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20 July 2017
Premier Foods plc ('Premier Foods' or the 'Company')
Annual General Meeting 2017
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 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 | % of ISC voted | Votes withheld* |
1. To receive the 2016/17 annual report. | 550,515,215 | 99.97 | 179,939 | 0.03 | 550,695,154 | 66.14% | 182,852 |
2. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report. | 544,613,759 | 98.87 | 6,198,168 | 1.13 | 550,811,927 | 66.15% | 66,079 |
3. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy. | 540,647,973 | 98.82 | 6,432,867 | 1.18 | 547,080,840 | 65.70% | 3,797,166 |
4. To elect Daniel Wosner as a director. | 547,973,076 | 99.53 | 2,607,617 | 0.47 | 550,580,693 | 66.12% | 297,313 |
5. To re-elect David Beever as a director. | 547,847,491 | 99.48 | 2,846,055 | 0.52 | 550,693,546 | 66.14% | 184,460 |
6. To re-elect Gavin Darby as a director. | 547,928,947 | 99.49 | 2,801,754 | 0.51 | 550,730,701 | 66.14% | 147,305 |
7. To re-elect Richard Hodgson as a director. | 548,456,715 | 99.60 | 2,189,505 | 0.40 | 550,646,220 | 66.13% | 231,786 |
8. To re-elect Tsunao Kijima as a director. | 530,496,019 | 96.33 | 20,203,162 | 3.67 | 550,699,181 | 66.14% | 178,825 |
9. To re-elect Ian Krieger as a director. | 549,351,520 | 99.77 | 1,279,771 | 0.23 | 550,631,291 | 66.13% | 246,715 |
10. To re-elect Jennifer Laing as a director. | 549,366,961 | 99.77 | 1,272,402 | 0.23 | 550,639,363 | 66.13% | 238,643 |
11. To re-elect Alastair Murray as a director. | 547,939,328 | 99.51 | 2,672,981 | 0.49 | 550,612,309 | 66.13% | 265,697 |
12. To re-elect Pam Powell as a director. | 549,408,794 | 99.78 | 1,228,556 | 0.22 | 550,637,350 | 66.13% | 246,262 |
13. To re-appoint KPMG LLP as auditor. | 547,342,229 | 99.97 | 174,956 | 0.03 | 547,517,185 | 65.76% | 3,360,821 |
14. To approve the remuneration of the auditor. | 549,647,652 | 99.79 | 1,147,770 | 0.21 | 550,795,422 | 66.15% | 82,584 |
15. To approve the Premier Foods Deferred Bonus Plan 2017. | 548,478,287 | 99.61 | 2,170,500 | 0.39 | 550,648,787 | 66.13% | 229,219 |
16. To approve the authority to make political donations. | 548,962,702 | 99.66 | 1,868,600 | 0.34 | 550,831,302 | 66.15% | 46,704 |
17. To approve the authority to allot shares. | 546,497,623 | 99.21 | 4,327,844 | 0.79 | 550,825,467 | 66.15% | 52,539 |
18. To renew the authority to disapply pre-emption rights. | 548,964,178 | 99.67 | 1,799,767 | 0.33 | 550,763,945 | 66.15% | 114,061 |
19. To renew the authority to disapply pre-emption rights for an acquisition or a specified capital investment. | 489,834,793 | 88.94 | 60,915,406 | 11.06 | 550,750,199 | 66.14% | 127,807 |
20. To approve the notice period for general meetings. | 483,854,133 | 87.85 | 66,900,368 | 12.15 | 550,754,501 | 66.15% | 123,505 |
*A vote withheld is not counted as a vote in law and therefore is not counted in the % of votes "for" or "against" a resolution.
The total number of shares in issue as at 18 July 2017 was 832,660,179 ordinary shares of 10p each.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2 copies 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.
For further information contact:
Andrew McDonald
General Counsel & Company Secretary
Tel: 01727 815850
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