Result of AGM

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Sage Group PLC
03 February 2022
 

RESULTS OF AGM

 

The Sage Group plc. ("Sage")

3 February 2022



Sage announces that all resolutions proposed to shareholders at its Annual General Meeting held on 3 February 2022 (the "AGM") were carried by the requisite majority on a poll.

 

The following table shows the votes cast for and against each resolution and the number of votes withheld:

 


Resolutions

V otes

For

Percent of votes cast for

Votes

Against

Percent of votes cast against

Total votes cast (excluding votes withheld)

Percent of total voting rights voted (excluding votes withheld)

Votes withheld

1.

Receive the Annual Report and Accounts

832,404,644

100.00%

9,304

0.00%

832,413,948

81.77%

1,011,946

2.

Approve the Directors' Remuneration Report

816,960,269

98.46%

12,768,964

1.54%

829,729,233

81.51%

3,696,661

3.

Approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy

825,904,476

99.12%

7,332,300

0.88%

833,236,776

81.86%

189,118

4.

Declare a final dividend

830,592,400

99.67%

2,752,944

0.33%

833,345,344

81.87%

80,550

5.

Elect Mr A Duff

828,595,982

99.43%

4,710,697

0.57%

833,306,679

81.86%

119,215

6.

Elect Mr D Harding

832,568,468

99.91%

737,585

0.09%

833,306,053

81.86%

119,841

7.

Re-elect Ms S Anand

832,719,231

99.93%

609,691

0.07%

833,328,922

81.86%

96,972

8.

Re-elect Dr J Bates

816,541,068

97.99%

16,766,179

2.01%

833,307,247

81.86%

118,647

9.

Re-elect Mr J Bewes

817,268,717

98.08%

16,037,875

1.92%

833,306,592

81.86%

119,302

10.

Re-elect Ms A Court

830,821,882

99.70%

2,504,023

0.30%

833,325,905

81.86%

99,989

11.

Re-elect Mr D Hall

786,273,115

94.36%

47,026,772

5.64%

833,299,887

81.86%

115,603

12.

Re-elect Mr S Hare

832,638,618

99.91%

717,780

0.09%

833,356,398

81.87%

69,496

13.

Re-elect Mr J Howell

831,744,847

99.81%

0.19%

833,318,082

81.86%

97,408

14.

Re-elect Ms I Wasti

832,697,983

99.93%

0.07%

833,306,993

81.86%

118,901

15.

Re-appoint the Auditors

829,004,574

99.48%

0.52%

833,346,052

81.87%

79,842

16.

Authority to determine the Auditors' remuneration

832,665,725

99.92%

699,567

0.08%

833,365,292

81.87%

60,602

17.

Political Donations

829,939,734

99.60%

3,370,340

0.40%

833,310,074

81.86%

115,820

18.

Authority to allot new shares

792,325,250

95.08%

41,007,359

4.92%

833,332,609

81.87%

93,285

19.

General authority to disapply pre-emption rights*

828,744,246

99.93%

566,733

0.07%

829,310,979

81.47%

4,114,915

20.

Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights*

811,598,774

97.86%

17,723,371

2.14%

829,322,145

81.47%

4,103,749

21.

Authority to purchase own shares on market*

827,388,345

99.29%

5,907,321

0.71%

833,295,666

81.86%

130,228

22.

General meetings to be held on not less than 14 clear days' notice*

793,318,523

95.20%

40,035,608

4.80%

833,354,131

81.87%

71,763

 

NOTES:

 

1.  * Indicates a Special Resolution requiring 75% of votes cast to be carried. 

2.  All resolutions were passed.

 

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

 

4.  Votes "For" include discretionary votes given to the Chair.

 

5.  A "Vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes "For" and "Against" a resolution.

 

6.  To view the full wording of the resolutions, please refer to the Notice of 2022 Annual General Meeting on Sage's website at www.sage.com/investors.

 

7.  At 6.30 pm on 1 February 2022, the total voting rights of Sage were 1,017,932,561. This is based on the issued share capital of 1,100,789,295 ordinary shares reduced by the number of treasury shares of 82,856,734.

 

In accordance with the UK Listing Authority's Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of all the resolutions passed as special resolutions (resolutions 19 to 22 inclusive) will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at:

https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism

 

A copy of the AGM results as shown above will also be made available on Sage's website at www.sage.com/investors.

 

 

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Name of contact:

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