Sage Group PLC

AGM Information • Feb 6, 2025

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Sage Group PLC (The)

06 February 2025

RESULTS OF AGM

The Sage Group plc. ("Sage")

6 February 2025

Sage announces that all resolutions proposed to shareholders at its Annual General Meeting held on 6 February 2025 (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	V otes 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	809,855,256	99.98%	125,395	0.02%	809,980,651	81.17	4,946,594
2.	Approve the Directors' Remuneration Report	789,980,030	97.00%	24,471,358	3.00%	814,451,388	81.62	475,856
3.	Approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy	655,779,523	80.72%	156,636,696	19.28%	812,416,219	81.41	2,511,025
4.	Declare a final dividend	814,430,319	99.99%	100,373	0.01%	814,530,692	81.62	396,553
5.	Re-elect Mr A Duff	801,314,236	98.39%	13,127,828	1.61%	814,442,064	81.61	485,181
6.	Re-elect Dr J Bates	810,970,893	99.57%	3,470,095	0.43%	814,440,988	81.61	486,257
7.	Re-elect Mr J Bewes	801,940,182	98.47%	12,499,262	1.53%	814,439,444	81.61	487,801
8.	Re-elect Ms M C Jones	814,384,751	99.99%	51,128	0.01%	814,435,879	81.61	491,366
9.	Re-elect Ms A Court	810,841,446	99.56%	3,594,580	0.44%	814,436,026	81.61	491,219
10.	Re-elect Ms R Donnelly	809,120,712	99.61%	3,199,771	0.39%	812,320,483	81.40	2,606,762
11.	Re-elect Mr D Harding	814,070,519	99.95%	376,239	0.05%	814,446,758	81.61	480,487
12.	Re-elect Mr S Hare	813,435,198	99.87%	1,042,468	0.13%	814,477,666	81.62	449,579
13.	Re-elect Mr J Howell	810,743,026	99.54%	3,737,661	0.46%	814,480,687	81.62	446,558
14.	Appoint KPMG LLP as auditor	811,962,514	99.69%	2,517,427	0.31%	814,479,941	81.62	447,304
15.	Authority to determine the auditor's remuneration	814,500,186	100.00%	19,131	0.00%	814,519,317	81.62	407,928
16.	Political Donations	805,813,970	99.31%	5,600,761	0.69%	811,414,731	81.31	3,512,515
17.	The Sage Group plc. Long Term Incentive Plan	797,796,609	97.95%	16,693,995	2.05%	814,490,604	81.62	436,641
18.	Removal of discretionary plan 5% dilution limit for share plans	810,841,235	99.55%	3,637,889	0.45%	814,479,124	81.62	448,121
19.	Authority to allot new shares	776,971,585	95.39%	37,518,930	4.61%	814,490,515	81.62	436,729
20.	Authority to disapply pre-emption rights (general)*	674,549,478	82.82%	139,923,923	17.18%	814,473,401	81.62	453,843
21.	Authority to disapply pre-emption rights (acquisition or specified capital investment)*	658,241,842	80.87%	155,661,049	19.13%	813,902,891	81.56	1,024,353
22.	Authority to purchase own shares on market*	811,258,001	99.61%	3,186,611	0.39%	814,444,612	81.61	482,632
23.	General meetings to be held on not less than 14 clear days' notice*	788,190,786	96.77%	26,326,113	3.23%	814,516,899	81.62	410,345

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 2025 Annual General Meeting on Sage's website at www.sage.com/investors .

7.   At 6.30pm on 4 February 2025, the total voting rights of Sage were 997,918,749. This is based on the issued share capital of 1,059,657,520 ordinary shares reduced by the number of treasury shares of 61,738,771.

In accordance with UKLR 6.4.2, copies of all the resolutions passed as special resolutions (resolutions 20 to 23 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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