Result of AGM

RNS Number : 5260Z

Smiths News PLC

14 January 2011

 



14 January 2011

Smiths News PLC

Result of 2011 Annual General Meeting

Smiths News PLC is pleased to announce that at its AGM held at 11.30am today, all resolutions put to the meeting were duly passed. All resolutions were voted on by way of a poll and the results of the poll for each resolution are shown below:

Resolution		For		Against		Withheld
		No. of votes	%	No. of votes	%	No. of votes
1	To receive the Annual Report and Accounts 2010	138,703,103	99.99	6,758	0.00	921,309
2	To approve the  remuneration report	135,297,254	98.14	2,557,493	1.86	1,776,423
3	To declare a final dividend	138,707,860	99.99	3,405	0.00	919,905
4	To elect Jonathan Bunting	138,513,683	99.83	231,496	0.17	945,991
5	To elect Nick Gresham	138,507,938	99.83	236,750	0.17	946,482
6	To re-elect Dennis Millard	136,248,711	98.24	2,435,659	1.76	946,800
7	To re-elect Mark Cashmore	138,510,403	99.83	235,098	0.17	945,669
8	To re-elect Andrew Brent	138,659,545	99.98	25,766	0.02	945,859
9	To re-elect Anthony Cann	138,661,101	99.98	23,922	0.02	946,147
10	To re-elect John Worby	138,657,755	99.98	26,779	0.02	946,636
11	To re-appoint the auditors	137,058,154	98.81	1,649,556	1.19	923,460
12	To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the auditors' remuneration	138,685,580	99.99	18,518	0.01	927,072
13	Authority to make political donations	135,677,541	98.96	1,422,997	1.04	2,530,631
14	Authority to allot shares	135,024,961	97.62	3,289,196	2.38	1,317,013
15	Authority to disapply pre-emption rights*	136,843,357	98.68	1,832,425	1.32	955,388
16	Authority to make market purchases of ordinary shares*	136,885,088	98.69	1,812,301	1.31	933,781
17	To call general meetings on 14 days' notice*	135,717,463	97.85	2,983,901	2.15	929,806

* Special resolution

Notes:

1.   Where shareholders appointed the Chairman as their proxy with discretion as to voting, their votes were cast in favour of the resolutions and have been included in the "For" total.

2.   A "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the percentages of the votes cast for and against a resolution.

3.   The Company has 183,380,340 shares in issue with voting rights.

In accordance with paragraph 9.6.2 of the Listing Rules, a copy of the resolutions passed as special business at the AGM, being resolutions 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17, has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do

Colin White

Deputy Company Secretary

 

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