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RNS Number : 1928T  Bloomsbury Publishing PLC  20 July 2022

20 July 2022

 

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (the "Company")

 

Results of the 2022 Annual General Meeting

 

 

The Company held its Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 20 July 2022. All the
resolutions put to shareholders were duly passed on a show of hands.
Resolutions 1 to 12 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 13 to
15 were passed as special resolutions.

 

Details of shareholders' proxy votes lodged in advance of the Annual General
Meeting for each resolution are shown in the table below:

 

 Resolutions                                                                      For and at discretion     Against          Votes Withheld  Total

                                                                                  Number       %            Number     %
 1. To receive the audited accounts of the Company for the year ended 28          54,397,707   100          0          0     14,270          54,397,707
 February 2022, together with the Report of the Directors and the report of the
 Auditor thereon.

 2. To approve the Annual Statement by the Chair of the Remuneration Committee    53,340,868   98.92        584,006    1.08  487,103         53,924,874
 and the Annual Report on Directors' Remuneration for the year ended 28
 February 2022.

 3. To declare a final dividend of 9.40p per Ordinary share.                      54,408,882   100          0          0     3,095           54,408,882
 4. To elect John Bason as a Director of the Company.                             44,220,429   95.94        1,871,976  4.06  8,319,572       46,092,405
 5. To re-elect Sir Richard Lambert as a Director of the Company.                 54,148,793   99.53        258,140    0.47  5,044           54,406,933
 6. To re-elect Nigel Newton as a Director of the Company.                        54,103,875   99.44        303,058    0.56  5,044           54,406,933
 7. To re-elect Leslie-Ann Reed as a Director.                                    53,847,339   98.97        559,594    1.03  5,044           54,406,933
 8. To re-elect Penny Scott-Bayfield as a Director.                               54,403,677   99.99        3,256      0.01  5,044           54,406,933
 9. To re-elect Baroness Lola Young of Hornsey as a Director.                     54,159,612   99.55        247,321    0.45                  54,406,933
 10. To appoint Crowe U.K. LLP as Auditor of the Company.                         54,400,784   99.99        5,935      0.01                  54,406,719
 11. To authorise the Directors to determine the auditors' remuneration.          54,403,622   99.99        3,311      0.01                  54,406,933
 12. To authorise the Directors to allot shares.                                  54,370,405   99.94        34,624     0.06                  54,405,029
 13. To authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights.                   54,370,755   99.93        36,474     0.07                  54,407,229
 14. To authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights regarding          54,125,755   99.48        280,474    0.52                  54,406,229
 acquisition/investment.
 15. To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares.                         53,009,479   99.98        13,199     0.02                  53,022,678

 

 

NOTES:

 

1.    The 'For' vote includes those giving discretion to the Chair of the
Meeting.

2.    A 'Vote Withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the
calculation of the proportion of votes 'For' and 'Against' a resolution.

3.    As at Monday 18 July 2022, there were 81,608,672 ordinary shares of
1.25 pence in issue.

4.    The full text of each of the resolutions is set out in the Notice of
Annual General Meeting which is available at the National Storage Mechanism
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
(https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism) and on the Company's
website at www.bloomsbury-ir.co.uk (http://www.bloomsbury-ir.co.uk) .

5.    In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of the resolutions
passed at the meeting other than those considered as ordinary business, will
be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available
for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
(https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism) .

 

 

 

For further information, please contact:

 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
 Maya Abu-Deeb, Group General Counsel & Company Secretary      maya.abu-deeb@bloomsbury.com
 Hudson Sandler                                                +44 (0) 20 7796 4133
 Dan de Belder / Hattie Dreyfus                                bloomsbury@hudsonsandler.com

 

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