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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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