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Britvic plc
28 January 2021
Britvic plc
LEI: 635400L3NVMYD4BVCI53
28 January 2021
Result of Annual General Meeting
Britvic plc (the "Company") announces that the following
resolutions were duly passed at the Company's Annual General
Meeting which was held at 11:00am on 28 January 2021 at Breakspear
Park, Breakspear Way, Hemel Hempstead HP2 4TZ. The results of the
poll are as follows:
No. Resolution Total For % Total Against % Votes
(1) Withheld
(2)
Ordinary Resolutions
Receive the Annual Report
for year ended 30 September
1. 2020 218,566,042 100.00% 3,753 0.00% 296,366
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Declare a final dividend of
2. 21.6p per share 218,857,201 100.00% 2,806 0.00% 6,154
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Approve the directors' remuneration
3. policy 210,107,534 96.28% 8,119,609 3.72% 639,017
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Approve the directors' remuneration
report for year ended 30 September
4. 2020 217,735,800 99.50% 1,089,556 0.50% 40,805
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Approve the amendment to the
rules of the 2015 Performance
5. Share Plan 216,937,168 99.15% 1,859,468 0.85% 69,524
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Approve the amendment to the
rules of the 2015 Executive
6. Share Option Plan 216,818,747 99.10% 1,970,754 0.90% 76,659
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Re-election of John Daly as
7. a director 216,014,728 98.71% 2,830,126 1.29% 21,265
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Re-election of Simon Litherland
8. as a director 218,796,735 99.99% 32,545 0.01% 36,839
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Re-election of Joanne Wilson
9. as a director 218,798,709 99.99% 23,041 0.01% 44,369
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Re-election of Suniti Chauhan
10. as a director 217,604,382 99.44% 1,228,731 0.56% 32,697
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Re-election of Sue Clark as
11. a director 218,799,986 99.99% 32,678 0.01% 33,146
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Re-election of William Eccleshare
12. as a director 160,119,783 73.17% 58,712,076 26.83% 34,260
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Re-election of Ian McHoul
13. as a director 174,373,732 79.68% 44,459,635 20.32% 32,751
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Re-election of Euan Sutherland
14. as a director 217,359,766 99.33% 1,472,435 0.67% 33,918
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Re-appointment of Ernst &
15. Young LLP as auditors 207,740,595 94.93% 11,102,033 5.07% 23,021
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Authority to Audit Committee
to fix the remuneration of
16. the auditors 215,835,869 98.63% 3,007,536 1.37% 22,244
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Authority to make political
donations and incur political
17. expenditure 209,069,647 95.99% 8,744,841 4.01% 1,051,631
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Authority to directors to
18. allot shares 179,202,067 81.89% 39,627,355 18.11% 36,697
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Special Resolutions
Authority to directors to
19. issue shares for cash 202,713,077 96.44% 7,491,680 3.56% 8,661,362
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Authority to issue shares
for cash in relation to an
acquisition or other capital
20. investment 202,150,751 96.17% 8,053,949 3.83% 8,660,256
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Authority to company to purchase
21. own shares 218,163,217 99.73% 600,854 0.27% 102,047
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Authority to hold general
meetings (other than AGMs)
22. on 14 clear days' notice 192,555,684 87.98% 26,296,687 12.02% 13,748
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Authorise the distributable
23. reserves amendments 217,913,045 99.98% 39,480 0.02% 910,040
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The Company's issued share capital as at 28 January 2021 was
266,990,910 shares of 20 pence each. 81.96% of the issued share
capital was instructed.
(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 votes 'For' or 'Against' a resolution.
The Board notes the result of the votes against Resolutions 12
and 13 (the re-appointment of William Eccleshare and Ian McHoul).
While we understand that the concerns relate to calls on their
time, the Board is confident that both William and Ian discharge
their roles as non-executive directors effectively, and, in the
case of Ian, Senior Independent Director and Chair of the Audit
Committee. Further, they are both highly active independent
non-executive directors, and each has the capacity to meet their
respective commitments to the Company not only in respect of their
day-to-day obligations to the Company, but also at times of
increased demand. Indeed, even amid the challenging conditions
created by the global pandemic, both Directors attendance record
was no less than 100%, notwithstanding their other commitments.
Finally, and more generally, the time commitment of all Directors
is a matter that the Nominations Committee takes highly seriously
and keeps under regular review, this year and every year.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of the resolutions
passed that do not constitute ordinary business at an annual
general meeting will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism
and will be available for viewing at
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism .
The results will also be made available on the Company's website
at www.britvic.com/investors/shareholder-centre/agm .
Clare Thomas
Company Secretary
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