REG-FirstGroup PLC: Results of 2022 Annual General Meeting - Replacement

FirstgroupAnnouncement

29/07/2022 11:30

FirstGroup plc

Result of 2022 Annual General Meeting (AGM) – 27 JULY 2022: Replacement

FirstGroup plc (the 'Company') announces that, at the AGM held earlier today,
all resolutions were passed by the Company’s shareholders on a poll. The
results of the poll are shown in the table below and will also be available on
the Company’s website.

                                                                                                                 FOR                     AGAINST                TOTAL           WITHHELD     
                                              Number of Votes                                                       % of Vote  Number of Votes  % of Vote  Number of Votes  Number of Votes  
  1  To receive the Annual Report and Financial Statements for the 52 weeks ended 26 March 2022         568,347,329      99.99           47,870       0.01      568,395,199        1,097,252 
  2  To approve the Directors’ Annual Report on Remuneration                                            478,167,186      84.16       90,005,515      15.84      568,172,701        1,319,750 
  3  To declare a final dividend of 1.1 pence per ordinary share for the 52 weeks ended 26 March 2022   569,181,440      99.97          188,945       0.03      569,370,385          122,066 
  4  To re-elect Sally Cabrini as a Director                                                            554,023,238      97.38       14,884,512       2.62      568,907,750          584,701 
  5  To elect Myrtle Dawes as a Director                                                                568,511,956      99.94          364,865       0.06      568,876,821          615,630 
  6  To re-elect Anthony Green as a Director                                                            568,552,210      99.93          377,892       0.07      568,930,102          562,349 
  7  To elect Claire Hawkings as a Director                                                             568,511,668      99.94          359,337       0.06      568,871,005          621,446 
  8  To re-elect Jane Lodge as a Director                                                               566,542,600      99.59        2,345,668       0.41      568,888,268          604,183 
  9  To re-elect Peter Lynas as a Director                                                              563,187,636      99.00        5,711,734       1.00      568,899,370          593,081 
 10  To re-elect Ryan Mangold as a Director                                                             568,186,777      99.88          706,583       0.12      568,893,360          599,091 
 11  To re-elect David Martin as a Director                                                             561,139,812      98.63        7,806,036       1.37      568,945,848          546,603 
 12  To elect Graham Sutherland as a Director                                                           568,524,047      99.93          375,424       0.07      568,899,471          592,980 
 13  To appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors                                                  568,611,046      99.91          526,982       0.09      569,138,028          354,423 
 14  To authorise the Directors to determine the remuneration of the auditors                           568,737,443      99.94          361,599       0.06      569,099,042          393,409 
 15  To authorise the Directors to allot shares                                                         564,448,947      99.17        4,718,399       0.83      569,167,346          325,105 
 16  To authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights                                          568,470,062      99.91          523,189       0.09      568,993,251          499,200 
 17  To disapply pre-emption rights for acquisitions or other capital investments                       566,994,918      99.64        2,021,174       0.36      569,016,092          476,359 
 18  To authorise the Directors to make market purchases of the Company’s shares                        567,332,702      99.88          705,854       0.12      568,038,556        1,453,895 
 19  To authorise the Company to make political donations and incur political expenditure               566,402,103      99.68        1,823,384       0.32      568,225,487        1,266,964 
 20  To authorise the calling of general meetings on 14 clear days’ notice                              561,385,491      98.61        7,886,695       1.39      569,272,186          220,265 

Votes 'For' and 'Against' are expressed as a percentage of votes received. A
'Vote withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of
the votes 'For' and 'Against' a resolution. Votes were cast for a total of
569,492,451 ordinary shares of 5 pence per share, representing 75.92% of the
total number of votes capable of being cast at the AGM. The Company's issued
share capital as at today's date is 750,319,702 ordinary shares and the number
of votes per share is one. The Company held 157,229 shares in Treasury, which
do not carry any voting rights. Resolutions 1 to 15, and 19 were proposed as
Ordinary Resolutions and resolutions 16 to 18 and 20 as Special Resolutions.

Contacts at FirstGroup:

Faisal Tabbah, Head of Investor Relations

Stuart Butchers, Group Head of Communications

David Blizzard, Company Secretary

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7725 3354

Contacts at Brunswick PR:

Andrew Porter / Simone Selzer, Tel: +44 (0) 20 7404 5959

Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 549300DEJZCPWA4HKM93. Classification as per
DTR 6 Annex 1R: 3.1.



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