25 Jul 2019 12:58
Tate & Lyle PLC
Result of Annual General Meeting 2019
Tate & Lyle PLC (the 'Company') announces that at its Annual General Meeting ('AGM') held earlier today, all resolutions contained in the Notice of Annual General Meeting 2019 were duly passed.
The results of the poll held at the AGM are as follows:
Resolution | Total For(1) | Total Against | Votes withheld(2) | |||
No. of votes | % of vote | No. of votes | % of vote | No. of votes | ||
1. | Report and Accounts | 321,536,308 | 99.98 | 52,024 | 0.02 | 1,003,837 |
2. | Remuneration Report | 310,308,734 | 96.87 | 10,034,011 | 3.13 | 2,237,747 |
3. | Approve final dividend | 321,365,380 | 99.83 | 550,205 | 0.17 | 669,908 |
4. | Re-elect Dr Gerry Murphy | 318,135,226 | 98.84 | 3,722,649 | 1.16 | 727,617 |
5. | Re-elect Nick Hampton | 321,143,416 | 99.78 | 714,800 | 0.22 | 727,277 |
6. | Elect Imran Nawaz | 319,471,199 | 99.26 | 2,382,756 | 0.74 | 731,538 |
7. | Re-elect Paul Forman | 321,075,355 | 99.76 | 782,852 | 0.24 | 727,286 |
8. | Re-elect Lars Frederiksen | 320,860,067 | 99.69 | 998,850 | 0.31 | 726,084 |
9. | Re-elect Anne Minto | 318,979,175 | 99.11 | 2,876,939 | 0.89 | 729,379 |
10. | Elect Kimberly Nelson | 321,658,467 | 99.94 | 186,884 | 0.06 | 740,142 |
11. | Re-elect Dr Ajai Puri | 320,841,074 | 99.69 | 1,009,244 | 0.31 | 735,175 |
12. | Re-elect Sybella Stanley | 319,564,410 | 99.29 | 2,285,026 | 0.71 | 736,057 |
13. | Elect Warren Tucker | 321,125,651 | 99.77 | 726,066 | 0.23 | 731,276 |
14. | Re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP | 321,840,876 | 99.98 | 61,697 | 0.02 | 687,096 |
15. | Approve auditors' remuneration | 321,848,722 | 99.98 | 50,257 | 0.02 | 690,690 |
16. | Authority to make political donations and incur political expenditure | 318,429,322 | 98.95 | 3,393,171 | 1.05 | 767,176 |
17. | Authority to allot shares | 301,976,039 | 93.81 | 19,909,327 | 6.19 | 704,303 |
18. | Authority to disapply pre-emption rights | 312,781,124 | 97.18 | 9,065,963 | 2.82 | 742,581 |
19. | Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights for an acquisition or specified capital investment | 305,233,158 | 94.84 | 16,599,967 | 5.16 | 756,542 |
20. | Authority to purchase own shares | 318,861,394 | 99.27 | 2,350,251 | 0.73 | 1,379,023 |
21. | Authority in respect of notices for general meetings | 303,840,492 | 94.39 | 18,050,603 | 5.61 | 698,574 |
22. | Adoption of new Articles of Association | 321,773,043 | 99.97 | 90,269 | 0.03 | 726,357 |
(1) Includes discretionary votes.
(2) A 'vote withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes 'For' or 'Against' a resolution.
On 23 July 2019, there were 468,379,602 ordinary shares and 2,394,000 preference shares (which have limited voting rights) in issue.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of the resolutions passed as special business at the AGM will shortly be available to view via the National Storage Mechanism at: http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.
Claire-Marie O'Grady
Company Secretary
25 July 2019
Tate & Lyle (TATE)