Sage Group PLC

AGM Information • Feb 1, 2024

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Sage Group PLC

01 February 2024

RESULTS OF AGM

The Sage Group plc. ("Sage")

1 February 2024

Sage announces that all resolutions proposed to shareholders at its Annual General Meeting held on 1 February 2024 (the "AGM") 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:

	Resolutions	Votes For	Percent of votes cast for	Votes Against	Percent of votes cast against	Total votes cast (excluding votes withheld)	Percent of total voting rights voted (excluding votes withheld)	Votes withheld
1.	Receive the Annual Report and Accounts	821,132,090	100.00%	8,949	0.00%	821,141,039	80.73	989,933
2.	Approve the Directors' Remuneration Report	805,495,629	98.30%	13,958,246	1.70%	819,453,875	80.56	2,677,096
3.	Declare a final dividend	817,117,436	99.42%	4,801,302	0.58%	821,918,738	80.80	212,233
4.	Elect Ms R Donnelly	821,519,159	99.97%	210,348	0.03%	821,729,507	80.79	401,465
5.	Re-elect Mr A Duff	811,915,688	98.81%	9,812,752	1.19%	821,728,440	80.79	402,532
6.	Re-elect Ms S Anand	821,210,650	99.94%	533,835	0.06%	821,744,485	80.79	386,487
7.	Re-elect Dr J Bates	821,220,498	99.94%	520,314	0.06%	821,740,812	80.79	390,160
8.	Re-elect Mr J Bewes	821,557,736	99.98%	181,868	0.02%	821,739,604	80.79	391,368
9.	Re-elect Ms M C Jones	821,597,637	99.98%	152,435	0.02%	821,750,072	80.79	380,900
10.	Re-elect Ms A Court	817,409,151	99.47%	4,345,208	0.53%	821,754,359	80.79	376,613
11.	Re-elect Mr D Harding	821,350,742	99.95%	390,284	0.05%	821,741,026	80.79	389,946
12.	Re-elect Mr S Hare	821,732,904	99.98%	139,957	0.02%	821,872,861	80.80	258,111
13.	Re-elect Mr J Howell	820,912,267	99.89%	931,323	0.11%	821,843,590	80.80	287,382
14.	Re-appoint the Auditors	818,448,430	99.59%	3,395,470	0.41%	821,843,900	80.80	287,072
15.	Authority to determine the Auditors' remuneration	821,758,697	99.99%	110,034	0.01%	821,868,731	80.80	262,241
16.	Political Donations	812,421,272	99.24%	6,190,106	0.76%	818,611,378	80.48	3,519,594
17.	Authority to allot new shares	797,101,480	97.00%	24,665,772	3.00%	821,767,252	80.79	363,719
18.	To disapply pre-emption rights (general)*	732,459,728	89.14%	89,246,530	10.86%	821,706,258	80.78	424,714
19.	To disapply pre-emption rights (acquisition or specified capital investment)*	758,118,333	92.55%	61,047,505	7.45%	819,165,838	80.53	2,965,132
20.	Authority to purchase own shares on market*	818,545,693	99.60%	3,274,162	0.40%	821,819,855	80.79	311,117
21.	General meetings to be held on not less than 14 clear days' notice*	785,492,570	95.57%	36,369,526	4.43%	821,862,096	80.80	268,876

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 Chair.

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 Notice of 2024 Annual General Meeting on Sage's website at www.sage.com/investors.

7.   At 6.30pm on 30 January 2024, the total voting rights of Sage were 1,017,171,212.  This is based on the issued share capital of 1,086,162,282 ordinary shares reduced by the number of treasury shares of 68,991,070.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of all the resolutions passed as special resolutions (resolutions 18 to 21 inclusive) will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at:

https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism

A copy of the AGM results as shown above will also be made available on Sage's website at www.sage.com/investors.

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