REG - RELX PLC - Result of AGM

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RNS Number : 9325I  RELX PLC  21 April 2022

ISSUED ON BEHALF OF RELX PLC

 

Result of Annual General Meeting 2022

The Company held its Annual General Meeting ("AGM") at 09:30am today, Thursday
21 April 2022.

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 20 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 2021 Annual Report                   1,491,275,770  99.78             3,335,597    0.22                 1,494,611,367                                77.45%                                                 2,126,644
 2.      Approve Annual Remuneration Report               1,373,261,824  91.85             121,919,012  8.15                 1,495,180,836                                77.48%                                                 1,557,175
 3.      Declaration of 2021 Final Dividend               1,493,177,822  99.77             3,425,530    0.23                 1,496,603,352                                77.56%                                                 134,659
 4.      Re-appointment of auditors                       1,485,348,662  99.26             11,062,875   0.74                 1,496,411,537                                77.55%                                                 326,474
 5.      Auditors' remuneration                           1,493,500,529  99.81             2,876,603    0.19                 1,496,377,132                                77.55%                                                 360,879
 6.      Re-elect Paul Walker as a Director               1,467,667,180  98.07             28,845,485   1.93                 1,496,512,665                                77.55%                                                 225,346
 7.      Re-elect June Felix as a Director                1,494,824,919  99.89             1,589,342    0.11                 1,496,414,261                                77.55%                                                 323,750
 8.      Re-elect Erik Engstrom as a Director             1,494,726,200  99.88             1,778,075    0.12                 1,496,504,275                                77.55%                                                 233,736
 9.      Re-elect Wolfhart Hauser as a Director           1,440,131,331  97.78             32,721,119   2.22                 1,472,852,450                                76.33%                                                 23,885,561
 10.     Re-elect Charlotte Hogg as a Director            1,495,251,731  99.92             1,159,739    0.08                 1,496,411,470                                77.55%                                                 326,541
 11.     Re-elect Marike van Lier Lels as a Director      1,476,195,582  98.65             20,215,292   1.35                 1,496,410,874                                77.55%                                                 327,137
 12.     Re-elect Nick Luff as a Director                 1,488,575,157  99.47             7,933,794    0.53                 1,496,508,951                                77.55%                                                 229,060
 13.     Re-elect Robert MacLeod as a Director            1,466,439,977  98.53             21,818,670   1.47                 1,488,258,647                                77.12%                                                 8,479,364
 14.     Re-elect Andrew Sukawaty as a Director           1,494,740,397  99.89             1,660,132    0.11                 1,496,400,529                                77.55%                                                 337,482
 15.     Re-elect Suzanne Wood as a Director              1,411,122,951  94.30             85,291,485   5.70                 1,496,414,436                                77.55%                                                 323,575
 16.     Authority to allot shares                        1,426,795,249  95.33             69,832,233   4.67                 1,496,627,482                                77.56%                                                 110,529
 17.     Disapplication of pre-emption rights             1,485,969,136  99.54             6,889,235    0.46                 1,492,858,371                                77.36%                                                 3,879,640
 18.     Additional disapplication of pre-emption rights  1,464,529,391  98.10             28,326,287   1.90                 1,492,855,678                                77.36%                                                 3,882,333
 19.     Authority to purchase own shares                 1,476,765,192  98.75             18,663,830   1.25                 1,495,429,022                                77.50%                                                 1,308,989
 20.     Notice period for general meetings               1,406,037,769  94.13             87,690,996   5.87                 1,493,728,765                                77.41%                                                 3,009,246

 

 

NOTES:

 

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

 

2.   Votes 'Withheld' are not counted in the calculation of the proportion
of votes 'For' or 'Against' a resolution.

 

3.   Resolutions 17 to 20 are Special Resolutions.

 

4.   At the close of business on Tuesday 19 April 2022 the total number of
ordinary shares in issue, excluding Treasury shares, was 1,929,677,490.

 

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.   As per 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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