | Report & Accounts | 100,382,108 | 221,138 | 420,525 |
2 | Declaration of Dividend | 100,586,132 | 370,162 | 67,477 |
3 (a) | To elect Mr Gerard Culligan | 100,696,283 | 321,865 | 5,623 |
3 (b) | To elect Mr Cornelius Murphy | 100,701,161 | 317,128 | 5,482 |
3 (c) | To elect Mr Edmond Scanlon | 100,437,483 | 580,806 | 5,482 |
4 (a) | To re-elect Mr Gerry Behan | 99,951,368 | 1,067,099 | 5,304 |
4 (b) | To re-elect Mr Hugh Brady | 99,997,887 | 1,020,439 | 5,445 |
4 (c) | To re-elect Dr Karin Dorrepaal | 100,494,813 | 519,037 | 9,921 |
4 (d) | To re-elect Ms Joan Garahy | 100,492,914 | 517,399 | 13,458 |
4 (e) | To re-elect Mr James Kenny | 99,934,057 | 1,084,456 | 5,258 |
4 (f) | To re-elect Mr Brian Mehigan | 99,851,772 | 1,162,342 | 9,657 |
4 (g) | To re-elect Mr Tom Moran | 100,124,598 | 893,605 | 5,568 |
4 (h) | To re-elect Mr Philip Toomey | 100,000,683 | 1,012,731 | 10,357 |
5 | Remuneration of Auditors | 100,902,221 | 103,796 | 17,754 |
6 | Directors Remuneration Report | 97,669,720 | 3,150,752 | 203,299 |
7 | Remuneration Policy Report | 98,418,376 | 2,343,694 | 261,701 |
8 | Authority to Issue Ordinary Shares | 100,873,074 | 143,790 | 6,907 |
9 | Disapplication of pre-emption rights (allotment of up to 5% for cash)* | 100,002,523 | 1,002,003 | 19,245 |
10 | Disapplication of pre-emption rights (additional allotment of up to 5% for specified transactions)* | 95,304,847 | 5,701,736 | 17,188 |
11 | Authority to make market purchases of the Company's Ordinary Shares* | 100,275,222 | 690,096 | 58,453 |
12 | Articles of Association* | 101,010,718 | 8,208 | 4,845 |
* Denotes a special resolution
Michael Dowling retired from the Board, following the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting and accordingly did not seek re-election at the meeting.
Proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Chairman of the Annual General Meeting have been included in the 'Votes For' total of the appropriate resolution.
A 'Vote Withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes 'For' or 'Against' any resolution.
Only shareholders on the register of members as at 5pm on 1 May 2018 were entitled to attend and vote at the Annual General Meeting. The Issued Share Capital ('ISC') as at that time and date was 176,276,977 A Ordinary Shares of 12.5 cent each and the Company did not hold any Treasury Shares on that date. Accordingly, voting rights in respect of 176,276,977 A Ordinary Shares could be exercised at the Annual General Meeting.
In accordance with Listing Rules, copies of the resolutions passed (see attached pdf) at the AGM have been submitted to the Irish Stock Exchange and the UK's National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM or at the following address:
Companies Announcement Office
Euronext Dublin
28 Anglesea Street
Dublin 2
Ireland
Contact Information
Company Secretarial | |||
Ronan Deasy | Company Secretary | +353 66 7182000 | ronan.deasy@kerry.ie |
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Website | |||
www.kerrygroup.com | |||