Smiths News PLC Result of AGM
January 31 2024 - 6:55AM
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Smiths News PLC
31 January 2024
31 January 2024
SMITHS NEWS PLC
Result of 2024 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
votes
|
%
|
No. of
votes
|
%
|
No. of
votes
|
|
1
|
To receive the Annual Report and
Accounts for the 52-week period ended 26 August 2023
|
144,040,479
|
100.00%
|
3,223
|
0.00%
|
51,305
|
|
2
|
To approve the directors'
remuneration report for the 52-week period ended 26 August
2023
|
127,710,514
|
88.72%
|
16,243,992
|
11.28%
|
140,501
|
|
3
|
To declare a final
dividend
|
144,080,634
|
100.00%
|
0
|
0.00%
|
14,373
|
|
3
|
To re-elect David
Blackwood
|
139,957,926
|
97.21%
|
4,020,543
|
2.79%
|
116,538
|
|
5
|
To re-elect Jonathan
Bunting
|
143,792,368
|
99.82%
|
253,123
|
0.18%
|
49,516
|
|
6
|
To re-elect Denise Collis
|
132,924,709
|
99.52%
|
634,889
|
0.48%
|
10,535,409
|
|
7
|
To re-elect Michael Holt
|
143,414,237
|
99.56%
|
632,332
|
0.44%
|
48,438
|
|
8
|
To re-elect Mark
Whiteling
|
143,414,363
|
99.56%
|
627,737
|
0.44%
|
52,907
|
|
9
|
To re-elect Paul Baker
|
143,806,192
|
99.83%
|
247,298
|
0.17%
|
41,517
|
|
10
|
To elect Deborah Rabey
|
143,900,095
|
99.90%
|
143,006
|
0.10%
|
51,906
|
|
11
|
To re-appoint the auditor
|
144,035,126
|
99.98%
|
25,259
|
0.02%
|
34,622
|
|
12
|
To authorise the Audit Committee to
determine the auditor's remuneration
|
143,961,402
|
99.98%
|
26,749
|
0.02%
|
106,856
|
|
13
|
Authority to make political
donations
|
108,529,201
|
99.43%
|
620,971
|
0.57%
|
34,944,835
|
|
14
|
Authority to allot shares
|
133,186,343
|
92.46%
|
10,866,310
|
7.54%
|
42,354
|
|
15
|
Authority to partially disapply
pre-emption rights*
|
143,364,512
|
99.56%
|
628,660
|
0.44%
|
101,835
|
|
16
|
Authority to make market purchases
of ordinary shares*
|
143,936,766
|
99.90%
|
144,595
|
0.10%
|
13,646
|
|
17
|
Authority to call general meetings
(other than the AGM) on 14 clear days' notice*
|
119,371,416
|
99.77%
|
276,591
|
0.23%
|
24,447,000
|
* 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 144,081,361 shares,
representing 58.18% of the 247,659,200 issued share capital of the
Company, being the total number of shares in issue at 6.30pm on
30th January 2024.
5.
The full text of all of the resolutions is set out
in the Notice of AGM dated 4 December 2023 which is available on
the Company's website. Resolutions 15, 16 and 17 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 14, 15, 16 and 17, 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 https://www.smithsnews.co.uk/investor-zone
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