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Legal & general group plc
RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD ON 17 MAY 2018
Legal & General Group Plc announces that at its Annual General Meeting held today at The Honourable Artillery Company, Armoury House, City Road, London EC1Y 2BQ, 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 | For 1 | Against | Votes Withheld 2 | ||
No. of shares1 | % | No. of shares | % | ||
Resolution 1 Receipt of financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2017 |
4,249,186,406
|
99.98
|
996,802
|
0.02
|
1,344,366
|
Resolution 2 Declaration of a final dividend of 11.05p per ordinary share |
4,249,559,123
|
100.00
|
134,439
|
0.00
|
1,828,647
|
Resolution 3 Re-election of Carolyn Bradley as a Director |
4,229,396,599
|
99.49
|
21,516,009
|
0.51
|
609,601
|
Resolution 4 Election of Philip Broadley as a Director |
4,229,786,953
|
99.50
|
21,114,858
|
0.50
|
620,398
|
Resolution 5 Election of Jeff Davies as a Director |
4,199,212,372
|
98.78
|
51,679,766
|
1.22
|
630,071
|
Resolution 6 Election of Sir John Kingman as a Director |
4,211,993,538
|
99.09
|
38,671,324
|
0.91
|
859,495
|
Resolution 7 Election of Lesley Knox as a Director |
4,214,770,637
|
99.15
|
36,103,400
|
0.85
|
648,172
|
Resolution 8 Election of Kerrigan Procter as a Director |
4,218,157,504
|
99.23
|
32,780,259
|
0.77 |
584,446
|
Resolution 9 Election of Toby Strauss as a Director |
4,230,285,889
|
99.52
|
20,604,496
|
0.48
|
631,824
|
Resolution 10 Re-election of Julia Wilson as a Director |
4,226,355,913
|
99.42
|
24,560,495
|
0.58
|
607,949
|
Resolution 11 Re-election of Nigel Wilson as a Director |
4,222,652,248
|
99.33
|
28,399,188
|
0.67
|
472,921
|
Resolution 12 Re-election of Mark Zinkula as a Director |
4,218,330,346
|
99.23
|
32,671,605
|
0.77
|
520,258
|
Resolution 13 Appointment of KPMG LLP as auditors |
4,243,155,722
|
99.81
|
7,955,444
|
0.19
|
411,168
|
Resolution 14 To authorise the Director's to fix the Auditors' remuneration |
4,243,473,215
|
99.82
|
7,764,867
|
0.18
|
281,263
|
Resolution 15 Approval of Remuneration Report |
4,169,081,055
|
98.17
|
77,681,315
|
1.83
|
4,760,192
|
Resolution 16 Authority to allot equity securities |
4,230,237,001
|
99.51
|
20,645,256
|
0.49
|
634,940
|
Resolution 17 Authority to allot contingent convertible securities |
4,187,149,375
|
98.50
|
63,634,225
|
1.50
|
733,597
|
Resolution 18 Authority to make political donations |
4,101,892,403
|
96.96
|
128,775,939
|
3.04
|
20,852,867
|
Resolution 19* Disapplication of pre-emption rights |
4,197,195,828
|
98.74
|
53,532,893
|
1.26
|
788,476
|
Resolution 20* Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights |
4,092,521,494
|
96.28
|
158,218,401
|
3.72
|
777,302
|
Resolution 21* Additional authority to diappply pre-emption rights in connection with CCS |
4,155,213,040
|
97.75
|
95,482,287
|
2.25
|
821,070
|
Resolution 22* Authority to purchase own shares |
4,184,256,494
|
98.48
|
64,725,528
|
1.52
|
2,535,175
|
Resolution 23* Authority to call general meetings (other than an AGM) on not less than 14 clear days' notice |
4,026,885,921
|
95.16
|
204,719,052
|
4.84
|
19,916,434
|
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 The total number of proxy votes cast was 4,241,121,352 representing 71.1% of voting capital as at 15 May 2018. At the close of business on 15 May 2018, the issued share capital of the Company was 5,958,825,817 ordinary shares (no shares are held in Treasury).
* 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.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM and also on the Company's website at https://www.legalandgeneralgroup.com/investors/investor-news/rns
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
Name of person making notification: | Olaitan Popoola |
Contact number: | 020 3124 2108 |
Date of notification: | 17 May 2018 |