Result of AGM

RNS Number : 9750J

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

23 July 2013

 



23 July 2013

Result of AGM

The Annual General Meeting of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc was held at 50 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3DP on Tuesday 23 July 2013.

All 10 resolutions put to the members were passed on a show of hands.  Resolutions 1 to 7 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 8 to 10 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	99.4%	<0.1%	0.6%
2	Approve Directors Remuneration Report	99.5%	<0.1%	0.5%
3	Approve the final dividend	99.9%	<0.1%	<0.1%
4	Re-elect Wendy Pallot	99.9%	<0.1%	<0.1%
5	Re-elect Jeremy Wilson	99.9%	<0.1%	<0.1%
6	Reappoint Baker Tilly	99.4%	<0.1%	0.6%
7	Authority to allot ordinary shares	99.9%	<0.1%	<0.1%
8	Disapplication of pre-emption rights	99.2%	<0.1%	0.7%
9	Authority to purchase ordinary shares	99.9%	<0.1%	<0.1%
10	Approval to call general meeting at reduced notice	97.8%	<0.1%	2.1%

The numbers of proxy votes lodged for each resolution:

Resolution	In favour	Discretion	Against	Withheld*
1	45,984,573	11,776	265,456	1,748,082
2	45,982,873	11,776	228,107	1,787,131
3	46,252,029	11,776	0	1,746,082
4	46,235,661	14,128	9,804	1,750,294
5	46,238,065	14,128	5,195	1,752,499
6	45,970,984	14,578	272,031	1,752,294
7	46,232,129	14,620	12,500	1,750,638
8	45,900,334	16,972	338,348	1,754,233
9	46,204,297	14,620	24,848	1,766,122
10	45,263,753	16,972	981,080	1,748,082

* 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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