Results of the 2023 Annual General Meeting

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

18 July 2023

 

Results of the 2023 Annual General Meeting

18 July 2023

The Company held its Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 18 July 2022. All the resolutions put to shareholders were duly passed on a show of hands. Resolutions 1 to 13 and 17 and 18, were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 14 to 16 and 19 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 2023, together with the Report of the Directors and the report of the Auditor thereon.	57,757,256	100	0	0.00	10,956	57,757,256
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 2023.	57,055,315	99.31	398,514	0.69	314,383	57,453,829
3. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy.	55,661,670	97.07	1,682,662	2.93	423,880	57,344,332
4. To declare a final dividend of 10.34p per Ordinary share.	57,767,655	100	0	0	557	57,767,655
5. To re-elect John Bason as a Director of the Company.	56,966,567	98.63	792,202	1.37	9,443	57,758,769
6. To re-elect Sir Richard Lambert as a Director of the Company.	56,951,743	98.60	807,026	1.40	9,443	57,758,769
7. To re-elect Nigel Newton as a Director of the Company.	56,918,452	98.54	841,902	1.46	7,858	57,760,354
8. To re-elect Leslie-Ann Reed as a Director.	56,952,918	98.61	805,305	1.39	9,989	57,758,223
9. To re-elect Penny Scott-Bayfield as a Director.	57,752,658	99.99	7,696	0.01	7,858	57,760,354
10. To re-elect Baroness Lola Young of Hornsey as a Director.	57,270,521	99.15	489,833	0.85	7,858	57,760,354
11. To re-appoint Crowe U.K. LLP as Auditor of the Company.	57,748,412	99.99	7,636	0.01	12,164	57,756,048
12. To authorise the Directors to determine the auditors' remuneration.	57,757,486	99.99	7,237	0.01	3,489	57,764,723
13. To authorise the Directors to allot shares.	57,717,322	99.93	39,198	0.07	11,692	57,756,520
14. To authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights.	57,696,438	99.90	56,074	0.10	15,700	57,752,512
15. To authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights regarding acquisition/investment.	50,550,831	90.06	5,581,446	9.94	1,635,935	56,132,277
16. To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares.	56,813,379	99.98	12,132	0.02	942,701	56,825,511
17. To approve the 2023 Executive Share Plan	57,707,410	99.92	49,008	0.08	11,794	57,756,418
18. To approve the 2023 Sharesave Plan	57,739,004	99.97	18,516	0.03	10,692	57,757,520
19. To amend the Articles of Association	57,742,608	99.97	19,866	0.03	5,738	57,762,474

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 Friday 14 July 2023, 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. 

For further information, please contact:

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Maya Abu-Deeb, Group General Counsel & Company Secretary	[e-mail]
Hudson Sandler	[phone]
Dan de Belder / Amelia Craddock / Emily Brooker	[e-mail]

 

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