Result of AGM

RNS Number : 2959S

Barratt Developments PLC

17 November 2011

 



BARRATT DEVELOPMENTS PLC

 

RESULTS OF THE 2011 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Barratt Developments PLC (the "Company") held its fifty-third Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 16 November 2011, at the Royal College of Physicians, 11 St Andrews Place, Regent's Park, London NW1 4LE.

All resolutions put to the meeting were voted on by way of a poll and were passed by the shareholders. The results of the poll for each such resolution are shown below:

Poll Results

Resolution		Votes For (including Chairman's discretionary votes)		Votes Against		Votes Withheld	Total Votes Cast (excluding votes withheld)
		No. of Shares	% of shares voted	No. of Shares	% of shares voted	No. of Shares	No. of Shares	% of issued share capital
1.	To receive and consider the reports of the auditor and directors and the accounts for the year ended 30 June 2011.	483,346,809	99.99	43,102	0.01	22,124	483,389,911	50.06
2.	To re-elect Mr R A Lawson as a director.	479,134,510	99.13	4,189,276	0.87	88,249	483,323,786	50.06
3.	To re-elect Mr M S Clare as a director.	471,093,825	97.47	12,242,986	2.53	75,224	483,336,811	50.06
4.	To re-elect Mr D F Thomas as a director.	479,411,890	99.19	3,907,735	0.81	92,410	483,319,625	50.06
5.	To re-elect Mr S J Boyes as a director.	479,289,302	99.16	4,052,775	0.84	69,958	483,342,077	50.06
6.	To re-elect Mr C Fenton as a director.	479,308,152	99.17	4,028,363	0.83	75,520	483,336,515	50.06
7.	To re-elect Mr R J Davies as a director.	479,458,861	99.20	3,857,474	0.80	95,700	483,316,335	50.06
8.	To re-elect Miss T E Bamford as a director.	479,677,910	99.24	3,649,596	0.76	84,529	483,327,506	50.06
9.	To re-elect Mr R MacEachrane as a director.	479,500,644	99.21	3,820,018	0.79	91,373	483,320,662	50.06
10.	To re-elect Mr M E Rolfe as a director.	479,527,784	99.21	3,801,471	0.79	82,780	483,329,255	50.06
11.	To re-appoint Deloitte LLP as the auditor of the Company.	466,848,482	98.68	6,262,333	1.32	10,301,220	473,110,815	49.00
12.	To authorise the directors to fix the auditor's remuneration.	478,065,373	99.55	2,159,434	0.45	3,187,228	480,224,807	49.74
13.	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 30 June 2011.	454,522,661	97.14	13,402,157	2.86	15,487,217	467,924,818	48.46
14.	To authorise the Company to make political donations and incur political expenditure.	442,291,017	91.54	40,878,187	8.46	242,831	483,169,204	50.04
15.	To authorise the Board to allot shares and grant subscription/conversion rights over shares.	479,097,286	99.12	4,258,483	0.88	56,266	483,355,769	50.06
16.	To authorise the Board to allot equity securities.^	482,887,023	99.91	432,490	0.09	92,522	483,319,513	50.06
17.	To authorise the Board to make market purchases of its Ordinary Shares.^	466,701,473	98.00	9,503,900	2.00	7,206,662	476,205,373	49.32
18.	To allow the Company to hold general meetings, other than an annual general meeting, on not less than 14 clear days' notice.^	461,165,519	95.40	22,219,811	4.60	26,705	483,385,330	50.06

^ Indicates a special resolution requiring a 75% majority.

Issued share capital as at voting record date: 965,468,597.

Number of votes per share: one

Resolutions submitted to the National Storage Mechanism (the 'NSM')

Copies of all resolutions, other than those relating to ordinary business, passed at the meeting, (being Resolutions 15, 16, 17 and 18) have today been submitted to the NSM in accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2.

These resolutions will shortly be available for inspection at: www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do.

The poll results will also be available shortly on the Company's website www.barrattdevelopments.co.uk.

For further information please contact:

Barratt Developments PLC

Mark Clare, Group Chief Executive                                                                  

David Thomas, Group Finance Director                020 7299 4898

For media enquiries, please contact:

Barratt Developments PLC                                                                 

Dan Bridgett, Head of External Affairs                  020 7299 4873

Maitland                                                      

Liz Morley                                                         020 7379 5151

Neil Bennett                                                  

 

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