BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC

AGM Information • Jul 23, 2015

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

23 July 2015

23 July 2015

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ("Bloomsbury")

Results of voting on resolutions at the AGM

All nine resolutions put to the members were passed on a show of hands.  All resolutions were passed as ordinary resolutions except for resolution 8 and resolution 9, which were passed as special resolutions.

Copies of all resolutions passed at the meeting other than as ordinary business are being submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do.  

Percentages of proxy votes lodged in advance of the meeting:

	Resolution	In Favour	Discretion	Against
1	Receive the report and account	99.3%	0.8%	0%
2	Approve the Remuneration Annual Report/ Statement	99.0%	0.8%	0.2%
3	Approve the final dividend	99.3%	0.7%	0%
4	Re-elect Wendy Pallot	99.2%	0.7%	<0.1%
5	Reappoint KPMG as external auditor	99.2%	0.7%	<0.1%
6	Authorise Directors to set the auditor's remuneration	99.2%	0.7%	<0.1%
7	Authority to allot ordinary shares	99.2%	0.7%	<0.1%
8	Disapplication of pre-emption rights	95.9%	0.8%	3.4%
9	Authority to purchase ordinary shares	99.2%	0.8%	<0.1%

The numbers of proxy votes lodged for each resolution:

Resolution	In Favour	Discretion	Against	Withheld*
1	56,368,041	426,787	0	7,500
2	56,237,240	428,387	127,001	9,700
3	56,380,641	419,687	0	2,000
4	56,271,516	421,448	9,100	100,264
5	56,366,335	419,387	14,342	2,264
6	56,369,808	419,387	11,133	2,000
7	56,251,177	420,187	23,464	107,500
8	54,466,101	427,587	1,903,451	5,189
9	56,344,322	427,587	30,155	264

* A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes in favour, discretionary or against a resolution.

Michael Daykin

Group Company Secretary

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

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