REG - Tate & Lyle PLC - Result of AGM

Tate & LyleAnnouncement

25/07/2019 13:00

RNS Number : 7511G
Tate & Lyle PLC
25 July 2019
 


Tate & Lyle PLC
 
Result of Annual General Meeting 2019
 
Tate & Lyle PLC (the 'Company') announces that at its Annual General Meeting ('AGM') held earlier today, all resolutions contained in the Notice of Annual General Meeting 2019 were duly passed.
 
The results of the poll held at the AGM are as follows:
 



Resolution


Total For(1)


Total Against


Votes withheld(2)




No. of votes


% of vote


No. of votes


% of vote


No. of votes




1.


Report and Accounts


321,536,308


99.98


52,024


0.02


1,003,837




2.


Remuneration Report


310,308,734


96.87


10,034,011


3.13


2,237,747




3.


Approve final dividend


321,365,380


99.83


550,205


0.17


669,908




4.


Re-elect Dr Gerry Murphy


318,135,226


98.84


3,722,649


1.16


727,617




5.


Re-elect Nick Hampton


321,143,416


99.78


714,800


0.22


727,277




6.


Elect Imran Nawaz


319,471,199


99.26


2,382,756


0.74


731,538




7.


Re-elect Paul Forman


321,075,355


99.76


782,852


0.24


727,286




8.


Re-elect Lars Frederiksen


320,860,067


99.69


998,850


0.31


726,084




9.


Re-elect Anne Minto


318,979,175


99.11


2,876,939


0.89


729,379




10.


Elect Kimberly Nelson


321,658,467


99.94


186,884


0.06


740,142




11.


Re-elect Dr Ajai Puri


320,841,074


99.69


1,009,244


0.31


735,175




12.


Re-elect Sybella Stanley


319,564,410


99.29


2,285,026


0.71


736,057




13.


Elect Warren Tucker


321,125,651


99.77


726,066


0.23


731,276




14.


Re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP


321,840,876


99.98


61,697


0.02


687,096




15.


Approve auditors' remuneration


321,848,722


99.98


50,257


0.02


690,690




16.


Authority to make political donations and incur political expenditure


318,429,322


98.95


3,393,171


1.05


767,176




17.


Authority to allot shares


301,976,039


93.81


19,909,327


6.19


704,303




18.


Authority to disapply pre-emption rights


312,781,124


97.18


9,065,963


2.82


742,581




19.


Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights for an acquisition or specified capital investment


305,233,158


94.84


16,599,967


5.16


756,542




20.


Authority to purchase own shares


318,861,394


99.27


2,350,251


0.73


1,379,023




21.


Authority in respect of notices for general meetings


303,840,492


94.39


18,050,603


5.61


698,574




22.


Adoption of new Articles of Association


321,773,043


99.97


90,269


0.03


726,357



 
(1) Includes discretionary votes.
 
(2) A 'vote withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes 'For' or 'Against' a resolution.
 
On 23 July 2019, there were 468,379,602 ordinary shares and 2,394,000 preference shares (which have limited voting rights) in issue.
 
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of the resolutions passed as special business at the AGM will shortly be available to view via the National Storage Mechanism at: http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.
 
 
Claire-Marie O'Grady
Company Secretary
25 July 2019
 




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