Result of AGM

RNS Number : 9315T
Johnson Matthey PLC
23 July 2020
 

23rd July 2020

 

Johnson Matthey Plc

(the Company)

 

Result of Annual General Meeting

 

The Company announces that at today's Annual General Meeting all resolutions were passed on a poll. The result of the poll is set out below.

Resolution

For

%*

Against

%*

Votes Total

% of Issued Share Capital

Votes Withheld**

1.  To receive the Company's accounts for the year ended 31st March 2020.

146,861,122

99.94

20,627

0.01

146,951,097

75.93

2,834,351

2.  To approve the directors' remuneration report for the year ended 31st March 2020.

140,192,977

93.94

8,966,820

6.01

149,230,420

77.11

555,780

3.  To approve the directors' remuneration policy.

126,978,681

85.66

21,183,260

14.29

148,233,329

76.59

1,552,871

4.  To amend the company's Performance Share Plan Rules.

133,334,828

89.04

16,338,701

10.91

149,745,232

77.37

40,968

5.  To declare a final dividend of 31.125 pence per share on the ordinary shares.

149,051,027

99.52

656,005

0.44

149,773,406

77.39

12,795

6.  To elect Mr DR Webb as a director of the company.

 

148,402,128

99.10

1,279,577

0.85

149,756,189

77.38

30,012

7.  To re-elect Dr JV Griffiths as a director of the company.

 

149,470,518

99.81

212,941

0.14

149,756,811

77.38

29,390

8.  To re-elect Ms X Liu as a director of the company.

 

149,185,585

99.62

498,285

0.33

149,757,222

77.38

28,979

9.  To re-elect Mr RJ MacLeod as a director of the company.

 

147,462,003

98.47

2,223,569

1.48

149,760,056

77.38

26,145

10.  To re-elect Mrs AO Manz as a director of the company.

 

147,778,317

99.35

893,429

0.60

148,745,098

76.86

1,041,103

11.  To re-elect Mr CJ Mottershead as a director of the company.

 

147,262,712

98.33

2,421,805

1.62

149,759,001

77.38

27,200

12.  To re-elect Mr J O'Higgins as a director of the company.

 

148,396,680

99.09

1,285,821

0.86

149,756,985

77.38

29,216

13.  To re-elect Mr P Thomas as a director of the company.

 

143,047,945

95.52

6,633,462

4.43

149,755,954

77.38

30,247

14.  To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditor for the forthcoming year.

147,813,670

98.70

1,877,069

1.25

149,764,398

77.38

21,803

15.  To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the remuneration of the auditor.

 

147,829,845

98.71

1,864,127

1.24

149,767,298

77.39

18,903

16.  To authorise the company and its subsidiaries to make political donations and incur political expenditure within certain limits.

 

143,167,071

95.60

6,524,816

4.36

149,760,450

77.38

25,751

17.  To authorise the directors to allot shares.

129,641,193

86.56

20,066,157

13.40

149,777,113

77.39

9,086

18.  To disapply the statutory pre-emption rights attaching to shares.***

148,010,693

99.63

470,514

0.32

148,553,693

76.76

1,232,487

19.  To disapply the statutory pre-emption rights attaching to shares in connection with an acquisition or other capital investment.***

 

144,831,943

97.49

3,655,012

2.46

148,556,458

76.76

1,229,742

20. To authorise the company to make market purchases of its own shares.***

 

144,088,603

96.33

5,415,987

3.62

149,572,413

77.29

213,787

21. To authorise the Company to call general meetings other than annual general meetings on not less than 14 clear days' notice.***

 

134,896,366

90.07

14,801,902

9.88

149,770,561

77.39

15,640

 

*  Figures shown are percentages of total votes cast excluding votes withheld

**   A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes for or against a resolution

***  Special Resolutions

The total number of voting rights was 193,533,430 Ordinary Shares of 11049/53 pence.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, a copy of all resolutions passed as special business will shortly be available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism document viewing facility at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism .

ENDS

 

Enquiries:



Investor Relations

Martin Dunwoodie

Louise Curran

Jane Crosby

 

Director of Investor Relations

Senior Investor Relations Manager

Investor Relations Manager

 

020 7269 8241

020 7269 8235

020 7269 8242

 

Media

Sally Jones

Simon Pilkington

 

 

Director of Corporate Relations

Tulchan Communications

 

 

020 7269 8407

020 7353 4200

 

 

Johnson Matthey Plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange (JMAT)

Registered in England & Wales number: 00033774
Legal Entity Identifier number: 2138001AVBSD1HSC6Z10

 


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