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RNS Number : 7145S  Smiths Group PLC  17 November 2021

17 NOVEMBER 2021

SMITHS GROUP PLC

 

RESULT OF AGM

 

Smiths Group plc (the 'Company') announces that a poll was held on each of the
resolutions proposed at the Annual General Meeting ('AGM') on 17 November
2021. The results of the poll are:

 

                                                              VOTES        %       VOTES       %      VOTES        % of ISC VOTED  VOTES

FOR
AGAINST
TOTAL
WITHHELD
 1     Adoption of Annual Report FY2021                       323,714,210  99.98   65,426      0.02   323,779,636  81.66%          5,938,783
 2     Approval of the Directors' Remuneration Policy         282,034,458  86.69   43,312,009  13.31  325,346,467  82.05%          4,371,952
 3     Approval of Directors' Remuneration Report             315,633,416  95.86   13,615,338  4.14   329,248,754  83.04%          469,665
 4     Declaration of a final dividend                        326,663,076  99.10   2,981,109   0.90   329,644,185  83.14%          74,234
 5     Election of Paul Keel as a director                    329,604,991  99.99   23,109      0.01   329,628,100  83.13%          90,319
 6     Re-election of Sir George Buckley as a director        298,607,930  98.80   3,637,996   1.20   302,245,926  76.23%          27,472,493
 7     Re-election of Pam Cheng as a director                 329,591,125  99.99   33,369      0.01   329,624,494  83.13%          93,925
 8     Re-election of Dame Ann Dowling as a director          329,592,493  99.99   38,264      0.01   329,630,757  83.13%          87,662
 9     Re-election of Tanya Fratto as a director              321,300,847  98.63   4,475,693   1.37   325,776,540  82.16%          3,941,879
 10    Re-election of Karin Hoeing as a director              329,039,826  99.82   588,955     0.18   329,628,781  83.13%          89,638
 11    Re-election of William Seeger as a director            327,425,706  99.33   2,192,198   0.67   329,617,904  83.13%          100,515
 12    Re-election of Mark Seligman as a director             319,053,210  96.79   10,568,476  3.21   329,621,686  83.13%          96,733
 13    Re-election of John Shipsey as a director              326,622,636  99.09   3,000,294   0.91   329,622,930  83.13%          95,489
 14    Re-election of Noel Tata as a director                 268,556,922  85.45   45,737,513  14.55  314,294,435  79.27%          15,423,984
 15    Re-appointment of KPMG LLP as auditors                 328,589,066  99.68   1,048,102   0.32   329,637,168  83.14%          81,251
 16    Auditors' remuneration                                 329,612,761  100.00  15,813      0.00   329,628,574  83.13%          89,845
 17    Authority to allot shares                              291,772,135  88.60   37,537,166  11.40  329,309,301  83.05%          33,599
 18    Authority to disapply pre-emption rights               309,035,762  93.74   20,637,509  6.26   329,673,271  83.14%          45,148
 19    Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights    302,828,403  91.86   26,844,210  8.14   329,672,613  83.14%          45,806
 20    Authority to make market purchases of shares           327,668,684  99.54   1,526,061   0.46   329,194,745  83.02%          523,674
 21    Authority to call general meetings on short notice     290,972,031  88.27   38,666,668  11.73  329,638,699  83.14%          77,170
 22    Authority to make political donations and expenditure  315,315,440  97.58   7,812,685   2.42   323,128,125  81.49%          6,587,744

 

Notes

As at 6.30 p.m. on 15 November 2021, the Company's issued share capital
consisted of 396,505,049 ordinary shares of 37.5p. The Company does not hold
any ordinary shares in the capital of the Company in treasury, and therefore,
the total voting rights in the Company as at the voting record time were
396,505,049.

 

Shareholders are entitled to one vote per share. Votes withheld are not a vote
in law and are therefore not counted in the calculation of the percentages of
the votes cast for and against a resolution. Where shareholders appointed the
Chairman as their proxy with discretion as to voting, their votes were cast in
favour of the resolutions and their shares have been included in the "votes
for" column.

 

Resolutions 1 to 17 and 22 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions
18 to 21 were passed as special resolutions.

 

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2 copies of the resolutions (other than
those resolutions comprising ordinary business) approved by shareholders will
be uploaded to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for
inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk (https://data.fca.org.uk) .

 

 

Enquiries:

Matthew Whyte, Company Secretary

Smiths Group plc

+44 (0) 20 7004 1600

secretary@smiths.com (mailto:secretary@smiths.com)

 

 

 

 

About Smiths Group

For over 170 years, Smiths Group has been pioneering progress by improving
the world through smarter engineering. We serve millions of people every year,
to help create a safer, more efficient and better-connected world, across four
major global markets:  Energy, General Industry, Security & Defence, and
Aerospace. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, Smiths employs c.22,000
colleagues in over 50 countries. For more information visit www.smiths.com
(http://www.smiths.com/) .

 

Smiths Group plc's LEI number is: 213800MJL6IPZS3ASA11

 

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