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Whitbread PLC - Annual General Meeting Resolutions 7 July 2020
Whitbread PLC announces that at the Annual General Meeting held on 7 July 2020, all resolutions were voted on by a poll and were duly passed. The results of the AGM are as follows:
RESOLUTION | VOTESFOR° | % | VOTESAGAINST | % | VOTESTOTAL* | % of ISC VOTED* | VOTESWITHHELD |
Ordinary Resolutions | |||||||
1. To receive the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 27 February 2020 | 138,129,502 | 99.39% | 846,972 | 0.61% | 138,976,474 | 68.86% | 3,091,655 |
2. To approve the Annual Report on Remuneration | 107,891,324 | 83.20% | 21,786,928 | 16.80% | 129,678,252 | 64.25% | 12,389,877 |
3. To elect Horst Baier as a director | 140,561,062 | 99.53% | 670,771 | 0.47% | 141,231,833 | 69.97% | 836,296 |
4. To re-elect David Atkins as a director | 139,904,098 | 99.06% | 1,330,233 | 0.94% | 141,234,331 | 69.98% | 833,798 |
5. To re-elect Alison Brittain as a director | 140,268,572 | 99.31% | 975,644 | 0.69% | 141,244,216 | 69.98% | 823,913 |
6. To re-elect Nicholas Cadbury as a director | 140,226,982 | 99.28% | 1,010,314 | 0.72% | 141,237,296 | 69.98% | 830,833 |
7. To re-elect Adam Crozier as a director | 126,802,211 | 89.79% | 14,425,799 | 10.21% | 141,228,010 | 69.97% | 840,119 |
8. To re-elect Frank Fiskers as a director | 123,643,067 | 90.81% | 12,508,511 | 9.19% | 136,151,578 | 67.46% | 5,916,551 |
9. To re-elect Richard Gillingwater as a director | 139,288,794 | 98.62% | 1,945,616 | 1.38% | 141,234,410 | 69.98% | 833,719 |
10. To re-elect Chris Kennedy as a director | 139,920,535 | 99.07% | 1,314,536 | 0.93% | 141,235,071 | 69.98% | 833,058 |
11. To re-elect Deanna Oppenheimer as a director | 140,483,881 | 99.47% | 754,786 | 0.53% | 141,238,667 | 69.98% | 829,462 |
12To re-elect Louise Smalley as a director | 140,277,293 | 99.32% | 959,911 | 0.68% | 141,237,204 | 69.98% | 830,925 |
13. To re-elect Susan Taylor Martin as a director | 140,502,560 | 99.48% | 734,040 | 0.52% | 141,236,600 | 69.98% | 831,529 |
14. To reappoint Deloitte LLP as the auditor | 138,114,347 | 97.91% | 2,951,334 | 2.09% | 141,065,681 | 69.89% | 1,002,448 |
15. To authorise the Board, through the Audit Committee, to set the auditor's remuneration | 140,605,528 | 99.67% | 462,417 | 0.33% | 141,067,945 | 69.89% | 1,000,184 |
16. To authorise the Company to make political donations | 137,284,908 | 96.78% | 4,564,128 | 3.22% | 141,849,036 | 70.28% | 219,093 |
17. To authorise the Board to allot shares | 133,746,266 | 94.29% | 8,101,790 | 5.71% | 141,848,056 | 70.28% | 220,073 |
Special Resolutions | |||||||
18. To authorise the disapplication of pre-emption rights | 136,337,763 | 96.24% | 5,329,528 | 3.76% | 141,667,291 | 70.19% | 400,838 |
19. To authorise the disapplication of pre-emption rights in connection with an acquisition or specified capital investment | 134,122,507 | 94.68% | 7,543,275 | 5.32% | 141,665,782 | 70.19% | 402,347 |
20. To authorise the Company to purchase its own ordinary shares | 138,344,527 | 98.13% | 2,636,841 | 1.87% | 140,981,368 | 69.85% | 1,086,761 |
21. To enable the Company to call general meetings, other than an Annual General Meeting, on reduced notice | 134,374,102 | 95.25% | 6,694,285 | 4.75% | 141,068,387 | 69.89% | 999,742 |
° Where shareholders have appointed the Chairman of the meeting as their proxy with discretion as to voting, those votes have been cast in favour of the resolutions and are included in the total of those votes for.
* A 'vote withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes validly cast.
A copy of all the resolutions passed, other than those concerning ordinary business, has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.
Contact: Daren Lowry, Director of Secretariat and Insurance 01582 889346