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RNS Number : 1365Z  Smiths News PLC  20 January 2022

20 January 2022

 
SMITHS NEWS PLC
Result of 2022 Annual General Meeting

 

Smiths News plc announces that at its Annual General Meeting (AGM) held at
11.30am today all resolutions put to the meeting were duly passed by
shareholders by way of a poll.  The voting results are shown below.

 Resolution                                                                             For                        Against                   Withheld
         No. of votes                                                                   %            No. of votes  %           No. of votes
 1       To receive the Annual Report and Accounts for the 52 week period ended 28      152,002,867  99.99%        17,970      0.01%         84,865
         August 2021
 2       To approve the directors' remuneration report for the 52 week period ended 28  132,872,601  87.43%        19,099,963  12.57%        133,138
         August 2021
 3       To declare a final dividend                                                    127,656,537  83.94%        24,432,976  16.06%        16,189
 4       To re-elect David Blackwood                                                    126,938,472  99.70%        378,798     0.30%         24,788,432
 5       To re-elect Jonathan Bunting                                                   151,795,153  99.81%        287,767     0.19%         22,782
 6       To re-elect Denise Collis                                                      151,882,550  99.87%        200,704     0.13%         22,448
 7       To re-elect Michael Holt                                                       151,884,167  99.87%        199,095     0.13%         22,440
 8       To re-elect Mark Whiteling                                                     151,698,933  99.75%        384,257     0.25%         22,512
 9       To elect Paul Baker                                                            151,851,493  99.85%        227,293     0.15%         26,916
 10      To re-appoint the auditor                                                      151,969,516  99.93%        111,657     0.07%         24,529
 11      To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the auditor's remuneration       151,952,145  99.92%        121,733     0.08%         31,824
 12      Authority to make political donations                                          115,207,694  81.11%        26,827,237  18.89%        10,070,771
 13      Authority to allot shares                                                      129,903,508  85.43%        22,158,411  14.57%        43,783
 14      Authority to partially disapply pre-emption rights*                            151,062,644  99.39%        932,623     0.61%         110,435
 15      Authority to make market purchases of ordinary shares*                         151,871,832  99.86%        214,232     0.14%         19,638
 16      Authority to call general meetings (other than the AGM) on 14 clear days'      151,759,263  99.79%        322,860     0.21%         23,579
         notice*

* Special resolution requiring 75% majority of those votes cast at the
meeting.

 
Notes:

1.    Percentages are rounded to two decimal places.

2.    Where shareholders appointed the Chairman as their proxy with
discretion as to voting, their votes were cast in favour of the resolutions
and have been included in the "For" total.

3.    A "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the
calculation of the percentages of the votes cast for and against a resolution.

4.    The number of votes validly cast were in respect of 152,105,702
shares, representing 61.41% of the 247,659,200 issued share capital of the
Company, being the total number of shares in issue at 6.30pm on 19(th) January
2022.

5.    The full text of all of the resolutions is set out in the Notice of
AGM dated 6 December 2021 which is available on the Company's website.
Resolutions 14, 15 and 16 were special resolutions, requiring 75% majority of
those votes cast at the meeting.

6.    In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, a copy of the special business
passed at the AGM, being resolutions 13, 14, 15 and 16, has been submitted to
the National Storage Mechanism at
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
(https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism)

7.    The results of the AGM voting will also be made available on the
Company's website at www.corporate.smithsnews.co.uk/investors
(http://www.corporate.smithsnews.co.uk/investors)

 

 

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