Results of the 2021 Annual General Meeting

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
21 July 2021
 

21 July 2021

 

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (the "Company")

 

Results of the 2021 Annual General Meeting

 

 

The Company held its Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 21 July 2021. All the resolutions put to shareholders were duly passed on a show of hands. Resolutions 1 to 13 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 14 to 16 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 2021, together with the Report of the Directors and the report of the Auditor thereon.

 

53,967,112

99.99

75

0.01

24,016

 

53,967,187

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 2021.

 

52,831,777

98.96

556,752

1.04

602,674

 

53,388,529

3. To approve a special dividend of 9.78p per Ordinary share

 

53,977,716

99.99

3,170

0.01

10,317

 

53,980,886

4. To declare a final dividend of 7.58p per Ordinary share

 

53,977,716

99.99

3,170

0.01

10,317

 

53,980,886

5. To re-appoint Steven Hall as a Director of the Company.

 

53,963,049

99.98

9,151

0.02

19,003

 

53,972,200

6. To re-appoint Sir Richard Lambert as a Director of the Company.

 

53,931,321

99.92

45,103

0.08

14,779

 

53,976,424

7. To re-appoint Nigel Newton as a Director of the Company.

 

53,906,012

99.88

65,412

0.12

19,779

 

53,971,424

8. To re-appoint Leslie-Ann Reed as a Director.

 

53,946,992

99.95

25,832

0.05

18,379

53,972,824

9. To re-appoint Penny Scott-Bayfield as a Director.

 

53,954,288

99.97

18,536

0.03

18,379

 

53,972,824

10. To appoint Baroness Lola Young of Hornsey as a Director.

 

53,961,157

99.97

16,667

0.03

13,379

 

53,977,824

11. To re-appoint KPMG LLP as Auditor of the Company.

 

53,961,744

99.97

17,028

0.03

12,431

 

53,978,772

12. To authorise the Directors to determine the auditors' remuneration.

 

53,962,025

99.98

11,894

0.02

17,284

 

53,973,919

13. To authorise the Directors to allot shares.

 

53,870,936

99.80

107,105

0.20

13,162

 

53,978,041

14. To authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights.

 

53,954,576

99.96

23,465

0.04

13,162

 

53,978,041

15. To authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights regarding acquisition/investment.

 

53,708,576

99.51

266,370

0.49

16,257

 

53,974,946

16. To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares.

 

52,379,300

99.96

18,979

0.04

1,592,924

 

52,398,279

 

 

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 19 July 2021, 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

 

 

 

 

Maya Abu-Deeb
Group General Counsel & Company Secretary
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Telephone:   +44(0)20 7631 5600

Email:   maya.abu-deeb@bloomsbury.com

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