8 Feb 2012 13:47
Thomas Cook Group plc
(the "Company")
Annual General Meeting
At the Company's Annual General Meeting held at 10.00 am on Wednesday 8 February 2012, the following resolutions set out in the notice of meeting were duly passed by the requisite number of shareholders 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 Accounts and the Reports | 330,122,787 | 98.81 | 3,989,897 | 1.19 | 334,112,684 | 163,415 |
2. | To approve the Remuneration Report | 301,539,764 | 91.08 | 29,516,812 | 8.92 | 331,056,576 | 3,215,429 |
3. | To re-elect Dawn Airey | 288,733,617 | 88.15 | 38,821,689 | 11.85 | 327,555,306 | 6,720,793 |
4. | To re-elect Roger Burnell | 332,528,402 | 99.51 | 1,650,824 | 0.49 | 334,179,226 | 96,873 |
5. | To re-elect Paul Hollingworth | 332,669,377 | 99.55 | 1,513,954 | 0.45 | 334,183,331 | 92,768 |
6. | To elect Peter Marks | 323,867,549 | 96.91 | 10,316,419 | 3.09 | 334,183,968 | 93,478 |
7. | To elect Frank Meysman | 333,082,069 | 99.67 | 1,104,550 | 0.33 | 334,186,619 | 89,480 |
8. | To elect Martine Verluyten | 333,414,242 | 99.77 | 770,253 | 0.23 | 334,184,495 | 91,604 |
9. | To re-elect Sam Weihagen | 332,770,512 | 99.58 | 1,418,963 | 0.42 | 334,189,475 | 86,624 |
10. | To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Auditors of the Company | 329,336,626 | 99.73 | 890,831 | 0.27 | 330,227,457 | 4,048,642 |
11. | To give authority to the Directors to fix the Auditors' remuneration | 332,469,543 | 99.65 | 1,168,103 | 0.35 | 333,637,646 | 638,453 |
12. | To give authority to make political donations | 332,160,248 | 99.61 | 1,303,594 | 0.39 | 333,463,842 | 813,604 |
13. | To give authority to the Directors to allot shares | 299,573,290 | 89.97 | 33,384,512 | 10.03 | 332,957,802 | 1,318,297 |
14. | To give authority to the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights | 333,715,410 | 99.92 | 279,716 | 0.08 | 333,995,126 | 280,973 |
15 | To amend the period of notice for general meetings | 292,745,662 | 87.60 | 41,424,015 | 12.40 | 334,169,677 | 106,422 |
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.
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.
For further information please contact:
Thomas Cook Group plc
Derek Woodward, Group Company Secretary |
+44 (0) 20 7557 6400 |
Finsbury | |
Faeth Birch |
+44 (0) 20 7251 3801 |