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RNS Number : 5695B  Smiths News PLC  31 January 2024

31 January 2024

 
SMITHS NEWS PLC
Result of 2024 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 26      144,040,479  100.00%       3,223       0.00%         51,305
         August 2023
 2       To approve the directors' remuneration report for the 52-week period ended 26  127,710,514  88.72%        16,243,992  11.28%        140,501
         August 2023
 3       To declare a final dividend                                                    144,080,634  100.00%       0           0.00%         14,373
 3       To re-elect David Blackwood                                                    139,957,926  97.21%        4,020,543   2.79%         116,538
 5       To re-elect Jonathan Bunting                                                   143,792,368  99.82%        253,123     0.18%         49,516
 6       To re-elect Denise Collis                                                      132,924,709  99.52%        634,889     0.48%         10,535,409
 7       To re-elect Michael Holt                                                       143,414,237  99.56%        632,332     0.44%         48,438
 8       To re-elect Mark Whiteling                                                     143,414,363  99.56%        627,737     0.44%         52,907
 9       To re-elect Paul Baker                                                         143,806,192  99.83%        247,298     0.17%         41,517
 10      To elect Deborah Rabey                                                         143,900,095  99.90%        143,006     0.10%         51,906
 11      To re-appoint the auditor                                                      144,035,126  99.98%        25,259      0.02%         34,622
 12      To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the auditor's remuneration       143,961,402  99.98%        26,749      0.02%         106,856
 13      Authority to make political donations                                          108,529,201  99.43%        620,971     0.57%         34,944,835
 14      Authority to allot shares                                                      133,186,343  92.46%        10,866,310  7.54%         42,354
 15      Authority to partially disapply pre-emption rights*                            143,364,512  99.56%        628,660     0.44%         101,835
 16      Authority to make market purchases of ordinary shares*                         143,936,766  99.90%        144,595     0.10%         13,646
 17      Authority to call general meetings (other than the AGM) on 14 clear days'      119,371,416  99.77%        276,591     0.23%         24,447,000
         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 144,081,361
shares, representing 58.18% of the 247,659,200 issued share capital of the
Company, being the total number of shares in issue at 6.30pm on 30(th) January
2024.

5.    The full text of all of the resolutions is set out in the Notice of
AGM dated 4 December 2023 which is available on the Company's website.
Resolutions 15, 16 and 17 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 14, 15, 16 and 17, 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 https://www.smithsnews.co.uk/investor-zone
(https://www.smithsnews.co.uk/investor-zone)

 

 

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