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RNS Number : 9772W  Johnson Matthey PLC  18 July 2024

18(th) July 2024

 

Johnson Matthey Plc

(the Company)

Result of Annual General Meeting

 

 

The Company announces that at today's Annual General Meeting all resolutions
were passed on a poll. The result of the poll is set out below.

 Resolution                                                                     For          % For*  Against     % Against*  Votes Total  % of Issued Share Capital  Votes Withheld**
 1.    To receive the Company's accounts for the year ended 31(st)  March       120,729,875  99.99   7,616       0.01        120,737,491  65.91%                     192,218
 2024.
 2.    To approve the directors' remuneration report for the year ended         115,078,573  95.20   5,807,529   4.80        120,886,102  65.99%                     43,607
 31(st)  March 2024.
 3.    To declare a final dividend of 55.00 pence per ordinary share.           118,973,668  98.39   1,940,985   1.61        120,914,653  66.01%                     15,056
 4.    To re-elect Liam Condon as a director of the company.                    120,781,812  99.94   75,286      0.06        120,857,098  65.98%                     72,611
 5.    To re-elect Rita Forst as a director of the company.                     117,099,547  96.86   3,797,568   3.14        120,897,115  66.00%                     32,594
 6.    To re-elect Jane Griffiths as a director of the company.                 115,726,079  95.72   5,171,267   4.28        120,897,346  66.00%                     32,363
 7.    To re-elect Barbara Jeremiah as a director of the company.               117,108,057  96.87   3,789,468   3.13        120,897,525  66.00%                     32,184
 8.    To re-elect Xiaozhi Liu as a director of the company.                    117,071,456  96.84   3,821,411   3.16        120,892,867  66.00%                     36,842
 9.    To re-elect John O'Higgins as a director of the company.                 117,020,391  96.84   3,816,340   3.16        120,836,731  65.97%                     92,978
 10.  To re-elect Stephen Oxley as a director of the company.                   120,017,211  99.31   830,792     0.69        120,848,003  65.97%                     81,706
 11.  To re-elect Patrick Thomas as a director of the company.                  116,797,803  96.65   4,043,297   3.35        120,841,100  65.97%                     88,609
 12.  To re-elect Doug Webb as a director of the company.                       117,038,440  96.86   3,800,314   3.14        120,838,754  65.97%                     90,955
 13.  To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditor for the forthcoming   119,701,694  99.01   1,198,339   0.99        120,900,033  66.00%                     29,676
 year.
 14.  To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the remuneration of the     120,871,116  99.97   32,764      0.03        120,903,880  66.00%                     25,829
 auditor.
 15.  To authorise the company and its subsidiaries to make political           120,318,403  99.51   589,665     0.49        120,908,068  66.01%                     21,641
 donations and incur political expenditure within certain limits.
 16.  To authorise the directors to allot shares.                               115,197,911  95.28   5,710,866   4.72        120,908,777  66.01%                     20,932
 17.  To disapply the statutory pre-emption rights attaching to shares.***      114,480,482  94.72   6,387,464   5.28        120,867,946  65.98%                     61,763
 18.  To disapply the statutory pre-emption rights attaching to shares in       110,171,100  91.14   10,707,603  8.86        120,878,703  65.99%                     51,006
 connection with an acquisition
 or other capital investment.***
 19.  To authorise the company to make market purchases of its own shares.***   119,392,235  98.76   1,493,665   1.24        120,885,900  65.99%                     43,809
 20.  To authorise the company to call general meetings other than annual       115,500,026  95.53   5,410,352   4.47        120,910,378  66.01%                     19,331
 general meetings on not less than 14 clear days' notice.***

 

*      Figures shown are percentages of total votes cast excluding votes
withheld

**    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

***   Special Resolutions

The total number of voting rights was 183,175,912 Ordinary Shares of
110(49/53) pence.

Copies of our announcements are available on our website:
https://matthey.com/investors/regulatory-news
(https://matthey.com/investors/regulatory-news)

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, a copy of all resolutions passed as
special business will shortly be available for inspection at the National
Storage Mechanism document viewing facility at:
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
(https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism) .

ENDS

 

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 Martin Dunwoodie    Director of Investor Relations        +44 20 7269 8241

 Louise Curran       Senior Investor Relations Manage      +44 20 7269 8235
 Media
 Sinead Keller       Group Corporate Affairs Director      +44 20 7269 8218

 

 

Johnson Matthey Plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange (JMAT)

Registered Office: 5(th) Floor, 25 Farringdon Street, London EC4A 4AB

Registered in England & Wales number: 00033774
Legal Entity Identifier number: 2138001AVBSD1HSC6Z10

ISIN number: GB00BZ4BQC70

 

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