REG - Tate & Lyle PLC - Result of AGM
RNS Number : 9445GTate & Lyle PLC29 July 2021Tate & Lyle PLC
Result of Annual General Meeting 2021
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 2021 were duly passed.
For those shareholders who were unable to attend the AGM, an audiocast is available giving shareholders an opportunity to hear a presentation from our Chair, Gerry Murphy and our Chief Executive, Nick Hampton. You can listen to the audiocast from this link or from our website www.tateandlyle.com/investors/agm. The audiocast is available to watch on the above link until 26 August 2021.
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
347,540,646
99.97
113,384
0.03
1,261,743
2.
Directors' Remuneration Report
334,425,571
96.48
12,211,637
3.52
1,704,959
3.
Approve final dividend
345,956,034
99.32
2,369,008
0.68
17,125
4.
Re-elect Dr Gerry Murphy
335,150,385
96.57
11,900,487
3.43
1,291,295
5.
Re-elect Nick Hampton
348,059,703
99.93
245,863
0.07
36,601
6.
Elect Vivid Sehgal
346,634,301
99.52
1,657,384
0.48
50,482
7.
Elect John Cheung
299,938,029
87.44
43,087,098
12.56
5,317,040
8.
Elect Patrícia Corsi
348,234,655
99.98
58,989
0.02
48,523
9.
Re-elect Paul Forman
344,732,967
98.98
3,560,755
1.02
48,445
10.
Re-elect Lars Frederiksen
344,582,972
98.93
3,709,419
1.07
49,776
11.
Re-elect Kimberly Nelson
345,107,718
99.08
3,194,031
0.92
40,418
12.
Re-elect Sybella Stanley
340,183,352
97.67
8,110,188
2.33
48,627
13.
Re-elect Warren Tucker
339,096,919
98.92
3,713,319
1.08
5,531,929
14.
Appoint Ernst & Young LLP
347,931,317
99.73
928,587
0.27
55,340
15.
Approve auditors' remuneration
348,819,680
99.99
35,112
0.01
60,981
16.
Authority to make political donations and incur political expenditure
343,985,657
98.62
4,829,813
1.38
100,303
17.
Authority to allot shares
335,877,125
96.28
12,974,085
3.72
64,563
18.
Authority to disapply pre-emption rights
345,689,683
99.12
3,076,162
0.88
149,928
19.
Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights for an acquisition or specified capital investment
331,374,436
95.01
17,390,401
4.99
150,936
20.
Authority to purchase own shares
346,618,937
99.52
1,663,454
0.48
633,382
21.
Authority in respect of notices for general meetings
333,375,519
95.56
15,500,828
4.44
39,426
(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 27 July 2021, there were 468,489,901 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: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.
Claire-Marie O'Grady
Company Secretary
29 July 2021
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