19 May 2020 15:32
The Restaurant Group plc (the "Company")
Results of 2020 AGM
The Annual General Meeting of The Restaurant Group plc was held on 19 May 2020.
Voting was conducted by way of a poll and all resolutions put to the Annual General Meeting were passed with the requisite majorities. Resolutions 1 to 12 (inclusive) were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 13 to 18 (inclusive) were passed as special resolutions. The number of votes for and against each of the resolutions and the number of votes withheld were as follows:
Resolutions | Votes For | % | Votes Against | % | Total Votes Cast | Votes Withheld |
1. Report and Accounts 2019 | 460,680,341 | 99.27% | 3,366,930 | 0.73% | 464,047,271 | 1,771,704 |
2. Directors' Remuneration Report 2019 | 420,121,320 | 90.19% | 45,672,479 | 9.81% | 465,793,799 | 25,176 |
3. Re-elect Debbie Hewitt as a Director | 425,804,545 | 91.42% | 39,980,141 | 8.58% | 465,784,686 | 34,289 |
4. Re-appoint Andy Hornby as a Director | 465,679,264 | 99.98% | 102,673 | 0.02% | 465,781,937 | 37,038 |
5. Re-elect Kirk Davis as a Director | 464,275,662 | 99.97% | 141,665 | 0.03% | 464,417,327 | 1,401,648 |
6. Re-elect Allan Leighton as a Director | 465,007,998 | 99.83% | 769,892 | 0.17% | 465,777,890 | 41,085 |
7. Re-elect Graham Clemett as a Director | 452,972,983 | 97.25% | 12,805,763 | 2.75% | 465,778,746 | 40,229 |
8. Re-appoint Alison Digges as a Director | 465,688,184 | 99.98% | 98,176 | 0.02% | 465,786,360 | 32,615 |
9. Re-appoint Zoe Morgan as a Director | 465,697,424 | 99.98% | 92,194 | 0.02% | 465,789,618 | 29,357 |
10. Re-appoint the Auditor | 465,750,257 | 99.99% | 49,224 | 0.01% | 465,799,481 | 19,494 |
11. Determine the Auditor's remuneration | 464,997,009 | 99.82% | 816,037 | 0.18% | 465,813,046 | 5,929 |
12. Authority to allot shares | 440,648,102 | 94.60% | 25,143,006 | 5.40% | 465,791,108 | 27,866 |
13. Waiver of pre-emption rights (general) | 428,525,215 | 92.00% | 37,255,185 | 8.00% | 465,780,400 | 38,574 |
14. Waiver of pre-emption rights (financing) | 427,170,524 | 91.71% | 38,609,164 | 8.29% | 465,779,688 | 39,286 |
15. Authority to purchase own shares | 464,340,952 | 99.70% | 1,418,680 | 0.30% | 465,759,632 | 59,343 |
16. Amendment to Articles of Association | 465,590,094 | 99.95% | 211,448 | 0.05% | 465,801,542 | 17,433 |
17. Notice of General Meetings | 449,483,368 | 96.50% | 16,325,176 | 3.50% | 465,808,544 | 10,431 |
18. Cancellation of the share premium account | 465,722,742 | 99.98% | 70,660 | 0.02% | 465,793,402 | 25,573 |
Notes:
1) The total number of shares in issue at 19 May 2020 was 589,795,475.
2) Where shareholders appointed the Chairman of the meeting as their proxy with discretion as to voting, those votes have been cast in favour of the resolutions and are included in the total of those votes for.
3) Certified copies of resolutions 13 to 18 have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.
4) A 'vote withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes validly cast.
Enquiries:
Jean-Paul Rabin, Company Secretary Tel: 020 3117 5001