Result of AGM

RNS Number : 9141Y

Mitchells & Butlers PLC

30 January 2014

 

Mitchells & Butlers plc (the "Company")

Result of Annual General Meeting

Mitchells & Butlers plc announces the results of the voting at the Company's Annual General Meeting on 30 January 2014 held at the International Convention Centre, Birmingham at 11.30am.  All Board Directors were in attendance.

All the resolutions were voted on by way of a poll and the results of each resolution are shown below.  All resolutions were duly approved.

RESOLUTIONS	VOTES FOR (a)	%	VOTES AGAINST	%	VOTES WITHHELD (b)
1 Receipt of accounts	352,318,351	99.97	95,328	0.03	14,308
2 Approval of remuneration report	349,102,726	99.87	457,965	0.13	2,867,296
3 Elect Stewart Gilliland	352,007,139	99.90	348,301	0.10	72,547
4 Elect Colin Rutherford	352,013,202	99.90	347,406	0.10	67,379
5 Elect Imelda Walsh	352,017,116	99.90	354,587	0.10	56,284
6 Re-elect Alistair Darby	351,618,579	99.78	759,228	0.22	50,180
7 Re-elect Eddie Irwin	323,924,858	95.11	16,668,961	4.89	11,834,168
8 Re-elect Bob Ivell	349,535,434	99.39	2,162,072	0.61	730,481
9 Re-elect Tim Jones	351,612,021	99.78	764,719	0.22	51,247
10 Re-elect Douglas McMahon	319,999,358	97.09	9,585,848	2.91	22,842,781
11 Re-elect Ron Robson	307,727,927	94.86	16,685,441	5.14	28,014,459
12 Reappointment of auditor	349,826,863	99.93	250,096	0.07	2,351,028
13 Auditor's remuneration	352,232,181	99.96	131,160	0.04	64,646
14 Political donations	351,734,234	99.84	569,568	0.16	124,185
15 Reduce notice of meetings (c)	346,175,547	98.25	6,168,163	1.75	81,076

NOTES:

(a) The "For" vote includes those giving the Chairman discretion.

(b) A vote "Withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes "For" or "Against" the resolution.

(c) Special resolution.

Votes "For" and "Against" are expressed as a percentage of votes received.

Voting was conducted by a poll.

The number of shares in issue at 11.30am on Tuesday 28 January 2014 was 411,401,148.

The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual General Meeting, which is available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM and also on the Company's website at www.mbplc.com

Denise Burton

Deputy Company Secretary

 

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