Approval of New Long-Term Incentive Plan

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Cineworld Group plc
25 January 2021
 

 

Cineworld Group plc
25 January 2021

Cineworld Group plc

Approval of New Long-Term Incentive Plan

Cineworld Group plc (the "Company") announces that the resolutions proposed to approve the new Cineworld Group plc Long-Term Incentive Plan 2021 (the "Plan") and consequential amendments to the Company's Remuneration Policy were passed as ordinary resolutions at the General Meeting held earlier today.

Alicja Kornasiewicz, Chair of Cineworld Group plc, commented:

"We are pleased that the Plan has been supported by a wide range of our shareholders.  We carried out an extensive consultation with shareholders before proposing the Plan and made amendments to reflect their feedback.  We are grateful for the constructive manner in which they engaged with us and the time that they took to consider the proposal. 

We acknowledge that there were a significant number of votes cast against the Plan and the Board will continue to engage with shareholders on remuneration matters in the coming months in light of the feedback received during our consultation. "

The number of votes for and against the Resolutions, and the number of votes withheld, were as follows:

Resolution

For

Against

% of issued share capital voted

Votes withheld

Votes

%

Votes

%

1.  To approve the new Directors' Remuneration Policy

637,085,950

69.25%

282,835,313

30.75%

67.01%

168,554

2.  To approve the new Long-Term Incentive Plan

643,380,945

70.15%

273,724,194

29.85%

66.81%

176,138


Notes:

1)  The total number of shares in issue as at 25 January 2021 is 1,372,797,489.

2)  Percentages for and against are expressed as a proportion of the total votes cast.

3)  Where shareholders appointed the Chairman of the meeting as their proxy with discretion as to voting, those votes were cast in favour of the resolutions and are included in the total of those votes for.

4)  A 'vote withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes validly cast.

A copy of this announcement confirming the voting figures will be displayed shortly on the Company's website at www.cineworldplc.com.

For further details, please contact:

Cineworld Group plc


Media

Israel Greidinger

Nisan Cohen

Manuela Van Dessel

 

investors@cineworld.co.uk

8th Floor, Vantage London

Great West Road

Brentford

TW8 9AG

James Leviton

Rob Allen

cineworld-lon@finsbury.com

+44 (0)20 7251 3801

 


 

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