REG - SSP Group PLC - Result of AGM

SSPAnnouncement

23/01/2026 13:00

For best results when printing this announcement, please click on link below:
https://newsfile.refinitiv.com/getnewsfile/v1/story?guid=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20260123:nRSW2049Qa&default-theme=true

RNS Number : 2049Q  SSP Group PLC  23 January 2026

23 January
2026
 
         LEI: 213800QGNIWTXFMENJ24

 

 

 

SSP Group plc (the "Company")

 

 

Voting Results of Annual General Meeting held on 23 January 2026

 

 

The Company announces that its Annual General Meeting held at 10.00am on 23
January 2026 at Travers Smith LLP, 10 Snow Hill, London, EC1A 2AL was
successfully concluded.

 

All Resolutions were duly passed by shareholders by way of a poll.  The
voting results are below and will also be available on the Company's website
(www.foodtravelexperts.com (http://www.foodtravelexperts.com) ).

 

 

 Resolution                                                                       Votes For    %        Votes Against  %      Votes Total  % of issued share capital voted  Votes withheld
 1. To receive the Company's annual accounts for the year ended 30 September      532,944,750  100.00%  18,574         0.00%  532,963,324  67.39%                           545,131
 2025 together with the Directors' report and the Auditors' report on those
 accounts
 2. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 30           529,438,102  99.24%   4,062,469      0.76%  533,500,571  67.46%                           7,884
 September 2025 (excluding Directors' Remuneration Policy)
 3. To approve the final dividend recommended by the Directors of 2.8 pence per   533,477,367  100.00%  18,401         0.00%  533,495,768  67.46%                           5,079
 share for the financial year ended 30 September 2025 and to declare it payable
 on 27 February 2026
 4. To re-elect Carolyn Bradley as a Director of the Company;                     518,599,357  97.21%   14,887,853     2.79%  533,487,210  67.46%                           21,245
 5. To re-elect Patrick Coveney as a Director of the Company                      532,026,340  99.95%   260,135        0.05%  532,286,475  67.30%                           1,221,980
 6. To re-elect Tim Lodge as a Director of the Company                            522,529,833  97.95%   10,957,377     2.05%  533,487,210  67.46%                           21,245
 7. To re-elect Judy Vezmar as a Director of the Company                          522,573,218  97.95%   10,913,992     2.05%  533,487,210  67.46%                           21,245
 8. To re-elect Apurvi Sheth as a Director of the Company                         522,586,615  97.96%   10,900,463     2.04%  533,487,078  67.46%                           21,377
 9.To re-elect Karina Deacon as a Director of the Company                         522,598,213  97.96%   10,888,865     2.04%  533,487,078  67.46%                           21,377
 10.To elect Geert Verellen as a Director of the Company                          522,864,359  98.01%   10,619,903     1.99%  533,484,262  67.46%                           24,193
 11. To appoint Grant Thornton UK LLP as auditor of the Company                   526,332,423  98.66%   7,156,757      1.34%  533,489,180  67.46%                           19,245
 12. To authorise the Directors to determine the remuneration of the Auditor      526,322,245  98.65%   7,179,406      1.35%  533,501,651  67.46%                           6,774
 13. To authorise the Company and its subsidiaries to make political donations    532,236,166  99.76%   1,263,938      0.24%  533,500,104  67.46%                           8,321
 and/or incur political expenditure
 14. To authorise the Directors to allot shares pursuant to section 551 of the    523,457,050  98.12%   10,044,644     1.88%  533,501,694  67.46%                           6,731
 Companies Act 2006
 15. To authorise the Directors to dis-apply pre-emption rights pursuant to       512,178,980  96.01%   21,309,872     3.99%  533,488,852  67.46%                           16,518
 sections 570 and 573 of the Companies Act 2006
 (General)
 16. To authorise the Directors to dis-apply pre-emption rights pursuant to       501,123,825  93.93%   32,368,142     6.07%  533,491,967  67.46%                           16,518
 sections 570 and 573 of the Companies Act 2006 (Acquisition or Capital
 Investment)
 17. To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its ordinary shares     533,111,772  99.99%   43,096         0.01%  533,154,868  67.41%                           353,557
 18. That a general meeting other than an annual general meeting may be called    524,919,854  98.39%   8,578,860      1.61%  533,498,714  67.46%                           9,711
 on not less than 14 clear days' notice

 

 

Notes:

 

(1)   Full details of the resolutions are set out in the Notice of Annual
General Meeting dated 10 December 2025 (which is available on the Company's
website at: Shareholder centre | SSP (foodtravelexperts.com)
(https://www.foodtravelexperts.com/investors/shareholder-centre/) )
(https://www.foodtravelexperts.com/investors/shareholder-centre/) .

 

(2)   Resolutions 1 to 14 were ordinary resolutions, requiring more than 50%
of shareholders' votes to be cast in favour of the resolutions. Resolutions 15
to 18 were special resolutions, requiring at least 75% of shareholders' votes
to be cast in favour of the resolutions.

 

(3)   Votes 'For' include those votes giving the Chair discretion.

 

(4)   As at close of business on Wednesday 21st January 2026, the time by
which shareholders who wanted to vote at the AGM must have been entered on the
Company's register of members, there were 790,873,649 ordinary shares in issue
(including shares which had been bought back by the Company and were pending
cancellation). Shareholders are entitled to one vote per share on a poll.

 

(5)   A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the
calculation of the votes for or against a resolution.

 

(6)   Copies of all the resolutions passed, other than ordinary business,
have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will soon be
available for inspection at data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism

 

 

 

 

For further information contact:

 

Fiona Scattergood

Group General Counsel & Company Secretary

 

Investor and analyst enquiries

Sarah Roff

Group Head of Investor Relations

Email: sarah.roff@ssp-intl.com

This information is provided by RNS, the news service of the London Stock Exchange. RNS is approved by the Financial Conduct Authority to act as a Primary Information Provider in the United Kingdom. Terms and conditions relating to the use and distribution of this information may apply. For further information, please contact
rns@lseg.com (mailto:rns@lseg.com)
 or visit
www.rns.com (http://www.rns.com/)
.

RNS may use your IP address to confirm compliance with the terms and conditions, to analyse how you engage with the information contained in this communication, and to share such analysis on an anonymised basis with others as part of our commercial services. For further information about how RNS and the London Stock Exchange use the personal data you provide us, please see our
Privacy Policy (https://www.lseg.com/privacy-and-cookie-policy)
.   END  RAGBDGDBIUDDGLX



            Copyright 2019 Regulatory News Service, all rights reserved