Result of AGM

Pennon Group PLC

20 July 2023

 

Pennon Group plc

Result of the Annual General Meeting held on 20 July 2023 at The Courtyard, Sandy Park, Sandy Park Way, Exeter, EX2 7NN at 11:00am

The Directors are pleased to announce that the shareholders of Pennon Group plc passed all the Resolutions which were set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting dated 19 June 2023.

Voting on all Resolutions was conducted by way of a poll and the below table shows the percentage of issued share capital voted for each.

A copy of each of the Resolutions passed by the Company, other than resolutions concerning ordinary business, will be submitted and made available for inspection on the National Storage Mechanism at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism 

A copy of this announcement will be posted on the Company's website at www.pennon-group.co.uk/investor-information/shareholder-services

	RESOLUTION	VOTES FOR	% FOR	VOTES AGAINST	% AGAINST	VOTES TOTAL	% SHARE CAPITAL VOTED	VOTES WITHHELD
1.	To receive and adopt for the annual reports and accounts for the year ended 31 March 2023	196,723,264	99.99	20,134	0.01	196,743,398	75.29%	152,747
2.	To declare a final dividend in respect of the year ended 31 March 2023	196,637,643	99.87	253,338	0.13	196,890,981	75.35%	5,164
3.	To approve the Directors' remuneration report	181,593,096	98.51	2,752,131	1.49	184,345,227	70.54%	12,550,917
4.	To approve the Directors' remuneration policy	184,315,576	93.63	12,532,068	6.37	196,847,644	75.33%	48,501
5.	To elect Dorothy Burwell as a Director	196,790,370	99.96	72,829	0.04	196,863,199	75.34%	32,946
6.	To elect Loraine Woodhouse as a Director	196,792,499	99.97	66,724	0.03	196,859,223	75.33%	36,922
7.	To re-elect Gill Rider as a Director	195,068,588	99.09	1,800,797	0.91	196,869,385	75.34%	26,760
8.	To re-elect Susan Davy as a Director	196,483,322	99.81	376,567	0.19	196,859,889	75.33%	36,256
9.	To re-elect Paul Boote as a Director	196,709,030	99.92	160,801	0.08	196,869,831	75.34%	26,314
10.	To re-elect Jon Butterworth as a Director	196,317,755	99.72	541,416	0.28	196,859,171	75.33%	36,974
11..	To re-elect Neil Cooper as a Director	196,312,853	99.72	545,415	0.28	196,858,268	75.33%	37,877
12.	To re-elect Iain Evans as a Director	177,159,867	89.99	19,704,679	10.01	196,864,546	75.34%	31,599
13.	To re-elect Claire Ighodaro as a Director	196,318,352	99.72	545,879	0.28	196,864,231	75.34%	31,914
14.	To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP as auditor of the Company	195,875,334	99.56	873,607	0.44	196,748,941	75.29%	147,204
15.	To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the remuneration of the auditor on behalf of the Board	196,735,361	99.93	140,130	0.07	196,875,491	75.34%	20,654
16.	To authorise the Company and its subsidiaries to make political donations up to a specified limit	196,270,017	99.69	605,269	0.31	196,875,286	75.34%	20,858
17.	To grant the Directors authority to allot shares	193,726,817	98.40	3,149,627	1.60	196,876,444	75.34%	19,701
18.	To consider and approve the Company's climate-related financial disclosures (as set out on pages 74-95 of the Annual Report)	174,174,189	90.25	18,816,575	9.75	192,990,764	73.85%	3,905,381
19.	To authorise the general disapplication of pre-emption rights	191,775,358	97.41	5,097,768	2.59	196,873,126	75.34%	23,019
20.	To authorise the disapplication of pre-emption rights in connection with an acquisition or specified capital investment	176,839,622	89.82	20,035,076	10.18	196,874,698	75.34%	21,447
21.	To authorise the market purchase of the Company's shares	196,055,618	99.62	738,680	0.38	196,794,298	75.31%	101,847
22.	To authorise that a general meeting, other than an AGM, may be called on not less than 14 clear day's notice	189,225,131	96.11	7,662,215	3.89	196,887,346	75.34%	8,799

Notes

i)      The total votes cast in favour of each resolution include those giving the Chair's discretion.

ii)     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" a resolution.

iii)    The total number of ordinary shares of 61.05p in issue at the meeting date was 261,310,967 ordinary shares, excluding 5,628 ordinary shares held in treasury. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company as at today's date is 261,310,967 shares.

20 July 2023

www.pennon-group.co.uk

 

END