REG - RELX PLC - Result of AGM

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RNS Number : 9572W  RELX PLC  20 April 2023

ISSUED ON BEHALF OF RELX PLC

 

Result of Annual General Meeting 2023

The Company held its Annual General Meeting at 9.30am today, Thursday 20 April
2023.

All valid proxy votes (whether submitted electronically or in hard copy form)
were included in the poll taken at the meeting.

The table below shows the results of the poll on all 25 resolutions.

 

         Resolution                                       For             % votes cast for  Against      %                    Total votes cast (excluding votes withheld)  % of issued capital voted (excluding treasury shares)  Withheld

                                                                                                         votes cast against
 1.      Receive the 2022 Annual Report                   1,591,126, 787  99.91             1,404,327    0.09                 1,592,531,114                                83.68                                                  3,891,792
 2.      Approve Directors' Remuneration Policy           1,528,240,789   95.87             65,765,933   4.13                 1,594,006,722                                83.76                                                  2,416,183
 3.      Approve Directors' Remuneration Report           1,525,608,555   95.70             68,478,146   4.30                 1,594,086,701                                83.76                                                  2,334,705
 4.      Declaration of 2022 Final Dividend               1,577,579,598   98.83             18,639,286   1.17                 1,596,218,884                                83.88                                                  204,022
 5.      Re-appointment of auditors                       1,587,095,426   99.43             9,032,549    0.57                 1,596,127,975                                83.87                                                  294,931
 6.      Auditors' remuneration                           1,595,607,476   99.97             486,132      0.03                 1,596,093,608                                83.87                                                  329,298
 7.      Elect Alistair Cox as a Director                 1,593,148,320   99.82             2,945,000    0.18                 1,596,093,320                                83.87                                                  329,586
 8.      Re-elect Paul Walker as a Director               1,487,081,854   94.73             82,651,874   5.27                 1,569,733,728                                82.48                                                  26,689,177
 9.      Re-elect June Felix as a Director                1,565,393,413   98.56             22,899,627   1.44                 1,588,293,040                                83.46                                                  8,129,866
 10.     Re-elect Erik Engstrom as a Director             1,594,731,606   99.90             1,590,770    0.10                 1,596,322,376                                83.88                                                  100,530
 11.     Re-elect Charlotte Hogg as a Director            1,593,141,916   99.81             2,958,471    0.19                 1,596,100,387                                83.87                                                  322,519
 12.     Re-elect Marike van Lier Lels as a Director      1,563,662,847   97.97             32,437,584   2.03                 1,596,100,431                                83.87                                                  322,475
 13.     Re-elect Nick Luff as a Director                 1,589,750,681   99.60             6,455,092    0.40                 1,596,205,773                                83.88                                                  217,133
 14.     Re-elect Robert MacLeod as a Director            1,542,087,959   96.62             54,002,870   3.38                 1,596,090,829                                83.87                                                  332,077
 15.     Re-elect Andrew Sukawaty as a Director           1,593,090,154   99.81             2,989,639    0.19                 1,596,079,793                                83.87                                                  333,113
 16.     Re-elect Suzanne Wood as a Director              1,546,929,453   96.92             49,168,106   3.08                 1,596,097,559                                83.87                                                  323,848
 17.     Approve Long-Term Incentive Plan                 1,555,157,455   97.55             38,979,554   2.45                 1,594,137,009                                83.77                                                  2,284,397
 18.     Approve Executive Share Ownership Scheme         1,572,480,452   98.72             20,435,546   1.28                 1,592,915,998                                83.70                                                  3,505,417
 19.     Approve ShareSave Plan                           1,576,577,983   98.84             18,435,842   1.16                 1,595,013,825                                83.81                                                  1,407,582
 20.     Approve Employee Share Purchase Plan             1,580,749,306   99.10             14,281,306   0.90                 1,595,030,612                                83.81                                                  1,383,795
 21.     Authority to allot shares                        1,493,224,342   93.55             102,869,535  6.45                 1,596,093,877                                83.87                                                  327,530
 22.     Disapplication of pre-emption rights             1,583,731,825   99.67             5,177,990    0.33                 1,588,909,815                                83.49                                                  7,511,592
 23.     Additional disapplication of pre-emption rights  1,574,894,532   99.11             14,064,243   0.89                 1,588,958,775                                83.49                                                  7,462,632
 24.     Authority to purchase own shares                 1,572,879,267   98.62             21,940,448   1.38                 1,594,819,715                                83.80                                                  1,601,692
 25.     Notice period for general meetings               1,480,569,720   92.76             115,636,373  7.24                 1,596,206,093                                83.88                                                  215,313

 

 

NOTES:

 

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

 

2.   Votes 'Withheld' are not a vote in law and are not counted in the
calculation of the percentage of votes 'For' or 'Against' a resolution.

 

3.   Resolutions 22 to 25 are Special Resolutions.

 

4.   At the close of business on Tuesday, 18 April 2023 the total number of
ordinary shares in issue, excluding treasury shares, was 1,903,062,167.

 

5.   The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual
General Meeting, which is available for inspection 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.relx.com (http://www.relx.com) .

 

6.   In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, a copy of the resolutions
passed, other than resolutions concerning ordinary business, will shortly be
submitted to the National Storage Mechanism for inspection at
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
(https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism) .

 

 

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