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Smiths News PLC
20 January 2022
20 January 2022
SMITHS NEWS PLC
Result of 2022 Annual General Meeting
Smiths News plc announces that at its Annual General Meeting
(AGM) held at 11.30am today all resolutions put to the meeting were
duly passed by shareholders by way of a poll. The voting results
are shown below.
Resolution For Against Withheld
No. of % No. of votes % No. of votes
votes
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To receive the Annual
Report and Accounts
for the 52 week period
1 ended 28 August 2021 152,002,867 99.99% 17,970 0.01% 84,865
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To approve the directors'
remuneration report
for the 52 week period
2 ended 28 August 2021 132,872,601 87.43% 19,099,963 12.57% 133,138
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3 To declare a final dividend 127,656,537 83.94% 24,432,976 16.06% 16,189
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4 To re-elect David Blackwood 126,938,472 99.70% 378,798 0.30% 24,788,432
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To re-elect Jonathan
5 Bunting 151,795,153 99.81% 287,767 0.19% 22,782
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6 To re-elect Denise Collis 151,882,550 99.87% 200,704 0.13% 22,448
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To re-elect Michael
7 Holt 151,884,167 99.87% 199,095 0.13% 22,440
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8 To re-elect Mark Whiteling 151,698,933 99.75% 384,257 0.25% 22,512
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9 To elect Paul Baker 151,851,493 99.85% 227,293 0.15% 26,916
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10 To re-appoint the auditor 151,969,516 99.93% 111,657 0.07% 24,529
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To authorise the Audit
Committee to determine
11 the auditor's remuneration 151,952,145 99.92% 121,733 0.08% 31,824
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Authority to make political
12 donations 115,207,694 81.11% 26,827,237 18.89% 10,070,771
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13 Authority to allot shares 129,903,508 85.43% 22,158,411 14.57% 43,783
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Authority to partially
disapply pre-emption
14 rights* 151,062,644 99.39% 932,623 0.61% 110,435
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Authority to make market
purchases of ordinary
15 shares* 151,871,832 99.86% 214,232 0.14% 19,638
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Authority to call general
meetings (other than
the AGM) on 14 clear
16 days' notice* 151,759,263 99.79% 322,860 0.21% 23,579
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* Special resolution requiring 75% majority of those votes cast
at the meeting.
Notes:
1. Percentages are rounded to two decimal places.
2. Where shareholders appointed the Chairman as their proxy with
discretion as to voting, their votes were cast in favour of the
resolutions and have been included in the "For" total.
3. A "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in
the calculation of the percentages of the votes cast for and
against a resolution.
4. The number of votes validly cast were in respect of
152,105,702 shares, representing 61.41% of the 247,659,200 issued
share capital of the Company, being the total number of shares in
issue at 6.30pm on 19(th) January 2022.
5. The full text of all of the resolutions is set out in the
Notice of AGM dated 6 December 2021 which is available on the
Company's website. Resolutions 14, 15 and 16 were special
resolutions, requiring 75% majority of those votes cast at the
meeting.
6. In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, a copy of the special
business passed at the AGM, being resolutions 13, 14, 15 and 16,
has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism at
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
7. The results of the AGM voting will also be made available on the Company's website at www.corporate.smithsnews.co.uk/investors
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