William Hill PLC

Transaction in Own Shares • May 7, 2015

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William Hill PLC

07 May 2015

WILLIAM HILL PLC

Result of Annual General Meeting (AGM)

7 May 2015

William Hill PLC (LSE:WMH) announces the results of its Annual General Meeting (AGM) held today, Thursday 7 May 2015 at 11.00 am at the Cavendish Conference Centre, 22 Duchess Mews, London W1G 9DT. All resolutions as set out in the Notice of Meeting dated 6 March 2015 were duly passed on a show of hands. Each resolution was also supported by proxy votes received and the final proxy voting position by resolution is shown below. Any proxy votes which are at the discretion of the Chairman have been included in the "For" total.

Resolution		For	%	Against	%	Withheld
1	To receive the annual report and accounts	592,906,072	99.92	497,551	0.08	285,685
2	To approve the annual report on remuneration	586,568,233	99.56	2,570,863	0.44	4,551,802
3	To declare a final dividend	593,133,516	99.98	138,403	0.02	423,001
4	To elect James Henderson	589,132,985	99.28	4,259,953	0.72	301,983
5	To re-elect Gareth Davis	579,932,095	97.90	12,469,895	2.10	1,292,930
6	To re-elect Neil Cooper	588,973,680	99.26	4,416,951	0.74	304,289
7	To re-elect Sir Roy Gardner	588,722,806	99.21	4,665,500	0.79	306,615
8	To re-elect Georgina Harvey	589,134,460	99.28	4,263,925	0.72	296,536
9	To re-elect Ashley Highfield	588,745,998	99.22	4,639,479	0.78	309,444
10	To re-elect David Lowden	588,769,053	99.22	4,630,904	0.78	294,964
11	To re-elect Imelda Walsh	588,605,382	99.21	4,683,415	0.79	404,496
12	To re-appoint the Auditors	585,571,595	98.68	7,852,502	1.32	270,823
13	To authorise the directors to determine the auditors' remuneration	591,177,430	99.62	2,258,283	0.38	257,037
14	Authority for political donations and political expenditure	589,673,761	99.39	3,613,263	0.61	406,786
15	Authority to allot securities	538,557,322	90.78	54,698,350	9.22	439,249
16	Authority to disapply pre-emption rights	592,768,349	99.91	560,980	0.09	365,592
17	Authority to purchase own shares	593,206,368	99.97	204,550	0.03	283,983
18	Notice of General Meeting	550,286,163	92.73	43,148,236	7.27	260,522

A copy of the resolutions passed at the meeting, other than ordinary business, is being uploaded today to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for viewing at www.morningstar.com.

The proxy figures for the resolutions will also be displayed on the corporate website www.williamhillplc.com.

Enquiries:

William Hill PLC

Lyndsay Wright, Director of IR

Tel: +44 (0) 20 8918 3614

Brunswick

Simon Sporborg / Aideen Lee / Oliver Hughes   

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7404 5959

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