BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC

AGM Information • Jul 20, 2022

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

20 July 2022

20 July 2022

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (the "Company")

Results of the 2022 Annual General Meeting

The Company held its Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 20 July 2022. All the resolutions put to shareholders were duly passed on a show of hands. Resolutions 1 to 12 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 13 to 15 were passed as special resolutions.

Details of shareholders' proxy votes lodged in advance of the Annual General Meeting for each resolution are shown in the table below:

Resolutions	For and at discretion		Against		Votes Withheld	Total
Number	%	Number	%
1. To receive the audited accounts of the Company for the year ended 28 February 2022, together with the Report of the Directors and the report of the Auditor thereon.	54,397,707	100	0	0	14,270	54,397,707
2. To approve the Annual Statement by the Chair of the Remuneration Committee and the Annual Report on Directors' Remuneration for the year ended 28 February 2022.	53,340,868	98.92	584,006	1.08	487,103	53,924,874
3. To declare a final dividend of 9.40p per Ordinary share.	54,408,882	100	0	0	3,095	54,408,882
4. To elect John Bason as a Director of the Company.	44,220,429	95.94	1,871,976	4.06	8,319,572	46,092,405
5. To re-elect Sir Richard Lambert as a Director of the Company.	54,148,793	99.53	258,140	0.47	5,044	54,406,933
6. To re-elect Nigel Newton as a Director of the Company.	54,103,875	99.44	303,058	0.56	5,044	54,406,933
7. To re-elect Leslie-Ann Reed as a Director.	53,847,339	98.97	559,594	1.03	5,044	54,406,933
8. To re-elect Penny Scott-Bayfield as a Director.	54,403,677	99.99	3,256	0.01	5,044	54,406,933
9. To re-elect Baroness Lola Young of Hornsey as a Director.	54,159,612	99.55	247,321	0.45		54,406,933
10. To appoint Crowe U.K. LLP as Auditor of the Company.	54,400,784	99.99	5,935	0.01		54,406,719
11. To authorise the Directors to determine the auditors' remuneration.	54,403,622	99.99	3,311	0.01		54,406,933
12. To authorise the Directors to allot shares.	54,370,405	99.94	34,624	0.06		54,405,029
13. To authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights.	54,370,755	99.93	36,474	0.07		54,407,229
14. To authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights regarding acquisition/investment.	54,125,755	99.48	280,474	0.52		54,406,229
15. To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares.	53,009,479	99.98	13,199	0.02		53,022,678

NOTES:

1.    The 'For' vote includes those giving discretion to the Chair of the Meeting.

2.    A 'Vote Withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes 'For' and 'Against' a resolution.

3.    As at Monday 18 July 2022, there were 81,608,672 ordinary shares of 1.25 pence in issue.

4.    The full text of each of the resolutions is set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting which is available at the National Storage Mechanism https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism and on the Company's website at www.bloomsbury-ir.co.uk.

5.    In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of the resolutions passed at the meeting other than those considered as ordinary business, will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism. 

For further information, please contact:

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Maya Abu-Deeb, Group General Counsel & Company Secretary	maya.abu-deeb@bloomsbury.com
Hudson Sandler	+44 (0) 20 7796 4133
Dan de Belder / Hattie Dreyfus	bloomsbury@hudsonsandler.com

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