Sign In
Last checked at 
29 Apr 2014 16:01
29 April 2014
Premier Foods plc ('Premier Foods' or the 'Company')
Annual General Meeting 2014
Result of AGM
Premier Foods announces that at the Company's AGM held today all of the resolutions proposed were passed with the required majorities by way of a poll.
The table below shows the votes received for and against the resolutions, representing a total of 72 per cent of the 823,607,761 ordinary shares in issue as at the date of the meeting.
Resolution | For | % | Against | % | Total cast | Votes withheld* |
1 | 600,274,893 | 100.00 | 17,597 | 0.00 | 600,292,490 | 2,297,567 |
2 | 592,432,265 | 99.93 | 410,277 | 0.07 | 592,842,542 | 9,747,515 |
3 | 593,707,405 | 99.05 | 5,714,208 | 0.95 | 599,421,613 | 3,168,444 |
4 | 599,491,227 | 99.77 | 1,367,367 | 0.23 | 600,858,594 | 1,731,463 |
5 | 598,310,146 | 99.58 | 2,545,217 | 0.42 | 600,855,363 | 1,734,694 |
6 | 597,934,811 | 99.53 | 2,851,054 | 0.47 | 600,785,865 | 1,804,192 |
7 | 598,884,771 | 99.67 | 1,972,061 | 0.33 | 600,856,832 | 1,733,225 |
8 | 597,632,358 | 99.48 | 3,154,101 | 0.52 | 600,786,459 | 1,803,598 |
9 | 597,705,290 | 99.48 | 3,143,002 | 0.52 | 600,848,292 | 1,741,765 |
10 | 451,647,824 | 98.61 | 6,379,455 | 1.39 | 458,027,279 | 144,562,778** |
11 | 597,621,919 | 99.47 | 3,166,749 | 0.53 | 600,788,668 | 1,801,389 |
12 | 592,417,950 | 98.59 | 8,499,384 | 1.41 | 600,917,334 | 1,672,723 |
13 | 597,156,828 | 99.38 | 3,742,274 | 0.62 | 600,899,102 | 1,690,955 |
14 | 595,098,991 | 99.05 | 5,733,634 | 0.95 | 600,832,625 | 1,757,407 |
15 | 600,334,353 | 99.92 | 497,116 | 0.08 | 600,831,469 | 1,758,588 |
16 | 599,666,791 | 99.80 | 1,222,552 | 0.20 | 600,889,343 | 1,700,714 |
17 | 567,785,203 | 94.49 | 33,139,376 | 5.51 | 600,924,579 | 1,665,477 |
18 | 599,076,955 | 99.72 | 1,712,051 | 0.28 | 600,789,006 | 1,801,049 |
* A vote withheld is not counted as a vote in law and therefore is not counted in the % of votes "for" or "against" the resolution.
** Includes 142,760,090 shares withheld by Warburg Pincus.
A copy of the resolutions in respect of the special business approved at the AGM will shortly be available for inspection on the UK Listing Authority's National Storage Mechanism at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM
The above poll results will also shortly be available on the Company's website: http://www.premierfoods.co.uk/investor-relations/shareholder-information/agm-and-general-meetings.cfm
The items of special business approved at the AGM were:
Resolution 15 Renewal of power to disapply pre-emption rights.
Resolution 17 Approval of notice period for general meetings.
For further information contact:
Andrew McDonald
General Counsel & Company Secretary
Tel: 01727 815850
Follow the stocks
