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Unilever PLC

AGM Information May 5, 2022

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UNILEVER PLC

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

ALL RESOLUTIONS APPROVED

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.

BOARD APPOINTMENTS

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.

POLL RESULTS - ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 4 MAY 2022

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
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

NOTES:

  • The 'For' vote includes votes given at the Chairman's discretion and details of proxy votes cast are included in the table above.
  • As at 2.30pm on 2 May 2022 the total number of issued ordinary shares of Unilever PLC was 2,629,243,772. Of those ordinary shares, 70,256,699 were held as treasury shares and 3,305,603 ordinary shares (including ordinary shares represented by Unilever PLC ADSs) were held by or on behalf of companies in the Unilever Group (the "Unilever Group Shares"). The voting rights attaching to the Unilever Group Shares are not exercisable. Therefore, as at 2.30pm on 2 May 2022, the total number of Unilever PLC ordinary shares with exercisable voting rights was 2,555,681,470.

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

Safe Harbour:

This announcement may contain forward-looking statements, including 'forward-looking statements' within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as 'will', 'aim', 'expects', 'anticipates', 'intends', 'looks', 'believes', 'vision', or the negative of these terms and other similar expressions of future performance or results, and their negatives, are intended to identify such forward-looking statements.

These forward-looking statements are based upon current expectations and assumptions regarding anticipated developments and other factors affecting the Unilever Group (the 'Group'). They are not historical facts, nor are they guarantees of future performance or outcomes. Because these forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this announcement. Except as required by any applicable law or regulation, the Group expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect any change in the Group's expectations with regard thereto or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based.

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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