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RNS Number : 6465T  Smiths News PLC  16 January 2025

16 January 2025

Smiths News PLC

 

Result of 2025 Annual General Meeting

 

Smiths News, (LSE: SNWS), the UK's largest news wholesaler and a leading
provider of early morning end-to-end supply chain solutions, 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 53-week period ended 31      135,338,059  100.00%       3,031       0.00%         132,021
         August 2024
 2       To approve the directors' remuneration report for the 53-week period ended 31  132,074,855  97.72%        3,082,124   2.28%         316,132
         August 2024
 3       To declare a final ordinary dividend                                           135,464,571  100.00%       3,003       0.00%         5,537
 4       To declare a special dividend                                                  135,457,339  100.00%       3,204       0.00%         12,568
 5       To re-elect David Blackwood                                                    129,172,982  95.38%        6,255,497   4.62%         44,632
 6       To re-elect Jonathan Bunting                                                   134,704,407  99.46%        731,786     0.54%         36,918
 7       To re-elect Michael Holt                                                       132,494,662  97.83%        2,940,856   2.17%         37,593
 8       To re-elect Mark Whiteling                                                     112,820,027  83.30%        22,618,491  16.70%        34,593
 9       To re-elect Paul Baker                                                         134,705,369  99.46%        730,233     0.54%         37,509
 10      To re-elect Deborah Rabey                                                      133,260,194  98.39%        2,178,324   1.61%         34,593
 11      To re-appoint the auditor                                                      135,050,838  99.92%        106,509     0.08%         315,764
 12      To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the auditor's remuneration       135,330,940  99.91%        122,833     0.09%         19,338
 13      Authority to make political donations                                          102,351,270  81.82%        22,749,314  18.18%        10,372,527
 14      Authority to allot shares                                                      124,658,413  92.11%        10,680,583  7.89%         134,115
 15      Authority to partially disapply pre-emption rights*                            134,370,917  99.30%        953,974     0.70%         148,220
 16      Authority to make market purchases of ordinary shares*                         135,223,433  99.83%        236,565     0.17%         13,113
 17      Authority to call general meetings (other than the AGM) on 14 clear days'      134,671,257  99.43%        773,755     0.57%         28,099
         notice*
 18      Authority to amend the Articles of Association*                                124,492,629  99.78%        270,206     0.22%         10,710,276

* 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 135,467,574
shares, representing 54.70% of the 247,659,200 issued share capital of the
Company, being the total number of shares in issue at 6.30pm on 15(th) January
2025.

5.      The full text of all of the resolutions is set out in the Notice
of AGM dated 12 December 2024 which is available on the Company's website.
Resolutions 15, 16, 17 and 18 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, 17 and 18, 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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