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22 April 2021
SEGRO plc (the Company)
Results of Annual General Meeting
A poll was held on each of the resolutions proposed at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) held earlier today. All resolutions were passed and the results are as follows:
Resolution | For (including discretionary) | Against | Withheld1 | ||
Number of votes | Percentage of votes | Number of votes | Percentage of votes | Number of votes | |
1. To receive the financial statements and the reports of the Directors and the auditor | 952,613,622 | 99.91 | 901,892 | 0.09 | 1,267,558 |
2. To declare a final dividend of 15.2 pence per ordinary share | 954,038,075 | 99.99 | 87,818 | 0.01 | 856,091 |
3. To approve the Directors’ Remuneration Report | 906,495,075 | 95.45 | 43,189,251 | 4.55 | 5,098,746 |
4. To re-elect Gerald Corbett as a Director | 947,661,842 | 99.35 | 6,203,708 | 0.65 | 917,522 |
5. To re-elect Mary Barnard as a Director | 952,984,415 | 99.89 | 1,068,636 | 0.11 | 902,494 |
6. To re-elect Sue Clayton as a Director | 952,658,676 | 99.85 | 1,424,392 | 0.15 | 898,915 |
7. To re-elect Soumen Das as a Director | 947,642,819 | 99.35 | 6,238,448 | 0.65 | 901,805 |
8. To re-elect Carol Fairweather as a Director | 910,769,334 | 95.46 | 43,313,566 | 4.54 | 899,084 |
9. To re-elect Christopher Fisher as a Director | 945,394,119 | 99.23 | 7,378,529 | 0.77 | 2,010,423 |
10. To re-elect Andy Gulliford as a Director | 953,179,186 | 99.93 | 706,394 | 0.07 | 897,492 |
11. To re-elect Martin Moore as a Director | 919,343,284 | 96.38 | 34,538,700 | 3.62 | 901,088 |
12. To re-elect David Sleath as a Director | 953,620,314 | 99.97 | 255,324 | 0.03 | 907,434 |
13. To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditor of the Company | 939,706,217 | 98.51 | 14,178,223 | 1.49 | 898,632 |
14. To authorise the Audit Committee (on behalf of the Board) to determine the remuneration of the auditor | 902,421,294 | 94.60 | 51,469,645 | 5.40 | 892,133 |
15. To authorise political donations under the Companies Act 2006 | 951,753,103 | 99.78 | 2,108,038 | 0.22 | 921,931 |
16. To confer on the Directors a general authority to allot ordinary shares. | 932,914,977 | 97.80 | 20,984,465 | 2.20 | 883,630 |
17. To disapply statutory pre-emption rights relating to ordinary shares allotted under the authority granted by resolution 16.* | 945,487,956 | 99.12 | 8,407,159 | 0.88 | 887,957 |
18. To disapply statutory pre-emption rights in connection with an acquisition or specified capital investment.* | 929,706,362 | 97.47 | 24,179,637 | 2.53 | 897,073 |
19. To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares.* | 940,228,485 | 99.42 | 5,459,557 | 0.58 | 9,095,029 |
20. To enable a general meeting other than an AGM to be held on not less than 14 clear days’ notice.* | 820,514,538 | 86.02 | 133,400,296 | 13.98 | 868,237 |
21. To approve the adoption of the SEGRO plc Savings Related Share Option Plan 2021. | 950,961,397 | 99.70 | 2,903,131 | 0.30 | 918,544 |
22. To approve the adoption of the SEGRO plc Share Incentive Plan 2021. | 952,890,733 | 99.90 | 966,998 | 0.10 | 925,341 |
23. To authorise the Directors to offer a scrip dividend in place of a cash dividend. | 953,818,498 | 99.99 | 88,453 | 0.01 | 876,121 |
1. A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes ‘For’ or ‘Against’ a resolution.
* indicates a special resolution.
The number of shares in issue as at the date of this announcement is 1,191,578,635
A copy of the resolutions passed as special business at today’s AGM will, in accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2., be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
Penny ThomasInterim Head of Secretariat020 7451 9083
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