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RNS Number : 4768S  Pennon Group PLC  24 July 2025

Pennon Group plc

 

Result of the Annual General Meeting held on 24(th) July 2025 at Peninsula
House, Rydon Lane Exeter, EX2 7HR at 10:00am

 

The Directors are pleased to announce that the shareholders of Pennon Group
plc passed all the Resolutions which were set out in the Notice of Annual
General Meeting dated 26(th) June 2025.

 

Voting on all Resolutions was conducted by way of a poll and the below table
shows the percentage of issued share capital voted for each.

 

A copy of each of the Resolutions passed by the Company, other than
resolutions concerning ordinary business, will be submitted and made available
for inspection on the National Storage Mechanism
at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
(https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism)

 

A copy of this announcement will be posted on the Company's website
at www.pennon-group.co.uk/investor-information/shareholder-services
(http://www.pennon-group.co.uk/investor-information/shareholder-services)

 

 

      RESOLUTION                                                                     VOTES        %      VOTES       %         VOTES        % SHARE CAPITAL VOTED  VOTES

TOTAL

                                                                                     FOR          FOR    AGAINST     AGAINST
                                   WITHHELD

 1.   To receive and adopt for the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended     374,760,673  99.66  1,285,588   0.34      376,046,261  79.68%                 270,307
      31(st) March 2025

 2.   To declare a final dividend in respect of the year ended 31(st) March 2025     374,587,883  99.54  1,717,733   0.46      376,305,616  79.73%                 10,952

 3.   To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report                                  363,487,846  99.06  3,437,978   0.94      366,925,824  77.74%                 9,390,744

 4.   To elect Andrea Blance as a Director                                           352,399,290  93.66  23,852,660  6.34      376,251,950  79.72%                 64,618

 5.   To elect Laura Flowerdrew as a Director                                        373,226,566  99.20  3,014,213   0.80      376,240,779  79.72%                 75,789

 6.   To re-elect David Sproul as a Director                                         369,680,401  98.25  6,582,097   1.75      376,262,498  79.72%                 54,070

 7.   To re-elect Susan Davy as a Director                                           355,100,288  96.77  11,847,336  3.23      366,947,624  77.75%                 9,368,944

 8.   To re-elect Ian Evans as a Director                                            340,713,781  90.55  35,548,064  9.45      376,261,845  79.72%                 54,723

 9.   To re-elect Jon Butterworth as a Director                                      364,272,517  96.81  11,991,331  3.19      376,263,848  79.72%                 52,720

 10.  To re-elect Loraine Woodhouse as a Director                                    364,783,139  96.96  11,456,106  3.04      376,239,245  79.72%                 77,323

 11.  To re-elect Dorothy Burwell as a Director                                      364,344,655  96.83  11,910,536  3.17      376,255,191  79.72%                 61,377

 12.  To appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers   LLP as auditor of the Company              371,255,633  98.66  5,029,848   1.34      376,285,481  79.73%                 31,087

 13.  To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the remuneration of the auditor  372,338,304  98.95  3,949,128   1.05      376,287,432  79.73%                 29,136
      on behalf of the Board

 14.  To authorise the Company and its subsidiaries to make political donations up   375,194,262  99.71  1,084,668   0.29      376,278,930  79.72%                 37,638
      to a specified limit

 15.  To grant the Directors authority to allot shares                               370,439,810  98.45  5,841,965   1.55      376,281,775  79.73%                 34,793

 16.  To consider and approve the Company's climate-related financial disclosures    297,180,684  86.87  44,918,836  13.13     342,099,520  72.48%                 34,217,048
      (as set out on pages 94-125 of the Annual Report and Accounts 2025)

 17.  To authorise the general disapplication of pre-emption rights                  372,303,263  98.95  3,963,710   1.05      376,266,973  79.72%                 49,595

 18.  To authorise the disapplication of pre-emption rights in connection with an    357,571,139  95.03  18,693,480  4.97      376,264,619  79.72%                 51,949
      acquisition or specified capital investment

 19.  To authorise the market purchase of the Company's shares                       375,774,668  99.97  113,182     0.03      375,887,850  79.64%                 428,718

 20.  To authorise that a General Meeting, other than an AGM, may be called on not   368,167,944  97.84  8,130,810   2.16      376,298,754  79.73%                 17,814
      less than 14 clear days notice

 21.  To approve the amendments to the Articles of Association                       376,110,582  99.96  157,278     0.04      376,267,860  79.72%                 48,708

 22.  That the amendments to the Articles of Association relating to the format of   RESOLUTION WITHDRAWN
      General Meetings, be authorised

 

(1.         Resolution 22 was withdrawn prior to the AGM)

 

Notes

 

i)      The total votes cast in favour of each resolution include those
giving the Chair's discretion.

 

ii)     A "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the
calculation of the proportion of the votes "for" and "against" a resolution.

 

iii)    Pennon Group plc's issued share capital consists of 471,977,902
ordinary shares of 61.05p each, with

5,628 shares held in treasury. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in
Pennon Group plc is 471,972,274 shares.

 

 

24(th) July 2025

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