10 Apr 2008 14:24
Thomas Cook Group PLC10 April 2008 THOMAS COOK GROUP PLC 10 April 2008 Annual General Meeting The first annual general meeting of Thomas Cook Group plc was held at TheLincoln Centre, 18 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3ED on Thursday 10 April2008. All of the resolutions proposed were decided on a show of hands and were passed. The proxy votes lodged in advance of the meeting are set out below : Resolution For Percentage For Against Percentage Total Votes Votes Withheld against 1. Receive report 811,456,774 99.98 137,229 0.02 811,594,003 1,273,427and accounts2. Declare 811,751,250 100.00 6,215 0.00 811,757,465 1,109,965dividend3. Approve 775,963,941 95.74 34,515,978 4.26 810,479,919 2,387,511remunerationreport4. Re-elect T 800,830,906 98.88 9,034,318 1.12 809,865,224 3,002,206Middelhoff5. Re-elect M 808,718,634 99.62 3,061,958 0.38 811,780,592 1,086,838Beckett6. Re -elect M 808,266,949 99.57 3,511,672 0.43 811,778,621 1,088,809Fontenla-Novoa7. Re-elect H-L 808,230,368 99.56 3,548,009 0.44 811,778,377 1,089,053Heuberg8. Re-elect D 806,097,260 99.30 5,681,865 0.70 811,779,125 1,088,305Allvey9. Re-elect R 808,596,051 99.61 3,182,963 0.39 811,779,014 1,088,416Burnell10. Re-elect P 804,687,413 99.36 5,180,236 0.64 809,867,649 2,999,781Diesch11. Re-elect H 808,805,173 99.63 2,973,549 0.37 811,778,722 1,088,708Klein12. Re-elect B 808,804,956 99.63 2,973,845 0.37 811,778,801 1,088,629Lerenius13. Re-elect A 803,723,857 99.01 8,054,763 0.99 811,778,620 1,088,810Porter14. Re-appoint 804,685,812 99.59 3,295,264 0.41 807,981,076 4,886,354auditors15. Approve BAYE 811,312,917 99.95 429,591 0.05 811,742,508 1,124,922Scheme16. Approve SAYE 811,481,927 99.97 259,825 0.03 811,741,752 1,125,678Scheme17. Approve 787,375,956 97.17 22,952,651 2.83 810,328,607 2,538,823Co-InvestmentPlan18. Disapply 811,608,151 99.98 168,285 0.02 811,776,436 1,090,994pre-emptionrights19. Adopt new 811,594,050 99.98 145,043 0.02 811,739,093 1,128,337articles Resolutions 1 to 17 were ordinary resolutions. Resolutions 18 and 19 werespecial resolutions. Votes "For" include votes at the discretion of the Chairman. Votes withheld are not counted in the count of the total votes or thecalculation of the percentage For or Against each resolution. Percentages are rounded to two decimal places Total shares in issue at the date of the meeting were 964,466,063. Two copies of the resolutions passed at the meeting concerning special businesshave been submitted to the UKLA, and will shortly be available for inspection atthe UKLA's Document Viewing Facility, which is situated at: Financial Services Authority 25 The North Colonnade Canary Wharf London E14 5HS Tel: 020 7066 1000 Mike Vaux Acting Company Secretary 01706 742 000 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange