21 Jul 2016 14:23
Royal Mail plc
21 July 2016
Results of Annual General Meeting held on 21 July 2016
Royal Mail plc (the 'Company') (RMG.L) announces that at its Annual General Meeting (AGM) held earlier today, all the resolutions put to shareholders were passed by the requisite majorities. Resolutions 1 to 18 were passed as ordinary resolutions and Resolutions 19 to 22 were passed as special resolutions. The results of the polls, on which Equiniti, the Company's registrar, acted as scrutineer, are as follows:
RESOLUTION | FOR | % | AGAINST | % | TOTAL | % OF ISSUED SHARE CAPITAL | WITHHELD | |
1. | Directors and Auditors' reports and audited accounts | 634,181,691 | 99.95 | 343,451 | 0.05 | 634,525,142 | 63.45% | 702,908 |
2. | Directors' Remuneration Policy | 523,665,626 | 83.46 | 103,807,987 | 16.54 | 627,473,613 | 62.75% | 7,731,040 |
3. | Directors' Remuneration Report | 586,759,324 | 96.58 | 20,795,146 | 3.42 | 607,554,470 | 60.76% | 27,633,259 |
4. | Final dividend | 634,135,971 | 99.92 | 514,497 | 0.08 | 634,650,468 | 63.47% | 541,875 |
5. | Re-elect Peter Long | 560,405,447 | 91.36 | 52,994,957 | 8.64 | 613,400,404 | 61.34% | 21,787,167 |
6. | Re-elect Moya Greene | 631,168,408 | 99.52 | 3,070,672 | 0.48 | 634,239,080 | 63.42% | 996,003 |
7. | Re-elect Matthew Lester | 629,490,732 | 99.29 | 4,484,414 | 0.71 | 633,975,146 | 63.40% | 1,203,140 |
8. | Re-elect Nick Horler | 630,030,899 | 99.38 | 3,939,485 | 0.62 | 633,970,384 | 63.40% | 1,217,423 |
9. | Re-elect Cath Keers | 631,983,807 | 99.69 | 1,987,990 | 0.31 | 633,971,797 | 63.40% | 1,210,509 |
10. | Re-elect Paul Murray | 616,951,933 | 97.32 | 16,994,963 | 2.68 | 633,946,896 | 63.39% | 1,228,536 |
11. | Re-elect Orna Ni-Chionna | 581,997,967 | 92.53 | 46,991,765 | 7.47 | 628,989,732 | 62.90% | 6,164,297 |
12. | Re-elect Les Owen | 617,004,463 | 97.33 | 16,916,742 | 2.67 | 633,921,205 | 63.39% | 1,215,474 |
13. | Appoint KPMG LLP | 633,174,745 | 99.81 | 1,175,109 | 0.19 | 634,349,854 | 63.43% | 834,605 |
14. | Auditors' remuneration | 633,176,711 | 99.81 | 1,197,566 | 0.19 | 634,374,277 | 63.44% | 759,047 |
15. | Political donations | 620,139,352 | 98.56 | 9,029,547 | 1.44 | 629,168,899 | 62.92% | 6,028,480 |
16. | Long Term Incentive Plan | 552,087,406 | 87.95 | 75,660,439 | 12.05 | 627,747,845 | 62.77% | 7,442,351 |
17. | Deferred Share Bonus Plan | 576,469,721 | 90.96 | 57,261,007 | 9.04 | 633,730,728 | 63.37% | 1,424,895 |
18. | Allotment of shares | 609,239,946 | 96.18 | 24,201,259 | 3.82 | 633,441,205 | 63.34% | 1,624,795 |
19. | Disapplication of pre-emption rights (cash) | 628,770,265 | 99.14 | 5,444,960 | 0.86 | 634,215,225 | 63.42% | 958,360 |
20. | Disapplication of pre-emption rights (acquisition) | 622,801,109 | 98.20 | 11,390,385 | 1.80 | 634,191,494 | 63.42% | 992,526 |
21. | Notice of general meeting | 566,776,308 | 90.07 | 62,470,387 | 9.93 | 629,246,695 | 62.92% | 5,938,556 |
22. | Purchase of own shares | 621,234,891 | 98.75 | 7,864,381 | 1.25 | 629,099,272 | 62.91% | 6,061,633 |
As at 6.00pm on Tuesday 19 July 2016, the number of issued shares in the Company was 1,000,000,000 ordinary shares, which was the total number of shares entitling the holders to attend and vote for or against all the resolutions at the AGM. In accordance with the Company's Articles of Association, on a poll every member present in person or by proxy has one vote for every share held.
There were no restrictions on shareholders to cast votes on any of the resolutions proposed at the AGM. Votes withheld are not votes in law and therefore have not been counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes for or against a resolution.
Pursuant to UK Listing Rule 9.6.2R, copies of all resolutions, other than those concerning ordinary business, passed at the AGM today have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available to view at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM
The AGM results are also available to view on the Company's website at http://www.royalmailgroup.com/investors/shareholder-communications/annual-general-meetings
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