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Britvic plc

31 January 2017

-31 January 2017

Britvic plc ("the Company")

AGM Voting Results

At the 2017 Annual General Meeting of the Company held today at RSA House, Durham House Street (off The Strand), London WC2N 6HG at 11.00am, all resolutions were passed on a poll. The polling results for each resolution are set out below:

 
 No.    Resolution                        For *        %       Against       %       Votes 
                                                                                    Withheld 
                                                                                       ** 
-----  -----------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ------  ----------- 
 Ordinary Resolutions 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
        Receive the Annual 
         Report for 53 weeks 
         ended 2 October 
   1.    2016                          200,404,377   100.00        5,972    0.00      347,267 
-----  -----------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ------  ----------- 
        Declare a final 
         dividend of 17.5p 
   2.    per share                     200,430,105    99.99       26,997    0.01      300,514 
-----  -----------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ------  ----------- 
        Consider and approve 
         the directors' remuneration 
         report for 53 weeks 
         ended 2 October 
   3.    2016                          187,437,492    94.02   11,921,615    5.98    1,398,509 
-----  -----------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ------  ----------- 
        Election of Sue 
         Clark as a 
   4.    Director                      200,302,518    99.93      146,714    0.07      308,384 
-----  -----------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ------  ----------- 
        Election of Euan 
         Sutherland as a 
   5.    director                      200,298,489    99.93      147,534    0.07      309,349 
-----  -----------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ------  ----------- 
        Re-election of Joanne 
   6.    Averiss as a director         199,568,037    99.56      882,783    0.44      306,796 
-----  -----------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ------  ----------- 
        Re-election of Gerald 
   7.    Corbett as a director         181,019,539    99.06    1,710,675    0.94   18,023,402 
-----  -----------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ------  ----------- 
        Re-election of John 
   8.    Daly as a director            200,005,828    99.78      443,810    0.22      307,978 
-----  -----------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ------  ----------- 
        Re-election of Mathew 
         Dunn as a 
   9.    Director                      199,966,284    99.76      483,536    0.24      307,796 
-----  -----------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ------  ----------- 
        Re-election of Ben 
 10.     Gordon as a director          200,266,303    99.91      184,517    0.09      306,796 
-----  -----------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ------  ----------- 
        Re-election of Simon 
         Litherland as a 
 11.     director                      200,099,492    99.82      353,877    0.18      304,247 
-----  -----------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ------  ----------- 
        Re-election of Ian 
 12.     McHoul as a director          199,701,476    99.86      279,559    0.14      776,581 
-----  -----------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ------  ----------- 
        Re-appointment of 
         Ernst & Young LLP 
 13.     as auditors                   199,016,891    99.28    1,434,983    0.72      305,742 
-----  -----------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ------  ----------- 
        Authority to Audit 
         Committee to determine 
 14.     the auditor's remuneration    200,175,644    99.86      275,964    0.14      306,008 
-----  -----------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ------  ----------- 
        Authority to directors 
         to make political 
         donations and incur 
 15.     political expenditure         197,248,704    98.32    3,374,208    1.68      134,704 
-----  -----------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ------  ----------- 
        Authority to directors 
 16.     to allot shares               177,400,449    88.69   22,632,909   11.31      724,258 
-----  -----------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ------  ----------- 
 Special Resolutions 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
        Authority to directors 
         to issue shares 
 17.     for cash                      197,056,154    98.94    2,103,973    1.06    1,597,489 
-----  -----------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ------  ----------- 
        Authority to directors 
         to issue shares 
         for cash in relation 
         to an acquisition 
         or other capital 
 18.     investment                    181,515,880    91.14   17,641,985    8.86    1,599,751 
-----  -----------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ------  ----------- 
        Authority to Company 
         to purchase own 
 19.     shares                        199,397,044    99.42    1,165,530    0.58      195,042 
-----  -----------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ------  ----------- 
        Notice period for 
 20.     general meetings              175,384,056    87.50   25,064,394   12.50      309,166 
-----  -----------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  ------  ----------- 
 

The Company's issued share capital at 31 January 2017 was 263,452,322. Proxy appointments appointing the Chairman of the meeting were received from shareholders of 200,735,462 shares representing 76.19% of the issued share capital.

 
 *    Includes those votes giving the Chairman discretion 
 **   A 'vote withheld' is not a vote in law and is not 
       counted towards the votes cast 'for' or 'against' 
       a resolution 
 

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2 copies of all the resolutions passed, other than ordinary business, will be submitted to the UK Listing Authority ("UKLA") and will be available for inspection via the National Storage Mechanism website at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm and also via the Company's website at www.britvic.com

Clare Thomas

General Counsel & Company Secretary

Britvic plc

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