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RNS Number : 6384C St. James's Place PLC 30 April 2026
St. James's Place plc ("SJP plc" or "the Company")
Results of Annual General Meeting ("AGM")
SJP plc's AGM was held on Thursday 30 April 2026 at 10.00am at St. James's
Place House, 1 Tetbury Road, Cirencester, Gloucestershire GL7 1FP.
The results of the polls on all resolutions put to the meeting are set out
below.
Resolution Votes For % Votes Against % Total votes validly cast % of relevant shares in issue Votes Withheld
Ordinary Resolutions
1 To receive the Company's annual accounts and reports 375,694,559 99.99% 50,551 0.01% 375,745,110 72.41% 2,224,323
of the Directors and auditors for the year ended 31 December 2025.
2 To declare a final dividend of 12.00 pence per ordinary share for the year 377,956,316 100.00% 1,635 0.00% 377,957,951 72.83% 11,482
ended 31 December 2025.
3 To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December 371,167,831 98.21% 6,778,853 1.79% 377,946,684 72.83% 22,749
2025.
4 To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy. 365,846,917 96.80% 12,098,861 3.20% 377,945,778 72.83% 23,655
5 To approve the Deferred Bonus Plan. 376,358,713 99.58% 1,570,840 0.42% 377,929,553 72.83% 39,880
6 To approve the Performance Share Plan. 372,075,288 98.45% 5,861,101 1.55% 377,936,389 72.83% 33,044
7 To elect Helen Beck as a Director. 373,846,837 99.03% 3,678,225 0.97% 377,525,062 72.75% 444,371
8 To elect Penny James as a Director 377,146,207 99.90% 378,576 0.10% 377,524,783 72.75% 444,650
9 To elect Evelyn Bourke as a Director. 377,346,452 99.95% 178,610 0.05% 377,525,062 72.75% 444,371
10 To re-elect Rooney Anand as a Director. 377,344,439 99.95% 180,975 0.05% 377,525,414 72.75% 444,019
11 To re-elect Mark FitzPatrick as a Director. 376,108,445 99.51% 1,839,858 0.49% 377,948,303 72.83% 21,130
12 To re-elect Simon Fraser as a Director. 373,455,589 98.92% 4,070,811 1.08% 377,526,400 72.75% 443,033
13 To re-elect John Hitchins as a Director. 373,402,594 98.91% 4,121,647 1.09% 377,524,241 72.75% 445,192
14 To re-elect Paul Manduca as a Director. 372,756,852 98.74% 4,773,227 1.26% 377,530,079 72.75% 439,354
15 To re-elect Caroline Waddington as a Director. 375,856,341 99.45% 2,094,013 0.55% 377,950,354 72.83% 19,079
16 To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the auditor of the Company, to 373,604,691 98.85% 4,350,468 1.15% 377,955,159 72.83% 14,274
hold office until the conclusion of the next General Meeting at which accounts
are laid before the Company.
17 To authorise the Group Audit Committee to determine the remuneration of the 375,407,723 99.33% 2,539,070 0.67% 377,946,793 72.83% 22,640
Company's auditor.
18 To authorise the Directors to allot shares. 362,681,438 95.96% 15,263,862 4.04% 377,945,300 72.83% 24,133
19 To authorise the Company, and all companies that are its subsidiaries, to make 377,046,308 99.76% 893,979 0.24% 377,940,287 72.83% 29,146
political donations and incur political expenditure not exceeding £50,000.
Special Resolutions
20 To authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights. 362,964,430 96.04% 14,964,209 3.96% 377,928,639 72.83% 40,794
21 To authorise the Directors additional authority to disapply pre-emption 352,619,479 93.30% 25,309,375 6.70% 377,928,854 72.83% 40,579
rights.
22 To authorise the Company to purchase its own ordinary shares. 377,639,852 99.99% 39,302 0.01% 377,679,154 72.78% 290,279
23 To authorise the calling of general meetings (other than an AGM) on 14 clear 366,108,058 96.87% 11,848,471 3.13% 377,956,529 72.83% 12,904
days' notice.
The number of Ordinary Shares in issue as at 6.00pm on 28 April 2026 was
518,929,393. Shareholders are entitled to one vote per share. A vote
withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the
proportion of votes validly cast.
Resolutions 1 to 19 were passed as Ordinary Resolutions and Resolutions 20 to
23 were passed as Special Resolutions. The full text of the resolutions can be
found in the Notice of Meeting, which is available on the Company's website at
www.sjp.co.uk/shareholders/shareholder-meetings
(http://www.sjp.co.uk/shareholders/shareholder-meetings) .
In accordance UKLR 6.4.2R, SJP plc will submit copies of the Resolutions
passed at the meeting (other than Resolutions concerning ordinary business) to
the FCA National Storage Mechanism which will shortly be available for
inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
(https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism)
Jonathan Dale
Company Secretary
Tel: +44 (0)1285 717237
30 April 2026
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