20 Feb 2014 17:45
Thomas Cook Group plc
(the "Company")
Annual General Meeting
At the Company's Annual General Meeting held at 10.30 am on Thursday 20 February 2014, the following resolutions set out in the notice of meeting were duly passed by the requisite majority on a poll. The poll results of each resolution are set out below.
Resolution | Votes For (incl. Chairman's Discretion) | % | Votes Against | % | Total Votes Cast (excl. withheld votes) | Votes Withheld 1 | |
1. | To receive the Accounts and the Reports | 923,222,150 | 98.56 | 13,454,809 | 1.44 | 936,676,959 | 63,730 |
2. | To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy | 922,208,978 | 98.90 | 10,242,471 | 1.10 | 932,451,449 | 4,297,020 |
3. | To approve the Annual Remuneration Report | 923,517,925 | 99.56 | 4,100,757 | 0.44 | 927,618,682 | 9,122,007 |
4. | To re-elect Dawn Airey | 860,379,837 | 91.86 | 76,245,007 | 8.14 | 936,624,844 | 110,865 |
5. | To re-elect Emre Berkin | 908,040,900 | 96.95 | 28,583,367 | 3.05 | 936,624,267 | 111,442 |
6. | To re-elect Harriet Green | 905,399,005 | 96.66 | 31,322,281 | 3.34 | 936,721,286 | 33,351 |
7. | To re-elect Michael Healy | 907,948,760 | 96.94 | 28,657,645 | 3.06 | 936,606,405 | 129,704 |
8. | To re-elect Peter Marks* | - | - | - | - | - | - |
9. | To re-elect Frank Meysman | 891,035,108 | 95.13 | 45,593,024 | 4.87 | 936,628,132 | 112,557 |
10. | To elect Carl Symon | 908,077,870 | 96.95 | 28,529,606 | 3.05 | 936,607,476 | 133,213 |
11. | To elect Warren Tucker | 908,083,919 | 96.95 | 28,524,871 | 3.05 | 936,608,790 | 131,899 |
12. | To re-elect Martine Verluyten | 847,077,919 | 91.67 | 76,987,167 | 8.33 | 924,065,086 | 12,670,623 |
13. | To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Auditors | 852,780,371 | 91.05 | 83,861,557 | 8.95 | 936,641,928 | 98,761 |
14. | To give Authority to the Directors to determine the Auditors' remuneration | 849,009,665 | 90.65 | 87,579,786 | 9.35 | 936,589,451 | 146,258 |
15. | To give authority to make political donations | 930,641,111 | 99.36 | 5,988,863 | 0.64 | 936,629,974 | 51,846 |
16. | To give authority to allot shares | 859,594,245 | 92.22 | 72,547,233 | 7.78 | 932,141,478 | 4,599,348 |
17. | To give authority to disapply pre-emption rights | 936,043,000 | 99.95 | 475,299 | 0.05 | 936,518,299 | 193,586 |
18. | To amend the period of notice for general meetings | 853,545,866 | 91.13 | 83,028,839 | 8.87 | 936,574,705 | 179,932 |
* Resolution 8 regarding the reappointment of Peter Marks was withdrawn as a result of the notification to the Company (announced 15 January 2014) regarding his intention to retire from the Board at the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting.
A copy of the non-routine resolutions passed at the Annual General Meeting will shortly be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection at: www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do.
1. A 'Vote withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes 'For' and 'Against' a resolution.
For further information please contact:
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Andrew Lorenz | +44 (0) 7775 641807 |
+44 (0) 20 7269 7291 | |
Thomas Cook Group plc | |
Jenny Peters, Group Head of Communications | +44 (0) 7568 105144 |
Derek Woodward, Group Company Secretary | +44 (0) 20 7557 6415 |