Britvic PLC — AGM Information 2019

Jan 31, 2019

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Britvic plc

31 January 2019

31 January 2019

Britvic plc ("the Company")

Result of Annual General Meeting

Britvic plc (the "Company") announces that the following resolutions were duly passed at the Company's Annual General Meeting which was held at 11.00 a.m. on 31 January 2019 at Linklaters LLP, One Silk Street, London EC2Y 8HQ.  The results of the poll are as follows:

No.	Resolution	Total For(1)	%	Total Against	%	Votes Withheld(2)
Ordinary Resolutions
1.	Receive the Annual Report for 52 weeks ended 30 September 2018	201,518,808	99.98	38,594	0.02	340,079
2.	Declare a final dividend of 20.3p per share	201,777,760	99.94	118,097	0.06	1,426
3.	Consider and approve the directors' remuneration report for 52 weeks ended 30 September 2018	174,473,526	86.88	26,341,914	13.12	1,081,841
4.	Adopt the revised Articles of Association	200,468,401	99.30	1,414,792	0.70	14,091
5.	Re-election of John Daly as a director	187,765,724	93.04	14,046,798	6.96	84,761
6.	Re-election of Suniti Chauhan as a director	201,141,716	99.67	670,068	0.33	85,500
7.	Re-election of Sue Clark as a director	199,343,326	98.78	2,469,697	1.22	84,261
8.	Re-election of Mathew Dunn as a director	200,902,573	99.55	908,758	0.45	85,952
9.	Re-election of William Eccleshare as a director	197,626,991	97.95	4,128,184	2.05	142,108
10.	Re-election of Simon Litherland as a director	200,949,001	99.57	874,081	0.43	76,747
11.	Re-election of Ian McHoul as a director	193,678,368	95.97	8,133,540	4.03	85,375
12.	Re-election of Euan Sutherland as a director	200,579,704	99.39	1,230,343	0.61	87,236
13.	Re-appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as auditors	201,526,632	99.82	361,577	0.18	9,073
14.	Authority to Audit Committee to fix the remuneration of the auditors	201,869,420	99.99	21,297	0.01	6,566
15.	Authority to make political donations and incur political expenditure	199,463,671	98.80	2,417,923	1.20	15,689
16.	Authority to directors to allot     shares	171,273,823	84.84	30,611,417	15.16	12,043
17.	Authority to directors to issue shares for cash	192,484,481	99.44	1,084,739	0.56	8,328,063
18.	Authority to issue shares for cash in relation to an acquisition or other capital investment	175,755,693	90.80	17,817,626	9.20	8,326,509
19.	Authority to company to purchase own shares	201,503,342	99.90	203,547	0.10	190,393
20.	Authority to hold general meetings (other than AGMs) on 14 clear days' notice	177,270,030	87.81	24,619,850	12.19	7,403

The Company's issued share capital as at 29 January 2019 was 265,227,493 shares of 20 pence each.  76.12% of the issued share capital was instructed. 

(1)	Includes those votes giving the Chairman discretion
(2)	A 'vote withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of votes 'For' or 'Against' a resolution.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of the resolutions passed that do not constitute ordinary business at an annual general meeting will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for viewing at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm.

The results will also be made available on the Company's website at www.britvic.com/investors/shareholder-centre/agm.

Jonathan Adelman

Company Secretary

Britvic plc

Britvic plc Legal Entity Identifier: 635400L3NVMYD4BVCI53

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