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RNS Number : 3224L  Unite Group PLC (The)  12 May 2022

 

 

12 May 2022

 

THE UNITE GROUP PLC (the "Company")

 

RESULTS OF THE 2022 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

 

The Unite Group plc announces that all resolutions put to the Annual General
Meeting held today, 12 May 2022, were passed on a poll.  The results for each
resolution are as follows:

 

                                                                                    For                        Against
     Resolution                                                                     Votes(1)     % Votes Cast  Votes       % Votes Cast  Votes Withheld (2)
 Ordinary Resolutions
 1   Receive Annual Reports and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2021        366,204,421  100           0           0             496,065
 2   To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report contained in the Annual Report   357,032,859  97.83         7,905,945   2.17          1,761,682
     and Accounts
 3   To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report (other than the part containing  354,173,687  97.05         10,765,117  2.95          1,761,682
     the Directors' Remuneration Policy) contained in the Annual Report and
     Accounts
 4   Declare 2021 final dividend                                                    366,698,609  100           0           0             1,877

 5   Re-elect Richard Huntingford                                                   343,237,965  95.01         18,041,159  4.99          5,421,362
 6   Re-elect Richard Smith                                                         350,742,761  96.11         14,196,043  3.89          1,761,682

 7   Re-elect Joseph Lister                                                         361,869,914  99.16         3,068,890   0.84          1,761,682

 8   Re-elect Elizabeth McMeikan                                                    354,585,021  97.16         10,353,783  2.84          1,761,682
 9   Re-elect Ross Paterson                                                         361,909,698  99.17         3,029,106   0.83          1,761,682

 10  Re-elect Ilaria del Beato                                                      361,919,781  99.17         3,019,023   0.83          1,761,682

 11  Re-elect Dame Shirley Pearce                                                   361,520,392  99.11         3,257,507   0.89          1,922,587
 12  Re-elect Thomas Jackson                                                        355,239,698  97.34         9,699,106   2.66          1,761,682

 13  Re-elect Professor Sir Steve Smith                                             361,917,978  99.17         3,020,826   0.83          1,761,682
 14  Re-appoint Deloitte LLP as Auditor                                             365,846,677  99.77         850,440     0.23          3,369
 15  Auditor's Remuneration                                                         366,695,243  100           1,524       0             1,877

 16  Authority to Allot Shares                                                      328,394,983  90.17         35,814,023  9.83          2,488,892

 Special Resolutions
 17  Dis-apply Pre-emption Rights (General)                                         360,205,249  99.35         2,355,331   0.65          4,139,906
 18  Dis-apply Pre-emption Rights (Acquisition or Specified Capital Investment)     350,565,954  96.69         11,994,626  3.31          4,139,906
 19  Allow General Meeting on 14 days' notice                                       324,419,058  88.94         40,359,112  11.06         1,922,315

 

(1) Includes those votes giving the Chairman discretion.

(2) A "Vote Withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the
calculation of "For" and "Against" a resolution.

 

Maximum number of shares represented by proxy: 366,700,486 shares

 

Number of ordinary shares in issue as at the date of the AGM (no shares held
in treasury): 399,311,939.

Resolutions 1 to 16 were passed as ordinary resolutions and Resolutions 17 to
19 were passed as special resolutions.

 

Pursuant to UK Listing Rule 9.6.2R, copies of all resolutions, other than
those concerning ordinary business, adopted at the AGM will be shortly
submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for
inspection at:

https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
(https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism) .

 

The full text of the resolutions passed at the AGM can be found in the Notice
of AGM, which is available alongside the AGM results on the Company's website
at http://www.unite-group.co.uk/.

 

END

 

For further information, please contact:

 Unite Students

 Christopher Szpojnarowicz, Company Secretary   Tel: +44 117 302 7120

 

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