28 Jul 2022 12:45
Tate & Lyle PLC
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Result of Annual General Meeting 2022
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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.
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The results of the poll held at the AGM are as follows:
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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 PatrĆcia 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 |
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(1) Includes discretionary votes.
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(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.
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On 26 July 2022, there were 401,609,061 ordinary shares and 2,394,000 preference shares (which have limited voting rights) in issue.
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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.
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Claire-Marie O'Grady
Company Secretary
28 July 2022
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