Result of AGM

RNS Number : 0254N

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

22 July 2014

 



Result of AGM

The Annual General Meeting of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc was held at 50 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3DP on Tuesday 22 July 2014.

All 18 resolutions put to the members were passed on a show of hands.  All resolutions were passed as ordinary resolutions except for resolutions 13, 14 and 15 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	99.9%	<0.1%	<0.1%
2	Approve the Remuneration Annual Report/ Statement	99.9%	<0.1%	<0.1%
3	Approve the Remuneration Policy	99.4%	<0.1%	0.6%
4	Approve the final dividend	99.9%	<0.1%	<0.1%
5	Elect Sir Anthony Salz	99.5%	<0.1%	0.5%
6	Elect Jill Jones	99.9%	<0.1%	<0.1%
7	Elect Stephen Page	99.9%	<0.1%	<0.1%
8	Re-elect Ian Cormack	99.5%	<0.1%	0.5%
9	Re-elect Richard Charkin	99.5%	<0.1%	0.5%
10	Re-elect Nigel Newton	99.3%	<0.1%	0.7%
11	Reappoint KPMG as external auditor	99.9%	<0.1%	<0.1%
12	Authority to allot ordinary shares	99.9%	<0.1%	<0.1%
13	Disapplication of pre-emption rights	99.3%	<0.1%	0.7%
14	Authority to purchase ordinary shares	99.9%	<0.1%	<0.1%
15	Approval to call a general meeting at reduced notice	97.3%	<0.1%	2.7%
16	Approve the 2014 Performance Share Plan	99.4%	<0.1%	0.6%
17	Approve the 2014 Company Share Option Plan	99.9%	<0.1%	<0.1%
18	Approve the 2014 Sharesave Plan	99.9%	<0.1%	0.1%

The numbers of proxy votes lodged for each resolution:

Resolution	In Favour	Discretion	Against	Withheld*
1	52,859,508	7,549	2,059	193
2	52,837,417	7,608	13,662	10,622
3	52,540,118	7,549	296,076	25,566
4	52,861,431	7,549	65	264
5	52,584,531	10,110	272,463	2,205
6	52,850,636	10,110	8,563	0
7	52,850,136	10,110	7,063	2,000
8	52,584,641	10,110	272,258	2,300
9	52,588,136	10,110	269,063	2,000
10	52,471,974	10,416	384,919	2,000
11	52,853,131	7,549	8,436	193
12	52,839,622	8,049	21,181	457
13	52,517,036	8,049	343,172	1,052
14	52,843,487	8,049	17,128	645
15	51,455,283	8,049	1,405,713	264
16	52,549,621	8,049	301,144	10,495
17	52,837,844	8,049	12,921	10,495
18	52,792,568	8,049	64,197	4,495

* 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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