Declaration of Voting Results & Voting Rights Announcements • Apr 24, 2025
Declaration of Voting Results & Voting Rights Announcements
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At the AGM held on 23 April 2025 at 2.30pm all resolutions proposed were passed on a poll. The resolutions proposed at the AGM can be found in the Notice of AGM which is available on the Company's website.
The following table indicates the number of votes cast on the poll at the meeting, including those votes cast by proxy in advance of the meeting for each resolution. It should be noted that votes withheld do not constitute votes in law. The number of ordinary shares in issue with voting rights at the date of the AGM was 377,963,649.
| Resolution | In favour & discretionary |
Against | Withheld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of | Number | Number of | ||
| shares | of shares | shares | ||
| 1 | To receive the Annual and adopt the | 134,254,720 | 210,175 | 62,303 |
| Company's Annual Financial Report for the year ended 31 December 2024 |
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| 2 | To re-elect Tim Scholefield as a Director |
133,576,676 | 800,637 | 149,885 |
| 3 | To re-elect Katya Thomson as a Director |
133,641,391 | 741,130 | 144,677 |
| 4 | To re-elect Neeta Patel as a Director | 133,614,466 | 761,686 | 151,046 |
| 5 | To re-elect Sam Davis as a Director |
133,671,608 | 710,173 | 145,417 |
| 6 | To elect Lucy Costa Duarte as a Director |
131,994,976 | 2,349,979 | 182,243 |
| 7 | To re-appoint Forvis Mazars LLP as auditor |
133,637,404 | 765,899 | 123,895 |
| 8 | To authorise the Directors to determine the remuneration of the auditor |
133,683,350 | 716,687 | 127,161 |
| 9 | To receive the Directors' Remuneration Implementation Report |
133,345,058 | 1,023,045 | 159,095 |
| 10 | To renew the authority to allot ordinary shares |
133,600,411 | 809,489 | 117,298 |
| 11 | To disapply pre-emption rights | 132,706,963 | 1,743,084 | 77,151 |
| 12 | To authorise the purchase of ordinary shares |
130,912,323 | 3,524,427 | 90,448 |
| 13 | Second authority to allot ordinary shares |
133,551,798 | 882,944 | 92,456 |
| 14 | Second authority to disapply pre emption rights. |
132,573,933 | 1,875,775 | 77,490 |
The above figures represent 36% of the issued share capital with voting rights.
At the AGM, Elisabeth Scott did not stand for re-election as a Director and retired at the conclusion of the meeting.
For further information please contact:
Kelly Nice Allianz Global Investors 020 3246 7000
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