Last checked at 27 Jul 2023 13:15
Tate & Lyle PLC
Result of Annual General Meeting 2023
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 2023 were duly passed. The re-election of Paul Forman as a Director of the Company, proposed to the meeting, was also 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 | 294,943,345 | 99.87 | 374,549 | 0.13 | 484,237 |
2. | Directors' Remuneration Policy | 282,656,823 | 96.08 | 11,523,854 | 3.92 | 1,621,454 |
3. | Directors' Remuneration Report | 283,826,297 | 95.97 | 11,910,744 | 4.03 | 65,090 |
4. | Approve final dividend | 291,907,020 | 98.69 | 3,881,341 | 1.31 | 13,780 |
5. | Re-elect Dr Gerry Murphy | 287,417,186 | 97.18 | 8,335,013 | 2.82 | 49,932 |
6. | Re-elect Nick Hampton | 295,723,659 | 99.99 | 43,343 | 0.01 | 35,129 |
7. | Re-elect Dawn Allen | 294,440,506 | 99.55 | 1,321,394 | 0.45 | 40,231 |
8. | Re-elect John Cheung | 268,413,122 | 91.01 | 26,517,826 | 8.99 | 871,183 |
9. | Re-elect Patrícia Corsi | 293,577,361 | 99.26 | 2,181,502 | 0.74 | 43,268 |
10. | Re-elect Dr Isabelle Esser | 292,751,795 | 99.26 | 2,180,973 | 0.74 | 869,363 |
11. | Re-elect Lars Frederiksen | 293,570,798 | 99.26 | 2,180,994 | 0.74 | 50,339 |
12. | Re-elect Kimberly Nelson | 293,572,249 | 99.26 | 2,186,614 | 0.74 | 43,268 |
13. | Re-elect Sybella Stanley | 288,322,415 | 97.49 | 7,430,595 | 2.51 | 49,121 |
14. | Re-elect Warren Tucker | 293,581,160 | 99.26 | 2,178,480 | 0.74 | 42,491 |
15. | Re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP | 294,890,137 | 99.71 | 871,862 | 0.29 | 40,132 |
16. | Approve auditors' remuneration | 295,728,855 | 99.99 | 35,127 | 0.01 | 38,149 |
17. | Authority to make political donations | 291,966,251 | 98.88 | 3,312,380 | 1.12 | 523,500 |
18. | Authority to allot shares | 282,380,467 | 95.48 | 13,376,723 | 4.52 | 44,941 |
19. | Authority to disapply pre-emption rights | 289,788,888 | 97.99 | 5,951,933 | 2.01 | 61,310 |
20. | Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights | 267,274,430 | 90.48 | 28,137,649 | 9.52 | 390,052 |
21. | Authority to purchase own shares | 294,581,851 | 99.67 | 987,643 | 0.33 | 232,637 |
22. | Authority in respect of shorter notices for general meetings | 286,454,135 | 96.85 | 9,323,113 | 3.15 | 24,883 |
23. | Re-elect Paul Forman | 267,221,532 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 |
(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 25 July 2023, there were 401,664,543 ordinary shares 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
27 July 2023