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UNILEVER PLC
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
ALL RESOLUTIONS APPROVED
Unilever PLC shareholders today approved all resolutions put to the 2022 Annual General Meeting. Voting was by poll on each resolution and the results are set out below.
BOARD APPOINTMENTS
The following directors stood for election or re-election and were duly elected or re-elected by the shareholders of Unilever PLC:
Nils Andersen, Judith Hartmann, Adrian Hennah, Alan Jope, Andrea Jung, Susan Kilsby, Ruby Lu, Strive Masiyiwa, Youngme Moon, Graeme Pitkethly and Feike Sijbesma.
POLL RESULTS - ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 4 MAY 2022
TOTAL VOTES FOR | % | TOTAL VOTES AGAINST | % | TOTAL VOTES CAST | % OF SHARE CAPITAL VALIDLY CAST VOTED FOR AND AGAINST | VOTES WITHHELD | |
1. To receive the Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2021 | 1,784,771,403 | 99.95% | 845,727 | 0.05% | 1,785,617,130 | 69.87% | 5,690,097 |
2. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report | 1,653,105,110 | 92.52% | 133,616,656 | 7.48% | 1,786,721,766 | 69.91% | 4,585,321 |
3. To re-elect Mr N Andersen as a Non-Executive Director | 1,650,208,767 | 92.24% | 138,827,869 | 7.76% | 1,789,036,636 | 70.00% | 2,267,306 |
4. To re-elect Dr J Hartmann as a Non-Executive Director | 1,774,485,487 | 99.19% | 14,499,168 | 0.81% | 1,788,984,655 | 70.00% | 2,321,354 |
5. To re-elect Mr A Jope as an Executive Director | 1,724,961,069 | 96.39% | 64,568,113 | 3.61% | 1,789,529,182 | 70.02% | 1,778,490 |
6. To re-elect Ms A Jung as a Non-Executive Director | 1,698,883,917 | 94.96% | 90,190,281 | 5.04% | 1,789,074,198 | 70.00% | 2,231,810 |
7. To re-elect Ms S Kilsby as a Non-Executive Director | 1,774,007,079 | 99.16% | 15,061,832 | 0.84% | 1,789,068,911 | 70.00% | 2,237,098 |
8. To re-elect Mr S Masiyiwa as a Non-Executive Director | 1,769,253,409 | 98.90% | 19,723,543 | 1.10% | 1,788,976,952 | 70.00% | 2,329,056 |
9. To re-elect Professor Y Moon as a Non-Executive Director | 1,770,316,797 | 98.96% | 18,660,776 | 1.04% | 1,788,977,573 | 70.00% | 2,328,435 |
10. To re-elect Mr G Pitkethly as an Executive Director | 1,723,474,854 | 96.34% | 65,559,756 | 3.66% | 1,789,034,610 | 70.00% | 2,252,435 |
11. To re-elect Mr F Sijbesma as a Non-Executive Director | 1,769,656,458 | 98.92% | 19,339,706 | 1.08% | 1,788,996,164 | 70.00% | 2,309,845 |
12. To elect Mr A Hennah as a Non-Executive Director | 1,767,022,039 | 98.77% | 21,955,381 | 1.23% | 1,788,977,420 | 70.00% | 2,328,588 |
13. To elect Mrs R Lu as a Non-Executive Director | 1,777,112,750 | 99.34% | 11,895,279 | 0.66% | 1,789,008,029 | 70.00% | 2,297,929 |
14. To reappoint KPMG LLP as Auditors of the Company | 1,771,210,928 | 99.05% | 16,997,442 | 0.95% | 1,788,208,370 | 69.97% | 3,093,363 |
15. To authorise the Directors to fix the remuneration of the Auditor | 1,778,622,006 | 99.42% | 10,297,215 | 0.58% | 1,788,919,221 | 70.00% | 2,384,951 |
16. To authorise Political Donations and expenditure | 1,742,197,236 | 97.98% | 35,890,771 | 2.02% | 1,778,088,007 | 69.57% | 13,188,421 |
17. To renew the authority to Directors to issue shares | 1,689,544,033 | 94.43% | 99,633,679 | 5.57% | 1,789,177,712 | 70.01% | 2,130,961 |
18. To renew the authority to Directors to disapply pre-emption rights | 1,756,444,950 | 98.28% | 30,741,777 | 1.72% | 1,787,186,727 | 69.93% | 4,114,524 |
19. To renew the authority to Directors to disapply pre-emption rights for the purposes of acquisitions or capital investments | 1,734,740,008 | 97.05% | 52,806,643 | 2.95% | 1,787,546,651 | 69.94% | 3,762,073 |
20. To renew the authority to the Company to purchase its own shares | 1,768,051,750 | 98.90% | 19,745,781 | 1.10% | 1,787,797,531 | 69.95% | 3,507,271 |
21. To shorten the notice period for General Meetings | 1,617,343,217 | 91.97% | 141,172,318 | 8.03% | 1,758,515,535 | 68.81% | 31,733,892 |
NOTES:
- The 'For' vote includes votes given at the Chairman's discretion and details of proxy votes cast are included in the table above.
- As at 2.30pm on 2 May 2022 the total number of issued ordinary shares of Unilever PLC was 2,629,243,772. Of those ordinary shares, 70,256,699 were held as treasury shares and 3,305,603 ordinary shares (including ordinary shares represented by Unilever PLC ADSs) were held by or on behalf of companies in the Unilever Group (the "Unilever Group Shares"). The voting rights attaching to the Unilever Group Shares are not exercisable. Therefore, as at 2.30pm on 2 May 2022, the total number of Unilever PLC ordinary shares with exercisable voting rights was 2,555,681,470.
A 'Vote withheld' is not a vote in law and will not be counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes 'for' and 'against' a resolution.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2 copies of all the resolutions passed, other than ordinary business, will be submitted to and available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism. A copy of the resolutions can also be found in the Chairman's Letter and Notice of Meeting which is available on our website: www.unilever.com/AGM
4 May 2022
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