17 May 2019 15:04
The Restaurant Group plc
(the "Company")
Results of AGM
The Annual General Meeting of The Restaurant Group plc was held on 17th May 2019.
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 13 (inclusive) were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 14 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 2018 | 426,858,477 | 99.51 | 2,111,317 | 0.49 | 428,969,794 | 313,311 |
2. Directors' Remuneration Report | 424,569,280 | 98.91 | 4,696,144 | 1.09 | 429,265,424 | 17,680 |
3. Declare a final dividend | 429,243,584 | 99.99 | 26,963 | 0.01 | 429,270,547 | 12,558 |
4. Re-elect Debbie Hewitt as a Director | 399,412,557 | 93.07 | 29,723,036 | 6.93 | 429,135,593 | 147,511 |
5. Re-elect Andy McCue as a Director | 415,236,735 | 96.73 | 14,018,529 | 3.27 | 429,255,264 | 27,841 |
6. Re-elect Kirk Davis as a Director | 427,649,842 | 99.63 | 1,600,324 | 0.37 | 429,250,166 | 32,939 |
7. Re-elect Graham Clemett as a Director | 427,272,944 | 99.54 | 1,982,688 | 0.46 | 429,255,632 | 27,473 |
8. Re-elect Simon Cloke as a Director | 400,085,607 | 93.20 | 29,170,435 | 6.80 | 429,256,042 | 27,062 |
9. Re-elect Mike Tye as a Director | 427,278,215 | 99.54 | 1,973,417 | 0.46 | 429,251,632 | 31,473 |
10. Re-appoint Allan Leighton as a Director | 428,761,390 | 99.88 | 494,498 | 0.12 | 429,255,888 | 27,217 |
11. Re-appoint EY as Auditor | 428,800,357 | 99.89 | 467,881 | 0.11 | 429,268,238 | 14,867 |
12. Determine the Auditor's remuneration | 426,679,882 | 99.40 | 2,591,412 | 0.60 | 429,271,294 | 11,811 |
13. Authority to allot shares | 400,852,094 | 93.38 | 28,403,805 | 6.62 | 429,255,899 | 27,206 |
14. Disapplication of pre-emption rights (general) | 403,460,754 | 93.99 | 25,787,687 | 6.01 | 429,248,441 | 34,664 |
15. Disapplication of pre-emption rights (financing) | 395,570,047 | 92.15 | 33,678,393 | 7.85 | 429,248,440 | 34,664 |
16. Authority to purchase own shares | 426,543,160 | 99.61 | 1,665,760 | 0.39 | 428,208,920 | 1,074,184 |
17. Short notice of general meetings | 416,833,028 | 97.10 | 12,448,302 | 2.90 | 429,281,330 | 1,775 |
18. Cancellation of share premium account | 429,177,233 | 99.99 | 47,649 | 0.01 | 429,224,882 | 58,223 |
Notes:
1) The total number of shares in issue at 17 May 2017 was 491,496,230.
2) Where shareholders have 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: www.morningstar.co.uk/UK/nsm.
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