AGM Information • May 5, 2022
AGM Information
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Unilever PLC shareholders today approved all resolutions put to the 2022 Annual General Meeting. Voting was by poll on each resolution and the results are set out below.
The following directors stood for election or re-election and were duly elected or re-elected by the shareholders of Unilever PLC:
Nils Andersen, Judith Hartmann, Adrian Hennah, Alan Jope, Andrea Jung, Susan Kilsby, Ruby Lu, Strive Masiyiwa, Youngme Moon, Graeme Pitkethly and Feike Sijbesma.
| TOTAL VOTES FOR |
% | TOTAL VOTES AGAINST |
% | TOTAL VOTES CAST |
% OF SHARE CAPITAL VALIDLY CAST VOTED FOR AND AGAINST |
VOTES WITHHELD |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. To receive the Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 December |
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| 2021 2. To approve |
1,784,771,403 | 99.95% | 845,727 | 0.05% | 1,785,617,130 | 69.87% | 5,690,097 |
| the Directors' Remuneration Report |
1,653,105,110 | 92.52% | 133,616,656 | 7.48% | 1,786,721,766 | 69.91% | 4,585,321 |
| 3. To re-elect Mr N Andersen as a Non Executive Director |
1,650,208,767 | 92.24% | 138,827,869 | 7.76% | 1,789,036,636 | 70.00% | 2,267,306 |
| 4. To re-elect Dr J Hartmann as a Non Executive Director |
1,774,485,487 | 99.19% | 14,499,168 | 0.81% | 1,788,984,655 | 70.00% | 2,321,354 |
| 5. To re-elect Mr A Jope as an Executive Director |
1,724,961,069 | 96.39% | 64,568,113 | 3.61% | 1,789,529,182 | 70.02% | 1,778,490 |
| 6. To re-elect | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ms A Jung as | |||||||
| a Non | |||||||
| Executive | |||||||
| Director | 1,698,883,917 | 94.96% | 90,190,281 | 5.04% | 1,789,074,198 | 70.00% | 2,231,810 |
| 7. To re-elect | |||||||
| Ms S Kilsby | |||||||
| as a Non | |||||||
| Executive | |||||||
| Director | 1,774,007,079 | 99.16% | 15,061,832 | 0.84% | 1,789,068,911 | 70.00% | 2,237,098 |
| 8. To re-elect | |||||||
| Mr S | |||||||
| Masiyiwa as a | |||||||
| Non | |||||||
| Executive | |||||||
| Director | 1,769,253,409 | 98.90% | 19,723,543 | 1.10% | 1,788,976,952 | 70.00% | 2,329,056 |
| 9. To re-elect | |||||||
| Professor Y | |||||||
| Moon as a | |||||||
| Non | |||||||
| Executive | |||||||
| Director | 1,770,316,797 | 98.96% | 18,660,776 | 1.04% | 1,788,977,573 | 70.00% | 2,328,435 |
| 10. To re | |||||||
| elect Mr G | |||||||
| Pitkethly as | |||||||
| an Executive | |||||||
| Director | 1,723,474,854 | 96.34% | 65,559,756 | 3.66% | 1,789,034,610 | 70.00% | 2,252,435 |
| 11. To re | |||||||
| elect Mr F | |||||||
| Sijbesma as a | |||||||
| Non | |||||||
| Executive | |||||||
| Director | 1,769,656,458 | 98.92% | 19,339,706 | 1.08% | 1,788,996,164 | 70.00% | 2,309,845 |
| 12. To elect | |||||||
| Mr A Hennah | |||||||
| as a Non | |||||||
| Executive | |||||||
| Director | 1,767,022,039 | 98.77% | 21,955,381 | 1.23% | 1,788,977,420 | 70.00% | 2,328,588 |
| 13. To elect | |||||||
| Mrs R Lu as a | |||||||
| Non | |||||||
| Executive | |||||||
| Director | 1,777,112,750 | 99.34% | 11,895,279 | 0.66% | 1,789,008,029 | 70.00% | 2,297,929 |
| 14. To | |||||||
| reappoint | |||||||
| KPMG LLP as | |||||||
| Auditors of | |||||||
| the Company | 1,771,210,928 | 99.05% | 16,997,442 | 0.95% | 1,788,208,370 | 69.97% | 3,093,363 |
| 15. To | |||||||
| authorise the | |||||||
| Directors to | |||||||
| fix the | |||||||
| remuneration | |||||||
| of the Auditor | 1,778,622,006 | 99.42% | 10,297,215 | 0.58% | 1,788,919,221 | 70.00% | 2,384,951 |
| 16. To | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| authorise | |||||||
| Political | |||||||
| Donations and |
|||||||
| expenditure | 1,742,197,236 | 97.98% | 35,890,771 | 2.02% | 1,778,088,007 | 69.57% | 13,188,421 |
| 17. To renew | |||||||
| the authority | |||||||
| to Directors | |||||||
| to issue | |||||||
| shares | 1,689,544,033 | 94.43% | 99,633,679 | 5.57% | 1,789,177,712 | 70.01% | 2,130,961 |
| 18. To renew | |||||||
| the authority | |||||||
| to Directors | |||||||
| to disapply | |||||||
| pre-emption | |||||||
| rights 19. To renew |
1,756,444,950 | 98.28% | 30,741,777 | 1.72% | 1,787,186,727 | 69.93% | 4,114,524 |
| the authority | |||||||
| to Directors | |||||||
| to disapply | |||||||
| pre-emption | |||||||
| rights for the | |||||||
| purposes of | |||||||
| acquisitions | |||||||
| or capital | |||||||
| investments | 1,734,740,008 | 97.05% | 52,806,643 | 2.95% | 1,787,546,651 | 69.94% | 3,762,073 |
| 20. To renew | |||||||
| the authority | |||||||
| to the Company to |
|||||||
| purchase its | |||||||
| own shares | 1,768,051,750 | 98.90% | 19,745,781 | 1.10% | 1,787,797,531 | 69.95% | 3,507,271 |
| 21. To | |||||||
| shorten the | |||||||
| notice period | |||||||
| for General | |||||||
| Meetings | 1,617,343,217 | 91.97% | 141,172,318 | 8.03% | 1,758,515,535 | 68.81% | 31,733,892 |
A 'Vote withheld' is not a vote in law and will not be counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes 'for' and 'against' a resolution.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2 copies of all the resolutions passed, other than ordinary business, will be submitted to and available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism. A copy of the resolutions can also be found in the Chairman's Letter and Notice of Meeting which is available on our website: www.unilever.com/AGM
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Further details of potential risks and uncertainties affecting the Group are described in the Group's filings with the London Stock Exchange, Euronext Amsterdam and the US Securities and Exchange Commission, including in the Annual Report on Form 20-F 2021 and the Unilever Annual Report and Accounts 2021 available on our corporate website www.unilever.com.
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