Last checked at 28 Jul 2022 12:45
Tate & Lyle PLC
Result of Annual General Meeting 2022
Tate & Lyle PLC (the 'Company') announces that at its Annual General Meeting ('AGM') held earlier today, all resolutions contained in the Notice of Annual General Meeting 2022 were duly passed.
The results of the poll held at the AGM are as follows:
Resolution | Total For(1) | Total Against | Votes withheld(2) | |||
No. of votes | % of vote | No. of votes | % of vote | No. of votes | ||
1. | Report and Accounts | 295,738,757 | 99.77 | 689,253 | 0.23 | 1,234,485 |
2. | Directors' Remuneration Report | 278,320,960 | 94.33 | 16,741,412 | 5.67 | 1,924,527 |
3. | Approve final dividend | 296,912,825 | 99.98 | 59,237 | 0.02 | 14,837 |
4. | Re-elect Dr Gerry Murphy | 295,286,357 | 99.44 | 1,659,312 | 0.56 | 41,230 |
5. | Re-elect Nick Hampton | 296,918,365 | 99.99 | 34,830 | 0.01 | 33,704 |
6. | Elect Dawn Allen | 295,867,928 | 99.64 | 1,075,613 | 0.36 | 43,358 |
7. | Re-elect John Cheung | 255,228,616 | 86.17 | 40,967,788 | 13.83 | 790,495 |
8. | Re-elect Patrícia Corsi | 296,816,855 | 99.96 | 124,849 | 0.04 | 45,195 |
9. | Elect Dr Isabelle Esser | 296,889,298 | 99.98 | 53,540 | 0.02 | 44,061 |
10. | Re-elect Paul Forman | 296,892,880 | 99.98 | 44,972 | 0.02 | 37,391 |
11. | Re-elect Lars Frederiksen | 296,803,371 | 99.95 | 139,883 | 0.05 | 44,373 |
12. | Re-elect Kimberly Nelson | 296,895,482 | 99.98 | 48,763 | 0.02 | 43,382 |
13. | Re-elect Sybella Stanley | 291,408,744 | 98.22 | 5,295,223 | 1.78 | 283,660 |
14. | Re-elect Warren Tucker | 296,829,223 | 99.96 | 122,329 | 0.04 | 36,075 |
15. | Re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP | 296,176,166 | 99.52 | 1,441,391 | 0.48 | 45,666 |
16. | Approve auditors' remuneration | 296,534,082 | 99.63 | 1,101,618 | 0.37 | 27,523 |
17. | Authority to make political donations | 293,259,956 | 98.57 | 4,245,100 | 1.43 | 158,167 |
18. | Authority to allot ordinary shares | 280,314,977 | 94.18 | 17,315,336 | 5.82 | 32,910 |
19. | Authority to disapply pre-emption rights | 287,155,215 | 97.06 | 8,683,858 | 2.94 | 1,824,150 |
20. | Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights for an acquisition or specified capital investment | 280,433,534 | 94.79 | 15,415,908 | 5.21 | 1,813,781 |
21. | Authority to purchase own shares | 296,313,131 | 99.68 | 947,499 | 0.32 | 390,475 |
22. | Approve reduction of share capital - Preference Shares | 297,549,892 | 99.99 | 41,906 | 0.01 | 58,568 |
23. | Approve adoption of new Articles of Association | 297,546,773 | 99.98 | 53,779 | 0.02 | 49,814 |
24. | Authority in respect of shorter notices for general meetings | 287,567,506 | 96.63 | 10,043,439 | 3.37 | 39,421 |
(1) Includes discretionary votes.
(2) 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.
On 26 July 2022, there were 401,609,061 ordinary shares and 2,394,000 preference shares (which have limited voting rights) in issue.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of the resolutions passed as special business at the AGM will shortly be available to view via the National Storage Mechanism at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.
Claire-Marie O'Grady
Company Secretary
28 July 2022