Rathbone Brothers PLC : Result of AGM

RATHBONE BROTHERS PLC
RESULTS OF THE 2012 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
NOTIFICATION REQUIRED BY LISTING RULE 9.6.18

At the forty-first Annual General Meeting of the Company held at 1 Curzon Street, London, W1J 5FB on Thursday 10 May 2012, all the resolutions proposed (which were contained in the Notice of Meeting dated 30 March 2012) were passed on a show of hands. Resolutions 1 to 19 were ordinary resolutions and resolutions 20 to 22 were special resolutions.

The full text of the resolutions is set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting, a copy of which is on the Company's website at http://www.rathbones.com/investor-relations/governance/general-meetings. A copy has also been made available for inspection through the National Storage Mechanism which can be found at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

Details of proxy votes lodged in advance of the meeting are as follows:

Shares in issue at date of meeting:        43,814,995
Number of votes per share:        1

 

Resolution		For	Against	Vote withheld
1	To adopt the reports of the directors and the auditors and the audited financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2011	30,486,015	800	194,081
2	To approve the remuneration report for the year ended 31 December 2011	30,152,140	100,048	428,708
3	To approve a final dividend of 29p per share for the year ended 31 December 2011	30,486,865	0	194,031
4	To re-elect Kate Avery as a director	29,917,809	569,006	194,081
5	To re-elect Ian Buckley as a director	29,820,624	666,191	194,081
6	To re-elect Caroline Burton as a director	29,917,809	569,006	194,081
7	To re-elect Paul Chavasse as a director	29,821,004	665,811	194,081
8	To re-elect Oliver Corbett as a director	29,918,509	568,306	194,081
9	To re-elect David Harrel as a director	29,860,003	590,306	230,587
10	To re-elect Kathryn Matthews as a director	28,443,220	2,007,089	230,587
11	To re-elect Andrew Morris as a director	29,660,360	813,455	207,081
12	To re-elect Mark Nicholls as a director	29,732,871	750,894	197,131
13	To re-elect Andy Pomfret as a director	29,732,557	754,258	194,081
14	To re-elect Richard Smeeton as a director	29,821,385	665,430	194,081
15	To re-elect Paul Stockton as a director	29,817,106	669,709	194,081
16	To appoint KPMG Audit Plc as auditors of the Company	30,484,184	1,931	194,781
17	To authorise the directors to agree the remuneration of the auditors	30,481,074	3,430	196,392
18	To approve an authority to make political donations and to incur political expenditure	29,857,550	622,515	200,831
19	To approve a general authority to allot ordinary shares	29,462,965	1,023,850	194,081
20	To authorise the disapplication of pre-emption rights	29,887,483	594,179	199,234
21	To authorise market repurchases of ordinary shares	30,422,541	24,538	233,817
22	To authorise the convening of a general meeting (other than the AGM) with 14 days' notice	29,644,461	842,354	194,081

 

 

Richard Loader
Company Secretary

10 May 2012

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