MARSTON'S PLC

Declaration of Voting Results & Voting Rights Announcements • Jan 21, 2014

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RNS Number : 1913Y

Marston's PLC

21 January 2014

Result of AGM

21 January 2014

Marston's PLC (the "Company") is pleased to announce that, at its Annual General Meeting held on 21 January 2014, all the resolutions proposed in the Notice of Meeting were passed on a show of hands.  Full details of the proxy votes received from shareholders prior to the meeting for each resolution are set out below and will also be made available on the Company's website: www.marstons.co.uk

A copy of the resolutions passed at the AGM that the Company considers to be non-routine business will be submitted to the UK Listing Authority's National Storage Mechanism and will be available to view at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do 

Resolution	Votes for	% of vote	Votes against	% of vote	Votes withheld
1) Annual Report and Accounts	100,216,524	100.00%	258	0.00%	9,295
2) Declare dividend	100,216,850	100.00%	336	0.00%	8,893
3) Elect Roger Devlin	99,860,327	99.66%	340,408	0.34%	25,344
4) Re-elect Andrew Andrea	100,008,442	99.81%	193,988	0.19%	23,647
5) Re-elect Nicholas Backhouse	99,322,919	99.71%	291,453	0.29%	611,706
6) Re-elect Rosalind Cuschieri	99,994,600	99.80%	207,432	0.21%	24,046
7) Re-elect Peter Dalzell	100,007,550	99.81%	194,659	0.19%	23,677
8) Re-elect Ralph Findlay	96,767,356	98.04%	1,935,939	1.96%	1,522,591
9) Re-elect Neil Goulden	99,997,403	99.80%	201,143	0.20%	27,341
10) Re-elect Robin Rowland	99,999,407	99.80%	200,336	0.20%	26,143
11) Re-appoint Auditors	99,090,160	99.47%	527,599	0.53%	608,319
12) Authorise Auditors' remuneration	99,789,468	99.58%	419,277	0.42%	17,333
13) Approve the Annual Report on Remuneration	97,393,542	99.78%	215,742	0.22%	2,616,794
14) Approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy	94,611,659	97.34%	2,588,801	2.66%	3,025,426
15) Approve the new Long Term Incentive Plan	96,477,659	97.37%	2,612,992	2.64%	1,135,427
16) Authority to allot shares	99,889,009	99.71%	280,614	0.28%	56,454
17) Disapplication of pre-emption rights	99,794,786	99.64%	362,269	0.36%	69,022
18) Authority to purchase of own shares	100,067,203	99.87%	134,766	0.13%	24,109
19) Short notice of general meetings	94,784,899	94.58%	5,429,669	5.42%	11,510

Notes:

(i)         Resolutions 1 to 16 were ordinary resolutions, requiring more than 50% of shareholder votes to be 'for' the resolutions.

(ii)         Resolutions 17 to 19 were special resolutions, requiring not less than 75% of shareholder votes to be 'for' the resolutions.

(iii)        Any proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Chairman have been included in the 'for' total.

(iv)        A 'vote withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes 'for' and 'against' a resolution.

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