Result of AGM

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Drax Group PLC
22 April 2020
 

22 April 2020

Drax Group plc

(Symbol: DRX)

 

Poll Results of the Annual General Meeting

 

Drax Group plc announces the results of the voting by poll on the resolutions put to its Annual General Meeting held today, Wednesday 22 April 2020.

 

 

No.

 

Brief Description

Votes For

%

Votes Against

%

Votes Total

Votes Withheld

1

To receive and adopt the annual report and the audited accounts

315,841,029

99.79%

 

 

 

662,661

0.21%

316,503,690

5,048,850

2

To approve the annual statement to shareholders by the Chair of the Remuneration Committee and the annual report on remuneration

317,761,152

98.82%

 

 

 

 

 

 

3,781,556

1.18%

321,542,708

9,833

3

To approve the Directors' remuneration policy

304,206,978

94.61%

 

 

17,334,456

5.39%

321,541,434

11,106

4

To approve the final dividend of 9.5 pence per share

321,408,346

99.96%

 

 

135,335

0.04%

321,543,681

8,860

5

To elect John Baxter as a Director of the Company

320,369,000

99.64%

 

 

1,168,973

0.36%

321,537,973

14,568

6

To re-elect Philip Cox as a Director of the Company

304,331,723

94.68%

 

 

17,087,314

5.32%

321,419,037

133,504

7

To re-elect Will Gardiner as a Director of the Company

316,011,293

98.28%

 

 

5,515,497

1.72%

321,526,790

25,750

8

To re-elect Nicola Hodson as a Director of the Company

306,026,837

95.18%

 

 

15,512,637

4.82%

321,539,474

13,067

9

To re-elect Andy Koss as a Director of the Company

Resolution Withdrawn(1)

 

10

To re-elect David Nussbaum as a Director of the Company

320,333,750

99.62%

 

 

1,208,464

0.38%

321,542,214

10,327

11

To re-elect Vanessa Simms as a Director of the Company

320,296,078

99.61%

 

 

1,246,492

0.39%

321,542,570

9,971

12

To re-elect Andy Skelton as a Director of the Company

313,910,195

97.63%

 

 

7,633,279

2.37%

321,543,474

9,067

13

To re-appoint Deloitte LLP as auditor

311,100,787

96.75%

 

 

10,445,791

3.25%

321,546,578

5,963

14

Authority to determine auditor's remuneration

319,858,723

99.48%

 

 

1,682,500

0.52%

321,541,223

11,318

15

Authority to make EU political donations to a specified limit

301,820,769

94.89%

 

 

16,245,327

5.11%

318,066,096

3,486,444

16

Authority to allot shares

310,899,473

96.69%

 

 

10,644,121

3.31%

321,543,594

8,947

17

Disapplication of pre-emption rights

313,236,460

97.42%

 

 

8,298,886

2.58%

321,535,346

17,195

18

Authority to purchase own shares

315,796,807

98.72%

 

 

4,109,232

1.28%

319,906,039

1,646,501

19

To approve the Drax Group plc Long Term Incentive Plan 2020 (the "LTIP")

313,970,514

97.65%

 

 

7,567,783

2.35%

321,538,297

14,243

20

Authority to call a General Meeting on not less than 14 days' notice (other than an AGM)

313,924,570

97.63%

 

 

 

7,624,723

2.37%

321,549,293

3,248

 

 

(1)  As announced on 8 April 2020, Andy Koss resigned as a Director of the Company on 7 April 2020 and accordingly resolution 9 was withdrawn.

 

Resolutions 1 to 8 and resolutions 10 to 19 were carried.

 

The Company's issued share capital consisted of  410,571,755 ordinary shares of 11 16/29 pence each, of which 13,841,295 ordinary shares are held in treasury. Treasury shares do not carry voting rights. Accordingly, the total number of voting rights in respect of these ordinary shares is 396,730,460.

 

 

 

 

Brett Gladden

Group Company Secretary

Drax Group plc

 

 

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