Result of AGM

RNS Number : 6232E

British Land Co PLC

19 July 2016

 

RESULT OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The British Land Company PLC (the 'Company') announces that all resolutions were passed by

shareholders at the Annual General Meeting ('AGM') held earlier today. The results of the poll are

set out in the table below and will also be available on the Company's website:

www.britishland.com/investors/shareholder-centre/agm/2016 .

Votes were cast for a total of 756,267,780 ordinary shares of the Company, representing 73.47 per cent of the total number of votes capable of being cast at the AGM.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2 copies of the resolutions relating to special business (resolutions 18 to 25) will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

RESOLUTION	VOTES				Withheld1
	For	As % of votes cast	Against	As % of votes cast
1. To receive the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2016	748,720,369	99.26	5,550,463	0.74	2,237,462
2. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report	715,113,263	96.01	29,690,657	3.99	11,704,372
3. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy	727,144,638	97.13	21,494,166	2.87	7,869,489
4. To re-elect Aubrey Adams as a Director	756,116,267	99.98	116,620	0.02	275,407
5. To re-elect Lucinda Bell as a Director	753,233,314	99.62	2,902,224	0.38	372,756
6. To re-elect Simon Borrows as a Director	756,073,880	99.98	162,048	0.02	272,366
7. To re-elect John Gildersleeve as a Director	754,665,435	99.79	1,565,850	0.21	277,009
8. To re-elect Lynn Gladden as a Director	755,930,854	99.96	302,035	0.04	275,405
9. To re-elect Chris Grigg as a Director	754,668,127	99.79	1,564,804	0.21	275,363
10. To re-elect William Jackson as a Director	755,893,317	99.96	339,320	0.04	275,657
11. To re-elect Charles Maudsley as a Director	753,336,244	99.62	2,896,956	0.38	275,094
12. To re-elect Tim Roberts as a Director	753,338,506	99.62	2,894,677	0.38	275,111
13. To re-elect Tim Score as a Director	756,179,859	99.99	50,773	0.01	277,662
14. To re-elect Lord Turnbull as a Director	727,020,756	96.97	22,685,865	3.03	6,801,672
15. Tore- elect Laura Wade- Gery as a Director	755,912,182	99.97	216,243	0.03	379,869
16. To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the auditor of the Company	754,249,702	99.73	2,018,078	0.27	240,514
17. To authorise the Directors to agree the auditor's remuneration	753,897,842	99.69	2,343,483	0.31	266,969
18. To authorise the payment of scrip dividends	755,596,945	100.00	35,306	0.00	876,043
19. To authorise the Company to make limited political donations and political expenditure of not more than £20,000 in total	746,960,749	99.37	4,725,748	0.63	4,821,796
20. To authorise amendments to the Long-Term Incentive Plan	744,210,248	98.58	10,682,672	1.42	1,615,373
21. To authorise the Directors to allot shares up to a limited amount	684,840,176	90.56	71,399,884	9.44	268,234
22. To authorise the Directors to allot shares and sell treasury shares for cash, without making a pre-emptive offer to shareholders2	744,123,246	99.20	6,032,147	0.80	6,352,901
23. To authorise the Directors to allot additional shares and sell treasury shares for cash, without making a pre-emptive offer to shareholders in line with recommendations of the Pre-Emption Group 2	731,266,314	97.47	18,948,265	2.53	6,293,714
24. To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares2	746,384,523	99.29	5,339,030	0.71	4,784,741
25. To authorise the calling of general meetings (not being an AGM) by notice of not less than 14 clear days2	622,705,812	82.85	128,890,697	17.15	4,911,785

¹ A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes for and against each resolution.

² These resolutions were proposed as Special Resolutions.

Enquiries:

Company Secretariat

Heledd Hanscomb, British Land                                                020 7467 2852

York House, 45 Seymour Street, London W1H 7LX

 

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