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21 July 2016
Premier Foods plc ('Premier Foods' or the 'Company')
Annual General Meeting 2016
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.
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 items of special business approved at the AGM were:
Resolution 14 - Renewal of power to disapply pre-emption rights.
Resolution 15 - Renewal of power to disapply pre-emption rights for an acquisition or a specified capital investment.
Resolution 16 - Approval of notice period for general meetings.
The poll results are set out below and will also be available on the Company's website later today: http://www.premierfoods.co.uk/investors/shareholder-centre.
Resolution | For | % | Against | % | Total cast | Votes withheld* |
1 | 536,452,147 | 99.99 | 31,095 | 0.01 | 536,483,242 | 18,611 |
2 | 436,369,922 | 85.41 | 74,559,365 | 14.59 | 510,929,287 | 25,572,566 |
3 | 534,153,513 | 99.58 | 2,279,467 | 0.42 | 536,432,980 | 68,373 |
4 | 471,146,560 | 87.85 | 65,152,686 | 12.15 | 536,299,246 | 202,607 |
5 | 534,193,865 | 99.58 | 2,265,479 | 0.42 | 536,459,344 | 42,509 |
6 | 532,701,076 | 99.32 | 3,670,344 | 0.68 | 536,371,420 | 130,433 |
7 | 533,978,725 | 99.57 | 2,282,838 | 0.43 | 536,261,563 | 240,290 |
8 | 533,993,645 | 99.57 | 2,280,497 | 0.43 | 536,274,142 | 227,711 |
9 | 533,493,078 | 99.47 | 2,818,564 | 0.53 | 536,311,642 | 190,211 |
10 | 535,219,949 | 99.80 | 1,048,334 | 0.20 | 536,268,283 | 233,570 |
11 | 536,208,411 | 99.95 | 245,751 | 0.05 | 536,454,162 | 47,691 |
12 | 534,688,076 | 99.67 | 1,778,807 | 0.33 | 536,466,883 | 34,970 |
13 | 532,500,530 | 99.27 | 3,904,368 | 0.73 | 536,404,898 | 96,955 |
14 | 534,651,515 | 99.68 | 1,711,058 | 0.32 | 536,362,573 | 139,280 |
15 | 518,151,179 | 96.60 | 18,210,186 | 3.40 | 536,361,365 | 140,488 |
16 | 456,739,112 | 85.14 | 79,714,992 | 14.86 | 536,454,104 | 47,749 |
17 | 532,285,645 | 99.23 | 4,106,616 | 0.77 | 536,392,261 | 110,592 |
* 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.
For further information contact:
Andrew McDonald
General Counsel & Company Secretary
Tel: 01727 815850