Last checked at 13 Nov 2019 12:57
13 NOVEMBER 2019
SMITHS GROUP PLC
RESULT OF AGM
Smiths Group plc (the 'Company') announces that a poll was held on each of the resolutions proposed at the Annual General Meeting ('AGM') on 13 November 2019. The results of the poll are:
| VOTESFOR | % | VOTESAGAINST | % | VOTESTOTAL | % of ISC VOTED | VOTESWITHHELD | |
1 | Adoption of Annual Report FY2019 | 305,838,467 | 100.00 | 7,941 | 0.00 | 305,846,408 | 77.20% | 7,149,349 |
2 | Approval of Directors' Remuneration Report | 294,243,250 | 98.11 | 5,671,458 | 1.89 | 299,914,708 | 75.70% | 13,080,429 |
3 | Declaration of a final dividend | 307,813,391 | 99.89 | 353,964 | 0.11 | 308,167,355 | 77.78% | 4,828,402 |
4 | Re-election of Bruno Angelici as a director | 302,443,676 | 98.15 | 5,693,965 | 1.85 | 308,137,641 | 77.78% | 4,858,115 |
5 | Re-election of Olivier Bohuon as a director | 307,605,376 | 99.83 | 532,065 | 0.17 | 308,137,441 | 77.78% | 4,858,316 |
6 | Re-election of Sir George Buckley as a director | 300,999,884 | 97.88 | 6,523,091 | 2.12 | 307,522,975 | 77.62% | 5,472,781 |
7 | Re-election of Dame Ann Dowling as a director | 308,121,299 | 99.99 | 21,595 | 0.01 | 308,142,894 | 77.78% | 4,852,863 |
8 | Re-election of Tanya Fratto as a director | 306,701,884 | 99.53 | 1,436,427 | 0.47 | 308,138,311 | 77.78% | 4,857,446 |
9 | Re-election of William Seeger as a director | 303,535,692 | 98.51 | 4,599,950 | 1.49 | 308,135,642 | 77.77% | 4,860,114 |
10 | Re-election of Mark Seligman as a director | 298,568,593 | 96.90 | 9,567,329 | 3.10 | 308,135,922 | 77.77% | 4,859,834 |
11 | Re-election of John Shipsey as a director | 306,401,803 | 99.44 | 1,738,348 | 0.56 | 308,140,151 | 77.78% | 4,855,606 |
12 | Re-election of Andrew Reynolds Smith as a director | 307,776,212 | 99.88 | 364,189 | 0.12 | 308,140,401 | 77.78% | 4,855,356 |
13 | Re-election of Noel Tata as a director | 282,942,318 | 92.72 | 22,230,412 | 7.28 | 305,172,730 | 77.03% | 7,823,027 |
14 | Appointment of KPMG LLP as auditors | 307,484,143 | 99.78 | 670,608 | 0.22 | 308,154,751 | 77.78% | 4,841,006 |
15 | Auditors' remuneration | 307,657,945 | 99.84 | 485,620 | 0.16 | 308,143,565 | 77.78% | 4,852,192 |
16 | Authority to issue shares | 291,202,955 | 94.50 | 16,960,214 | 5.50 | 308,163,169 | 77.78% | 4,832,588 |
17 | Authority to disapply pre-emption rights | 306,089,331 | 97.96 | 6,386,532 | 2.04 | 312,475,863 | 78.87% | 519,894 |
18 | Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights | 289,947,874 | 92.79 | 22,527,532 | 7.21 | 312,475,406 | 78.87% | 520,350 |
19 | Authority to make market purchases of shares | 305,084,528 | 99.04 | 2,962,545 | 0.96 | 308,047,073 | 77.75% | 4,948,683 |
20 | Authority to call general meetings on short notice | 290,414,721 | 94.62 | 16,506,203 | 5.38 | 306,920,924 | 77.47% | 6,074,833 |
21 | Authority to make political donations and expenditure | 301,427,324 | 98.23 | 5,427,735 | 1.77 | 306,855,059 | 77.45% | 6,140,697 |
As at 11 November 2019 the Issued Share Capital of the Company was 396,190,187 ordinary shares of 37.5p.
Shareholders are entitled to one vote per share. Votes withheld are not a vote in law and are therefore not counted in the calculation of the percentages of the votes cast for and against a resolution. Where shareholders appointed the Chairman as their proxy with discretion as to voting, their votes were cast in favour of the resolutions and their shares have been included in the "votes for" column.
Resolutions 1 to 16 and 21 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 17 to 20 were passed as special resolutions.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2 copies of the resolutions (other than those resolutions comprising ordinary business) passed by the Company at its AGM will be uploaded to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM
Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 213800MJL6IPZS3ASA11
Enquiries:
Matthew Whyte
Deputy Company Secretary
Matthew.Whyte@smiths.com
+44 (0) 20 7004 1674