Result of AGM

RNS Number : 9445G
Tate & Lyle PLC
29 July 2021
 

Tate & Lyle PLC

 

Result of Annual General Meeting 2021

 

Tate & Lyle PLC (the 'Company') announces that at its Annual General Meeting ('AGM') held earlier today, all resolutions contained in the Notice of Annual General Meeting 2021 were duly passed.

 

For those shareholders who were unable to attend the AGM, an audiocast is available giving shareholders an opportunity to hear a presentation from our Chair, Gerry Murphy and our Chief Executive, Nick Hampton. You can listen to the audiocast from this link or from our website www.tateandlyle.com/investors/agm . The audiocast is available to watch on the above link until 26 August 2021.

 

The results of the poll held at the AGM are as follows:

 

 

Resolution

Total For(1)

Total Against

Votes withheld(2)

No. of votes

% of vote

No. of votes

% of vote

No. of votes

1.

Report and Accounts

347,540,646

99.97

113,384

0.03

1,261,743

2.

Directors' Remuneration Report

334,425,571

96.48

12,211,637

3.52

1,704,959

3.

Approve final dividend

345,956,034

99.32

2,369,008

0.68

17,125

4.

Re-elect Dr Gerry Murphy

335,150,385

96.57

11,900,487

3.43

1,291,295

5.

Re-elect Nick Hampton

348,059,703

99.93

245,863

0.07

36,601

6.

Elect Vivid Sehgal

346,634,301

99.52

1,657,384

0.48

50,482

7.

Elect John Cheung

299,938,029

87.44

43,087,098

12.56

5,317,040

8.

Elect Patrícia Corsi

348,234,655

99.98

58,989

0.02

48,523

9.

Re-elect Paul Forman

344,732,967

98.98

3,560,755

1.02

48,445

10.

Re-elect Lars Frederiksen

344,582,972

98.93

3,709,419

1.07

49,776

11.

Re-elect Kimberly Nelson

345,107,718

99.08

3,194,031

0.92

40,418

12.

Re-elect Sybella Stanley

340,183,352

97.67

8,110,188

2.33

48,627

13.

Re-elect Warren Tucker

339,096,919

98.92

3,713,319

1.08

5,531,929

14.

Appoint Ernst & Young LLP

347,931,317

99.73

928,587

0.27

55,340

15.

Approve auditors' remuneration

348,819,680

99.99

35,112

0.01

60,981

16.

Authority to make political donations and incur political expenditure

343,985,657

98.62

4,829,813

1.38

100,303

17.

Authority to allot shares

335,877,125

96.28

12,974,085

3.72

64,563

18.

Authority to disapply pre-emption rights

345,689,683

99.12

3,076,162

0.88

149,928

19.

Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights for an acquisition or specified capital investment

331,374,436

95.01

17,390,401

4.99

150,936

20.

Authority to purchase own shares

346,618,937

99.52

1,663,454

0.48

633,382

21.

Authority in respect of notices for general meetings

333,375,519

95.56

15,500,828

4.44

39,426

 

 

(1) Includes discretionary votes.

 

(2) A 'vote withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes 'For' or 'Against' a resolution.

 

On 27 July 2021, there were 468,489,901 ordinary shares and 2,394,000 preference shares (which have limited voting rights) in issue.

 

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of the resolutions passed as special business at the AGM will shortly be available to view via the National Storage Mechanism at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism .

 

 

Claire-Marie O'Grady

Company Secretary

29 July 2021

 

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