Sage Group PLC

Declaration of Voting Results & Voting Rights Announcements • Feb 25, 2020

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Sage Group PLC

25 February 2020

RESULTS OF 2020 AGM

The Sage Group plc.

25 February 2020

The Sage Group plc. ("Sage") announces that all resolutions proposed to shareholders at its Annual General Meeting (AGM) held on 25 February 2020 were carried by the requisite majority on a poll.

The following table shows the votes cast for and against each resolution and the number of votes withheld:

	Resolution	Votes For	%	Votes Against	%	Total votes	% of total voting rights voted	Votes withheld
1.	Receive the Annual Report and Accounts	909,484,401	99.96	364,373	0.04	909,848,774	83.35%	1,433,987
2.	Approve the Directors' Remuneration Report	833,078,963	98.30	14,432,659	1.70	847,511,622	77.64%	63,771,140
3.	Declare a final dividend	910,954,852	100.00	1,382	0.00	910,956,234	83.45%	326,528
4.	Elect Dr J Bates	910,656,699	99.97	284,262	0.03	910,940,961	83.45%	341,801
5.	Elect Mr J Bewes	910,651,496	99.97	288,534	0.03	910,940,030	83.45%	342,732
6.	Elect Ms A Court	910,741,026	99.98	200,059	0.02	910,941,085	83.45%	341,677
7.	Re-elect Sir D Brydon	882,774,460	97.49	22,686,155	2.51	905,460,615	82.95%	5,822,146
8.	Re-elect Mr D Hall	890,764,834	98.23	16,096,172	1.77	906,861,006	83.08%	4,421,756
9.	Re-elect Mr S Hare	902,080,389	99.03	8,860,313	0.97	910,940,702	83.45%	342,060
10.	Re-elect Mr J Howell	901,675,046	98.98	9,269,805	1.02	910,944,851	83.45%	337,911
11.	Re-elect Ms C Keers	902,275,556	99.05	8,668,564	0.95	910,944,120	83.45%	338,642
12.	Re-appoint the Auditors	910,855,312	100.00	44,745	0.00	910,900,057	83.45%	382,705
13.	Authority to determine the Auditors' remuneration	910,914,059	100.00	32,423	0.00	910,946,482	83.45%	336,280
14.	Political Donations	898,175,449	98.95	9,529,211	1.05	907,704,660	83.16%	3,578,102
15.	Authority to allot new shares	888,362,570	97.52	22,567,521	2.48	910,930,091	83.45%	352,671
16.	General authority to disapply pre-emption rights*	910,742,067	99.99	130,526	0.01	910,872,593	83.45%	410,169
17.	Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights*	898,409,753	98.64	12,424,131	1.36	910,833,884	83.44%	448,877
18.	Authority to purchase own shares on market*	906,747,670	99.55	4,136,595	0.45	910,884,265	83.45%	398,496
19.	General meetings to be held on not less than 14 clear days' notice*	863,425,119	95.12	44,298,832	4.88	907,723,951	83.16%	3,558,811

NOTES:

1.   * Indicates a Special Resolution requiring 75% of votes cast to be carried.         

2.   All resolutions were passed.

3.   Votes "For" and "Against" are expressed as a percentage of votes cast.

4.   Votes "For" include discretionary votes given to the Chairman.

5.   A "Vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes "For" and "Against" a resolution.

6.   To view the full wording of the resolutions, please refer to the 2020 Notice of Annual General Meeting on Sage's website.

7.   At 6.30 pm on 21 February 2020, the total voting rights of Sage was 1,091,568,122. This is based on the issued share capital of 1,120,789,295 ordinary shares reduced by the number of treasury shares of 29,221,173.

In accordance with the UK Listing Authority's Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of all the resolutions passed as special resolutions (resolutions 16 to resolutions 19) have been submitted to the UK Listing Authority via the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection at

http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm.

A copy of the AGM results as shown above will also be made available on Sage's website.

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Name of contact:	Mohor Roy
Telephone number of contact:	+44(0) 191 294 3457

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